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by curt15 3y ago
Does it actually take 150k employees to produce Google's output? They grew by like 30k employees since 2021 but I'm not seeing correspondingly more or better products.
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by curt15 3y ago
How do extensions work with interpreters written other languages? Does the interpreter still expose a C API?
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by curt15 3y ago
I read that Google Play Services can even grant itself new permissions[1]. How does that work? Does it have root? [1] https://developers.google.com/android/guides/permissions
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by curt15 3y ago
Then we'll finally realize Steve Job's original vision for third party applications on iPhones.
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by curt15 3y ago
I'd love to see how Apple justifies the 0.50 euro per person tax for third party app stores in the name of "security" or "protecting users" or if they abandon that pretense.
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by curt15 3y ago
Doesn't Android use A/B updates these days? How hard would it be to revert to the previous working version? https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/ab
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by curt15 3y ago
>Yes, it's been Apple's modus operandi with the App Store from the start: trick consumers into thinking the App Store being a monopoly is the only thing that can protect them against malware, illicit and questionable app conten
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by curt15 3y ago
Restarting your whole system is not necessary for the firefox flatpak though -- updates are installed in a parallel directory and applied the next time the user re-launches Firefox.
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by curt15 3y ago
Whenever I see the word "cloud" thrown out as a buzzword I mentally substitute that with "rental computers".
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by curt15 3y ago
Are OCI images content-addressed?
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by curt15 3y ago
Isn't that roughly what Qubes OS provides?
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by curt15 3y ago
So can we expect popular yet understaffed open source software -- like OpenSSL -- to get a lot of paid code review or patches?
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by curt15 3y ago
I've lived in Canada with its vaunted universal healthcare system. While it sounds great on paper, in practice it means you'll wait forever for appointments.
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by curt15 3y ago
This. A "secure layer on top" would be something more like HTTPS over HTTP.
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by curt15 3y ago
OP is probably just pointing out the incongruity of reality and Apple's sanctimonious attitude.
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by curt15 3y ago
It's yet another device that needs regular charging. Don't we have enough of those already?
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by curt15 3y ago
That assumes that you can already articulate the action you are looking for in the program's vocabulary. For people who think more pictorially, they may have a sense of what they want but benefit from visual cues.
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by curt15 3y ago
The best CLI will never have the discoverability of any competently designed GUI.
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by curt15 3y ago
>I'm not even sure if it's a good exercise in programming either. Software development is about doing the things the right way, not exercising in futility. Reverse engineering is a valuable art that can't be learned just f
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by curt15 3y ago
You can disable read receipts in RCS just like you can with iMessage: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-disable-read-receipts-rcs-a...
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by curt15 3y ago
Doesn't Snap confinement depend on Ubuntu-specific patches to Apparmor?
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by curt15 3y ago
Anecdotally, whenever I see a driver weaving in and out of traffic in New York the car is more likely to be a BMW or Porsche than a Honda or Toyota.
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by curt15 3y ago
A typical Samsung SSD is warrantied for between 100 and 500 TBW[1]. [1] https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/intern...
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by curt15 3y ago
What if I want to develop applications using the latest dependency versions on a stable system? Are flatpak/docker/podman the recommended solutions?
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by curt15 3y ago
Besides the obvious people scaling problem, trying to create a deb package per pip package or rust crate will also explode the size of the apt metadata to download.
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by curt15 3y ago
China is far "ahead" of any US city in this regard.
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by curt15 3y ago
>The real problem is: Btrfs corrupts readily, and it lacks tools to fix the corruption. Here's a recent example of corruption unearthed by users after Fedora started defaulting to btrfs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/s
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by curt15 3y ago
It performs poorly for certain workloads -- notably DBs -- unless you disable copy-on-write, compression, and checksumming. But then why use it over ext4 in the first place?
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by curt15 3y ago
Chromebooks pioneered seamless, image-based system updates for Linux. Updates are downloaded in the background to a separate partition and activated at the next system reboot. This works similarly but using ostree instead of dual root parti
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by curt15 3y ago
The header bar with nothing but the app's name seems redundant and gives me the impression that I'm looking at a phone-sized window in GNOME rather than an app designed for the entire screen.

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