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#!/bin/bash
niri msg -j event-stream | while IFS= read -r line; do
[[ -n "$line" ]] || continue
jq -e 'has("ScreenshotCaptured")' <<<"$line" >/dev/null || continue
filepath=$(echo "$line" | jq -r ".ScreenshotCaptured.path")
[[ -n "$filepath" ]] || continue
satty -f "$filepath" &
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR: satty failed." >&2
fi
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ara4n / matrix-live-s1107.md
Last active August 13, 2025 17:46
Transcript of Matrix Live S11E07 - Reflections on Matrix criticism over the last week

Transcript of Matrix Live S11E07 - Reflections on Matrix criticism over the last week

(Transcript of the audio of https://youtu.be/OyuqM7RbX5E, thanks to OpenAI's Whisper turbo model and some minor tweaks and fixups)

Hi everyone, and welcome to Matrix Live Season 11 Episode 7 where you are stuck with me, Matthew, Project Lead for Matrix. I guess I'm going to be wearing both Matrix and Element CEO hats in this week's recording and I will try to identify which hat I'm wearing at any given point.

What I wanted to talk about this week is that there is clearly a lot of unhappiness being expressed out there about Matrix and Element this week. I think we've basically seen a blog post a day, sometimes twice, ending up on the front page of Hacker News or Lobste.rs or wherever, where folks are expressing quite reasonable disappointment and irritation at where Matrix and Element are at the moment. And so I basically wanted to try to respond, so was thinking of putting out a blog post to try to articulate this a bi

NixOS Binary Cache Proxy

nixos-cache-proxy.cofob.dev is a simple reverse proxy to cache.nixos.org, running over the Cloudflare network and utilizing its cache.

It is intended for use if you:

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How to Use It

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thesamesam / xz-backdoor.md
Last active November 30, 2025 22:27
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094)

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

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