EmanueleAina

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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
Right. It sounds infinitely sad too. :(
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
So the Free Software movement is oppressive because it is trying to change the software culture from proprietary to free?
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
Very true for low-level system libraries, but applications should really not waste energy on trying to be OOM-safe: it's hard to understand which actions are safe when you no longer can allocate memory (releasing resources often requir
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> having proper distributed service management Which is more or less what CoreOS's `fleet` already does on top of systemd. They used a different protocol for remote communications (etcd, ie. HTTP+JSON) vs. local, which I guess can b
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
I guess it's meant to go over TLS, just like HTTP basic auth.
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
For what is worth, microcommits + rebase for fast-forward merges are the basis of the workflow used in the GNOME project. As far as I know, it's more or less also what it is used by kernel people before hitting the tree of a maintainer
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
True, but for most of us there's more than just groups and users. su is helpful to add other users' privileges to the current session, but there was no command to create a new full, isolated session other than logging in on a diff
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
To some extents, it depends on the definition of C: by the standard, you're right, you can't. But with some relatively common (GCC and clang) extension (ie. __attribute__((cleanup))) you definitely can, see g_autoptr() from GLib f
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
Honest question: is NixOS really doing reproducible builds, where you get byte-identical binaries when rebuilding from source? I only found this issue on the Tor tracker, and apparently NixOS does not produce reproducible builds in the same
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
I don't think so. Reproducible builds means that compiling the binary packages results in byte-by-byte identical copies, even when done on different machines at different times: the packaging sources do not get any simpler (to the cont
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
I guess once the negotiations have ended, the full text will be available on the EU website, as many position statements already are. After that, many national governments will have to vote on it, and I guess you can consider those public a
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
You either don't know the meaning of the word "irony" or you have some issues with cause→effect relations.
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
If you talk about cabals, there's no point in having a sensible discussion. Te existence of secret cabals is a matter of faith, and you cannot really discuss things of faith with reason alone. In any case, both GNOME and Debian willin
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
The vast majority of third parties GTK+2 themes were using the pixmap engine (or murrine in some cases), which was basically what the current CSS engine is, just more arcane and infinitely less flexible. I reiterate: full stability for them
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> imperative chunk of simple and straightforward C is far better than arcane declarative CSS based Nope, consider yourself lucky if you have never heard the horror stories about the old theming code (and even more lucky from the fact tha
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> pushed to RHEL and Fedora It's more like systemd was developed for Fedora/RHEL, given that a good chunk of its developers are from Red Hat. Also, I doubt that the Fedora/RHEL maintainers are a bunch of loons easily foo
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
No revisionism here: 1) in no possible way "I'd like to propose systemd" can be seen as forcefully "pushing" something 2) please go read (or re-read) the full discussion behind the Debian tech-ctte decision[1] to un
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
Nope, that's not really the same thing.
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> * sysv removed http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d1... > We have won. Now remove all remains of our defeated enemy as fast as we can. As said in the beginning of the systemd cr
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Are you proposing to move all the systemd features in the kernel? Why do you think it would be a good idea. Note that one of the stated goals for systemd is to make good use of all the new fancy
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
RedHat and Samsung open source contributions aren't really comparable, despite the latter having got much better lately. Despite me being a long time Debian user, I've always appreciated how RedHat employees have always been commu
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
It's not a matter or "impressions" but rather the matter of chance: when a vulnerability is published you may have the chance to fix it before someone figures how to use it in a exploit. If the exploit is released immediately
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> May be I am wrong, but theming engine is a vital part of an UI toolkit Arguably, for a big chunk of GTK+ users (me included) it's not. I care about the work on the default theme as I can't really be bothered to install custom
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
Things have improved a lot with the CSS engine maturing. With GTK+2 themes where loadable compiled modules and where far from simple. With GTK+3 you do everything with CSS alone. Of course full stability cannot be provided due to the fact t
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/21/upshot/finland-shows-why-m...
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
No need to SHOUT to convey your message. Indeed, I wasn't really trying to quote the article when I was talking about height, I just took a bad analogy on my own (certainly influenced by what I just read, but that's not the point)
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> Men and women, on average, differ significantly The linked article explicitly does not take any stance on that. What the article points out is that males are more extreme in their traits, eg. exceptionally tall or exceptionally short,
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> the fact that "OMG initscripts are so verbose with so much boilerplate; my unit files are so much better" is a commonly-cited reason for people to prefer systemd over other init systems, never mind that said reasoning is plai
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
The few times I tried to run GUI programs through su I always got plenty of warning about DBus and stuff. But I don't do that very often, so that's all I know.
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by EmanueleAina 11y ago
> What userspace programs interpret the quiet parameter? > Genuine question. AFAIK, quiet does (or should do) nothing other than disable some of the kernel logging. At least plymouth and probably every init system out there. Linus sai

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