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by dylan-m 5y ago
> I do not see a lot of learning they have done from being cancelled. That's the mob mentality speaking. Just because a bunch of assholes on the internet took something they said out of context, and refused to acknowledge that peopl
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by dylan-m 5y ago
That's a really good point. He's my go-to guy for meat stuff, and one of the things I love about The Food Lab is the amount of thorough research and explanation. I would love more of that but for vegan and vegetarian things. On th
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by dylan-m 5y ago
> The Empire of Korea has be defunct for 110 years (which is, sure, over 60, but it is weird to describe it that way.) I figured it was extra defunct after Korea was liberated in 1945 and Korea's first president made sure the mona
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Of course, it's important to note that Empire of Korea (and the imperial family) has been defunct for over sixty years. My understanding is at this point they're basically a fashion brand. Andrew Lee isn't even remotely relat
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Well, I'll believe it when they actually release it. Product announcements made at Google I/O have an astonishing way of just … fizzling out.
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by dylan-m 5y ago
Or define your interfaces properly, version them, and publish libraries (precompiled, ideally) somewhere outside of your source repo. Your associated projects depend on those rather than random chunks of code that happen to be in the same f
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Yep, Endless OS is built on Debian, although it has an immutable root filesystem with ostree. Users don't really touch Debian packages. System updates (and rollbacks) all happen atomically, with a reboot. This is a bit more ordinary no
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by dylan-m 6y ago
As a developer who wants to build an app from source: all the bloody time. Especially problematic if I'm using a distro with an immutable root file system, like Fedora Silverblue, but let's be honest, sorting through peoples'
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Pidgin's libpurple library was a core part of Palm's WebOS. They were really focused on integrating different chat services like that. For Librem 5, they're using Telepathy quite heavily, which is similar but designed more as
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Antifa are Facebook's version of Anonymous.
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I should add a caveat around "the BLM movement is about." One of its problems (like many progressive movements) is everyone has a different idea what it is about, and the mainstream media does not help with that in the slightest.
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by dylan-m 6y ago
- The BLM movement is, while poorly framed and easily co-opted by other people, about genuine problems with policing in the United States. Problems that are backed up with verifiable facts rather than scummy used car salesmen and the Invent
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> It's default on Fedora because Fedora assumes it's users to have a use case no more advanced than browsing the internet and editing some text documents, and perhaps running a compiler. And, you know, developing a complete des
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I think this is an interesting article about an under-appreciated detail of what a compositing window manager does. Lots of links and details for anyone who'd like to learn more about Mutter.
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The Art of (Not) Painting Pixels(blogs.gnome.org)
2 points by dylan-m 6y ago|1 comments
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I think we should acknowledge many people have grandmas who build desktop operating systems, so this is perhaps a source of misunderstanding :b What kind of global hotkeys are we talking about that casual everyday users need, as opposed to
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> You don't need the banners if you're not doing this stuff. Ah, but now that every website under the sun has the banner, nobody thinks twice about them beyond (in the back of their minds) "these are annoying" and &qu
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I always found that one the most egregious of their stupid marketing BS. It's a blatantly terrible idea. If you're designing a robot surgeon, please don't rely on (or even allow) a wireless connection, and please design it in
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Microsoft owns Xamarin (as of February 2016), so that would be weird :b This would be somewhat concerning if we were talking about Ballmer-era Microsoft where they were going around extorting companies that used Linux. Although nothing was
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by dylan-m 6y ago
That's the argument that always springs to mind for me, as well, and I'm curious why Google's lawyers haven't used it since it seems obvious. (That's the whole point of this, after all: we're implementing an ag
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by dylan-m 6y ago
As well as misleading, the article seems outdated? Which is weird, because archive.org's first snapshot of it is today . So, GNOME Software has included a "Permissions" field (which lists an application's specific sandb
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by dylan-m 6y ago
That's exactly how it works in Flatpak, and you get it for free if you use GTK's FileChooserNative dialog: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-GtkFileChooserN... If your application is inside a
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Yeah, that's a dubious claim as well. Here is how GNOME Software presents a sandboxed application: https://i.imgur.com/VMsj6mk.png Is it a bad interface? Sure. Is the list of permissions hard to find? Hell yes. Is the
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by dylan-m 6y ago
In this week's story of bad open source contributions[1], we bring you some dude who keeps paying for a domain and spending wads of time writing long and poorly targeted diatribes against one of the only genuine efforts to actually add
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Five ways the universe might die(cbc.ca)
1 points by dylan-m 6y ago|0 comments
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> Adding random apks or even downloading anything from the play store can legitimately be unsafe. It has been unsafe, but Android was designed with this in mind and is continually improving its security model. For instance, Android 11 ad
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Spatial audio is also a huge thing for conferences. If you want a good virtual conference experience, you need a hallway track - for the meaningful conversations which happen outside of sessions. And there are some noble attempts but it&#x2
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by dylan-m 6y ago
App store reviewers are not the people you should be trusting to make your phone secure. They can and do make mistakes, because their job is to go through a checklist, look for things they don't like, and maybe run some analysis tools
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> We already have another sandbox - browsers. And you're seeing problems with extensions, popups, .dmg downloads and .exe virus scans, etc. So much so that browsers are constantly fighting against attacks for 20 years. They are, and
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> Scissors can't cut paper sold by someone unaffiliated by the scissor manufacturer. Of course, going by evidence in these threads, people would defend Scissors Corp to the death , arguing "but that's a feature which make

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