On Fedora this installs 187 MiB. Surely not small, but everything has dependencies and can have issues with them. It is a trade-off. It was an interesting article, though my solution was simple and worked for me.
The One, The Original, The Prophetic (July 1990), The Authentic “Evil Empires: One down, one to go…” bumper sticker, anticipating the obsolescence of railroad era continental-scale empires in the information age.
I wonder if something like this might make a comeback for workers that are blocked from using wsl/hyperv on their corporate laptops. For me I've been using msys2 as an "alternative" since I'm unable to use wsl. It's not the same but it's all I got.
I use WSL1 on my work PC everyday, because I can't run HyperV. I don't have a GUI, but a coworker said he was able to get VNC running on WSL1 and was able to VNC into it from his Windows environment.
At work when I work on Windows (currently stuck using Mac for the first time in my career at work), but on Windows I would use https://gitforwindows.org/ which also uses msys2 and that is a very popularly supported free product using msys2 on Windows. If you ever forget the URL, search for "git bash for windows".
I think we should list the sites where this fingerprinting is done. I have a suspicion that Microsoft does it for conditional access policies but I am not sure of other services.
We cannot really list them, as 90% of the time, it's not the websites themselves, it's their WAF. And there is a trend toward most company websites to be behind a WAF nowadays to avoid 1) annoying regulations (US companies putting geoloc on their websites to avoid EU cookie regulations) and 2) DDoS.
It's now pretty common to have cloudflare, AWS, etc WAFs as main endpoints, and these do anti bots (TLS fingerprinting, header fingerprinting, Javascript checks, capt has, etc).
Cloudflare (which seems to be fronting half the web these days based off the number of cf-ray cookies that I see being sent back) does this with bot protection on, and Akamai has something similar I think.
> It's like the FAQ is trying to hint that TDE is the "real" KDE, a continuation of the same project initiated by Matthias Ettrich (who, afaict, has no connection to TDE), and that the KDE Foundation's project is an impostor.
Certainly that's one interpretation. The other interpretation is exactly what is said and no more. Where did this "imposter" accusation come from?
The wording as-read certainly makes it sound like that:
A fork of a thing is not that thing. Thus this is not KDE, it's a fork of KDE. Thus this wasn't originally called the K Desktop Environment, it's a fork of something that was originally called the K Desktop Environment.
Viewed in this context, the second point sounds weird: it was never rebranded, the fork was called TDE from the beginning, and the reason it can't (shouldn't) call itself KDE is because it isn't. What the KDE leadership calls KDE is KDE.
They claim that they are the same project that was initiated by Matthias Ettrich in 1996.
They also kinda imply that they would use the KDE name, if they were allowed to, but someone else owns the rights for it. ("Why don't you do this very natural thing?" "I am not allowed to.")
They indeed don't claim or imply that the KDE Foundation is an "imposter". They also don't say anything about whether the KDE Foundation is also a continuation of the same project.
> Interestingly the importer in the article was looking at alternate chains of supply, but "manufacturing in the US" wasn't one of his proposed solutions.
With NAFTA/NAFTA 2, it doesn't make sense to manufacture in the USA anyway when they have cheaper labor in Mexico. China knows this too.
