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I think you were being "inaccurate and hyperbolic". > Linux is not "forcing adoption of HDCP" (it's just something Linux has a driver for) What they actually

by ColanR 6y ago

I think you were being "inaccurate and hyperbolic". > Linux is not "forcing adoption of HDCP" (it's just something Linux has a driver for) What they actually said in the article: > Historically, some features began as optional ones until they reached total functionality. Then they became forced and difficult to patch out. Even if this does not happen in the case of HDCP, we remain cautious about such implementations.

JoshTriplett 6y ago
My comment was entirely based on the second link. Direct quote from that: > Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP. (Which linked to a patch adding driver support for handling HDCP, with absolutely no possibility of it somehow being forced.) Regarding the quote from that interview: sure, and there's also no guarantee that the Linux kernel won't drop support for every architecture except SPARC, except of course for all the people involved not putting up with it. In what possible universe would Linux developers decide it was a good idea to mandate HDCP? It's completely unfounded and unsupported hyperbole and fearmongering, without even a hint of potential truth. It's also roughly consistent with what I'd expect from someone who thinks that gettext daring to have support for Java and C# format strings is a horrific problem that should be ripped out by the roots.
- boogies 6y ago
  I don’t know about Linux, but Mozilla has mandated many things that I would have hoped it never would have, like XUL depreciation, and especially added many anti-features to their largest product, deciding each was not their hill to die on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124954. I left Firefox and have never regretted it. The Hyperbola devs did the same, and I will be happy to try their OS and support them fighting on every hill they find, no matter how tiny or unimportant it seems to larger organizations.
  - JoshTriplett 6y ago
    > like XUL depreciation There were specific reasons for that: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/ https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
  - boogies 6y ago
    Oops. This is why I try not to rush HN comments. This one I did and tried to remove my partial list of complaints about Mozilla and left one element, that’s not the most important one.¹ Mozilla markets Firefox as ‘the only browser made for people, not profit’. But they’ve done the exact opposite time and time again. Virtually the single most prominent UI element, the omnibar, has been sold out to the single largest threat to the open web, the gatekeeper to the entire internet to the vast majority of its users. I don’t want to spend all day railing against Mozilla, as easily as I could, but I can easily find a couple other examples off the top of my head. The Mr. Robot scandal is another example of selling out and (not necessarily directly harming but very significantly) alienating users. And it’s been a few years since I’ve used FF as my main browser but I still remember every time I installed it on a new device going into settings and changing default after default to revert it back from a profit-seeking product to a personal tool, disabling telemetry, etc. 1: Although it does make a difference to me. I’d use pre-Chromium Edge if it was FLOSS, on my OS, and let me use Pentadactyl. The excuses for XUL’s removal — security, stability, and speed — don’t concern me: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/ https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo... seems to claim it would allow someone to somehow steal my passwords. I’ve been using Palemoon for years and I don’t have any weird activity on any of my accounts, and I keep my browser sandboxed (something Firefox should do better by default, one way it’s behind Chromium) so I don’t have any other security worries. I have no stability or speed issues, and maintainability seems like a non-issue given that an apparently one-man main team keeps Palemoon running.
boogies 6y ago
I was going to comment similarly. The comment could be described as “inaccurate and hyperbolic”: if spelling counts, the second link does not say Linux was “forcing adoption [emphasis added] of HDCP.” Systemd stinks and I don’t care how it’s spelled as long as it’s sent to … nvm. And the Hyperbola devs have shown up, done the work, and ported pacman to their kernel, not making the mistake of listening to hyperbolic haters.
- Foxboron 6y ago
  > And the Hyperbola devs have shown up, done the work, and ported pacman to their kernel, not making the mistake of listening to hyperbolic haters. Where? I was curious as there has been no upstream improvements. And there are no new code in what I assume is their upstream repository? https://libregit.org/Hyperbola/hyperman https://libregit.org/Hyperbola/hyperman

by ColanR 6y ago

JoshTriplett 6y ago

My comment was entirely based on the second link. Direct quote from that: > Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP. (Which linked to a patch adding driver support for handling HDCP, with absolutely no possibility of it somehow being forced.) Regarding the quote from that interview: sure, and there's also no guarantee that the Linux kernel won't drop support for every architecture except SPARC, except of course for all the people involved not putting up with it. In what possible universe would Linux developers decide it was a good idea to mandate HDCP? It's completely unfounded and unsupported hyperbole and fearmongering, without even a hint of potential truth. It's also roughly consistent with what I'd expect from someone who thinks that gettext daring to have support for Java and C# format strings is a horrific problem that should be ripped out by the roots.

boogies 6y ago
I don’t know about Linux, but Mozilla has mandated many things that I would have hoped it never would have, like XUL depreciation, and especially added many anti-features to their largest product, deciding each was not their hill to die on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124954. I left Firefox and have never regretted it. The Hyperbola devs did the same, and I will be happy to try their OS and support them fighting on every hill they find, no matter how tiny or unimportant it seems to larger organizations.
- JoshTriplett 6y ago
  > like XUL depreciation There were specific reasons for that: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/ https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
- boogies 6y ago
  Oops. This is why I try not to rush HN comments. This one I did and tried to remove my partial list of complaints about Mozilla and left one element, that’s not the most important one.¹ Mozilla markets Firefox as ‘the only browser made for people, not profit’. But they’ve done the exact opposite time and time again. Virtually the single most prominent UI element, the omnibar, has been sold out to the single largest threat to the open web, the gatekeeper to the entire internet to the vast majority of its users. I don’t want to spend all day railing against Mozilla, as easily as I could, but I can easily find a couple other examples off the top of my head. The Mr. Robot scandal is another example of selling out and (not necessarily directly harming but very significantly) alienating users. And it’s been a few years since I’ve used FF as my main browser but I still remember every time I installed it on a new device going into settings and changing default after default to revert it back from a profit-seeking product to a personal tool, disabling telemetry, etc. 1: Although it does make a difference to me. I’d use pre-Chromium Edge if it was FLOSS, on my OS, and let me use Pentadactyl. The excuses for XUL’s removal — security, stability, and speed — don’t concern me: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addons/ https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo... seems to claim it would allow someone to somehow steal my passwords. I’ve been using Palemoon for years and I don’t have any weird activity on any of my accounts, and I keep my browser sandboxed (something Firefox should do better by default, one way it’s behind Chromium) so I don’t have any other security worries. I have no stability or speed issues, and maintainability seems like a non-issue given that an apparently one-man main team keeps Palemoon running.

boogies 6y ago

I was going to comment similarly. The comment could be described as “inaccurate and hyperbolic”: if spelling counts, the second link does not say Linux was “forcing adoption [emphasis added] of HDCP.” Systemd stinks and I don’t care how it’s spelled as long as it’s sent to … nvm. And the Hyperbola devs have shown up, done the work, and ported pacman to their kernel, not making the mistake of listening to hyperbolic haters.

Foxboron 6y ago
> And the Hyperbola devs have shown up, done the work, and ported pacman to their kernel, not making the mistake of listening to hyperbolic haters. Where? I was curious as there has been no upstream improvements. And there are no new code in what I assume is their upstream repository? https://libregit.org/Hyperbola/hyperman https://libregit.org/Hyperbola/hyperman