Intrigued by the idea to have my initscript start a graphical
application to report to and interact with the user I investigated
further:

While the author of cage is rather optimistic about a static cage-build:
https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/issues/190

Others who tried are not so much:
https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/issues/256

So I thought I give it a shot myselfe.  Since I'm new to all of this I
thought I start with an easy first challange:

Setup the latest pi-os WITHOUT graphical subsystem

Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com> wrote

> I'm fairly sure you could build a statically-linked cage that only
> dynamically depended upon system GL libraries.

While I'm not sure how to do it, I at least understand the words.  But here

> You could then bundle that compositor, your application binary,
> and a script that started them together into a self-contained
> executable so that the user could still only have a single file
> to worry about.

you lost me already at "your application binary" how would I get this?
Or is it simply `GOARCH=arm GOOS=linux go build ...` and gio

> On 26. May 2024, at 15:51, Sebastien Binet <s@sbinet.org> wrote:
> 
> https://git.sr.ht/~sbinet/varda

thx, solved

>> Note `base64` is a go package.
> To my knowledge, Sourcehut has not support for parsing scripts within 
> README: just bog-standard markdown expressions.

Sorry for the confusion, the go code should just give an idea of what I'm doing.  
In the README.md I have the resulting string of the base64-encoding not the go code.

"bog-standard markdown" gives me the search result `https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/` <https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/%60>
 which documents the `![alt](link)` syntax?!

Sorry, I'm not getting it.  If someone could point me to a public repository having an image
displayed in a README.md would probably do because usually I'm getting stuff.

Thanks for the effort, Stephan

Good afternoon, I tried to have an image in a README.md using markdown syntax and 
base64 encoded embedded image

![alt](png-link)
![alt](data:image/png;base64,base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(imgBytes))

Note `base64` is a go package. Both attempts were not successful. Both images have < 30KB.
I wonder now if that is intentional? I resorted to sourcehut sides but the traffic I 
generated with that was for sure bigger.  Hence I don't really understand. Any clarification 
on that matter would be appreciated.

All the best Stephan

Hello,

I managed to become a sourcehut user during the last DDoS-attack. As a
result (I guess) going to `https://git.sr.ht/~slukits/gio-eval` shows a
500-error. I can neither push to that project nor can I remove it. I
created mean while an other project with the content of `gio-eval` and
would like to delete `gio-eval`. But it seems that I can't do that.

Thanks for the great service; any help is very much appreciated.

Stephan

P.s. this is since sr.ht is back up again. I just waited reporting it
because I thought you have bigger fish to fry.