audidude

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by audidude 10y ago
> It's also getting slower at each release, it keeps breaking visual consistency and basic features get removed or heavily deprecated in favor of a "dumbed down" approach. This is simply not true. We are closer to hitting
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by audidude 11y ago
FreeType just did some massive improvements to font rendering. It's available now in the Fedora 24 alpha, and its gorgeous .
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by audidude 11y ago
I assume they are playing off the 1997 article "recursive make considered harmful"
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by audidude 11y ago
Best job of my career so far. They pay me to continue working on my desktop Linux project (from the bay area no less) and have in no way impeded my personal direction for the project. Quite the opposite, I now have a team of people willing
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by audidude 11y ago
If you put Apache and Postgres into the same cgroup/pid namespace/mount namespace/network namespace, an attack on Apache could result in access to the mount namespace of your Postgres. (Presumably that is something you are tr
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by audidude 11y ago
If you want this today on all (C89) platforms, GLib ships an embedded copy of gnulib and runs virtually everywhere.
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by audidude 11y ago
Link to GArray is wrong, https://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-Arrays.html
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by audidude 11y ago
now that they are on gtk3, it will get a lot easier to get the ui styling they want. in fact, based on irc conversations they seem to be moving forward with the css theming pretty quickly.
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by audidude 11y ago
There is a gtk3 branch of gimp which brings HiDPI support. I still need to land the new frame clock (for vblank sync) for the gtk quartz backend though.
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by audidude 11y ago
Quite honestly, I'm more worried about inaccurately portraying their viewpoint. Most of my teams run-ins with the lawyers was LGPL related, and their interpretation of LGPL 2.1 section 6a.
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by audidude 11y ago
I worked at VMware for a couple years and this was a contributing factor to why I left. I know a number of people that felt it was a GPL-violation and refused to work on that product because of it, myself included. The lawyers in that compa
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by audidude 11y ago
I don't see any mention of where the author mitigates, or prevents the ABA problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem - Some systems will use a double-CAS where one word is a counter. - People lucky enough
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by audidude 11y ago
It's the X11 protocol which is the problem. Doing a desktop app in a VM without using something like VNC (ssh -X) doesn't really help. Even VNC clients sharing clipboard content with the host system poses an attack vector, for exa
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by audidude 11y ago
If you are connecting to X, it doesn't matter. You can attack all other X11 clients by design. This is why GNOME is pushing so heavily on xdg-app (for the sandbox) and the wayland-enabled GNOME shell (so apps can't snoop on each o
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by audidude 11y ago
This would only require read-only support from Btrfs. Which is stable.
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by audidude 11y ago
I think wayland was one possibility.
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by audidude 11y ago
I don't think Linus is up to date on libgio-2.0 (and the GDBus implementation). It does in fact use a SLAB, based on early kernel versions with per-thread allocation caching. As for avoiding utf8 validation, that would require being ab
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by audidude 12y ago
I didn't find any of hp's comments defensive in the slightest.
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by audidude 12y ago
Exactly (since userspace DBus has to use sockets, kdbus uses memfd). Imagine if you had to fix that in every program that ever wanted to do IPC instead of just one place. Sounds like a security and maintenance nightmare.
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by audidude 12y ago
> I don't want to say that one is better than the other but the latter is for most folks far easier to debug and modify than the first. Generally bad form to make claims on behalf of "most folks" since you are in fact a si
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by audidude 12y ago
The don't solve race conditions in peers trying to locate each other (surprisingly difficult). They don't solve a standardized marshaling format. They don't come with an implementation to integrate with main loops for event p
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by audidude 12y ago
> Opaque C code that sits in 20 binaries and some man pages don't help you a lot if have to debug an issue. It's okay from a user perspective but with systemd (or other systems that rely on in this principle) you need to start
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by audidude 12y ago
> In order to fix a system, a person needs to understand it as well as be able to make a change in it. So if I follow you, it would be easier to grok the whole system if all the code was in different places?
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by audidude 12y ago
> udev is a core component in any modern linux system I see systemd absorbing it as nothing but a political move and a power grab. I think this is a bit of a stretch. It's not like they did a hostile take over of udev. The maintaine
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by audidude 12y ago
when i talked to keithp about this last year, he wasn't as enthused as you seem to be about the implementation. it was purely a side effect that causes people to think that Xorg isn't locked up when it actually is.
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by audidude 12y ago
ui automation will have to be there, as accessibility toolkits require it (that's how atk works). it's just going to require an additional wayland interface.
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by audidude 12y ago
look closer. you mouse cursor will move ahead of the window. check out the Xorg mouse handler code. it performs the update in a signal handler while the rest of the window movement is in the normal path (which could be blocked by chatty Xli
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by audidude 12y ago
What happens if you run looking glass and perform a garbage collection. (<Alt>F2, lg<Return>, click on trash icon). If you see RSS drop significantly back down, there is a chance it will be fixed in the future. It's pretty
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by audidude 13y ago
https://github.com/socoola/yhrouter/blob/master/user/goahead... I'm no security export, but what this is doing is creating a UDP socket (SOCK_DGRAM) that expects commands to be executed (using
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by audidude 13y ago
CLOCK_MONOTONIC is not available on OS X. Also, isn't CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW fetching the counter from rdtsc instruction on x86? (And therefore can go backwards in time if your process is migrated to another CPU). Keep in mind, also, that

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