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by zxzax 5y ago
With that, I would say good luck troubleshooting your server if you don't collect any logs whatsoever. I wonder how you would even protect against bruteforcing and DDOS attacks if you never stored IP addresses for any amount of time.
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm personally not confused, just disappointed. Sadly I've seen far too many FOSS discussions that become overrun with irrationally paranoid rhetoric, sometimes bordering on the reactionary. This stuff is nothing new. You'd t
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by zxzax 5y ago
Please make sure you check the privacy policy there as well: https://man.sr.ht/privacy.md It's not clear what sort of thing you're referring to, it's generally not possible to make a service where you have ac
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by zxzax 5y ago
You're really splitting hairs here, the "polite software" you're talking about also needs to "phone home" to check and offer the update, which probably leaks about as much information as you manually refreshing
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by zxzax 5y ago
I mean in terms of developer interest, I haven't seen anybody working towards getting those patches (or similar things) merged. It would be easiest to get this working in a rootless server (like XWayland) first and then go backwards fr
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by zxzax 5y ago
I completely disagree with your assessment, Audacity just crashed twice for me yesterday. Also, with SQLite, it seems the major people reporting bugs are people who have paid support contracts with drh, which most likely requires sending id
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm saddened that it's necessary to bother posting this, but Ardour also has a similar privacy policy, which you should read if you intend to use their services: https://ardour.org/privacy.html Ardour also has a c
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm still not sure what you're saying, you're still downloading the source from an external website on the internet, which I would expect would have a privacy policy, and would do things like comply with the GDPR. And presuma
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by zxzax 5y ago
Do you expect to be able to receive updates and security fixes to your installed programs? Or send back a patch or bug report? If so, then it absolutely is the norm, because all that needs to be done over the internet and can generate PII.
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're suggesting the difference is, or what specifically here is a "mobile cartel?" FOSS projects and other related things also have privacy policies, and in fact you probably want them to so that they
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by zxzax 5y ago
Controversial? This looks extremely similar to most other privacy policies. I would urge you to read the privacy policy on any other web sites that you visit, or for any other services that you use, and compare and contrast. A good starting
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure why the word "fork" is being repeatedly mentioned or why people are thinking this is making the code unusable. At most, I would expect a patched distribution similar to VSCodium to pop up, i.e. not a hard fork. I
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by zxzax 5y ago
Those patches were never merged, and I doubt they will be, because there seems to be almost no interest in supporting high DPI displays on X without a compositor. If there was interest in those, at the very least somebody would have to adap
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by zxzax 5y ago
>Emacs does not. vim does not. OpenSSH does not. Python does not. ffmpeg does not. And yet, Fedora [0], Ubuntu [1], and KDE [2] do. So what you're saying doesn't paint a full picture: even if upstream of those projects you ment
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by zxzax 5y ago
According to the actual text of the GPL, that is not the spirit of it at all. Sorry to disappoint but this is a common misconception that I see. The word "community" appears zero times in the GPL. The community aspect might be a s
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by zxzax 5y ago
I agree with the rest of your comment but I just want to respond to this part: >If you don't have thick skin, you should probably avoid upstream discussions I have a humble request, please discontinue this attitude on your own proje
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by zxzax 5y ago
I don't get it, that seems like standard fare for an R-rated movie? And then it seems like some complained because they decided to start editing it down to a PG-13 movie?
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by zxzax 5y ago
How does that even work in practice? Does the team have to ship a bunch of successful Switch and Xbox games first before their resumes are viewed as good enough? And it seems like they would have to plan to ship the project under developmen
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by zxzax 5y ago
It seems they don't necessarily have to be using a cloud-based service to sell/leak phone numbers to a third party?
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by zxzax 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand what your opinion actually is? What you've stated is a fact, not an opinion: that's what the web platform is now. So it really makes no sense to rant about that, in context. You say you won't be
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by zxzax 5y ago
Please don't shoot the messenger here, but your doctor and insurance company are very likely already using the web to exchange information about you. You can either have that in a way that is standards-complaint and vetted by a large g
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by zxzax 5y ago
You might consider advising your friend to shy away from the "rant" and "hot take" styles, I know it's popular among bloggers and twitter users but it's pretty uninteresting reading for someone who's read
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by zxzax 5y ago
>"Port scan crashes machine" is not exactly "reliable software". [...] So you agree that it's a bad idea? [...] But that means that the default is bad, and unsuitable for resource constrained machines. I'm n
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by zxzax 5y ago
Sorry I think I missed that. In that case you will have to find someone else who can do it and figure out how to get them paid. If you want help doing that, don't hesitate to ask.
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by zxzax 5y ago
I ask the same question because I haven't yet seen a better alternative that was given. If you have one, please show it, it would be very interesting to me. Otherwise, it sounds like you may not have that much experience with these too
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by zxzax 5y ago
It can also be about initial startup time of the system, not startup time of any individual service. Please follow the site guidelines, c.f. the part about "don't cross-examine" -- this is just a technical tool, I'm sure
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by zxzax 5y ago
If you have suggestions on how to fix that I think a lot of people would love to hear it, but for now, sadly the task of building a fully complete desktop and application platform means that there is a lot of code and a lot of churn. This i
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by zxzax 5y ago
Not really, you just happened to pick two projects that are particularly large and particularly old. Drive-by commits are a lot less valuable in those type of projects, unfortunately, but you can still find places to contribute if you spend
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by zxzax 5y ago
>But it's broken by design. It's a bad idea. You keep saying this, without giving evidence to back it up. People are still running Linux in memory constrained environments, those didn't go away now that the 90s are over. &
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by zxzax 5y ago
If you think the socket activation takes too long you can just turn it off and start that service unconditionally. What's the problem? Other service managers support this too, it's not a systemd only thing. Maybe it's a bad i

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