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There used to be a hack for getting integrated windows using Remote Desktop, but I can't remember the name of it anymore and Google isn't finding much :( Hopefully someone remembers (and it's still maintained).

Edit: Found it: https://github.com/rdesktop/seamlessrdp. Seems like there are probably more modern solutions now though.

I do almost all my computing through Xpra these days. Being able to combine windows seamlessly from multiple VMs is a much more usable way to segregate workloads, and Xpra doesn't suffer from the same security (and increasingly compatibility) issues of X forwarding.
The classic metzdowd cryptography list is generally good reading: https://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

Another good fly-on-the-wall place to see what's going on in a specific tech niche is the dns-oarc operations list: https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations

Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @11:06PM (#33015865)
They brought a laptop to market and shipped thousands of those. So, seems likely?
Re:Using saltpetre for cooling drinks (2013) on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:58PM (#32632942)
This is a very long lived urban legend.
Re:Why I left Pine64 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @05:45PM (#32502121)
The currently shipping affordable RISC-V SBCs tend to be RISC-V cores embedded with a bunch of frustrating undocumented peripherals, more or less the same as with affordable ARM SBCs. It's disappointing :(

See for instance the Allwinner D1 chip.

"We will just use technology to bypass this bad law" is a very convenient position for a technology-focused group to take. It feels weirdly privileged to just say "ah we will abdicate ourselves from the problem by using ever more complicated technology" rather than working to improve the legislation to benefit everyone.
Re:Notes on Running Containers with Bubblewrap on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:36PM (#31915821)
Google's nsjail (https://github.com/google/nsjail) has a nice "inetd style" mode where it can launch a sandboxed process in response to a TCP connection for similar use cases to this (and is relatively quick to fire up).
Re:The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:47AM (#31904190)
For reasons of safety: they're LiFePO4 batteries, swapping in Lithium Ion would be hazardous :)
Re:How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:50PM (#31840983)
The first sentence of the page says the author is a woman.
Re:Tailscale SSH on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:36PM (#31840798)
SFTP isn't really FTP over SSH, it's just a collision of naming.
Re:The Hidden Worlds of the Klein Tools TI250 Thermal Imager on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:33AM (#31664736)
Excellent! I have the Uni-T version and it was suspiciously similar :)
I believe this Klein Tools camera is a re-brand of the Uni-T UTi80P, so probably these tricks apply there as well.
It's basically like you described - an informally specified set of rules the various "big players" in e-mail enforce. There's some consensus about the things you "have" to do to participate in e-mail but it's generally not a black and white "do these things and you'll be fine" situation.
The tl;dr as to why it doesn’t work is that they blanket forbid calling “rclone serve”, which is required for “append-only” support in restic.

This doesn’t make sense given that the specific invocation of “rclone serve restic --stdio” doesn’t open any network sockets, it’s no less safe than e.g. “tar”

My first experience with rsync.net was very disappointing. To this day they still advertise “append-only mode” support for restic at https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html.

Their support people confirmed it doesn’t work (though they didn’t seem to understand why it would be fine for them to support it as advertised...) yet 6 months later they still advertise that they support it, even when I have e-mailed to remind them (and it still doesn’t work either) :(

Re:Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:20PM (#24692692)
Just whatever other software I'm using. Usually terminal windows, sometimes text or graphics editor, e-mail client. That kind of thing.
Re:Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:30PM (#24692272)
If a site like Wikipedia is too wide, wouldn't you just make your browser window thinner? Mine has never been wider than half the display since I got a widescreen LCD ~ 15 years ago.
Potentially also of interest: Rocket Lab is planning to launch a cubesat to lunar orbit soon as well https://www.rocketlabusa.com/lunar/

Then to Venus in 2023! https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-private-venus-mission-2023....

Re:ProtonMail Bridge is now open source on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @09:15PM (#22885112)
It would be great if someone forked this to allow it to function as an XOAUTH2 IMAP proxy for other providers.

This would be particularly useful with big e-mail providers (Google, Microsoft) looking at retiring password based authentication in the near future.

Re:Show HN: Simple note-taking and blogging on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:32PM (#18484235)
Is it open source?
Re:Ask HN: Are we all OK with short DNS TTLs now? on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:51PM (#18127094)
Also in the mix: is there any point in having multiple A records for a busy site now?

Ask HN: Are we all OK with short DNS TTLs now?

Conventional wisdom has long had it that short DNS TTLs are bad because they increase query loads and any faults in DNS will cause availability problems more quickly.It seems popular now though for large sites (e.g. twitter.com, github.com, ycombinator.com, stackoverflow.com just to name a few) to use relatively short DNS TTLs, between 1 and 5 minutes, presumably to make failover easier.Has...

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Re:Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer on Sunday August 12, 2018 @06:05PM (#17746685)
The "submit a URL" seems to need the URL scheme added (e.g. https://) or it silently fails.

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