Posts by dazo@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #ARXKUplplocjQnb7b6 by dazo@infosec.exchange
2023-01-11T14:41:04Z
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@SuperDicq To extract the *kernel* version, you should probably use `uname -srv` to have the most precise kernel reference.Otherwise, /etc/os-release contains quite accurate information about the currently running Linux distribution. You can also get a reasonable distro version details from `hostnamectl`.If you want to query this information programmatically, have a look at the org.freedesktop.hostname1 D-Bus service; look at the OperatingSystemPrettyName and OperatingSystemCPEName properties in the /org/freedesktop/hostname1 object.
(DIR) Post #ARXKUrO9kos8RwXEy8 by dazo@infosec.exchange
2023-01-11T14:43:16Z
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@SuperDicq To introspect the org.freedesktop.hostname1 service ...busctl introspect org.freedesktop.hostname1 /org/freedesktop/hostname1
(DIR) Post #AdfbJlDcwnYCIp1Cam by dazo@infosec.exchange
2024-01-09T09:33:03Z
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@brauner As an ex-Red Hatter, I would just recommend you to reach out to some of their legal teams and ask.My general experience working there many years is that they generally don't intend to harm anyone, but to preserve and ensure open source projects can continue to prosper without risking threats by less nicer corporations willing to go to courts to get control of your stuff as cheap as possible. Red Hat's mantra is to support open source projects first of all. But patents and intellectual property stuff is confusing stuff for us not being in the legal business.Perhaps @richardfontana can help you get in touch with the right people inside Red Hat?
(DIR) Post #AtoufOAkVGtpuC5pxI by dazo@infosec.exchange
2025-05-06T14:38:46Z
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@stux It's almost like Trump tries to force convincing because he is the one who did the photoshopping ... and he's just so incredibly proud of it! When the disappointment of being caught red handed hit, it was just too much to bear. He just had to fight for it.But that's also probably the last time this reporter ever gets to talk to Trump.
(DIR) Post #Au326VwV8pl7iOkW6y by dazo@infosec.exchange
2025-05-13T10:00:58Z
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@selzero Try not to make this worse than it really is. I'm not living in the UK, so I'm not too deep into the full political situation there except of what is being reported abroad.For any individual living in a foreign country, it is really valuable to know the language. It helps understanding the culture of the country you live in. It helps integrating you into the society and makes it easier to get to know more people - like your neighbors. It makes it easier to get a job.There are a tons of reasons learning the language of the country you want to move to.For people not doing that, they often end up isolated in the country. If there are many of them, they typically move to live close to each other - which is understandable. But this is where the beginning of frustration grows more quickly, resulting in more segregation and social issues across the whole region slowly grows. Combine that with lack of job possibilities and the crime starts to riseLanguage is key to reduce these risks. It's not the solution alone. But to get newcomers to integrate better, language is the first of many steps. And when newcomers gets chance to properly integrate, they have a chance to start contributing back to the community and society.There are no easy nor simple solutions. There are no quick-fixes here. But it's a large puzzle with many pieces which all need to fit together.However, f the political goal is to use language knowledge to block immigrants to arrive to UK - I can agree that is highly questionable. But if it is one of more steps to ensure better integration of immigrants in the longer run, it might not be as bad.Integration is, after all, the most important aspect of a well functional society.
(DIR) Post #AugkfFO9G5zsOL8ZpA by dazo@infosec.exchange
2025-06-01T07:50:50Z
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The #TrumpRegime is pulling #USA back towards the 60s ...Austin Fowler was fired from #Google for working on a #quantumcomputing topics (#TQEC) and made a related #compiler being #opensource.Google was concerned this open source work involves «people from certain countries». This is #scaremongering.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/austin-fowler-16031071_github-tqectqec-design-automation-software-activity-7334606843425542146-_QP1#uspol #foss #oss
(DIR) Post #Ax5cMHFEGtaYSbGUe8 by dazo@infosec.exchange
2025-08-12T09:40:03Z
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@wolf480pl This project was kicked off a while ago https://eu-os.eu/https://eu-os.eu/faq#eu-project@jmaris
(DIR) Post #AxbAynruqQrAzIf0S0 by dazo@infosec.exchange
2025-08-27T12:55:34Z
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@Darkasvim Unfortunately, there are still leakage to Google with #LineageOS ... hence there are other more privacy aware alternatives. Such as @e_mydata https://e.foundation/about-e/Other alternatives are #CalyxOS and #GrapheneOS. They take some other approaches. There are pros and cons of all these various alternatives, though.
(DIR) Post #B2ndwwUsl1HYqQrYvo by dazo@infosec.exchange
2026-01-29T16:22:32Z
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@mosgaard I heard a talk somewhere on Pipewire ... and the use case you describe here is exactly what drove the creator of Pipewire crazy, so he jumped into this. But went further than JACK and PulseAudio, he saw all types of media streams as something which needs to be handled with care and respect for each other - otherwise you end up with video being out-of-sync with audio, or MIDI being out-of-sync with the audio streams.Unfortunately, the Pipewire adoption is slow because too many projects don't realise that while JACK might be pretty good for audio/midi - it messes up everything else and causes a very bad end-user experience. Plus too many software vendors doesn't have focus on Linux.Bitwig is probably one of the fewer larger projects which has gone fully into Pipewire - that needs to be applauded massively! And they will be one of the few ones being ahead when the Windows 10/11 users getting fed up of Microsoft migrates to Linux. Other audio/video projects need to wake up if they want to keep traction. Because users will drop their projects if they see Bitwig and other Pipewire capable projects works well.I see that Ardour defaults to a "JACK/Pipewire" device - which works fine as well. But I also have pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit installed. Something even more native Pipewire would be great to reduce latency risks further.Finally, a fun fact ... I've heard some studio folks heavily invested in macOS who saw a Pipewire demo, with video streams, audio and MIDI playing in parallel with audio from a browser being played on a different audio card than the audio/midi from the video streams ... they were blown away of the flexibility and the low latency and were convinced that performed better than it would on macOS. IIRC, it was OBS Studio, Ardour and a web browser running in parallel, where the OBS Studio was streaming and recording an Ardour session, with more cameras active as well.
(DIR) Post #B2ndwxiOEHgIccBrcm by dazo@infosec.exchange
2026-01-29T16:34:22Z
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@PaulDavisTheFirst @mosgaard Except that I need fairly high buffer size that way (at least 512 samples) - which gives an annoying delay - when playing VST instruments. Probably not so noticeable when you mix things together, but when you record or do live setups, that's enough to annoy. I've tried 256 samples, but then some kind of distortion starts to appear.Starting the native JACK stack at that point and I can go to 128 samples buffer size just fine. And starting the JACK stack disables audio on all other applications ... so there's that.
(DIR) Post #B2wZaQvgnG2XAt3J9k by dazo@infosec.exchange
2026-02-03T11:11:27Z
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@giacomo If you're concerned about the US controlling open source - you can fork it. But a fork won't be successful if it doesn't have users and contributors.Remember OpenOffice.org? What do you think people talk more about - that one or the fork LibreOffice?Android has forks as well. The main problem with Android isn't the problems forking the OS itself. It's the Google Play layers, which is not open source and fully controlled by Google - which way too many apps depends on, making it much harder to break free from Google's Android implementation.You are equally not forced to use or implement protocols you don't deem needed in your own code. Use the alternatives, HTTP is well established and can do most of what QUIC can do. And the HTTP standard can also be extended and improved.Protocols not being based on open standards - they are a pain to support outside of its origin software stack. Reverse engineering is the only viable path if there are no other open alternatives available.So open source and open standards can help you break free of evil empires; the capability of digital sovereignty is built into open source and open standards.@jwildeboer