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Ahh yea that’d do it. I didn’t even know there was a wireless option.

The corsair scimitar is very supported on Linux and has some software called ckb-next you can install that lets you do most remappings you could possibly want. I had one for a while until it finally gave up the ghost. I have a Logitech G600 now, and there are some apps for it but none like the corsair one. Since it has onboard memory for bindings, I just edited it on a windows machine with their really old app and saved it to hardware.

I just saw your reply to me and was about to say the same thing, but they worded it perfectly. And I did mention metadata as a key point in my original post.

Yes, it is possible!

I hope you have some solid soldering and hot air workstation skills, but assuming you do then yes its 100% possible.

I do not recommend it.

I think that part of the issue is that every disability is unique to some degree. No two people who are blind have blindness to the same degree. Colorblind people have several variations they could be experiencing. Deafness also follows a similar pattern, whereby some people can’t hear well where others can’t hear at all; or in some cases have a constant sound in their ear that drowns out everything else. There are neurological disorders that range from not being able to read sentences normally because the words start to become jumbled to being unable to focus on large amounts of text. There are physical disabilities of all sorts that affect the arms and hands or even the ability to sit upright to look at the computer screen.

Because of that, there are two options:

• build a desktop environment custom-tailored to each individuals needs.

• build some general purpose accessibility options that can (and must) be adjusted to meet an individuals needs, which may or may not be able to meet them 100%.

Out of the two, the second one is far more feasible, and more possible to improve upon.

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EVERYTHING in Signal follows an encryption or tokenization chain. Not like crypto coins but real actual chain-of-custody type encryption workflows. It uses elliptical curve cryptography where the key for each message moves forward along an elliptic curve, which are excessively difficult to guess the factors for once it is selected if you are not the key holder. This means that even if someone cracks the key for a single message you sent, they are going to have to crack the key for every other message still as each one is different. Even the metadata is encrypted by the user’s keys.

Signal doesnt have usernames in the traditional sense. It’s phone number+6 digit pin hashed into an encrypted signature.

The signal company can’t see anything you do besides account create date and last login date, even if they wanted to due to how their platform is set up.

Meanwhile, Matrix literally clones the metadata between servers when a user connects to and starts talking to users on another server, in plaintext (maybe encrypted at rest but not E2EE).

I really really don’t. As soon as he does, corporate vultures (such as MBA degree holders) and people who “want to change what ‘open source’ means” will swoop in. If we replace Linus, I hope its someone very similar to him who isn’t afraid to be a hardass where it’s needed and will keep the current vision of Linux alive.

I meant more the un-clogging of getting protocols improved in upstream

frog_protocols already pulling their weight in gold it seems like.

See this is the problem with Rust people, they always misconstrue you saying “mixing two languages together makes a project less maintainable” to mean “Rust is unmaintainable” if Rust is the second language.

This is why the disagreement between Hector and Christoph happened in the first place.

Do better, reddit_sux

It appears so now, yes, but when the drama initially came out it sounded like they were asking for a tiny amount of rust in the kernel to make it work, or if not rust, changing the C to tailor it specifically to the rust. Which I think is a reasonable thing to be concerned about from a maintainability perspective long-term, especially if the rust developers decide to leave randomly (Hector’s abrupt quitting over this very issue is a prime example).

Its a little of column A, little of column B type situation.

Yes, some of it is his taste, but that taste is coming from a technical place. Primarily long term maintainability of the project.

I realize what Linus came out and said outlines that no code is entering Christoph’s part of the project, but Christoph is playing goalie and needs to make sure that never happens in order to keep everything working correctly for a very long time.

Maybe the DMA module gets rewritten completely in Rust one day, but until then, rust modules interfacing with a C-only component seems to be the best for long-term maintenance.

Rust is great, but you are not thinking from a long-term project perspective. Rust is safer, but Linux needs to be maintainable or it dies.

Based on what you’re saying, the only way its going to reasonably be converted to Rust is if someone forks Linux and matches all the changes they’re making in C as they happen but converts it all to Rust. Once its all converted and maintainability has been proven, a merge request would need to be made.

It literally wasn’t about Rust specifically though. Christoph literally said it was about anything that was not C, including assembly, C++, brainfuck, or whatever, entering the kernel. Christoph likes Rust. Christoph (rightfully) does not like mixed language codebases for projects as large and important as Linux

Can Forgejo do ci/cd pipelines by chance?

You forgot to attribute your quote. Abraham Lincoln originally said that!

Common sense isn’t just “not so common,” it is a fundamentally broken concept at its core and a crutch that people use to hoist themselves above others they feel they are better than.

Deemed by who though?

Christoph is an engineer and has been for a long time. There are probably considerations he is making that you either cannot or are refusing to fathom. He’s clearly not against rust in general, just in mixing languages in one codebase.

To be clear though, I personally don’t have a horse in this race, I am speaking somewhat as an outside observer, so i gain nothing from you getting your way or Christoph his.

Stop and think without attributing malice to why someone in his position would make the statements and decisions he’s making. He’s not an idiot.

Looks like Paolo served you a slice of humble pie there at the end.

Please keep this kind of FUD elsewhere, thank you.