Mike Swanson

Disciple of Jesus Christ and technology enthusiast

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@LundukeJournal How they reconcile Unix `find` with the DOS/Windows `find` might be interesting, do they even bother? Do they exclude it from installation?

[86Box — SEASON 6: FULL SPEED AHEAD @86BoxEmulator]

SEASON 6 HAS BEGUN
VERSION 6.0 IS OUT NOW
https://t.co/ZdkNNP1fJG

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@david_e_lang @LundukeJournal A great deal of both. Sometimes even AIs reporting bugs in old versions that were fixed years ago.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@LundukeJournal AI generated spam became bad enough on the SQLite user forum that DRH made an entirely new forum to let them run wild there: https://t.co/DgEqlkICYs

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@Marcelsius_H @gmgauthier1967 @LundukeJournal It actually does. XLibre includes the XNAMESPACE extension.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@probonopd @LundukeJournal I've always had a bit of a preference for AppImage, but this seals the deal.

[probono @probonopd]

@LundukeJournal In #AppImage we have no plans to remove X11 support

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@LundukeJournal Meanwhile, on Linux...

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

Mind that Debian isn't consistent on what packages have debugging package counterparts. It seems to be up to each Debian Developer and it's often missing.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

Debian going full reproducible might help them discontinue shipping most debugging symbols in packages (they can be very large, take up a lot of room on the DVDs/BDs). If you need debugging, you could build the package yourself, and get them.

Probably Linux itself should be always have provided debugging symbols, and I don't think of any other exceptions.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@LundukeJournal That open source exemption feels broader than what the lawmakers likely intended. Both Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X include open source components. They might claim exemption as well.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@esrtweet @dcominottim Could you combine the best of both worlds by installing Nix or Guix on top of Pop! OS?

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@JayMaynard All I'd ban is deceptive envelopes for marketing material. There's a certain company around my parts that loves to put their advertisements in envelopes labeled "FINAL NOTICE", "URGENT", or some other thing that makes it sound like a bill or debt collector.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

If you have build options so that compile time and file system paths aren't included in the output, you can pretty quickly verify that a binary wasn't tampered with, or built from the same source code as the input. The "sha256sum" utility is one such easy way to verify.

You can often dig into and find the innocuous build difference (such as timestamps and paths) with a diff, but it's harder. Then of course there's shell scripts; there's a bunch of nasty ASCII control codes that can effectively overwrite the display of the current line and you can easily hide malicious commands in them that don't show up with a normal "cat https://t.co/q1TnK35Fxx" command.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Debian Linux has declared that, effective immediately, they will reject all packages which are not reproducible.

“Debian must ship reproducible packages.”

“block migration of new packages that can't be reproduced [2] or existing packages (in testing) that regress in reproducibility.”

https://t.co/eOG4xAL56V

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@crilly_jim @LundukeJournal I believe it's been suggested as a good idea for well over a decade, but the switch has now been pulled to turn it into a requirement.

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@LundukeJournal I think this is a good idea. Mind, they worded their message carefully. Legacy packages already in Debian are exempt (though it'd probably be nice to get them all to reproducibility status).

[Mike Swanson @chungy]

@pop_os_official Alfred? Do you mean Andrew?