guido_vongraum

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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
I'll stop as soon as dysgraphic flaggers stop. The true abuse is muting a comment that doesn't offend anyone, just calling to contemplate a philosophy so different from the current mainline it hurts. Or does it? Are they triggered
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
People should realize that ancient Chinese were оnto something when they told that all phenomena shall evolve only so much before they tip over the peak of maximum development and inevitably rumble downhill into overdevelopment. P.S. the Ho
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
Me being a caveman who believes that technology is a hammer that still can be used to drive nails into building materials instead of our own heads, I'm longing for an Intermesh of simple networked 8-bit machines running on vanilla (no
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
I would have labeled the article a piece of defeatism disguised as satire, if not for this: Security research is the continual process of discovering that your spaceship is a deathtrap. However, as John F. Kennedy once said, “SCREW IT WE’R
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Windows ecosystem doesn't forbid e.g. Java applications to use the same system-wide JRE, which has to be installed once, manually. It would be a nightmare if every Java app installed its own copy of JR
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
In the light of 290MB of scattered DLLs mentioned above, I believe that this is more than elegant way to advocate the guy who made this false claim - if you read carefully enough, you'll notice that it wasn't me. Care to check?
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
> if you want to take that chance No, I don't think I want, now that you've sown a seed of doubt in my mind.. It's just occurred to me that he well might be a covert princess who'll jump out of my laptop, disguised as
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
> he'll almost certainly fall victim to the Great Garbage Collection Algorithm In The Sky at some point, and now all of a sudden you're tied to a library that now literally nobody can legally maintain Don't worry, you too
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
Instead of paying $350 to a security analyst, I'd better pay them to an independent closed-source developer who makes a living from his software. Why would I trust some analyst more than the guy who works on his project with great care
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
I believe 50MB is an exaggeration, but not too far-fetched one. More of a problem is the proliferation and duplication of these DLLs all over the storage when many Qt-based apps are installed. A quick Everything query shows that right now I
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
> I don't know why Qt takes 50MBs or more for hello world or why anyone would use electron at all You have all my sympathy here :) Well, it should also be noted that 5MB is the size of Sciter's dynamic library. Compiled statica
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
That separate language can be learned in a few days and leave you wondering how one guy managed to make things more logical than a crowd of people around JS. If 5MB is a con, what do you say about 30MB for Qt and ~100MB for Electron? Also,
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
Sciter is fantastic, and honestly I don't get it why being closed source is a con. In fact, both 'commercial license / closed source' statements are not quite true - one may link against the precompiled dll for free, eve
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
What bothers me is the fact that everyone seems to be accepting the usage of these newspeakish romantically sounding euphemisms that are completely opaque about the purpose of things they stand for. "Normandy"... What is this - a
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by guido_vongraum 7y ago
>The UI knob is > Options -> Privacy & Security > Allow Firefox to install and run studies Well it's a half-assed knob then, because it was unchecked and still I had app.normandy.enabled = true somehow.