The answer seems obvious but one that won't be spelled out in SCMP.
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3np commented on Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living rykarn.se/2025/01/26/wayl... · Posted by u/junkblocker
> On the software side, acessibility aside, there are a lot of VNC and other remote-X setups out there with no viable replacement in sight (yet).
I've been using wayvnc for probably 5 years now? Works great. Sway can output fine to virtual-crtc out for headless mide; I expect other compositors can use this part of your GPU too. If you really desperate & your Wayland server just can't for no reason, get a DisplayPort dummy plug for $15.
I know less about others but krfb and gnome-remote-desktop are both there. KDE is recently kicking off a bunch of work to make sure their login manager is remote friendly too.
> I do not appreciate when it turns into tribalism, forcing of monoculture and insisting "X11 is deprecated".
Most of the devs doing X11 agreed en masse that it was at a dead end and not worth caring for anymore. It's not tribalism. It's technics.
Great you found something that works for you and that you managed to dodge the parts of the community that somehow managed to turn this into identity politics.
Still, the gaps are there and don't seem to be filled anytime soon, despite the progress you mention.
3np commented on How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests f-droid.org/2025/09/10/ho... · Posted by u/mkesper
> How recently was this experience
The email I shared here? 27th Aug 2025.
> perhaps they'd appreciate your input
The folks who run F-Droid are very welcoming, no doubt. But the email asked us to direct queries to legal at f-droid.org, and for us, legal is something we have no time/energy/capability to pursue (unless there's explicit offer of help, viz. "window for response", that I am hearing only for the first-time and from this blog post).
> notability of your project (kudos and thanks)
Rethink DNS + Firewall? Barely at 10% of installs as the most popular project in the domain (NetGuard), but thanks! (:
Cheers! 10% is nothing to scoff at!
...While I have your ear: IME ReThink DNS often runs into bootstrapping problems since 1) preconfigured DNS servers are referenced by hostname, not IP 2) I can't find a way to separately configure server address and TLS name (making it impossible to configure DoH/DoT servers via IP).
So users often run into "catch 22" where they need existing DNS to resolve their DNS server... When roaming it may work fine for a bit until the local cache drops it, and so on.
Allowing to separately configure TLS hostname for TLS-enabled protocols, and having a preseeded list of IPs for bundled provider endpoints, would mean ReThink DNS could work reliably even in absense of existing DNS.
cf tls_auth_name for stubby. https://dnsprivacy.org/dns_privacy_daemon_-_stubby/configuri...
3np commented on PSA: systemd-networkd segfault regression in Debian 13.1 for some users lists.debian.org/debian-d... · Posted by u/3np
The currently latest stable release of Debian (13.1) ships a broken version of systemd-networkd which may break networking completely for affected users. Maintainer response is less than encouraging: https://bugs.debian.org/1112535
> There was absolutely no need to disturb RT and waste your time, as you have much more important things to take care of, as this is just a minor issue with a particular corner case of a custom config of an optional component. Anybody who is unable to deal with that should just stick to the default Debian components. The next stable update in ~2 months will contain a fix.
"minor issue with a particular corner case of an optional component" my ass.
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If you are currently on Bookworm using systemd-networkd with VLANs and bridges, you may want to hold off on the Trixie upgrade until fixed systemd 257.9 is available.
Tried Brave?
3np commented on Wayland breaks the tools I use to make a living rykarn.se/2025/01/26/wayl... · Posted by u/junkblocker
Wayland is great and ready for (idk) 95% of users/use-cases.
There is a long tail of more-or-less critical stuff that depend on X11 and do not have working Wayland substitutes. While the tail has been shrinking for every year, it will be decades if ever until all can be realistically migrated. Consider the Lindy Effect and that some of these systems have been running for >10y already. Consider shared but secured environments at universities and research institutes. Consider obscure hardware incompatibilities and hardware-specifix performance issues which might never be fixed.
On the software side, acessibility aside, there are a lot of VNC and other remote-X setups out there with no viable replacement in sight (yet).
Alsa, pulseaudio, pipewire and jack can all coexist and so can display servers.
I understand GNOME and RedHat will do things their way. I understand distro and GUI framework maintainers wanting to reduce their load. I understand people who like Wayland, want it to succeed, and want to evangelize. I do not appreciate when it turns into tribalism, forcing of monoculture and insisting "X11 is deprecated".
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OP is from 2023 but as they note in their update, the situation is fundamentally not that different 2y later. Are maintainers and decision-makers really sincerely imagining that a supposed deprecation and removal of X11 can be forced onto the wider community over a couple of years from now?
3np commented on · Posted by u/wpthzmis
How is this spam not autoflagged by now?
The bullet engravings are well known (and people pushing the groyper theory seem to believe the engravings support their theory just as well).
There is a claim circulating that Robinson had a transgender/transitioning (MtF) roommate/partner. A simple web search will easily find multiple sources for this claim, but most of them aren't exactly what you'd consider authoritative or journalistic.
Many sources similarly assert that Robinson's father "recognized" him in photos and "encouraged him to turn himself in" (see e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/12/tyler-rob...). However, I don't know anything specific about his "testimony".
> The bullet engravings are well known
You can read anything you want into those if you want to. To me they reek weeb culture (as opposed to furry like everyone else jumps to - there are overlaps but they are distinct), 4chan trolling and lemmy more than anything. We can not know the intentions behind those engravings and they say nothing about which, if any, affiliation the shooter had. Could be a Luigi wannabe, could be a false flag to induce civil war.
"Unafilliated" seems like the most plausible assumption right now. Everyone pushing theories about shooter affiliation right now either has their own political agenda behind it and are doing so incincerly or are useful idiots serving the aforementioned.
> Does not have an admin panel
The admin panel is at https://github.com/element-hq/element-admin (but it's relatively new, so many folks haven't noticed it exists)
> No image captions > > This is silly, but while (official?) bridges support image captions, official Element app does not.
Element Web & X support captions. (Element Web doesn't currently support authoring them, but can display them - obviuosly this is on the todo list though).
Element Classic has basically not been touched in 2.5 years, unfortunately, and so yes - doesn't support them. But at this point the old app is just not being developed; we don't have bandwidth to do both.
> Slow notifications
This sounds like it might be overloaded server problems ftr.
> Element X is Slower > Somehow, it is slower. Clicking on a conversation takes 0.5-1.0 seconds to load it, compared to almost instant load on Classic.
This was an Android specific bug which was fixed a few weeks ago; EXA should now be instant as it should be, at least on nightlies: it was stuff surrounding https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/pull/5841 and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/pull/5854. Unsure if the fix has made it into a build yet.
EDIT: the fix shipped in stable Element X Android a few weeks ago.
> Conversations are sorted by... who knows. It is not recent nor alphabetical.
It should be by recency.
> Onboarding is bad
Sorry, but you have to run an auth server (matrix-authentication-service) if you want Element X to work.
EDIT: if i've got any of the above wrong please just say, rather than downvote :D
> Sorry, but you have to run an auth server (matrix-authentication-service) if you want Element X to work.
This is a bit outrageous IMO. Actually breaking and deprecating the classic auth and requiring a new server component to keep the only actively supported client (which still can't properly manage keys or sessions on its own, like classic Element can, even as non-verified sessions are being disabled) is a bit rich.