Hah, I'm curious if this is legally possible. I've never seen that on any non-ThinkPad laptop.
I have multiple Dell laptops that have a mouse nub in the middle of the keyboard
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yjftsjthsd-h commented on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious chrislockard.net/posts/ss... · Posted by u/unl0ckd
With Azure-hosted sites, I find it's significantly easier to have Microsoft perform all certificate management for us. All we do is verify that we own the domain, and then they do all the certificate management for us.
When I saw the 47-day expiration period, it made me wonder if someone is trying to force everyone onto cloud solutions like what Azure provides.
The old geezer in me is disappointed that it's increasingly harder to host a site on a cable modem at home. (But I haven't done that in over two decades.)
> When I saw the 47-day expiration period, it made me wonder if someone is trying to force everyone onto cloud solutions like what Azure provides.
> The old geezer in me is disappointed that it's increasingly harder to host a site on a cable modem at home. (But I haven't done that in over two decades.)
It might be harder to host at home, but only for network reasons. It is perfectly straightforward to use letsencrypt and your choice of acme client to do certificates; I really don't think that's meaningful point of friction even with the shorter certificate lifetimes.
yjftsjthsd-h commented on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious chrislockard.net/posts/ss... · Posted by u/unl0ckd
Why is a month's expiration better than a year or two years?
Why wouldn't you go with a week or a day? isn't that better than a whole month?
Why isn't it instead just a minute? or a few seconds? Wouldn't that be better?
Why not have certificates dynamically generated constantly and have it so every single request is serviced by a new one and then destroyed after the session is over?
Maybe the problem isn't that certificates expire too soon, maybe the problem is that humans are lazy. Perhaps it's time to go with another method entirely.
> Why wouldn't you go with a week or a day? isn't that better than a whole month?
There is in fact work on making this an option: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/02/20/first-short-lived-cert-is...
> Why isn't it instead just a minute? or a few seconds? Wouldn't that be better?
> Why not have certificates dynamically generated constantly and have it so every single request is serviced by a new one and then destroyed after the session is over?
Eventually the overhead actually does start to matter
> Maybe the problem isn't that certificates expire too soon, maybe the problem is that humans are lazy. Perhaps it's time to go with another method entirely.
Like what?
This should be possible on X11 using standard extensions. XCompositeRedirectWindow to render your window to a virtual buffer, get pixmap, bind pixmap to new croppedWindow as a GL texture, here apply a crop transform. Then optionally unmap original window. Finally, we have to remap input events. This is trivial browser-style event interception, XSelectInput, change x,y, XSendEvent. I can try to make it work sometime this week. A CLI tool you'd use like `xcropwindow windowID x y dx dy`. As a side effect, this way you can have multiple viewports into different parts of a window. But there's probably a few deal-breaker edge cases I'm missing.
On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff.
> On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff.
I'm pretty sure it's doable, but it probably does need to be baked into the compositor. But since there are compositors that can do full immersive 3D environments with windows moving around in them, I can't believe that there's any manipulation of the contents of a window that you can't do in Wayland.
Of course, being able to add it as tiny helper program is probably something that's going to be specific to X11, or possibly (best case) require non-portable APIs that are specific to individual compositors in Wayland.
I might be in the minority but I actually like overlapping windows - often the entire window is not necessary to get the data I am interested in. Right now I'm running tests in another window and I have a sliver of that window visible while the majority of the screen real-estate gets used for the browser in primary window.
What I really want, but don't have the technical skill to write unfortunately:), is a window manager or compositor that lets me set the size of a window and the viewport into that window independently. That is, formalize the approach that yes this window is rendering as if it was taking up half the screen but I only need to actually see this tiny slice of it, so just give me a window that shows that piece
yjftsjthsd-h commented on GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M github.com/cross-tools/mu... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
> Why have any glibc?
Maybe they want dns resolution to work properly
Are you talking about the TCP fallback that musl has also had for 2 years?
https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2023/05/02/1
In any event, that makes no sense. Pretend for a moment that glibc has working DNS and musl doesn't have working DNS (not true, but let's pretend). You don't build your compiler chain with working DNS support and then use it to build programs without working DNS.
yjftsjthsd-h commented on GNU cross-tools: musl-cross 313.3M github.com/cross-tools/mu... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
GCC toolchain glibc-linked binaries with musl libraries and headers, including musl dynamic loader
Out of the glibc tarpit
> glibc-linked binaries with musl libraries
Why have any glibc? GCC et al. work fine compiled against musl (as proven by ex. Alpine only doing musl). Or is it for running on GNU/Linux systems (can't you statically link the build chain?)?
yjftsjthsd-h commented on Gardening Boosts Brain Health bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/andsoitis
agree 100%
I am the youngster volunteer at a local demonstration garden. The elder volunteers in their 70s are all very sharp. They usually don't stop until arthritis or back problems force them to stop. But their minds are agile, and they are all very social, cooperative, and upbeat.
The key seems to be enjoying it all, and not being too aggressive. Moderation. Going with the perennials, especially natives to the area, can produce unexpected large displays of very vibrant flowers that attract a lot of pollinator and bird life. A high tolerance for failure helps greatly. You'll know when something is working in your niche microenvironment.
> I am the youngster volunteer at a local demonstration garden. The elder volunteers in their 70s are all very sharp. They usually don't stop until arthritis or back problems force them to stop. But their minds are agile, and they are all very social, cooperative, and upbeat.
Okay, ask the obvious question. Isn't that a perfect candidate for causality to go the other way? Anybody with basically any mobility or serious health problems is less likely to go out gardening, so of course you only see healthy people out gardening. (To be fair, I would expect that it is good for you and helps people stay healthy, but I would expect the selection effects to be a stronger explanation for what you're observing.)
yjftsjthsd-h commented on I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can howtogeek.com/i-run-a-ful... · Posted by u/redbell
That sounds useful, do you have the Dockerfile for it pushed anywhere?
Here ya go:)
yjftsjthsd-h commented on I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can howtogeek.com/i-run-a-ful... · Posted by u/redbell
Does anybody have a good writeup/tutorial on doing similar things with Wayland? From my limited knowledge that might be with RDP instead, but there hasn't been anything more distilled as far as I know?
I've also done xpra in docker before; that's always felt as hacky as it sounds though.
I don't use it much, but I've glued together sway+wayvnc+novnc in a container and it worked fine (exposing both raw VNC and the webified novnc interface).