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by rlpb 3y ago
All deb package versions are immutable too! Bugs and security issues are found from time to time. When that happens, every occurrence in use needs an update. If ten different incompatible versions of a package are in use, they all need to b
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by rlpb 3y ago
The package hosting protocol is relatively trivial. I believe a couple of alternative implementations have been written, but I'm not sure they're maintained because there's no point. Anyone can publish to the Snap Store. Beca
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> it suddenly becomes a lot easier to just download Ubuntu than it is to install Snap for a foreign platform That's an exaggeration. It's about as easy to install snap support for a non-Ubuntu as it is to install any other thir
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by rlpb 3y ago
> The forced updating is particularly unacceptable. Snaps allow you to hold updates indefinitely now: no forced updates any more. Use "snap refresh --hold <some snap name>". See https://snapcraft.io/docs&#
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by rlpb 3y ago
Debs work really well when they are shipped as part of the distribution deb archive itself. They work really badly when third parties try to use them to provide add-on software to an existing distribution release. The main problem that Snap
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by rlpb 3y ago
> Just because you were in public didn't mean you'd reasonably expect to be recorded. Sure, but as you say, times have changed and the law needs to keep up. I agree. In my post that you replied to, what I'm saying is that
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by rlpb 3y ago
I think there's a distinction between being recorded in the first place, and what the recording might be used for in the future. I think it's OK to permit a recording to take place in a public place without explicit consent, but s
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by rlpb 3y ago
Ads are fine. Collecting personal data to serve them without consent is not. The GDPR makes it illegal for them to refuse service because you refuse that consent. It effectively outlaws that business model. Getting served ads without person
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by rlpb 3y ago
I wonder if the refusal to list a business could be considered tortuous interference now, as it has effectively become a negative false statement: "There's no bakery here".
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by rlpb 3y ago
Presumably this is because I have to download an entire JavaScript app in order to view 280 bytes of tweet.
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by rlpb 3y ago
I have been teaching my toddler Bengali and it's hard going. His mother has been trying but struggling to learn it. Much of the time if I say something to him I need others to understand what I'm saying too, so I have to revert En
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Not all package managers. The distribution packaging model doesn't have this problem.
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by rlpb 3y ago
I think you might have arrived at the Mischief rule of statutory interpretation ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischief_rule ).
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by rlpb 3y ago
Indeed. And notably, upstart came long before systemd, and with it Ubuntu was the first major (or any?) distro to solve the real problem of the non-parallelized boot speed issue for desktop users. Characterising it as "pivot and break
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by rlpb 3y ago
> Keeping Upstart after everyone else abandoned it... False. Ubuntu switched to systemd as soon as its upstream (Debian) did. See https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
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by rlpb 3y ago
> it's a horror show of deprecations I'm not familiar with the 3.x API, but in the past merely using the OpenSSL API was a horror show. Surely deprecations are the only way out?
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by rlpb 3y ago
Indeed. There are Americans who will tell me PST, when they meant PDT but forgot to mention that. Now I have to track the American DST calendar as well as European DST calendar to do the conversion. There are also people who tell me GMT (be
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by rlpb 3y ago
But a user has to know to look for these alternatives. Use a distro you trust and you don't have to.
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by rlpb 3y ago
> In particular, I wouldn't trust a Firefox distributed by Mozilla without oversight but I still use the Firefox packaged by my distro. But in the case of something like Firefox, distros are barely vetting anything, and are reluctan
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As I said: like with snaps you can install an APK without a store
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by rlpb 3y ago
> If snaps are so cool why are there no similar concepts in other famous major desktops (even non Linux)? APKs are pretty much the Android equivalent. In both cases the key features are sandboxing and bundling of dependencies. The stores
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by rlpb 3y ago
It's not a problem with everything. Distributions tend to add editorial input here and try to do something they consider reasonable for their users, staking their own reputation on that without trying to pass it off to the component pu
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by rlpb 3y ago
I was very picky about the brands of hand santizer we used during the pandemic and I'm glad I did. I guess I can't know if my caution was sufficient or not.
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by rlpb 3y ago
This is interesting. Thank you for spending effort on this! I was curious so I followed your link. Google Translate says this: "Since there is no information available that provides a basis for assuming that the car is defective after
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by rlpb 3y ago
From the main battery terminals, as far as I understand. I appreciate that this relies on the path from the DC-DC converter to the 12V battery to be sufficient for 80A sustained. Apparently this is fine, but I have yet to look myself. An IC
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by rlpb 3y ago
While people are talking about use cases, I've been shopping for exactly this. My Nissan Leaf's DC-DC converter that drops the HV traction battery down to 12V (well, 14.6V-ish) to supply the regular vehicle electrics is apparently
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by rlpb 3y ago
old.reddit.com is fine. The alternatives are awful. So when old.reddit.com is removed, I'll be leaving Reddit.
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by rlpb 3y ago
A couple of figures that seem sorely missing from this article: what's the COP (coefficient of performance) of these heat pumps? And they talk of some temperature rise, but what's the temperature drop in the water they're goi
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In the rest of the world, ATC are not permitted to give a landing clearance unless and until the runway is actually clear (hence the term "clearance"). The US is unique in that it permits "anticipated clearance" where th
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by rlpb 3y ago
Traditionally this is how markets worked. Every purchase was individually negotiated. It's only in recent times that uniform "consumer" pricing was even invented. > ...no matter which arbitrary metric is being used as just

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