BrightGlow

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by BrightGlow 5y ago
How is that the point? GNOME is an understaffed and underfunded project.
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Using fork and exec with a pipe is not going to work within a sandbox. That "cruft" is necessary for the thing to work...
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
What's not to understand? Feature requests are closed if there are no plans to implement a certain feature. The developers are just being honest about their plans. Users wanting it or making arguments as to why they want it is irreleva
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
>It's not a conspiracy "to drive a political wedge", but a description using the movement's own jargon. There isn't a conspiracy being suggested. The use of this term was heavily promoted last year by certain peo
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
>we can't just permanently deny people access to jobs and public life Please can you stop using this line of reasoning to dismiss racist behavior, it's incredibly frustrating to read this in this context. The risk with hiring s
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Well IrfanView is open source, so if the original author dies I would expect someone else to pick it up. Your description might help with one specific area (compression algorithms) but there are numerous other areas where you can't jus
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Guix includes some containerization support: https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/927a46dc754770ec52...
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I'm not concerned with what's valid or fine or not, this is just if you want a chance to get your problem solved or if you want to waste your own time on a complaint that is to the wrong people. These out-of-context complaints&#x2
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Which operating system doesn't have this attack vector? Is there one that somehow doesn't have a supply chain?
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I don't know what you mean specific vendors are irrelevant, if you're not complaining to anyone in particular, then it's just talking into the void.
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Which vendors are those? I could try to name some, but they might not necessarily be the ones you would come up with.
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I'm fully aware of what Electron is, you don't have to explain it. But for these teams I don't see how Electron is practically any different from any other cross-platform framework like Java. It's the same purpose. The t
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
IrfanView is updated constantly though.
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
The general problem I have (personally) with these type of complaints is that there is no real way for any of these companies to act on it further. In the case of Google, they already have acted on it. It's just noise to them at this p
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
What is senseless about that? It's common for apps to bundle their dependencies, with Electron the bundle just happens to be a app platform for HTML, CSS and Javascript that we colloquially call a web browser. I'm not really a fan
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
That's not a problem on platforms like ChromeOS where web apps are treated like standard apps, from the user point of view they're indistinguishable. A solution on other operating systems would be to use Electron, but I've se
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
The problem with your suggestions is that the program would still need to be updated to support those new libraries. And new mice and touchscreens have gotten new hardware features, which require changes in the software to support them. Eve
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Are we thinking about the same thing? Amiga did not have a perfectly future-proof API. Such an invention would be the holy grail of API design.
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
The other HN Linux user trope here is the (sadly predictable) fetishization of tiling window managers. I used these for years and they're really not that great. If you ask me these exhibit the exact same problem the author is trying to
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
> you can make the operation difficult to perform accidentally Ok but this is just another variation on a dialog. You're describing another dialog that asks you to input a passphrase. >I can see why if you think I was talking abo
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I was lurking here last year during the racial justice protests, and before that during the James Damore controversy. I still saw casually racist/sexist posts get upvoted fairly often. A discriminatory argument can be stated well and s
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
>A GUI to you is just constant dialog boxes? No not quite. Usually a dialog is good to use when there is some unavoidable transition that needs input, or when you need confirmation for an operation that is irreversible. There are plenty
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Your assessment isn't wrong, but the proposed solution here is to not support any business at all, which is just as bad. Anything that is plans to supplant this and doesn't immediately approach the problem of "how are we goin
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I don't think they're even remotely right at all. There is no possible way to make a decent security system in a GUI that doesn't involve dialogs popping up in some way. That's the essence of what a GUI is, if you don&#x
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I don't see how you're disagreeing, you seem to acknowledge that it is a waste of time. And I don't see how any one of these is more pernicious than another, there can be bad actors, cyberstalkers, scammers, criminals everywh
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I really don't think it's okay. I've noticed this type of "tech reactionarism" a lot recently in open source as a form of wishful thinking. This author in particular seems to write about it quite a lot. But it'
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
I had just about the opposite response. This article is pretty badly written and confusing, in a style I could describe as "software architecture porn". There's a lot of descriptions of clever designs but very little demonstr
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
Polkit is compile-time optional in systemd, debian has it disabled by default.
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
That's not really true though, myself or anyone else could fork Gemini right now and add a lot of "unwanted" features to it. The only reason nobody will follow through on that is because everyone who cares about those feature
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by BrightGlow 5y ago
According to some other blogs posted here (links are are elsewhere in this thread) the entire point of Gemini is that it's useless and annoying to use, so useless and annoying that it drives out any advertisers or businesses that would

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