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pasabanov / crazy-radical-leftists-attack-xlibre.md
Last active September 15, 2025 16:14
Are We XLibre Yet? Crazy radical leftists are not.

Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

@kLiHz
kLiHz / ips.dat
Last active February 25, 2026 16:24
An IP list for qBittorrent about (suspicious) peers (several CN IP CIDRs that causing hundreds of GBs upload traffic by downloading something again and agian),
101.70.158.0 - 101.70.158.255
114.227.93.0 - 114.227.93.255
114.230.139.0 - 114.230.139.255
115.238.230.160 - 115.238.230.191
115.238.231.96 - 115.238.231.127
117.86.212.0 - 117.86.212.127
121.231.30.0 - 121.231.30.255
122.227.58.0 - 122.227.58.255
124.91.148.0 - 124.91.148.127
183.131.116.0 - 183.131.116.255
@linuxkathirvel
linuxkathirvel / openvpn-connection-in-kde-plasma.md
Last active October 31, 2025 15:44
How to create OpenVPN connection in KDE Plasma using NetworkManager GUI with .ovpn file?

How to create OpenVPN connection in KDE Plasma using NetworkManager GUI with .ovpn file?

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@probonopd
probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active May 6, 2026 06:37
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

tl;dr: Wayland is not "the future", it is merely an incompatible alternative to the established standard with a different set of priorities and goals.

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating e

@zmwangx
zmwangx / No longer able to make public gists secret.md
Last active April 24, 2026 01:24
No longer able to make public gists private — message to GitHub

We've been able to toggle visibility of gists since 2014 (https://github.com/blog/1837-change-the-visibility-of-your-gists), but I just noticed that I can no longer make public gists private. That is, when I edit private gists I still see the "Make Public" button, but not the other way round — there's only a "Delete" button when I edit public gists; the "Make Secret" which should be next to it (as shown in the screencast in the linked blog post) is nowhere to be found. I made a screenshot and a screencast demonstrating the issue, both of which are attached. Could you please confirm this issue? Was this an intentional change, and why? Thank you for your attention.

gist-unable-to-make-secret

![gist-unable-to-make-secret](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4149852/16898407/c76db210-4c0b-11e6-9108-0450f1edebb4.gif)