Other than the example uses provided in the article, does anyone have any interesting ideas for how this could be used? The RUST_LOG=debug one looks like it’ll be particularly useful as an easy way to see what network requests a given binary might be making.

Gross.

They mean light mode. I think “flashbang mode” is pretty apt though.

I just use Arc::clone() now that I know I can just throw the problematic data types on the heap easily. I’m sure there are “better” ways to do it, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As someone whose only other language was very beginner-level Python before learning Rust, the part about not treating the borrow checker as an adversary, but as a companion, mirrors the point at which I began rapidly improving.

I like to say that the Rust compiler rules are like having a senior engineer over your shoulders to help you avoid writing (certain kinds of) bad code.

There are still times when the borrow checker becomes my adversary (like needing to share data in threads), and it is painful, but they become less frequent over time.

The same could be said about iOS and Android. We just gotta help people when we can.

The same could be said about Windows. It’s a bad idea for people to use Windows without installing it themselves because they are dependent on MS and the OEM that installed it for them.

Better that they’d be dependent on someone that cares about them than soulless corps that just want to exploit them.

Imperial boomerang

Yeah. For every person out there that says “but muh dogshit software that hates me doesn’t work on Linux!”, they should just use macOS. It’s compatible with a ton of proprietary and abusive software (Adobe, DAWs, etc.), and you at least get an OS that works.

I don’t know how people can stand using Windows. I use a 50-50 split of macOS and Linux, and it’s nice to not have to fight my computer to do even the most trivial of things.

My issue with snaps is also the power that Canonical has to fuck you over one day, because of the centralization that you mentioned, but also that their shitty fucking packaging format sucks ass and breaks everything but the most basic of apps. I’ve wasted hours trying to help people with their broken applications that were hijacked when they typed apt install whatever and “whatever” was actually a fucking broken snap package.

Flatpaks and AppImages actually do the fucking things they’re supposed to. Snaps don’t, and Canonical is pulling a Microsoft by hijacking your package manager.

Also, Snap sandboxing only works with AppArmor, so if you were hoping that all the breakage was worthwhile because you get sandboxing, you don’t if you’re on anything but a handful of distros 🙂

I’ve been a vegan for a long time, but I only learned in the past year or so what dairy fHarmers colloquially call their “breeding racks”.

Now, when a carnist tries to tell me I’m being hysterical for simply being anti-exploitation, I just ask them to google what they call their own torture equipment. fHarmers are saying the quiet part out loud amongst themselves.

Does anyone know if there’s a more up-to-date blocklist? This is great, but it’s 4-5 years old.

Friendly Interactive SHell

The new indirect GPU driver is AMAZING. I’ve previously suffered through getting GPU passthrough on one of my systems before, but I no longer need to because Linux flawlessly plays every game that I could ever want.

But I never liked that the VMs that I used for more general purpose stuff had choppy display performance. The indirect GPU driver sounds like it’s as easy as installing the driver in the VM and you’ll get much smoother graphical performance without the headache of configuring GPU pass through, which is awesome! I’d love to see that functionality baked in to stuff like Virt Manager and GNOME Boxes.

Fuck that. The Linux gate is wide open! Anyone that wants to use Linux, come on in!

And for your own sake: use anything but Ubuntu and their buggy Snaps.

Sure, but that way of thinking seems to treat trying to avoid supporting bigots as some sort of “purity cult” game, and it’s not. Just because there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, that doesn’t excuse people to make highly unethical purchases.

Of course you can’t perfectly avoid any bigoted shitheads from having worked on something you buy, but you wouldn’t buy a game where the majority of the royalties go to David Duke, would you?

Some people are just doing the best they can to not support bigoted assholes, and when it comes to gaming, a market that exists purely for entertainment, and one that has millions of other options, that’s rather easy and practical to do.

Thanks! That first link is an excellent resource for a security tool I’m working on. Specifically, gVisor, which I hadn’t heard of, but looks like an excellent way to harden containers.

I may rebase to secureblue from Bluefin at some point to give it a try.

Sure. In the same way that ChromeOS and Android are Linux. There are no important distinctions to be made at all. Everything that works on one of them, will work on all of them because they’re just Linux.

/s, because that is obviously not true.

Based on Arch is different from is Arch. Ubuntu isn’t Debian. ChromeOS isn’t Gentoo. They are different things. Don’t oversimplify things to the point of absurdity.

I’m inclined to agree about the performance optimizations between various distros being negligible, but there might still be room for more distros to optimize for compatibility.

The following is highly anecdotal and vibes-based. Please don’t take my vague examples literally:

Between my Steam Deck (SteamOS) and Framework 16 (Bazzite), the Framework is obviously way more powerful, but I have a more flawless experience with some games on the Steam Deck in terms of 100% of the games I launch "just work"ing on there. With Bazzite on my Framework, it feels close to 100%, but every so often, I encounter a new demo or game that is finnicky about launching.

Idk if it’s gamescope, the specialized hardware, or something else doing the heavy lifting for the Steam Deck (it’s probably a mix of things), but I would love to see other Linux distros incorporate the software components to make gaming flawless on generic distros. It’s really close, but I think there’s room for growth to catch up with whatever the Steam Deck is doing.

And this is not me saying “wait for SteamOS to switch to Linux”. You can easily install Steam on any distro and enjoy like 90% of the games on there with no fuss.