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by Crinus 7y ago
Would it be possible to send random bytes through the wire when it is otherwise 'idle' and/or randomize the packet rate?
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by Crinus 7y ago
Lazarus is easier than the first two by far and you get self-contained native executables (no runtime requirements or extra DLLs, at least on Windows), native widgets (on Linux you can choose between Gtk and Qt, though the latter does need
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by Crinus 7y ago
> If you stop supporting the previous C revision, it means the person compiling your code need to upgrade their compiler FYI, this doesn't happen in C, all C versions are backwards compatible - you can compile C89 code on any compil
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by Crinus 7y ago
Why would eliminate the ability to develop apps for the iOS? You could be able to download a development environment "app" from the Mac App Store just like now. You'd be a bit more confined inside the environment itself, but
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Have Apple executives said anything on the matter? Even vague warnings? Because companies never lie or say that "we're not going to do XYZ" until next week/month/year where they go "XYZ is the new awesome&
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by Crinus 7y ago
It is an issue on game consoles too, just because it has somehow become accepted it doesn't mean it isn't an issue that you cannot run whatever you want on your own hardware. "Others are doing <bad thing> too" isn&
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by Crinus 7y ago
I wasn't referring to libraries, i was specifically referring to the language itself and the language was simpler. Also i never worked with J2EE, in fact i worked with the complete opposite: J2ME. While it had a lot of pains, these w
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by Crinus 7y ago
Java reversed that route around Java 5 when they added a crapton of language features (generics, annotations, autoboxing, enumerations, varargs, foreach) that considerably increased its complexity and made Java to not be just a very simple
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not sure i understand, your issue with Composer was making a chart? Why would you try to make a chart in Composer, it is a page editor not an image editor, why not make the chart in a tool made specifically for charts and use it as
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by Crinus 7y ago
> It's just fascinating how they add or fix things without breaking the code. In the same way it is fascinating to watch a forest fire from afar.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I would, why wouldn't i? If all you need is to write some formatted text with a bunch of images and perhaps a table or two, composer does the job perfectly fine and the page you get works on any server and client with practically zero
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by Crinus 7y ago
Since we're playing that game, i nominate Paint Shop Pro 7 :-) There are very few (and minor) things i'd change about that software and apparently its developers thought the same because the biggest change they did after that was
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by Crinus 7y ago
My point is that the defensive stance shows that many developers want to work on custom engines despite other factors and that is driven by personal preference rather than any sort of cost/benefit calculation. And it makes perfect sens
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by Crinus 7y ago
Something that i haven't seen mentioned much is that some people just prefer to work on custom engines (i'm willing to bet that the main reason John Carmack made his own engines was because he liked working on his own engines rath
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by Crinus 7y ago
TBH i never used 2.x, after KDE1.x i mainly used Window Maker (and still use that when on Linux) with the exception of a couple of years when i used Ubuntu as my main OS back when it had GNOME 2. I used KDE 3.x (not sure if 3.5 or earlier t
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by Crinus 7y ago
From personal experience custom engines offer more flexibility, assuming they're not 20 year old monolithic behemoths that tens (or hundreds!) of developers added their little piece and nobody bothered to remove much over the years. IF
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by Crinus 7y ago
People want that because all they know is the positive aspects that are advertised to them, not the negative aspects that are kept hidden and downplayed.
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by Crinus 7y ago
The comment is for the comment i replied to, not the linked video. If it was for the video i'd post it as a top level comment. (though if anything around 1999 things were most likely looking towards desktop use, it wouldn't be unt
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by Crinus 7y ago
I think you missed the point of my comment a bit :-P. It was about how mainstream technology today focuses on web-based stuff, data harvesting, mobile phones (and how they are way more locked down than your typical desktop computer - even w
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by Crinus 7y ago
If only that ride was towards better personal desktop computers where people have control over instead of towards data farms controlled by a handful of multinational corporations meant to be accessed by locked down mobile consumption termin
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by Crinus 7y ago
> SquirrelMail I really REALLY wish they'd make a new release (there is work on still going on but the latest release is from 2013). SquirrelMail is my favorite webmail since it was first available on a shared host i used early
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not sure how much of a possibility this is because i do not know exactly how GNOME extensions work - the linked malware is not a real GNOME extension, it just pretends to be one by placing itself in the directory where GNOME extens
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by Crinus 7y ago
You can't really, but at some point you have to trust someone, otherwise everyone would recreate everything from scratch. Though TBH what i had in mind wasn't really the "let's download live code from random places"
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by Crinus 7y ago
If someone can force download and install an application through browser/email then the issue isn't with the application being downloaded and installed but whatever allowed the application to be forcefully downloaded and installed
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by Crinus 7y ago
Wouldn't uniformity be a bad thing for less common Linux distributions since whatever targets the famous distros would also work with the less common distros but while the former have the big userbase and skilled security team, the lat
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not consider all 3rd party places as untrusted (this sort of thinking leads to walled gardens) and i'd put these under "downloading from trustworthy places" in the sense that they are more of a way to download something
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by Crinus 7y ago
No, do not download and run random stuff from shady places and you're fine. This relies on you explicitly downloading and running a self-extracting shell script, it doesn't get installed by itself.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'd expect very little success, most people on Linux download software from repositories or other trustworthy places (e.g. Steam). Though some people do tend to install stuff via "curl | sudo bash"... but i think this malware
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by Crinus 7y ago
Only the "ShooterImage" component relies on Xorg (the other components work regardless of window system). Note that the reason Wayland isn't affected is because the malware doesn't use the API needed for taking screensho
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by Crinus 7y ago
Note that this requires for a user to actually download and run this malware, it doesn't randomly get into someone's computer by itself: > This implant is delivered in the form of a self-extracting archive shell script created

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