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by rlpb 7mo ago
Pinning dependencies by hash is completely undermined by automation that then updates the pins without meaningful review, as is common.
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by rlpb 7mo ago
clevis and tang do currently work seamlessly on Debian and Ubuntu using initramfs-tools. So while the initramfs-tools/dracut discussion is valid, it seems mostly orthogonal to this topic.
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by rlpb 7mo ago
Anybody can become an Ubuntu developer. This is one such Ubuntu developer discussing possible implementation of a law that affects them across multiple distributions in good faith while trying to respect privacy and maintaining users'
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by rlpb 7mo ago
Bargaining power can also come from the availability of competition. I don't collectively bargain to buy bread, but it's still competitively priced.
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by rlpb 7mo ago
> P.S. Still hope GNOME maintainers let other volunteers maintain GTK 2. They already said this is fine: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/01/msg00146.html
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by rlpb 7mo ago
The maintainer driving this in Debian explicitly said: > That being said I would not object if someone wants to take over the maintenance of GTK2, though I believe keeping it for beyond duke is beating a dead horse. Source: https:/
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by rlpb 7mo ago
Shaka, when the walls fell
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by rlpb 8mo ago
I use both (for different purposes) and prefer the native app (and KeePassDX on Android), but note that it is a local app and doesn't sync. You need to use something else (eg. Syncthing or Dropbox) for that.
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by rlpb 8mo ago
I actually prefer this. It's how most user-facing file formats work. KDBX in particular is often used in conjunction with syncing software, and I don't want a half changed file to sync and then the connection to be lost. The usual
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by rlpb 8mo ago
Even then, they would still need to rebuild massive amounts on updates. That is nice in theory, but see the number of bugs reported in Debian because upstream projects fail to rebuild as expected. "I don't have the exact micro v
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by rlpb 8mo ago
A couple of minutes at the moment that is, with dynamic linking everywhere. What will it become when everything is statically linked?
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by rlpb 8mo ago
Your apt update would still be huge though. When the dependency changes (eg. a security update) you’d be downloading rebuilds of 20 apps. For the update of a key library, you’d be downloading your entire distribution again. Every time.
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by rlpb 8mo ago
I got a much reduced price in return for much lower range simply by buying an older EV. What’s wrong with leaving the new car market to those willing to pay the higher price, and the second hand market to those who want a lower price? This
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by rlpb 8mo ago
> ...and it can stay irrational for long enough to destroy everything we know in tech. Nah. For decades software engineers have been more expensive than the cost of buying the extra hardware needed for vastly inefficient software. There
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by rlpb 8mo ago
> It's a nodejs app, and there is no reason to have a problem with that. Node apps typically have serious software supply chain problems. Their dependency trees are typically unauditable in practice.
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by rlpb 8mo ago
If the emergency broadcast system fails, perhaps they need all the radio channels they use not to be jammed?
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by rlpb 8mo ago
> I still drink as much as I normally do, which is about 12 litres a year; I am well under the intended beneficiary of this war on sugar, the sort of people who drink >100 litres a year… It sounds like Irn-Bru was only viable _because
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by rlpb 8mo ago
Destroying demand for sugary drinks was exactly the intent, though.
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by rlpb 8mo ago
> It isn't productive, the fact is well known. I agree. My point is that the original comment was similarly unproductive.
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by rlpb 8mo ago
So you're insinuating that importing from China automatically means poor quality? I don't believe that's true, especially for large companies who are able to manage the supply chain (as, AIUI, doing business with China famous
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by rlpb 8mo ago
> It's the greed at topest level. You say this as if it's some deviant behaviour that needs correcting. But greed is normal and expected in a free market economy. Suppliers are expected to seek to reduce their costs and maximis
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by rlpb 8mo ago
> It needs to be fast-updating for shared multi-user docs, like Google Docs/Sheets or Word/Excel 365. In my experience, Google Docs has this, but realtime collaboration with Word is unusable. Which is interesting, because that
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by rlpb 8mo ago
Is "we promise not to enforce" legally binding I wonder, in which case it is de-facto a license? IANAL but it's an interesting concept.
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by rlpb 9mo ago
Everything inside Debian is fine. That's most of the ecosystem apart from the very new stuff that isn't mature enough yet. Usually the reason something notable stays out if Debian long term is when that thing has such bad depe
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by rlpb 9mo ago
Debian manages perfectly well without.
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by rlpb 9mo ago
And then how would this be any different in practice from dynamic linking?
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by rlpb 9mo ago
This would only work if you use dynamic linking. Updating dependencies in a statically built distribution would have no effect.
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by rlpb 9mo ago
Imagine a fully statically linked version of Debian. What happens when there’s a security update in a commonly used library? Am I supposed to redownload a rebuild of basically the entire distro every time this happens, or else what?
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As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options(theregister.com)
11 points by rlpb 9mo ago|4 comments
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by rlpb 9mo ago
> I genuinely cannot understand why anyone would buy a car or a bed or a fridge that requires a subscription. There's a huge car finance market where people do exactly that. How much they pay a finance company monthly vs. how much t

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