Do you know if there is a more up to date description of xmpp e2ee without having to read the spec. Specifically interested in stuff like how much metadata is leaked.

you’re probably right as to why.

I’ll note that on my gaming desktop I decided to try out Debian instead of my usual choice of Fedora and its worked fine for gaming with latest gen CPU and GPU. I did install the steam flatpak which will have a newer version of Mesa. I think this is a good middle ground for a system you don’t want to mess with too much.

I think he’s referring just to the letters OGC in the font they chose.

The idea would be two monitors, keyboard, and mice connected to one PC so two people could play games on the same beefy computer at the same time. To avoid issues with steam detecting another instance running, it would be great if the two users were isolated from each other in some way. Also ideally avoiding the need to purchase a second beefy GPU. So PCI-passthrough is out, as you’re giving exclusive access to the GPU in the VM (some GPU support virtualization, but my 9070 xt does not). My understanding is that multi-seat as described here for systemd https://wiki.debian.org/Multi_Seat_Debian_HOWTO should be able to do this as you can have two user logged in at the same time, but this require each seat to have its own dedicated GPU for display. The docs from debian seem to suggest the DRI_PRIME may still work to use the other GPU. I am curious if anyone has tried this before and knows if it works I go around buying a cheap secondary GPU.

VNC seems like an interesting idea, I wonder what the latency would be like for

How do you do it with x? I would be interested in looking at this.

I think in theory it could be done in Wayland if a compositor implements multi-seat support. There is a fork of wlroots & labwc in this repo that seems like it’s trying to do that https://github.com/garlett/multiseat

It’s unfortunate that sweden decided to lock 2FA behind proprietary smartphone apps.

For every country its going to be a different story. I think instead of trying to build an app ecosystem for things like bank apps on linux it would be easier for citizens of those countries to convince the government / banks to allow other 2FA methods like OTPs that can work on any a device using an OTP client. That would honestly benefit more people as whole since they wouldn’t be lock down to just Android/Apple or even owning a smartphone. They could do all their important government/finance stuff just with a computer.

Why can’t we just use banking websites? You don’t need an app ecosystem for that. They just need to build a responsive website that will work on a computer or phone. If you have bank to bank transfer (like e-transfer in Canada) that can be done from the mobile website as well.

Payment like NFC payment is a different story. I suspect its unlikely we ever see that.

I’m not sure if you can do it without authenticating on the remote. Have you seen sshuttle? Maybe you can run that on the remote to connect to the local machine. If the issue is that the remote “can’t see” the local machine to ssh into it then you could try something like reverse tunnel the ssh port to the remote, and then use sshuttle to connect to the local port that is forwarding traffic.

Are you talking about Freedesktop.org selfhosted gitlab instance? They have a week of planned maintenance. I don’t think gitlab’s main gitlab.com instance is going down for week.

100% agree, would like to see more stuff in this space. Do you have any links to more “enbryonic tools”. I recall seeing another tool awhile ago that I tested (can’t remember the name) that worked a bit like LingQ. It would run a webserver and you could read links through it and mark words you didn’t understand. I couldn’t really get into a flow using it as tool to learn languages.

Probably? I just have it setup to always be running in the background on my devices. So if it detects a file change to my sync folder that gets sent to all other devices currently connected. I use global sync so as long as the device has an internet connection or is on the same local network it should be able to sync.

There is an API to interface with syncthing daemon running on your computer https://docs.syncthing.net/dev/rest.html so if you wrote a program to track the nfc action and interface with that API I think you probably could.

No problem! I personally use syncthing to keep my password database synced between my phone, laptop, and desktop. As well as to keep some important files backed up between different devices that way if my hdd or something happens to one of the devices I have backup on the other ones.

So just sync over local wifi basically? I’m pretty sure you can do thing with syncthing if you just disable “global discovery”. You can read the local discovery protocol here https://docs.syncthing.net/specs/localdisco-v4.html but afaiu there is no cloud sync involved at that point and just device to device sync.