A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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  • Uh yeah. That is more information… Sorry, I’m not that familiar with Snaps. It looks to my untrained eye a bit like the report on the Snap itself, maybe it advertises to support running in strict confinement. Which it could… but doesn’t do. (Alike the other channels, which you could install, but didn’t… It’s kind of buried with that kind of information.)

    It’s confusing at least. And the user definitely wouldn’t expect it from that wording. So I’d view it as a separate bug as well. And dropping confinement without notice would be the third thing, I’d consider a bug.)






  • Sure. I should have phrased it a bit differently. My point was more or less, why is the curl developer’s review of the performance in a hypothetical scenario a decisive factor here… That feels like super random information. Same with the other two people. I’m fairly sure this is true and all… There’s just no context given, nor is there a connection being made between the statements and the rest of the content of the article.





  • I dislike it. Usually I’d use packages from my Linux distribution. Or package it myself and maybe upstream the effort if my distro has a user repository. Now (this way) it’s down to everybody download random files from the internet and execute them. Specifically what every Linux tutorial instructs you not to do. Plus there’s no updates, no security, no version control or transparency. It’s not licensed in any free way, so I can’t fix it or adapt it to my liking, I can’t help you write better Python code…

    But it’s your software project. You’re perfectly fine to do whatever you want with it. And it’s certainly commendable to write software, whether you do it for yourself, or put it out there in some way.








  • Did you read the Wiki? You need to either pass the compress_extension option when mounting it. The Arch Wiki lists how to enable compression on all text files. And I gave you the version with a ‘*’, which enables compression for all files. Or you do a chattr -R +c ... on specific files or directories to compress them. Maybe you missed that and that’s why it doesn’t compress?!

    There’s probably also a way to debug it and somehow figure out what it does and how many files/sectors got compressed on the filesystem. Linux usually buries that kind of information somewhere in /sys or /proc, or there’s special commands to figure it out. But I’m not really an expert on it.

    And there’s also files which just can not be compressed any further because they’re already compressed. Most images, for example. Or music or ZIP archives. If you try to compress those, they’ll usually stay the same size.