This site doesn't seem to let me link to a specific comment: https://lobste.rs/s/aa7ske/anubis_now_supports_non_js_challenges
But on that page, the creator has a comment explaining that the meta refresh challenge does more than just reload the page and wait. They explain that it actually checks if the browser supports modern desktop browser features like gzip encoding, cookies, and more that's not documented.
Is there a file transfer app that could transfer a file directly to a nearby
I don't think there's anything exactly like Apple Airdrop. Apple's airdrop uses a combination of bluetooth to find nearby devices, and a temporary wifi link to send them. It's a custom protocol, that only works because Apple controls the hardware, firmware and software, whereas on nonrooted android phones you simply don't have that level of control over the devices.
In addition to that, many wifi adapters only support being in one "mode" at once, so they are unable to be simultaneously connected to a network, and connected to another device via a direct conenction. Apple gets around this via hardware control, where they can ensure that all their devices, essentially have two wifi adapters inside them.
If you want an alternative to just send wifi files without an internet connection however, bluetooth supports sending and receiving files. Although, bluetooth is much slower than wifi, and you will have to pair the devices first.
EDIT: it looks like a commenter above has claimed that apple devices don't support bluetooth file transfer. So an alternative you could consider is bluetooth tethering, where you connect to a wifi network hosted over bluetooth, and then send files through there. But this requires even more setup, and I dunno if Apple devices support this as well.
Ubunti used to have a a tool that did something similar, but that tool is dead now.
I'm very happy to see a successor.
No, they also added a non webassembly non js based challenge as well.
Anubis finally has support for running without client-side JavaScript thanks to the Meta Refresh challenge
Although google happily lets you log into more than one account from the same browser, microsoft doesn't let you.
I used to, and still do use profiles, which are basically entirely seperate instances of firefox for each main account.
Back when I tried containers, they were really frustrating, because they would always ask which container I wanted a tab in. But that was a while ago, and they've probably fixed my annoyances so I will try them again sometime.
Straying away from utilities, games are always fun to host. I got started with self hosting by hosting a minecraft server, but there are plenty of options.
So instead you decided to go with Canonical's snap and it's proprietary backend, a non standard deployment tool that was forced on the community.
Do you avoid all containers because they weren't the standard way of deploying software for "decades" as well? (I know people that actually do do that though). And many of my issues about developers and vendoring, which I have mentioned in the other thread I linked earlier, apply to containers as well.
In fact, they also apply to snap as well, or even custom packages distributed by the developer. Arch packages are little more than shell scripts, Deb packages have pre/post hooks which run arbitrary bash or python code, rpm is similar. These "hooks" are almost always used for things like installing. It's hypocritical to be against curl | bash but be for solutions like any form of packages distributed by the developers themselves, because all of the issues and problems with curl | bash apply to any form of non-distro distributed packages — including snaps.
You are are willing to criticize bash for not immediately knowing what it does to your machine, and I recognize those problems, but guess what snap is doing under the hood to install software: A bash script. Did you read that bash script before installing the microk8s snap? Did you read the 10s of others in the repo's used for doing tertiary tasks that the snap installer also calls?
# Try to symlink /var/lib/calico so that the Calico CNI plugin picks up the mtu configuration.
The bash script used for installation doesn't seem to be sandboxed, either, and it runs as root. I struggle to see any difference between this and a generic bash script used to install software.
Although, almost all package managers have commonly used pre/during/post install hooks, except for Nix/Guix, so it's not really a valid criticism to put say, Deb on a pedestal, while dogging on other package managers for using arbitrary bash (also python gets used) hooks.
But back on topic, in addition to this, you can't even verify that the bash script in the repo is the one you're getting. Because the snap backend is proprietary. Snap is literally a bash installer, but worse in every way.
Except k3s does not provide a deb, a flatpak, or a rpm.
I consider it a lesser evil to use curl | bash once to install Nix and then get the latest version of packages like rustup and deno than to use curl | bash twice or more to install software on their own (in addition to my opposition to developers installing software on users machines).
And again, cycling all the way back around to what I said in the earlier comments, you still have not provided an example of bash scripts you would like packaged that do stuff other than installing software. You talk about wanting a general repo of scripts, and I have also expressed my concerns about that, and the problems with losing it's portability when you need an extra tool instead of bash and curl/wget.
We are just rehashing the same points.
Canonical's snap use a proprietary backend, and comes at a risk of vendor lock in to their ecosystem.
The bash installer is fully open source.
You can make the bad decision of locking yourself into a closed ecosystem, but many sensible people recognize that snap is "of the devil" for a good reason.
I've tried snap, juju, and Canonical's suite. They were uniquely frustrating and I'm not interested in interacting with them again.
The future of installing system components like k3s on generic distros is probably systemd sysexts, which are extension images that can be overlayed onto a base system. It's designed for immutable distros, but it can be used on any standard enough distro.
There is a k3s sysext, but it's still in the "bakery". Plus sysext isn't in stable release distros anyways.
Until it's out and stable, I'll stick to the one time bash script to install Suse k3s.
Source: https://0x2121.com/7/Lost_in_Translation/
Alt Text: (For searchability): 3 part comic, drawn in a simple style. The first, leftmost panel has one character yelling at another: "@+_$^P&%!. The second comic has them continue yelling, with their hands in an exasperated position: "$#*@F% $$#!". In the third comic, the character who was previously yelling has their hands on their head in frustration, to which the previously silent character responds: "Sorry, I don't speak Perl".
Also relevant: 93% of paint splatters are valid perl programs
I've been thinking about this for a very long time. The only platform that actually passes all of Soatok's tests is Simplex. But it's only briefly mentioned in the article about session
Wait no. I think only server builds are reproducible.
But there is an Android build on F-droid and F-droid does offer reproducible builds, so that's a way to get them.
A big problem, however, is that the creator of simplex is an antivaxxer, anti-DEI, anti-abortion, climate change denialist, etc. I can understand why people would be hesitant to push a platform like that, given they may also be pushing the creator's beliefs. I think it's okay to do the recommendation with a little asterisk of "please be aware that the creator of this app is crazy".