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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • While she has not been named in the police statement about the arrest, it is believed to be Bonnie Spofforth

    This, I don’t like. If you - the newspaper, the means of information - are not sure about a name you should really refrain from using it.

    It would be not the first time people get their lives ruined by some careless journalist because of a namesake or just an error.

    It’s not that different from “spreading rumors”.

    That aside, in this case, it is probably a rumor from an inside source. Still. Not a fan.



  • The Heroic Games Launcher is (IMHO) by far the best interface to gog you can have on linux.

    You can find it on the AUR if you use arch, which makes it pretty straightforward to install.

    The next version will integrate with the Galaxy API using the comet project, which should make it even better.

    The only problem I had with it is that, once upon a time, there was a bug with downloading some games (Cyberpunk 2077, in my case) and I had to compile the git version of Gog-dl and target that in the settings… but the fact I could even do that is great by itself.










  • 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.


  • 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.



  • I assume the thing is a representation of some software, so bloated it can barely be considered functional

    When you want to get more understanding about the comic you can try and check the site, there are descriptions for each image, in this case:

    Description

    Mage examines a large bloated creature that can barely move. Fossangel appears behind her.

    Fossangel: “You know why they let it get this far?”

    Mage: “Why?”

    Fossangel: “No, I’m asking.”

    https://analognowhere.com/_/crmmlo


  • Mechanize@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.mlproton VPn
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    Considering you are not using the Flatpak anymore it is, indeed, strange. The only reasons I can think of are: your network manager is using the wrong network interface to route your traffic ( if you go on an ip checking site like for example ipinfo do you see yours or the VPN’s IP?) or that you have WebRTC enabled and the broadcaster is getting your real ip through that.

    For the first case it can get pretty complicated, but it is probably an error during the installation of the VPN app or you set up multiple network managers and it gets confused on which one to configure. You should also enable the Advanced Kill Switch in the configuration.

    For the second case you could try adding something like the Disable WebRTC add-on for firefox and check if it works. Remember to enable it for Private Windows too.

    The last thing I can think of is that you allowed the broadcaster to get your real geolocation (in firefox it should be a small icon on the left of the address bar), or you are leaking some kind of information somewhere: there are a bunch of site that check for ip leak, but I don’t know if that goes too deep for you.
    If you want to check anyway the first two results from DDG are browserleaks and ipleak. Mullvad offered one too but it is currently down.

    EDIT: If you enable the Advanced Kill Switch, and the app is working correctly, internet will not work while you are not connected to a VPN server or until you disable the switch again, so pay attention to that.