to help communicate and troubleshoot what is broken here, we need to think of Wayland as a protocol just like HTTP is a protocol

saying “Wayland broke X” is like saying “HTTP broke X”, which is possible but not likely to be what you’re actually trying to say

rather, we need to be talking about the implementation(s) of the protocol, not the protocol itself

e.g. “HTTP broke X” -> “Google Chrome broke X”

e.g. “Wayland broke X” -> “GNOME broke X”

does changing to a different dark vim theme help?

hmmm, I’d consider Apple and Google to be roughly equal in terms of general overall evilness these days

they both donate to support fascism and genocide, remove anti-fascism apps and anti-surveillance apps from their stores upon government request (even when not legally required), spy on their users, etc

and their software/products seems to be in the final phase of enshittification

the fact that GrapheneOS exists and works on Google hardware at all seems like a plus in Google’s column, however it’s only necessary because default Android/Chrome are not allowed to go so far as to protect users from surveillance capitalism (so it’s a plus only necessary because of a negative)

unless there’s a specific measure where Google does significantly worse?

thanks, i hadn’t actually heard of ntop / ntopng before!

i believe ntopng works everywhere independent of whether calico is installed or not (and even calico is a Kubernetes-compatible and Kubernetes-optional system, just like ntopng)

but, calico whisker displays networking information made available by the rest of calico, so it’s able to give you a live display of when a firewall rule managed by calico is allowing or blocking traffic

i think this particular feature is absent from ntopng, but i could be wrong

yeah, when I say “far far too long” I think I’m on roughly the same window of time there 🫂 that said, still manage my nftables firewall on my other systems with firewalld and those concepts of zones has never really clicked in my brain

i did try cilium first, but it currently doesn’t work on Raspberry Pi 4B nodes: https://github.com/cilium/proxy/issues/1027

and now that my understanding of calico has improved, i appreciate that it works outside of Kubernetes, too

No, unfortunately

We (staff) asked for this, or some similar change to our contracts, and leadership refused

Our contracts/agreements currently state that any IP created in the course of doing our jobs or involving any employer-supplied equipment belongs to the employer

Leadership says they won’t enforce this for dotfiles and other small personal non-competing code, but they also refuse to put that in writing :S

That said, most of us have tweaked our dotfiles, etc on work laptops for years and we’ve never had problems, so far leadership has kept their word

Try and get your employer to offer and agree to GitHub’s BEIPA:

https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement

I’ve ordered one of the new Pebbles, but in the meantime, I have a PineTime: https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime

I’ve even given some to nephews and nieces because they are durable enough and so affordable that we don’t need to worry too much about them

This probably depends on what you mean by “smart”

In the old days, dumb phones were defined as devices that shipped with a set of features with users generally being unable to add new features themselves

And smart phones could be extended by users because they allow installation of apps, etc

But I don’t think this applies to smart watches: it seems like the difference here is that a smart watch goes beyond “dumb” by having phone/internet connectivity to display more than just times and dates

Instead, ban the collection of non-essential data, and also ban the targeting of advertisements based on user profiles/history

Only select advertisements to display based on the immediate context, exactly like printed newspapers and magazines

I think it’s possible for a Chrome-based browser to have better ad-blocking than Google Chrome

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ is something I agree with, but Brave does have better ad-blocking features than Google Chrome, despite using the same core engine

I agree

But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?

Sure this is a shrinking number of people?

Agreed

I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)

Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it’s more profitable to abandon Windows completely

I actually just switched from Bazzite to Bluefin on my devices, even my gaming PC

Mostly because I wanted a more minimal/essential experience with less pre-installed packages

I’m sure I’m sacrificing a little gaming performance, but nothing noticeable by me so far

:shrug:

Don’t buy a Samsung next time Try to trade in your current Samsung for something with less bloat

The worrying part is rewriting repository history to cover it up

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

I’m currently using Signal, and happy with it, but they still don’t have reproducible builds, making it impossible to confirm that the code we can read on GitHub is actually what is running on my device

So, even now, it could be doing something that isn’t able to be audited

I guess Element/Matrix or Briar are the better options from this perspective, without losing any end to end encryption

Can I ignore flatpak indefinitely?

Sure, at least until software you want to use is flatpak only, e.g. Bottles

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/