Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1.  @mskiptr  You can already do that. The API is object-oriented: PDB calls will return a reference to created objects, which you can then pass to other PDB calls. So you can write your entire image manipulation process as a series of script commands, in any supported language.
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  2.  @mskiptr  Do it the way I said.
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  3.  @mskiptr  But you can’t invoke GIMP operations with those libraries. Oh, you want GIMP to record a script for you as you invoke its operations? I think there are plugins for that.
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  4. Should someone buy them all up and shut them down?
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  5. I don’t understand this “Unix philosophy” thing. The small bits don’t work without the big ones.
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  6.  @larry_the  Everything digital is made up of bits, so I don’t know what point you are making.
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  7.  @larry_the  That’s still not saying anything.
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  8.  @larry_the  So if everything is made of smaller programs anyway, where is something that doesn’t follow this “Unix philosophy”?
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  9. Open source doesn’t magically appear out of thin air, you know. It needs someone to do the work (hint, hint).
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  10.  @Kneedragon1962  Think of WSL as an admission of defeat. The camel has been allowed into the tent, it’s only a matter of time before it pushes the Arab out.
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  11. I think the one that is not GIMP-specific is supposed to be called “GTK+”.
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  12.  @henlofren7321  And what do you do when an official Microsoft patch fails your acceptance testing? You can’t reject it outright: it’s simply going to stay in your pending queue until you give up and let it in.
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  13.  @henlofren7321  When was the last time Microsoft was successfully sued over the quality of its software?
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  14.  @henlofren7321  If those lawsuits were really successful, Microsoft couldn’t keep getting away with it, could it?
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  15. Microsoft: “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!” 🐧:\>
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  16.  @SkyFly19853  Nobody cares about Windows 7 any more. Certainly nobody in the Linux world. Stop living in the past.
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  17. The Blender folks did exactly this some years ago, and all credit to them. To compare, I just did ldo@theon:~> ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l 251 ldo@theon:~> ls ~/.config | wc -l 203 I think that shows that a large number of apps have already converted.
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  18. Apple pioneered the use of OpenGL for on-screen drawing, but it never really did any of the fun effects.
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  19.  @xard64  That’s only very basic stuff. Compiz and its successors do a lot more.
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  20.  @xard64  And of all of them, the Linux version was the one that ran well on the least powerful hardware.
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  21.  @xard64  Linux KDE 4 was able to run fancy 3D animations and transparency on an Asus Eee 701 PC with a 900MHz uniprocessor Celeron. I know, because I had one.
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  22. But when the religion itself decides which idols are “true” and which ones are “false”, that does tend to point up the circularity of the whole belief thing.
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  23. Microsoft made patent claims against Linux. Or rather, they made vague patent threats, claiming at one point that Linux was infringing something like 200 of their patents. But they would never publicly say which patents those were. Instead, they strong-armed a few Linux-using companies into making deals to hand over some amount of money -- while keeping all terms, including those all-important patent citations, secret.
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  24. That’s called a “warm boot”.
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  25. Look for “pylibgimp2”.
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  26. Remember they’re not really that “hidden”. On a multiuser system, the existence of a file with a particular name in your home directory betrays the fact that you have used a particular app. That’s a potential invasion of privacy.
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  27.  @guy_autordie  You are thinking of “Space Oddity”. Hint: “I Think It's Going To Be a Long, Long Time...”
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  28.  @guy_autordie  Of course, I can’t be sure which one of them Mr Musk sent into space ...
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  29. At one time, they even tried to unify the look across KDE and GNOME, with a project called “BlueCurve”. Quite controversial at the time, as I recall.
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  30. If you impose field-of-use restrictions, then it’s no longer FOSS.
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  31. It’s pretty neat, though, that you can pass open files and other process context from the old userland instance to the new one.
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  32.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Open Source is all about choice. Some of us want to do things our own way, others just want to concentrate on what they’re good at.
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  33.  @terrydaktyllus1320  It’s all about choice. Others want to set up systems that work best for them, you don’t agree, that’s your choice.
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  34.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Maybe you should stick to systems that don’t offer you a choice.
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  35.  @terrydaktyllus1320  You are the one trying to make it somehow personal and off-topic. All I did was point out the feature that the video was about. Who was the one trying to “hijack” what, again?
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  36.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Seems like you completely missed the point of the video. Maybe watch it again, and stop “whining” about being reminded of what this discussion is about.
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  37. 4:15 Possibly the first open-source licence?
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  38. 2:05 sysfs is basically the API for accessing (and managing) the kernel’s view of your system hardware, and of its control of that hardware.
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  39. I see “desktop” as a concept created by the marketing departments of proprietary platforms. They are careful to distinguish “desktop” from “server” by carefully excising anything resembling “server”-style functionality from their “desktop” products, precisely so they can sell the “server” ones at a higher price. Linux tramples all over this distinction. That’s why it is best called a “workstation” platform, with both “desktop” and “server” functionality rolled into one. So when is the year of the Linux “workstation”? I’ve got news for you: Linux has been king of the workstation market since the last of the Unix workstations went extinct. That’s about two decades ago.
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  40. There’s no way to force all the Linux distros to adopt it. This is why we have 300-odd Linux distros!
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  41.  @replikvltyoutube3727  I wasn’t even talking about PowerShell for Linux, just about the Windows version.
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  42. It’s easier than that, you can just redefine the HOME environment variable.
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  43.  Dwight A. Spencer  I heard of chroot(8) and chroot(2), but never chroot(3).
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  44. They already tried “extinguish”. Remember “Linux is a cancer”? What could they do now that is worse than that?
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  45. Remember, the thing with package managers is it’s only the distro maintainers who have to worry about them. Upstream developers just release the source code with the necessary build scripts etc, and leave it at that.
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  46. And the brown theme was an integral part of that. They stuck with shades close to that for several releases, only gradually moving to something a bit more purple.
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  47. Conflating constructive, peaceful tools with destructive, violent weapons is always going to end badly.
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  48. What can Linux do? It can run the entire backbone of the Internet, allowing people to communicate all over the world. It can run your own machines, allowing you to do all the wonderful and useful things that computers can do, for you and your loved ones, without limitations. What can a gun do? All it can do is blow holes in things. And hurt people, like your loved ones.
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  49.  @xX_Lol6_Xx  Please, no. What a horrible way to get food, when you contaminate both the food and the environment with toxic heavy metals.
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  50. Apple seems to hate GPLv3. That’s why they dropped recent versions of bash. And also why they funded LLVM, so they could get away from GCC.
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