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kxxt Feb 6

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Feb 6

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

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kxxt Jan 23

It's 2026 now and time for an updated blog post for cross-compiling Chromium for RISC-V from scratch.

This blog post is much more simple compared with my previous blog post, because many RISC-V patches have been merged into Chromium mainline.

https://www.kxxt.dev/blog/cross-compile-chromium-for-riscv-2026/

#chromium #riscv #riscv64 #linux

Cross compile mainline Chromium for RISC-V from scratch (2026)

This blog post walks you through the procedures about cross compiling mainline chromium for riscv64 from the absolute scratch.

kxxt Dec 18

Finally we could have newlines and trailing commas in inline tables in TOML

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/1073

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#110--2025-12-18

#TOML

Release TOML 1.1 by arp242 · Pull Request #1073 · toml-lang/toml

Fixes #928

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kxxt Dec 16

Rob Ricci Dec 16

Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of

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kxxt Dec 6

niconiconi Nov 20

1925: "Why did all my shortwave radio channels suddenly stop working?" "A solar flare is erupting right now."

2025: "Why did all my websites suddenly stop working?" "A Cloudflare is erupting right now."

kxxt Nov 23

nixCraft 🐧Nov 23

XScreenSaver for Android - Priacy Policy

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

This truly falls under "malicious compliance." LOL.

#google #privacy #android

XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy

XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.

kxxt Oct 24

Felix Yan 🦊Oct 23

升级到 OpenSSL 3.6 要慎重……除了之前发现的 ruby 问题（现在修了：https://github.com/ruby/openssl/issues/949 ）以外，还有 OCSP 相关变更导致更新后的服务端应用程序（比如 Nginx）无法与 BoringSSL（包括 Chrome 系浏览器和 iOS/Mac Safari 等）、GnuTLS 客户端建立连接……

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28902
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/28989

certificate verify failed (unable to get certificate CRL) (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) · Issue #949 · ruby/openssl

The following example fails after installing "OpenSSL 3.6.0": require 'net/http' require 'uri' uri = URI('https://example.com') # Creating a POST request, which is a subclass of Net::HTTPGenericReq...

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kxxt Jul 10, 2025

Outvi V Jul 10, 2025

If your vlc is breaking on Arch Linux... #ArchLinux is splitting #vlc plugin packages.

A news might come some time later, but if you experience issues, installing vlc-plugin-ffmpeg at least fix the issues for me.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/vlc/-/commit/d476e0267ca5e6952a740381b03eb42a1cbf7359

Split the package based on plugins with external dependencies (d476e026) · Commits · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / vlc · GitLab

Based on whether a plugin (or group of plugins) uses external dependencies (apart from gcc-libs, glibc and libvlc), split them into separate packages. Group relevant plugins into packages for visualization...

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kxxt Jul 5, 2025