Mechanize

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[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wish they used them all, especially XDG_CACHE_HOME which can become pretty big pretty fast.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 3 points 5 days ago

disable this system security feature temporarily,

This should be - if I'm not mistaken - possible using the pip env var I posted about earlier, like this:

PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1 sudo apt install howdy

Or exporting it for the current shell, before running the installation

export PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES=1

But I personally highly discourage it, because - AFAIK - if it even works it will mess up the deps in your system.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm no python expert but reading around it seems your only real solution is using a virtual environment, through pipx or venv as you already had found out, or using the

--break-system-packages

* Allow pip to modify an EXTERNALLY-MANAGED Python installation

  (environment variable: `PIP_BREAK_SYSTEM_PACKAGES`)

pip flag which, as the name suggest, should be avoided.

EDIT: After rereading I got your problem better and I was trying to read the source for Howdy to see how to do it, so far no luck.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are multiple incidents that kind of fit, but I think you are talking about this one: Wiki article

Information declassified since 2013 has shown that one of the bombs was judged by nuclear weapons engineers at the time to have been only one safety switch away from detonation, and that it was "credible" to imagine conditions under which it could have detonated.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is already amazing!

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I actually feel this is gonna make it harder for people to find out about the change, having something suddenly disappear from your feed is less visible than having reminders when you click on a new post.

At the same time, cosidering the .org one is new, not a lot of servers/instances will have the community federated, so it will not appear even in the All feed for people, especially in the small ones.

For those reasons I would advice for a transition period, if possible, but I can see how it could be annoying to manage.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If I can make a suggestion:

it would be useful for the time being if - in the comments of the posts that will inevitably still be made here - it could be added a crosspost to the new community. Or a bot automatic message.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 8 points 2 weeks ago

Russia is actively in Syria from the end of 2015 as an official belligerent, it's not something new for Russia to fight directly while others use only proxies.

But I can see your point; still - officially - this is only a ~~three days~~ military operation. When that stance will finally change in the official channels, it will mean they can't hold the mask anymore.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just out of curiosity, is the mouse bluetooth?

I heard there are some intermittent problems with them on linux because of proprietary blobs and similar driver issues, but I've never had one, so I've no direct experience.

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

This was an interesting question, so I took a quick dive in the docs, it seems it has an S3 integration to help with it, and some comments on the various supported services

More info here: https://owncast.online/docs/storage/

Still, depending on the chosen provider and the amount of viewers, it could be quite costly