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Re:GTK 3.99
on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:08PM (#24016727)
And they are free to continue adding features and maintaining their preferred software choices. Nobody else seems to want to do it. IIRC the X11 maintainers are the same people who started Wayland.
> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...
> Once we are done with this we expect X.org to go into hard maintenance mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is.
But we were talking about Wayland here. You're free of course to fantasize about hypothetical scenarios or propose features to software nobody wants to maintain.
Why don't you propose a protocol to solve the issues you have? If it solves a problem other users have it would get adopted I'm sure (except maybe GNOME).
I'm not a Wayland developer but it's what I observed in the issue tracker of my WM. A limitation is often overcome by a protocol and a basic implementation after. If you put the work in, the wlroots and KDE people are always very nice and will help you get started.
https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...
https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...
https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/tree/master/unstable
Re:Typed Properties in PHP 7.4
on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:19PM (#20594203)
Is most of the PHP ecosystem moving to static typing? Libraries, ORM, etc. When you're dealing with database objects, is everything a string?
Re:Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based ...
on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:42PM (#20238127)
I guess that's my cue to leave front-end programming forever, and my current job (I'm not joking). I've been through too many cycles and it will never end. There's no way I'm staying for whatever crazy migration my company is going to go through again. And we have apps written in every single JS framework ever conceived. Time to learn COBOL.
Re:Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back control using op...
on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:22PM (#20169449)
And when they raise the price to 20x or start doing something shady you can just move everything to a cheaper and more ethical competitor. Except that you can't.
Re:Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @09:24PM (#20160975)
>The only real solution is to have educated users that care about their privacy and security.
I don't believe that will ever be possible. Winning with technology seems like the only way to do it. Google wants even IMAP.
Re:Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @09:16PM (#20160939)
Very interesting. I wonder if there's a killer feature that would appear when you follow that line of thought. So even if adoption looks like 60~70% users and 30~40% enterprise, if you're indispensable to either of them, it would still prevent a take over because of the network effect. And the fact that you have an API that developers can trust would solidify the position even more.
If that feature ever surfaces I hope it doesn't involve blockchain or machine learning.
Re:Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @08:50PM (#20160831)
Honest question.
What's stopping Matrix from being adopted by, say, Google or Facebook, and then pulling a XMPPEEE?
Imagine Matrix gets really popular, more even than Discord. So they offer their own "version" but add features like free 250GB on Google Drive or things like that. After they get everybody on board they do what they do best and cease control of it.
Olive: A free non-linear video editor
Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @07:27PM (#18350081)
This is coming right after the reCAPTCHA v3 announcement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331159
Sorry, you don't have enough Google Points to browse the web. Please enable JavaScript and install Google Chrome.
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:24PM (#18330446)
Maybe things are moving in another direction
https://www.pcgamer.com/vacnet-csgo/
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/67364/microsoft-is-tryin...
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:26PM (#18329870)
No, it was just a mistake. Blizzard said in their own official forums that Linux (or Mac) users will not be banned for using Wine or Proton.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/can-we-get-ban...
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9g111m/blizza...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blizzard...
> UPDATE - 14 Sep 08:03: Blizzard is investigating and they will be looking to overturn the bans if this is indeed the case. There appears to be at least five reports of bans so far and does indeed seem that the most likely explanation is a false-positive from Blizzard's anti-cheat technology having issue with DXVK.
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:08PM (#18329672)
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail...
Q: Any plans for macOS support?
While Wine and Proton work on macOS, there are no plans to support the new Steam Play functionality on macOS at the moment.
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https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/28/why-macos-mojave-...
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:04PM (#18329633)
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:23PM (#18328721)
Around 85% of native D3D11 performance in most games. Certain Vulkan games can outperform their native Windows version (running under Wine/Proton).
Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
on Monday October 29, 2018 @12:16PM (#18328675)
Maybe this could work for you? https://github.com/corbindavenport/creative-cloud-linux
I suggest making your own script instead of using PoL (abandoned, check Phoenicis).
New look for StartPage
Re:Proton and Mozilla Partner for Privacy
on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:38PM (#18277668)
So what you're saying is that money from a paid service going to Mozilla's pocket could be a new potential revenue stream? I can't believe nobody noticed that.
Mozilla Tests Premium VPN Service
Re:Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity
on Saturday October 20, 2018 @05:16PM (#18265525)
Re:Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption
on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:45PM (#18259914)
I don't think Firefox ever touches your user.js, I've never seen that happen or anyone complaining about it. And then it overrides prefs.js generated settings. The only time I encountered problems was with a big update failing to replace a couple of prefs.js entries, and it was some really obscure settings.
Re:Google app suite costs as much as $40 per phone under new EU Androi...
on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:28PM (#18258335)
Don't get me wrong, I think MicroG is a great project and could work for many people. I already have to maintain a lot of Linux related stuff and I really don't want to worry about my phone too. The apps or workflow changes completely when you get rid of Google. I need to be able to trust that making the switch will be permanent, these things add up quickly (time). Death by a thousand cuts.
But if my phone fails it can put my job or even my life in risk. I can't affort to play cat and mouse with Google or the edge cases from and between MicroG and custom ROMs. I took a quick look at their issue tracker and it looks like these things still happen occasionally. As expected because no code will be good enough to fight malice in a platform you don't own.
Re:Google app suite costs as much as $40 per phone under new EU Androi...
on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:19PM (#18257775)
Google already locked down Android pretty badly. Many important apps require the Play Store and all that Google stuff to be installed or to be fully functional (e.g notifications). MicroG is not enough for my needs and they introduce new things like SafetyNet to make things even worse. To me that's WAY more important than Google being installed by default or not. They can't lose until you fix this.
Re:Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption
on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:01PM (#18257662)
And many settings are documented in this project https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/blob/master/user.js#L10...
Re:Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released
on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:43AM (#18257516)
> Snap was here before flatpack
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9oddtb/flatpaks_sand...
Flatpaks, sandboxes and security
Re:VSCode silently opts you in to data collection
on Saturday October 13, 2018 @05:14PM (#18210062)
> Stop using sha256(MAC address) for telemetry machine ID #8688
Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracki...
on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:24AM (#18199197)
I couldn't agree more. Everybody complains that monetizing content is really hard on the web, and then they try to triple dip the same user (subscription, ads, data).
Re:Flatpak – a security nightmare
on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @10:04PM (#18181445)
I'm not a flatpaker but maybe it was updating the runtimes? http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html
Honestly I would be more worried about running mint (a topic not suited for this thread, a quick search would probably show you what I've read about it in the past).