There is this tremor stabilizing spoon for people suffering from parkinsons disease. I think that counts as spoon UX innovation.

I think they should have either dropped the package or at the very least renamed it so people stop bothering jwz. Making the upstream developers deal with LTS versions they never intended to support is incredibly disrespectful.

Sure, as long as it actually your work and this community doesn’t become a dumping ground for vibecoded projects like r/selfhosted.

I am still waiting for the Muppet version of Pride and Prejudice with Miss Piggy as Mrs. Bennet.

Still one of my favourite WTF moments for Windows.
Whats in the System32 folder? 64 bit dlls. Whats in SysWOW64? 32 bit dlls.

Yes I know that WOW64 stands for WindowsOnWindows64 but its still hilariously misleading.

I consider jwz response entirely reasonable. The initial message immediately suggests going against his wishes and the rest of the thread is about whats good for Debian which is a project that jwz never wanted to be involved in but suddenly its his problem. If I where in his situation I would tell them to go fuck themselves as well. Its just incredibly disrespectful to the person who did the actual work.

Droggelbecher 😍

The gist of it is jwz, the maintainer of xscreensaver, received a ton of bug reports for bugs he fixed ages ago because Debian refused to update to a newer version citing “stability” as a reason. He added a warning dialog to his software to warn users that they are running an outdated version and to not report bugs to him. Debian maintainers patched it out because they are legally allowed to do so according to the license. I consider this is GNOME level of assholery. They decided on a shitty policy and then made it someone else’s problem.

Mozilla continues to cosplay as a tech company instead of being the browser developers they where supposed to be.

[…] Debian maintainer had inadvertently reduced the number of possible keys that could be generated by a given user from “bazillions” to a little over 32,000.

That’s really bad. It also seems like they patched OpenSSL without ever intending to upstream the changes.

You’re absolutely right – that was a fatal dose. ✨

I lost a lot of respect for Debian due to the way they handled the whole issue with xscreensaver.

If the employer wants to prevent remote desktop sessions they can configure it that way with group policies and an always on VPN. In this case they are apparently fine with a personal computer being used which makes RDP actually a slightly more secure solution.

Separate your personal and your work computer. You don’t want to be in a situation where you have to explain a software issue caused by your decision of not running standard software. Put Windows and all work related software on a separate work laptop and use remote desktop from your Linux PC to do your job.

Soon in the Microslop support forums: “Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive”.

open source is always a spectrum

It most definitely is not.

Good, now nobody else can implement this idiotic system and I will continue to just not buy Sony games.

If I understand it correctly this just proxies ssh connections through a more efficient type of socket when its a ssh connection between a VM and its Host machine. No SSH daemon is started by systemd by default making this once again misinformation by the anti-systemd crowd.

Its bullshit. You remember that BMW heated seat subscription they tried to sell? If you tried to sell a hack that unlocks that, BMW can sue you. BMW don’t own the car, they sold it, but anti-circumvention law dictates that you are not allowed to mess with BMWs “technological barriers” in order to use the car in a way not intended by BMW.