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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • The browser isnt paid though.

    So it’s a closed source browser that relies on donations? Or is it Open Source? I could not find much about it (eg. a git repo or something) and just assumed it would have a similar business model to the search engine.

    why would it have issues with a package manager?

    Depends on the package manager. It’s probably easy on Debian, but more difficult on rolling releases, mostly because of dependency hell. Binary distributed software is also harder to integrate in a build system and cross-compilation to a different architecture is not possible.

    Regarding the cost of the search engine, I don’t care about all the things you get. I just want a search engine and for a reasonable price compared to the price of their “all of them at once, I suppose” bundle.


  • Paid search engine makes sense to me but paid browser does not. The browser’s target audience will have a better experience using a free of charge and Open Source browser than a paid one because the paid browser won’t integrate very well with package managers.

    This is off topic but their search engine pricing is quite scummy. Either you pay $5 for 300 searches per month, which is too little, or you pay $10 for unlimited searches, which is too many for a mere mortal. They are trying to up-sell the $10 subscription.



  • from Arch Wiki FAQ:

    Is Arch Linux a stable distribution? Will I get frequent breakage?

    It is the user who is ultimately responsible for the stability of their own rolling release system. The user decides when to upgrade, and merges necessary changes when required. If the user reaches out to the community, help is often provided in a timely manner. The difference between Arch and other distributions in this regard is that Arch is truly a ‘do-it-yourself’ distribution; complaints of breakage are misguided and unproductive, since upstream changes are not the responsibility of Arch devs.

    It does not explicitly say “maintain” but it has a similar vibe to it.


  • The title is bs. There is no “push by Canonical”. A random person on the internet wrote Uutils in Rust because it’s easy to write fast code in it. Then Canonical wants to package the software but they aren’t “pushing”, they are just packaging software someone else wrote. Canonical’s goal is memory safety but that’s not the author’s goal because Coreutils haven’t got many vulnerabilities anyways.

    The licensing part is sort of sad. The author picked MIT, because he does not care. He also said that he does not want drama. Well he did get the drama. The sad part is that I think that he would be willing to change the license to GPL, had it not been for all the childish drama and “hate”. Communication is difficult for people online, unfortunately.


  • I used to do this (before my server died). You can for example use this to bypass Proton’s free tier one user per account limit.

    Basically it’s about correctly setting the wireguard’s AllowedIPs and DisallowedIPs. Your laptop wants to send everything through wireguard. Your home server wants to send everything through Proton (or Mullvad or aVPN) except the communication with your laptop.

    (I did that by marking the packets from one VPN with fwmark and sending marked packets to the other but that is a dumb solution for such a simple problem.)