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#SMEM #Docs Episode #4 - #Wiggli - #smem
Nous avons enfin pu rendre visite à #JanineWiggli, la femme du #sculpteur et #compositeur #suisse #OscarWiggli.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HRYBc7gGc
#musique #music #documentaire #synth #synthétiseur #art
Gain unprivileged access to an overlapped directory in Flatpak
Issue
/usr and other hierarchies on the host cannot be accessed from Flatpak, because they conflict with the sandbox. Instead, you are presented with a fake, overlapped filesystem hierarchy. Currently, Flatpak alone has no working options to solve this issue, as configuration overrides have no effect on those special filesystem hierarchies. As Linux does not support directory hard links, this is a serious nuisance!
Solution
Luckily, there is a workaround to safely access the original directory without having root access, if your sysadmin (or you, if you own the system) installed the bindfs package.
The bindfs command uses a FUSE filesystem to mirror the contents of a directory to another directory:
bindfs /overlapped ~/.overlapped
If high performance is needed:
bindfs -o multithreaded /overlapped ~/.overlapped
If security (read-only access) is needed:
bindfs -o ro /overlapped ~/.overlapped
Example
TASK: access the documentation on a Debian system from a Flatpak app.
user@localhost:~$ mkdir .doc
user@localhost:~$ bindfs -o ro,multithreaded /usr/share/doc .doc
user@localhost:~$ ls .doc
…will grant you fast, read-only access to /usr/share/doc by visiting .doc in your user home.
ls .doc will list the contents of /usr/share/doc, while .doc is not a symlink but a simple directory created by you.
You can now eg. use the Flatpak version of Mozilla Firefox to browse file:///home/yourusername/.doc and it will let you read the files in /usr/share/doc, which are normally inaccessible under Flatpak.
Note: this is not an official workaround, I've found by accident. If you know better alternatives please feel free to comment so other users can benefit. Thank you.
Tags: #linux #gnulinux #debian #flatpak #sandbox #virtualization #security #hacking #filesystem #fs #docs #sysadmin #sys #documentation
#SMEM #Docs Episode #3 - #Synkie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEPBfbeIvlc
Dans cet épisode des smem docs, on s’est penchés sur un talent local de la ville de #Fribourg. On est allés chez #MichaelEgger, du #studio #Anyma. Michael est un #créateur vraiment polyvalent dans le domaine #électronique et #audiovisuel et il va nous parler aujourd’hui d’un #instrument qu’il confectionne avec des collègues depuis plus de 10 ans: le Synkie. C’est un instrument #modulaire totalement unique, qui se situe à la frontière entre la #vidéo et l’ #audio. Le #projet est totalement libre d’accès via la plateforme #Github et Michael encourage quiconque à s’approprier ses créations.
Studio Anyma:
https://www.anyma.chProjet Synkie:
https://synkie.net
https://www.anyma.ch/research/synkie/
https://vimeo.com/channels/synkie
https://github.com/mirdej/synkie
#SMEM #Docs - Episode 1 - #Amiga
Dans cet épisode, on retrouve #CédricMaillard aka #DJCollins dans son #studio pour découvrir le monde de la #production sur Amiga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEyZ-naHUY
#musique #électronique #synth #synthétiseur #documentaire