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by tytso 5y ago
KDE has solved the problem for me by providing 2-D workspace as a core feature, and not relegating it to the slums of "you want it, write your own d*mn extension". GNOME has chosen not to do this. And so, GNOME is not for me, bec
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by tytso 5y ago
I'm currently using KDE Plasma. I used to use XFCE, but it appeared that XFCE was having trouble getting enough developers such their release cycle seemed to be very slow, and in particular, at the time there was no indication that W
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by tytso 5y ago
For me, it's very simple. There are certain things that I must have in a desktop environment (DE) --- for example, having a 3x3, 2-dimensional workspace. As far as a DE is concerned, I want to be a user of the DE, not a developer
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by tytso 5y ago
The usual answer when this things happens in standards committees is those companies who aren't ready to ship product yet. If they can stall the official release of the standard, then it gives them time to catch up. Of course, other
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by tytso 5y ago
I hope Debian manages to keep sparc64 in Debian Ports. Just last night, I was fixed an alignment portability issue for e2fsprogs which only showed up on sparc64. The "non-portable" code worked just fine on all of the official
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by tytso 5y ago
190 patches were not reverted. 190 patches were proposed to be reverted, and those reverts have been going through the normal kernel review process. In many cases, the patches were confirmed to be correct, and so the revert was drop
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by tytso 5y ago
The "hypocrite commit" preprint/abstract was a controversy which broke late last year. Prof. Lu at that point published an FAQ stating that he didn't think it was Human Subject Research (HSR) and got a post hoc review
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by tytso 5y ago
Well, it got the heads of the CS department to finally notice. The preprint of the "hypocrite commit" paper was sent out late last year, and while there was contrversy about that back then, with Prof. Lu admitting that he didn&#
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by tytso 5y ago
The more accurate anology would be academic researchers sending graduate students to get hired by Microsoft under false pretenses, and then demonstrates that they can introduce security vulnerabilities that don't get caught by Microsof
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by tytso 5y ago
No development model is protected from malicious actors, and this is not unique to OSS. Could the Ministry of State Security sponsor a student to study at the US, and then after graduate, that student gets a job at Microsoft, and then intr
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by tytso 5y ago
The deception / con job was done last year. This time around, there was another series of patches from the same research group, which were claiming to be security fixes, but which scored really high on the you-have-got-to-be-kidding-
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by tytso 5y ago
gregkh sent a 190 patch series to revert all of the "easy" UMN reverts, pending review. People are now looking at the patches and saying things like, "that's one OK, don't revert". There are another 68 commit
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by tytso 6y ago
When you enabled the Live Caption (similarly to how folks told you to disable it --- on my phone it was turned off by default) the following informational screen should have been displayed: "Live Caption detects speech on your device a
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by tytso 6y ago
Like most things, it depends on your workload. If all of the files are written all at once when they created (e.g., no slow append workloads) and the files are all the same size, then that's a very "friendly" workload that w
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by tytso 6y ago
If you try to use a file system to 99% full --- and it doesn't matter whether it is a 10GB file system or a 10TB file system, you will see significant performance penalties as the file system gets badly fragmented. So that's w
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by tytso 6y ago
I can think of a number of reasons why this may not have gotten a lot of traction in the intervening eight years. One is that DIF/DIX disks are not easily available at reasonable prices. The other potential shortcoming is that it pro
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by tytso 6y ago
If you had used one of the $10 USD Webauthn (aka U2F) tokens, it wouldn't have asked you to install any applications. The "problem" is the expensive Yubikeys that you were whining about has lots of extra functionality that ha
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by tytso 6y ago
There were a lot more concerns than just that. I refer you to: https://lwn.net/Articles/200422/
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by tytso 6y ago
That simply is not true. Chromebooks, many Android phones (all of the ones sold by Google) have a way of turning off the requirement for signed boot. The device is less secure if you disable signed boot; an evil maid who gains access to
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by tytso 6y ago
I don't think your reference shows that. The GPLv3 was released in 2007. It obviously depends a lot on the language, since each language tends to have its own ecosystem, but the massive shift to permissive licenses really didn'
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by tytso 6y ago
Why aren't they building or buying a proprietary software solution instead? Because the open source solution is cheaper, and adds more value to them that the proprietary alternatives. The GPL means that enhancements to Linux genera
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by tytso 6y ago
> Wider GPL adoption is central to the discussion! Sure. And so the question is, did the GPLv3 improve or degrade adoption of copyleft licensing? To quote from Star Wars, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star syste
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by tytso 6y ago
If you believe that "software will eat the world", then hardware doesn't matter. Sure, the customers who purchase a locked-down device might not be able to update their device. But the technology will still be out there, s
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by tytso 6y ago
We had the same experience with the Linux kernel. The original license was even more hard-line that the GPL --- it ruled out any way of making money, even selling CD-ROMs with Linux on it. Linus had to consult with all of the contributo
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by tytso 6y ago
I've always thought that the GPLv3 effort was one of the FSF's biggest mistakes. It split the GPL community into GPLv2 and GPLv3, since the two aren't compatible. And the GPLv3 was simply far too scary for companies. It&#
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Facebook under fire for boosting right-wing news sources(salon.com)
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Maria Ressa on the Weaponization of Social Media(lawfareblog.com)
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by tytso 6y ago
And this is why I will refuse to take any calls from Facebook researchers. It's bad enough that Facebook is disproportionately used by Right Wing Trolls and Authoritarians. See [1] for more information about why this is so. [1] ht
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by tytso 6y ago
The reason why ext4 and xfs both use nanosecond resolution is because in the kernel the high precision time keeping structure is the timespec structure (which originally was defined by POSIX). That uses tv_sec and tv_nsec. Certainly in 2008
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by tytso 6y ago
At the top of the article, "Free Speech will Save Democracy" is displayed in a large headline font --- and hovering over it, is a warning box: "Disputed by 3rd party fact checkers. Learn why this is disputed below". Cl

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