Tyler Cipriani
Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi Minibook X scratches the same itch. The Minibook X is a 10.5″ x86_64 sub-ultrabook with 16GB RAM, a 512GB NVMe drive, and only one majorly annyoing Linux quirk. I needed a knock-around laptop, so I bought myself a Minibook for my birthday last year. The more I tote it around, the more fun I’m having with this ridiculous little computer. Chuwi Minibook X Quick specs…
Hackers are pwning packages at an exhausting clip, and GitHub Actions features in every postmortem. In late February, a hackerbot AI 1 yoinked the release key for a single project. Within a month, fifty-ish other projects had cred stealers. Each infected repo swiped credentials for the next. This spate of supply-chain hacks started from a GitHub Actions trap; a simple, bad default with a…
If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone , and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems with large files. But Git LFS added new complications and storage costs. Meanwhile, the Git project has been quietly working on large files. And while LFS ain’t dead yet, the latest Git release…
People should try to compare the quality of the kernel git logs with some other projects, and cry themselves to sleep. – Linus Torvalds I’ll never remember your project’s commit guidelines. Every project insists on something different: Conventional commits Problem/Solution format Gitmoji The twisty maze of trailers in the Linux Kernel But git commit templates help. Commit templates provide a…
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once someone asks for it . And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so 🙂 – Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com Boox in split screen, typewriter mode In January, I bought a Boox Go 10.3—a 10.3-inch, 300-ppi, e-ink Android tablet. After two months, I use the Boox daily—it’s…