wander_homer

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by wander_homer 9y ago
If you trust an application so far as to properly limit itself in what it can do by requesting a sandboxed environment so you don't have to type a few additional letters you might just as well run it without a sandbox. Hey kind strange
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by wander_homer 9y ago
A good way to sandbox applications is where you get a secure system without much effort but you still can grant applications certain privileges, because as a matter of fact some applications just need access to sensitive data to do their wo
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by wander_homer 9y ago
X11, i.e. some of its implementations, don't expose all internals, and clients don't just plug into any function in the binary. The X11 protocol and some of its extensions clearly define how clients can communicate with each other
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by wander_homer 9y ago
Like the XScreenSaver time bomb that caused a nag screen to pop up on April 1 one or two years ago on peoples screens? Debian distributed this code for years without realizing because no one even glanced at the code. The developer didn&#x27
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by wander_homer 9y ago
No, Wayland doesn't close any of those huge holes. That's like saying: We removed all the windows to your house, you should now be safe from people spying on you or stealing your stuff. Wayland doesn't grant Wayland clients p
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by wander_homer 9y ago
However the way Wayland (or its broader ecosystem) "fixes" security is just stupid. Instead of using a fine grained whitelisting based permission system to grant different clients all the permissions they need to do their work (ta
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by wander_homer 9y ago
I remember trying it a couple months ago, but unfortunately it still seems barely usable (at least to me). Performance is probably the worst of all file managers I have tried in the last couple of years, despite not having many features (e.
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by wander_homer 9y ago
No worries, by the time my kids manage to run into a wolf they are already run over by cars multiple times on the way to the forest. Or stung to death by wasps, bees, ... bitten by the neighbors dog, attacked by a boar, drowned in some wate
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by wander_homer 9y ago
Wait a second, how does Qt do that? If the application developer chooses to use client side decorations in an application, e.g. something similar to GtkHeaderBar, how does Qt know how the application should look like with client side decora
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by wander_homer 10y ago
And you have to recompile it if you change your xmonad.hs config file. There's no interpretation going on at runtime - well except when you actually run xmonad with an interpreter like ghci.
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by wander_homer 10y ago
> Why is getting the latest security updates giving a false sense of security exactly? Because in quite a few distributions you don't get security updates reliably. For example Debian Stable excludes most WebKit-based libraries from
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by wander_homer 10y ago
And can you name those lightweight tools, which work together nicely, use fewer resources and do almost everything foobar2000 does? Here's a short list of requirements: 1. proper gapless-playback (which eliminates all GStreamer based p
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by wander_homer 10y ago
foobar2000 and Amarok both did their first public releases roughly at the same time (foobar2000 end of 2002, Amarok June 2003).
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by wander_homer 10y ago
Yes, we already discussed that at some point but we haven't decided yet how to implement it. We don't like how most players perform which use SQLite as their database backend, but we do like how foobar2000 performs with its custom
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by wander_homer 10y ago
DeaDBeeF is great - I'm one of the developers - but there's still a lot to do before we come to feature parity with foobar2000 and have the same quality. E.g. an often requested feature which is still missing is a media library, w
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by wander_homer 10y ago
And by that you lose quite a lot of flexibility. How do you listen to all the classical music that was composed in the 19th century, and was added during the last month to your library? With foobar2000 (or other players) this can be done in
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by wander_homer 10y ago
And giving the OS printing subsystem the content the user wants to print requires thousands lines of code in Firefox. Thousands of lines of code many people don't need, while many others do. Just like with any other feature. My parents
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by wander_homer 10y ago
On Windows there's Directory Opus which is really powerful, Total Commander is also really great. On OS X there's Pathfinder which is pretty good.
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by wander_homer 10y ago
Maybe because the GPUs aren't used efficiently with the current technology. E.g. Webrenderer for Servo was designed to make great use of GPUs right from the beginning and the first results are really impressive.
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by wander_homer 10y ago
Linus didn't port Subsurface to Qt, other people who were already experienced with Qt did. If you have a look at their talk at linux.conf.au it's pretty obvious that they had no idea what they were doing when they wrote the GTK+ i
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by wander_homer 11y ago
I'm glad I could help :) If you need help with building deadbeef, just visit us in IRC (#deadbeefplayer in freenode) and we'll help you. There are also portable builds available, those should work on any distro.
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by wander_homer 11y ago
What's the problem with deadbeef? It supports both GTK+2 and GTK+3 interfaces - GTK+2 is even the default and considered more stable since most of deadbeefs developers prefer that one. Edit: Regarding Evince, there's Atril. It&#x2
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by wander_homer 11y ago
See the article: "Ever since switching to particularly thin weights of Helvetica Neue in iOS 7, Apple has been chastised for using a font that emphasizes clean lines over readability, and San Francisco is intended to solve this."
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by wander_homer 11y ago
Well, why not take a look at Debians Repositories: Debian Wheezy (oldstable) was released on 2013-05-04 and is still supported. Let's take a look at two utterly important libraries for desktop usage as reference: gtk+2.0: upstream: 2.2
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by wander_homer 11y ago
And guess what, there are areas in the world where families of 3 or more generations share a tiny single room and call that their home. How dare you to imply that you are living in a tiny home when those people would be more than happy with
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by wander_homer 12y ago
So what's exactly your point? How does Mozilla interfere with your life and worsen it, so that wishing them to "die" would be justified? Why don't you just ignore them? Why do you want thousands of people to lose their j
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by wander_homer 12y ago
"First of all, what does sample rate has even remotely to do with hearing range?" The sample rate (among a few other things like the quality of the low-pass filter) determines what's the highest frequency you can perfectly re