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by nycticorax 6y ago
Does anyone know what exactly what were the legal/financial mechanics of RedHat 'absorbing' CentOS in the first place? Is "CentOS" a trademark? Is the CentOS logo trademarked? Who exactly owned the servers that
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by nycticorax 6y ago
Which is a good reason someone might choose a RHELish distro over Debian, no?
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by nycticorax 6y ago
This 'middle ground' you describe is essentially how macOS and Windows work, isn't it?
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by nycticorax 6y ago
Well, large businesses at least get Windows 10 Enterprise, which doesn't come with all of that nonsense. The real shame is that you can't get Windows 10 Enterprise without a volume license.
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by nycticorax 6y ago
This seems to be getting a lot of downvotes, but I think it's correct, strictly speaking. There are a lot of business practices that are legal up until the point where you've acquired sufficient market power. After that, antitru
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by nycticorax 6y ago
Doesn't seem like it's based on any already-existing distribution: https://events.gnome.org/event/1/contributions/80/attachment...
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by nycticorax 6y ago
This this this. I also find that, for me, cygwin is a better solution for what I want: A bash shell and a decent set of unix-like command-line tools, that (critically) uses the same filesystem as Windows programs do. I've honestly been
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by nycticorax 6y ago
I think it's cool that NumPy is being recognized in Nature, but I'm a little surprised that "the NumPy paper" wasn't published 10-ish years ago...
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by nycticorax 6y ago
I don't think it's at all clear that it would lead to high numbers of boxes with vulnerabilities. Is it clear that a Mac is more vulnerable than a desktop Linux box, if you control for for the technical sophistication of the per
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by nycticorax 6y ago
I just honestly don't understand this. On Windows and Mac (the OSes that 99% of the planet uses on the desktop), this is exactly how things work. The OS provides a set of APIs. If an application author needs a library that isn'
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by nycticorax 6y ago
The one ray of hope there is that they eventually gave up on Unity. Hopefully they will give up on snaps also...
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by nycticorax 6y ago
I'm not saying that you should do this, necessarily, but I just installed regular Chrome from the Google .deb. That also fixed an issue with snap-Chromium not handling web app shortcuts properly.
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by nycticorax 6y ago
The 'horror story' people always mention, which is a special case of "having to wait for each application to update its own dependencies", is that if there's a security vulnerability in a much-used library, you have
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by nycticorax 6y ago
I find it so strange that most people still talk about their monitors' resolution in terms of pixel counts. Oh, you have a 4k monitor? Well, if that's a 43" 16:9 4k monitor, then that's pretty close to 100 dpi, so you
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by nycticorax 6y ago
Yes, this. Even if you have only one hidpi screen, Windows still looks bad, because the fonts look terrible when rendered on a hidpi screen. This is one thing keeping me on "lodpi" screens for now.
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by nycticorax 7y ago
Yeah, it's funny how often I end up going to the Wikipedia page of a company or product to find out what they're selling in plain language.
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by nycticorax 7y ago
It's striking to me that it already looks like an old castle, at least from a distance.
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by nycticorax 7y ago
Well, it's been a while, but the last time I tried VNC it was much, much slower than RDP. Also, (and I haven't really thought deeply about why this is) I much prefer "remote desktop" solutions (like RDC) to "screen
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by nycticorax 7y ago
All the Linux remote desktop server solutions are bad enough over a WAN that I typically VPN into my office, then RDC from my home Windows box into my office Windows box, then ssh -X from there into my office Linux box. It's kinda cra
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by nycticorax 7y ago
The bottom of the Waypipe README says: "This is usable, but still somewhat unstable right now".
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by nycticorax 7y ago
I feel like the Elementary folks have a lot of the right ideas about how to build a desktop OS and a third-party software ecosystem around it. (In particular: They have a HIG, and seem to make an effort to make their platform appealing for
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by nycticorax 7y ago
That this is the top story on HN currently is one of those things that makes me think I should just stop looking at HN. Look, if you want to use Plan 9, go nuts. Follow your bliss. I guess. But the slice of humanity that finds this to b
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by nycticorax 7y ago
The fact the code comments aren't meant for public consumption, and figures are, is completely irrelevant to the analogy. The point is that lots of things we do could be done better, but having an outsider focus on one of them, and te
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by nycticorax 7y ago
This is like a non-programmer telling programmers they need to comment their code better. In a sense, it's probably true most of the time. But it's also sort of hard to take very seriously, because the non-programmer doesn'
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by nycticorax 7y ago
"We further noticed the issue only occurs if you have given the Facebook app access to your camera." Are there any good reasons for FB to be asking for this, or for people to grant it?
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by nycticorax 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree. It reminded me of certain "great" textbooks that sometimes get recommended by experts, that aren't actually that great for someone learning something for the first time. They get the reputation as
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by nycticorax 7y ago
This blog post provides rebuttals to some of the points made in this comment thread: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a... That blog post was linked to from here: https:/&
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by nycticorax 7y ago
I have a lot of sympathy for the signers of this letter. As Havoc Pennington (team lead of the GNOME 2 project) liked to point out, every option you provide to users has a cost to the developers in terms of testing and maintenance. Maybe
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by nycticorax 7y ago
Does Firefox have an equivalent of Chrome's [...] > More tools > Create shortcut... these days? With an option like Chrome's 'Open as Window' checkbox? I would love to give up Chrome, but that's a really imp
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