This is probably the most comprehensive, yet easily understandable explanation of NixOS I’ve ever read.

Thank you very much

From the sidebar:

… the following subjects are explicitly not allowed …

• Nothing extreme-right-wing. This includes conspiracy theories, SovCit, Pro-Police, AnCaps etc. We’ll know it when I see it, don’t test us!

So I would guess “fash” means fascist content.

I guess pirates don’t result in additional costs for the developer from dealing with support tickets or other forms of customer care 🤷

Ooh, that makes sense. I’m not too familiar with key resellers, so I was just guessing. But you explanation makes more sense. Thank you

What does pacman -Qii $PACKAGENAME say about the file in question?

How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict? In Firefox I can click-to-paste if the cursor is over an input field and click-to-scroll anywhere else. Never had any problem with this behavior.

That’s not something I thought about. Good thing that you can disable the feature then

Firefox now supports a setting (in Preferences → Privacy & Security) to enable Global Privacy Control. With this opt-in feature, Firefox informs the websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold.

This sounds like Do Not Track revisited. The only difference that I can find (only skimmed the website) is, that there seems to be some legal support for this in the state of California.

Now you can exercise your legal privacy rights in one step via Global Privacy Control (GPC), required under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

I wonder:

1. How does this differ from DNT?
2. Does this this have any real chance to take off? From what I’ve heard, DNT has been rather counterproductive as it can be used to fingerprint users.

Official Release Page for those who don’t want to read the Phoronix article: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/1.0.0

It’s great to see that Pipewire has reached this milestone. Personally I’ve been using it since 0.3.35 for very basic audio needs and it’s been a very smooth transition. After installation I never had to tinker with it anymore. "It just works"^TM

The thing is, it works like this in certain countries. At least in Switzerland and Germany it is possible to make an apprenticeship as a programmer. This means there is a structured path for the vocational education that must meet certain regulatory criteria. Normally this takes 3-4 years to finish and includes both, working at a company as well as visiting vocational school. College is often done after finishing one’s apprenticeship to broaden the understanding of more complex or advanced topics like security, architecture, project management, advanced math etc.

I don’t understand why this system is not more common in other places. Programming (not CS) is very much like a craft and to large degrees can be taught as/similar to one.