alxlaz

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by alxlaz 7y ago
I haven't used lxde so I can't tell you much about it. What I can tell you is that it has a "start" menu, a taskbar, a desktop switcher, icons on the desktop and Openbox :). It doesn't do anything that you haven&#x2
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Can you cite an example of this? Sure, several :). For example: - The tree layout of Settings Manager is no longer around (it can still be enabled at compile time, though, and I think e.g. SuSE still does it). The default one is the st
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Ah, no, I'm using lxqt at the moment. It's not perfect but it's okay, and I trust its developers' common sense. Every once in a while I fire up Plasma 5, too, but I'm not convinced. In the last year or so it seems t
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I stopped using GTK applications a while ago, so I don't use XFCE anymore, but I still love it, just... from a distance. It's an increasingly uncommon breed of software, which gets better with every release. No pointless shuffling
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Tools like the ones I mentioned weren't meant to allow a layperson to build an UI, they were meant to allow developers to build an UI. The experience hasn't degraded much for people who don't write code for a living, but it
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It may not possible, but that doesn't mean the HTML and CSS clusterfuck is anywhere near the level we'd have expected back in the 1990s. None of the tools we have today can hold a candle to a proper UI builder -- which would suffi
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This has very little to do with politics. I don't think there can be any serious debate about who is more authoritarian and who has a worse record in terms of human rights in our times. But: - There is no guarantee that a backdoor intr
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> But right now, I think we're all staring at alpine in kubernetes asking if the old giant unix model is the one we want. I think "all" is a bit of an exaggeration though :). Besides, something is hosting all those Alpin
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by alxlaz 7y ago
I can't comment on the value of SLAs, as I was never directly involved (but what I heard is pretty much what you mention). What I can tell you, however, is that there are companies where higher-ups won't agree to an IT proposal if
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by alxlaz 7y ago
The fact that the state of security or privacy is already bad is no reason to make it worse. Sure, "that ship" might have sailed a long time ago but that's no reason to send the rest of the fleet after it. At one point, &quot
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It's not even "just" about privacy. I find the idea that "preferences, password, and files are stored in the cloud and carry over to new devices" a bit unsettling in terms of security and trust. I am reasonably conv
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Be it ordering some product online or booking a flight or other travel ticket or ordering a service That's true, but all these places already track the living hell out of you. Even the newsletters they send over email have trackin
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It's just the passage of time that has rendered it misinformation. Until not so long ago, Gmail messages were actually scanned for ads -- IIRC, Google was actually pretty upfront about it when they first launched Gmail, and explained t
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> the icon looks like three menu items It's a nondescript icon made of three horizontal bars, it looks like literally anything that comes in threes. My mom calls it the pancake button and my fourteen year-old nephew used to call it
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by alxlaz 7y ago
To be honest, unless they explicitly discussed this with you before, or went through it with you afterwards, I'm with empath75 on this one. We used to do something like that at $former_workplace and every once in a while, a candidate w
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by alxlaz 7y ago
The thing that makes it sound so much like a fist-shaking "back in my day" is that it reduces modern music to popular, heavily-promoted, commercially-successful popular music. There is money to be made out of superficial music, fi
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> While this is true it widens the gap between stable -> unstable. So your only choice is either have really old [1] or really new. It does. It's not necessarily something that I consider a good approach in every way, I just u
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> Not if you include Android! How many Android installations running Gnome have you seen in the wild :-)?
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> I have never (never!) encountered security problems, and sudden config changes in most updates (lates major versions of KDE are exceptions) and this is not a problem at all on my desktop machine. I guess you also never encountered a re
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by alxlaz 7y ago
> The problems that GNOME 3.X has always had continue to be present -- chiefly the UI scale is too large on low-res screens (the machine I was testing with has a 1366x768 display) It's not just Gnome that does that. There's an
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This is particularly useful in the context of today's release policies. Between the ease of updating, the (perfectly justified!) "release early, release often" policy and the occasional rewrite frenzy, many open source proj
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Not to minimize the destruction that Soviet Union (and much of Eastern Europe) had experienced, but Kennedy was not that much of a stranger of the horrors of war. In addition to whatever he saw on the Pacific front (which, if you'll re
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by alxlaz 7y ago
It baffles me that anyone would even attempt this, considering that a very similar technology -- not touchscreen keyboard, but with roughly similar properties -- has been tried in the 1980s, repeatedly, and has been, well, pretty much a fai
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by alxlaz 7y ago
A few years ago I asked my dad about this same phenomenon: > It was also amazing to me how someone with limited computer knowledge can use a software tool so well. He still double-clicks links on web pages, but he can create a full build
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by alxlaz 7y ago
They didn't :-). The cursor -- a moving indicator, as part of a slide rule or any other similar instrument -- has been called that way since the early 17th century.
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by alxlaz 7y ago
This wasn't for youtube-dl, but a long time ago I used to have a somewhat similar system using a simple named pipe. Write the URL to that file, one URL per line; a simple ksh (back then :-) ) script read it on the other end and did its
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by alxlaz 7y ago
At one of the large companies I've worked before, the corporate filter barred access to https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html because it was a hacking website. Which it cleverly determined, you&#x27
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by alxlaz 7y ago
Oh yeah. I've spent my last (almost) three years (thankfully they're over now) working on that kind of codebase and it's been an absolute nightmare. The very few original(-ish) authors still on the team were generally very he
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by alxlaz 7y ago
There's a small, if somewhat contrarian move, especially in the *nix/free software communities, that goes along those lines. You'll find a lot of people fed up with hamburger menus and nondescript icons and widgets, poor API
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by alxlaz 7y ago
IMHO it's a good thing that you find yourself hesitating to publish. Responsible people think twice about publishing a written piece on any subject, and this is a particularly sensitive subject. Our industry has developed a culture whe

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