Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title

Re:Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title by SirHumphrey on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:36AM (#42567073)

It's X11/systemd/ipv4 problem. People agreeing there is a problem doesn't mean that any single solution will be accepted. With terminals you have a system that works with anything from HPC-s to serial devices. An alternative would probably need to drop support for something, meaning congratulations: The number of standards increased by 1 - probably 2 by the time that people unsupported by the modern alternative decide that they too would like something new.

The current effort can at least be pointed towards something.

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Re:Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title by vacuity on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @11:50AM (#42567190)

I think you're both right in that we need standards, and we'll get them but with fractures, but at the same time we could try harder to reduce the incidence of fractures. Because at the end of the day this is all a social problem, and social problems can only be fixed by the society coming together.

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Re:Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title by rollcat on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:04AM (#42574066)

I don't think we need a new standard (the web is already a standard, and PWAs/Electron build on top of it), we simply need better incentives/trade-offs for people who would like to write portable software, but are stuck between TUI and a hard place.

I'm weirdly attracted to Tk (with Tcl or Tkinter). It's not shiny, but it's very practical.

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