sloowm

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by sloowm 3y ago
Yeah, the article also transitions from quality to bugs without explaining why quality is the lack of bugs instead of within bounds loading times, a good UI/UX, and relevant features. Fixing bugs also seems to be limited to try catchin
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by sloowm 3y ago
Thanks for the edit. I agree it should be explicit and then I actually think it's quite a nice solution.
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by sloowm 3y ago
Maybe you could get involved by pointing out the mistake and proposing the alternative? I imagine that downstream can't easily switch to another distribution method without notice.
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by sloowm 3y ago
The government is never a passive actor. So non-intervention is also active policy. You can only choose what the policy is. The active policy for the last 15 years has been to consolidate a social media oligopoly with very few restrictions.
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by sloowm 3y ago
There would be way more language and tool development around more efficient languages because more people would be required to use them. So C and C++ would probably be in a totally different state. There would be a huge amount of hate for p
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by sloowm 3y ago
For the Sci-Fi answer our language would be optimized for extremely fast communication, maybe making sounds from our mouths alone would be way to inefficient. We probably would have easily made stuff that caught up with our cognition. The c
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by sloowm 3y ago
It looks like it uses a Wagner–Fischer algorithm to find the diffs. I think it would be nice if that is mentioned in the documentation. In formats that are not order dependent the algorithm can't find a good comparison because no gener
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by sloowm 3y ago
Thanks for the extra explanation. I guess this is harder to protect against than I thought and it's more that some distro's got somewhat lucky than debian and fedora doing something that is out of the ordinary.
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by sloowm 3y ago
I think the best solution would be governments forcing companies to secure the entire pipeline and setting up a non profit that does this for open source packages. Have security researchers work for a non profit and force companies that use
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by sloowm 3y ago
If the account was compromised only recently the real co-maintainer would have done everything to warn the maintainer. If you're maintaining some core piece of infrastructure and your account gets compromised it would be trivial to let
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by sloowm 3y ago
Another point relevant on the timeline is when downstream starts using binaries instead of source. I think people are flying past that important piece of the hack. Without that this would not have been possible. If there is a trusted source
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by sloowm 3y ago
The way the hack works is incredibly sophisticated and has specifically sought out how to get past all normal checks. If messing with some commits would be possible this entire rube goldberg hack would not have been set up.
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by sloowm 3y ago
For general computing in desktops and servers x86 has had close to a monopoly for the last 20 years. Arguing that this does not influence the semiconductor industry is a more bold take than arguing that it does...
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by sloowm 3y ago
The main problem of course is that the US government is so dependent on a single company because they allowed the instruction set to be protected IP since forever, allowed imports from countries without demanding they provide the same labor
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by sloowm 3y ago
I think it was Flatpak that Bottles prefers. The thing with Bottles is that it also relies on a very specific setup of all underlying software. So in that case it's more about complexity that leads to the need of containerization than
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by sloowm 3y ago
It would be good if there were some rating agencies that rated the big dependencies and if the government would bale out the packages that became too big to fail. However this means there is need for money. Until companies collectively unde
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by sloowm 3y ago
"Protect their users" by installing Google Search Engine by default for $18 billion a year: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-se...
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by sloowm 3y ago
You would not only need to consider how much it brings in but also how much it would cost to pull back. They would have to unwind a ton of legal structures, get rid of employees and live up to contracts that are already in place. This would
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by sloowm 3y ago
It might be that Apple enforces the use of webkit.
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by sloowm 3y ago
You describe Paris as if it's a shopping/entertainment center for the suburbs. It also looks like you're implying that Paris needs the economic activity generated by the suburbs. For that I would investigate what a suburb is
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by sloowm 3y ago
I think there are a lot of suggestions already given like lower the pace, ebikes, bring a fresh shirt, there are rain clothes you can put over your clothes. But it's also about your destination and what is expected. Most of my destinat
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by sloowm 3y ago
It looks like this page is further along indeed. First mistake I see on this page is that Home Assistant is called "Core" which is just the name of the core repo. The thing both projects do that I don't think is useful is sta
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by sloowm 3y ago
From the browser it works so for meet it should always work. For slack and teams I think a lot of apps are still using a version of electron that is years old by now and doesn't work with Wayland properly.
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by sloowm 3y ago
Gnome is not dropping X11, Fedora is. X11 will still be in Ubuntu 24.04 and can be used for 5 years. By that time there will be extensive hacks to even support the worst apps that refuse to properly support Linux desktops.
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by sloowm 3y ago
Nvidia on Fedora has never worked out of the box and it's not the distro breaking the Nvidia user's distro but Nvidia. Also if you like a stable system without early adoption features you should not be on Fedora.