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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Painting systemd in that way is also bad faith, because it's not a single product "take-it-or-leave-it" either. If you think it doesn't have enough review for your purposes then it's time for you to step up and star
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>but a neat, simple and portable makefile is a beautiful sight to behold and a pleasure to run. As someone who has had to hack those makefiles a lot, I can't really agree. There's no such thing as a "simple and portable ma
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
You're correct but that's not the way that these systems are promoted. I wouldn't have any problem with that particular aspect if the trust issue was framed that way, and there was some kind of real threat modeling going on.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Yes I have, and build systems without working PREFIX support are going to be really broken and need workarounds in a lot of scenarios, not just this one. It's always going to be quite some work. I actually recoil in pain now whenever
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
I don't think it's that messed up. If you really want to make something that qualifies as a charity (or a for-profit business) then you can just do that separately. The existence of this foundation doesn't get in the way, the
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
I'm sorry I don't understand what you're talking about at all. PREFIX support makes it even easier to support the usr merge. You don't need to patch it if it's already there. >Rejecting the /usr split is wor
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>that GTK still lacks a proper thumb grid view Qt has the same problem and, at this point, I doubt this will change at all in the next decade. Very few applications actually have any reason to use the default file chooser, and there are
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Paying devs and designers to do what? Testing for what? To make a product more profitable so you can further grow the foundation? If it's not doing social outreach or otherwise fulfilling the social mission of the nonprofit then I hope
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>IOW, if I build a system with yocto for an embedded system, which is also a very useful candidate for a read-only system image installation, I cannot use this feature for this use-case because ... yeah because what. Because lennart says
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
No he is correct, the usage is not problematic or disparaging. It fits your definition exactly. The only practical reason to still have the /usr split is to support an obsolete configuration on very small hard drives, which is no longe
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
This comment makes no sense at all, every open source non-profit I've ever seen has made social outreach programs their main goal. There's nothing else to spend the funding on. They can't spend a ton of money on focus groups
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>I am mystified that some people are ready to believe GNOME's take I won't comment on the issue itself, but the way you're framing this is total and complete nonsense. GNOME didn't have a "take", it was a bl
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Sure but every blockchain I've seen make an effort to be decentralized has its "precautions" mostly in the form of an NGO that tries to manage the competing interests of every participant through various methods, to varying l
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
The rest of the article is good, but this part is wrong: >This can be incredibly useful, and is necessary for some applications. There is no reason to have a system "without trust", the very idea of that makes no sense and ther
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Using a hack of Xlib to port firefox is probably the worst possible approach, your rendering performance will be horrible and you still get to deal with the pain of the impedance mismatch from using a different API from what your system is
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>LOL! Do you really think I woke up one day and said "hmm, I need a GTK port. I know, I'll reimplement Xlib!" without even taking a look at the GTK codebase? No. I would also greatly suggest against making these wrong assu
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>Too late, I did This reply makes no sense, I would greatly advise against falling for the sunk cost fallacy. If all you care about is GTK, then you could have just done a native port of GTK. That would actually be a lot easier than tryi
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>The irony here is hilarious. I fail to see why. If you get your way, and all the "free speech" people get blocked because everyone else finds them insufferable, then that's exactly what you asked for. It's also in
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
I hate to be the one who has to say this, but this is a bad idea. If this is being done for practical reasons then don't waste your time with this. It might work for some clients but you'll get stuck in the same place that every o
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>Also note that seccomp and landlock are very much different from pledge and unveil. No, this is incorrect. They fundamentally do the same things. You're trying to say they're different because the API is different but that&#x2
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
The capability to do something like that already exists in Linux, just nobody bothers to implement it at the application level because pledge and unveil are actually just more terrible hacks and are only really suitable for packages that ar
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Twitter already works that way, the block feature is available to everyone. It doesn't make any difference to any small groups or to the greater network, moderation from the platform itself still has to happen to prevent damage to it.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>None of the major social media companies made any real effort to make moderation transparent. Because most people don't care about this. For most websites, making moderation transparent only opens you up to more abuse and does noth
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>there was huge uproar and discontent due to the corporate VC money being accepted and immediate changes in policy thereafter. I remember that, and just like most other times there is a mass protest on a social media site about social me
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
The "showdead" option on HN does something similar and it's truly truly awful, I can't imagine why anyone would want to apply that at scale.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Except it already is exactly that way, anyone can block anyone else they want. It turns out blocking people does nothing when you're being harassed by big groups of people, the damage was already done before you got the chance to hit b
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Any website claiming to be a "beacon of free speech" is lying. The very idea of it is nonsensical from the outset, it's like a cartoon idea of what a website is supposed to be. One person's "free speech" is jus
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
You're posting that email way, way out of context. I cringe whenever I see that linked. "Userspace" here refers to the kernel's policy about certain APIs. They won't change fbdev at this point but downstreams could
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>Why can't kernel itself ship a more advanced terminal? Probably because nobody wants to put opentype font rendering and input method support and various other things from a window system into the kernel? This stuff all has to be in
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Nothing, things like this have existed for a while: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KMSCON

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