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#wayback, a small project gluing together wayland components to turn Xwayland into a full X environment, is now published: https://github.com/kaniini/wayback

there's definitely a gazillion bugs, which will need work across the entire stack to solve.

however, unlike Xlibre, this is a sustainable path that is intended to reduce the number of X components in distributions.

GitHub - kaniini/wayback: experimental X11 compatibility layer

experimental X11 compatibility layer. Contribute to kaniini/wayback development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Jamie Zawinski has now blocked me on Mastodon for responding to his uncredited The Onion post with a note that the story was 'Hilarious, but a work of fiction'. (I did in fact click the link, and there's nothing there but the verbatim story.)

Truly, never meet your heroes.

If Stallman had his way, we would be running LiGNUx, which lends itself nicely to the tagline 'LiGNUx: rock solid'

Also lig bofa deez nux

Lost opportunities...

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as OpenBSD, is in fact, GNU/OpenBSD, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus OpenBSD. OpenBSD is not an operating system unto itself but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system
My apologies to Theo for the unspeakable things I'm doing to his fine operating system
discovered a new Mac emulator https://github.com/twvd/snow

I'm starting to think my python performance issue was actually just me using my zen4 laptop on Wi-Fi when the other two systems are wired in at gigE

anyway fire's out

Screen recording of it in action (on a pi4, excuse the lag)
One week ago I said there should be a TUI for Home Assistant because it would look dope as fuck and make SSH access pleasant. There is one now, and here's the first release of it: https://github.com/theodric/hatui
imagine if you got all the computer programbers in silicone vally into one room together, wow