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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • My mother uses some software that runs in the browser for her shop. It can print out receipts and scan items. To do these things it has a small “sattelite” application that runs on the system and interacts with the printer and scanner. This software only runs on Windows and Linux doesn’t have drivers for the scanner.

    When I switched her over to Linux and found this out in the process I wanted to stop, give up and install windows.

    But then I had a stupid idea. I could run the sattelite program in a Windows VM and pass through the USB devices for receipt printer and scanner. The webapp uses requests to localhost:9998 to communicate with the sattelite so I set up a apache server that proxies these requests into the VM. I also prevented the VM from acessing the Interner so Windows doesn’t update and screw everything up.

    And it works. It has been in use for a week now and I’ve heard no complaints. I’m just praying to god it doesn’t break













  • Yeah it’s alright. I’ve been using Tumbleweed on my Desktop PC for the last few months and I gotta say it’s mid. They do hard drive unlocking in Grub instead of in the initfs which means that only LUKS 1 and with that only the not-so-secure PDKDF is supported, instead of argon2id which is the modern KDF you want to use. This is a small and annoying oversight in the distros security which is why I will not be using it in the future





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    7 months ago

    Nicht wirklich, da modifikationen zu der Bibliothek trotzdem veröffentlicht werden müssen. Die LGPL hat verglichen zur GPL nur eine extra Klausel, die besagt, dass man, in proprietären programmen, dynamisch (vielleicht auch statisch, bin mir nicht sicher) zu der Bibliothek linken kann. Wenn du die Bibliothek für deine Zwecke veränderst musst du den code natürlich veröffentlichen