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by kd913 6y ago
Grub simple? If you want simple use systemd-boot. It's a hell of a lot leaner than grub ever was. The config is sane and doesn't require a billion additional modules to be installed. It should be the default at this point, especia
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I can agree they have the perception of protecting privacy and taking security seriously. Then I see issues like this. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/29/macos-hig... I see major privacy
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by kd913 6y ago
Shouldn't they be aiming at basically Google, Amazon and Apple here for undercutting Spotify? Spotify has to price match against those giants who subsidize their respective services with other profitable aspects of the business. Spotif
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by kd913 6y ago
I will state the same comment as last time. Can distros maybe consider moving to systemd-boot at some point? Systemd is already built in and can handle things like mounting pretty easily and simply. It is a hell of a lot leaner than grub, d
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Isn't this the point of secureboot? Shim/Hashtool both work with systemd-boot, you can/must sign it yourself. If you are talking about editing config, you just disable it in the config (editor no) and then nobody can just add
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by kd913 6y ago
Can distros maybe consider moving to systemd-boot at some point? Systemd is already built in and can handle things like mounting pretty easily and simply. It is a lot leaner than grub, doesn't use a billion superfluous modules. That an
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It may not matter in the developed world where this cost doesn't matter because infrastructure is cheap. There are still limits to how much this can scale as a solution no? For a Country like India, surely this cost will matter especia
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by kd913 6y ago
It's 2020, the cost of an ipv4 address is more than $20 an address. Can there be some focus to include ipv6 support so that perhaps those people in the developing world who can't afford an ip address can access github and contribu
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by kd913 6y ago
The most trustworthy is one which you setup yourself imho. I am giving each of my family in various locations a raspberry pi 4b with wireguard setup. They are aware of/benefit from this cross country VPN thing too.
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If you are worried about your ISP injecting/hijacking your DNS, then you should also use DNS over HTTPS. Some ISPs I think hijack all DNS requests irrespective of the destination and point it to their own. Sky used to do this from what
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To me it's more about trust regarding the data being gathered and what it is being used for. I care a lot more about how a company can misuse that personalized data to say sway an election. If the data being gathered is purely to give
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by kd913 6y ago
1) Market share for Mac is probably on a similar scale to that on Linux. In this case being low single digits. Of those users, a significant market share are likely not to be using Mozilla's products over Safari. Unlike Linux platforms
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There is no apt package with Chromium. https://ubuntu.com/blog/chromium-in-ubuntu-deb-to-snap-trans... Canonical couldn't afford the maintenance costs for it. On Ubuntu distributions it's either the snap or y
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by kd913 6y ago
>There are degrees to vendor lock-in, and it's not black and white as you portray it to be. Flatpak and apt exhibit minimal lock-in, because they are decentralized and fully open source. Snap, on the other hand, has a closed source
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>Red herring. The Linux Mint teams' main complaints have to do with issues around the way snap wrests control from the user. Like Linux Mint is doing the same? There is no control being lost by using Ubuntu versus Mint. I could remo
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>The problem is that the snap store is managed by Ubuntu without any community oversight. That is already the case for most repos/launchpad on Ubuntu but people don't really have too much problems with that. >By not releasin
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by kd913 6y ago
You haven't even explained how it's vendor lock-in. Canonical has no way designed their approach to ban the use of apt, rpm, deb, flatpak or appimages. They are in no way of a position to dominate the market in the way Google does
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No you think it would be in the users' interest but it absolutely isn't. I'm willing to bet money you haven't looked at launchpad's source code at all. Nor have you or anyone else considered operating their own. Tha
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Because SO/Google told them in 2012 to do it that way. Suddenly the sysadmins in charge have forgotten they used this mechanism to install it on their ancient linux boxes.
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You can watch the discussions from Popey, Martin Wimpress etc... It's pretty clear from their perspective that they built the tech from users/devs first approach. Do you really think Canonical is looking for money over here? If so
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by kd913 6y ago
You haven't really at all explained any justifiable reason for Canonical to open source it. You still haven't argued at all the resource aspects which are I think the primary motivator here. Canonical has done this experiment prec
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None of those 3 links are provided by Microsoft, Spotify or Jetbrains. Yes they are there, but they are published from 3rd parties. Why exactly do you think that is? The microsoft, spotify and Jetbrains software comes directly from their re
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>There is no downside to Flatpak's support for multiple repositories and ability to self-host repositories. There are always tradeoffs. I would argue there are advantages for having a trusted party vetting my software repos. It&#x27
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This is the PPA. https://launchpad.net/%7Ewebupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java For years it has been recommended as the mechanism for installing Java on Ubuntu installs.
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>Would you describe exactly what will be expensive in releasing the source code to software that was developed in house? Does it have lots of dependencies on proprietary software? If so, why? Im not too sure as I don't work for Cano
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The reason for why the backend for the snap store hasn't been opensourced has been explained multiple times. Namely that it would be expensive to open source it with little benefit in return. Canonical already spent a large amount of i
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Likely unit tests... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/master/test/test-res... I assume some of these use it. >why the tests can't be modified to set DNS/NTP? I am not a systemd m
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by kd913 6y ago
The only factor here that matters is development/testing. Drama is irrelevant and wouldn't change anything. At worst, he gets his issue tracker filled. If it bothers you, then the only thing that you can do is change to Devuan or
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Because the privacy concerning aspects are literally irrelevant. These are set for testing/development purposes. For which the priorities are availability/reliability/speed. For those criteria, Google/Cloudflare are empi
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Because all of the alternatives are simply less reliable, less performant, less available and offer no benefits for development/testing. That is the only factor that matters here. >That's what good leaders do. Small price to pa

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