Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1.  @shade221  Linux is just a kernel. GNU software doesn't go into the kernel. So yeah, Android is a Linux distro.
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  2. I'm not a Christian, but knowing that a project is run by them makes me want to support them more, especially considering how much more they're under attack these days. It's only a matter of time before those of good character, regardless of religion, will be hunted by evil as we see the world devolve. I'm sure there are some people who are still asleep who will avidly dispute this, but humanity is doomed because of the descent into madness of the past 20 years. The only question is, will it be within my lifetime or that of my children.
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  3. If anyone has done the testing I'd like to know how xterm and konsole compare because those are the ones I use the most. I've always felt that konsole was kind of slow, but it could be a false perception on my part. However, it has certain features that xterm doesn't have and workarounds are annoying, and xterm has never correctly handled the scroll wheel for me. Sometimes it sends scroll input to the app that's running, sometimes it scrolls the terminal itself, meanwhile konsole just always works. Correct functionality is always better than speed.
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  4. I'm still using a build from before he became a maintainer, so slow updates for the win!
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  5. Lot's of people definitely need this explanation. For an example of unstable execution, just look at me and you'll get it.
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  6. I've never heard of this program, or this developer, but it kind of seems like something might have been going on behind the scenes that he hasn't talked about. I wonder what happened to cause such an extreme reaction. However, if you want to display images in your terminal, mpv --vo=tct and set your terminal font to the smallest size you can, it's pretty cool.
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  7. I hope it does.
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  8. Perhaps, but he is right, it's just a matter of drop into place and double click. Or if you set your system to do single click and put them on your desktop, easier still. Or if you're into the keyboard, set a shortcut key to launch it.
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  9. I would unironically use that language pack if I could get my hands on it. I live in Texas, by the way.
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  10. I think in this case, I might finally go discrete and be a beta tester. I'm hopeful, sometimes.
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  11.  @Finkelfunk  It's not a boast, it's just a statement of a fact. I've already got a single threaded kernel. It's just a matter of time before I implement multi-threading. I already have my own compiler. I guess I just need to write a browser, but that's a multi-year project that I'm not really willing to take on just yet.
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  12. My take is that no website should be blocked. Free speech should reign supreme. Far too many people fear that, and they shouldn't. Yes, there will be people who do disgusting things, but they should only be stopped if it harms others.
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  13.  @cynodont7391  I'm just going to call it now, this will be an underrated comment.
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  14. As long as the project maintainers are acting in good faith, then this is a definite positive move. Most open source projects do act in good faith, at least the majority do that I've seen. But as we all know, it'll be those rare breeds that try to ruin everything by preventing CVE's from being issued for valid problems. Let's hope such people are very few and very far between.
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  15. I'm shocked by such a development, as I've heard no end of praise for this program. I very rarely bother to list my files and for those times when I do I've wrapped the command in a shell function to accomplish all kinds of weird things, but what concerns me more is, what happened to "eya"? I'm assuming the worst since it didn't even get a mention.
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  16. I feel like the whole point of having screensavers in the past was to keep the screen on for quick access but also save it from burn-in, and a lot of people had fun with that concept. I think the fun aspect can be preserved easily enough by just separating the locking component from the visual component and just whenever someone wants to see it, open that program. Personally, I'd rather play more FFT, but I suppose if someone were stoned the pipe maze could keep their attention for hours too.
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  17. As a long time Linux user, I remember the days of having to install mp3 codecs on pretty much every distro, and back then Windows required separate installation of a bunch of video codecs too, so while it was kind of annoying, it was still less frustrating for me than Windows. When I first started using Linux I had a soft modem and it required special drivers that worked perfectly on Red Hat and actually gave me twice the speed compared to Windows. Hopefully, someone thinking of switching to Linux from Windows reads this and understands that computers suck, software sucks, all of it, but Linux sucks less than Windows and if you put in the time and effort to cope with Windows, why not put in the same time to cope with Linux and wind up with a better experience in the end and free yourself from the tyranny of Microsoft.
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  18. That's a fair point, from a legal perspective. Counterpoint: Microsoft has already stolen GPL code and used it without redistributing the source or any changes they made and it has been proven with the source code leak of WinXP. They faced zero penalties and now they're two E's into EEE with regards to Linux and open source.
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  19. If we actually had a free market you might have a valid point.
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  20.  @theroboman727  What makes me hate it is that it sucks as a language. It has an awful lot of ideological design elements. I would argue that what Python is used for isn't even what it's good at since most of what it's used for requires libraries of code written in other languages to make it run at a speed that allows a program to finish running before the heat death of the universe. If we really want a language easy enough for today's modern scientists, we should adapt some variant of BASIC and just port the libraries that Pythonistas use to that language. I'm not saying BASIC is a good language either, but it's not saddled with ideological constraints that no programming language should be saddled with and would be even easier for people to understand. Although, in an ideal world our scientists would be intelligent enough to use C.
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  21. Sounds like we need a WINE-ARM project. Their logo could be a disembodied arm of a rich woman from the Hampton's holding a wine glass.
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  22. Will Linux survive if he dies? Of course it will. Will I want it to at that point? No. There are a myriad of reasons why, but the key takeaway is that I don't think a monolithic kernel is the way of the future, for also many reasons. It won't happen of course. I know how humanity operates and it'll stick around for decades to come, whether he lives or dies.
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  23.  @bigpod  So you're saying it changes nothing because people would be scammed anyway?
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  24. That's a weird viewpoint. I think the source being available to read and understand is what makes Linux better, not the doing literally everything myself mentality that some seem to have. I've barely had to touch anything in any init system as most of the time, things just work right out of the box. If you wish to tinker, have at it, but don't think for one second that systemD takes away choice. It gives one more to those needing to choose an init system and if it just works for you, then great. If it doesn't, then you have the choice to choose another, even if the distro you've chosen uses it you can still replace it. This comes from someone on Slackware which doesn't use systemD but wouldn't care if it did.
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  25. I've known about this for years, but it still makes me laugh. We need more silliness to distract from real life, not less. The thing that maybe makes it extra funny is I'm drinking coffee while watching this video, and I'm sure others were too. Of course, it is black, like my soul.
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  26. I feel conflicted on this one. On the one hand, I haven't seen a truly private cryptocurrency, although I'm told with no real proof that Monero is, and mostly this just seems like "mining digital resources" because none of it has a truly physical form. On the other, if someone can come up with a truly private cryptocurrency and people can use it in whatever way they see fit, I would want it to succeed. Either way, this is one of the reasons why I don't use GitHub or GitLab or any public host. If the host deems your project to be bad you have to scramble to rehost, even if you have weeks of notice. All that said, NFT's are definitely a scam. Buying an entry on a block chain which just has the text that is a URL to something that you don't own is really stupid.
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  27. I've seen a lot of videos the past few days of people talking about Nvidia open sourcing their drivers, but you're the only one who talked about the license they use. I find this to be one of the most important aspects, especially if anyone actually wants to adopt their particular platform. If they can't be trusted to use git correctly and credit developers, maybe they shouldn't get any community support in developing the driver. They should just open source the whole stack and publish specs.
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  28.  @SkyyySi  Did they disassemble any binaries to figure out how it worked? If it was using something that was already open or if it was packet sniffing I wouldn't call that reverse engineering. But if they disassembled some official client, then yes.
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  29.  @supremespanker  Top tier comedy. Have any more jokes?
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  30. The whiteboard caught me off guard and I laughed like a maniac. As for graphics cards, I've been a strictly onboard user for my whole computing life. Although, with Intel entering the discrete market and heating things up, that might change in the future, even if not for Intel but only because of Intel.
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  31.  @kirbyjoe7484  Using HIPAA as the justification given that Windows is insecure and will lead to your private medical data being leaked would work, as long as the Supreme Court stays sane. Of course, that's only relevant to the US, but I'm sure other countries have similar privacy laws.
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  32. I personally think we need organizations like FreeDesktop, and I think we need more of them. They're not glory hogs like GNU and they have kept things from going fully chaotic. I'm not saying their design is perfect, but it's "good enough" that it has become the de facto standard for Linux. Although, I still wish someone would create a competitor to Linux and all of the various subsystems that would greatly simplify everything. Anyone who's played with TempleOS might understand that a bit better.
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  33. Sometimes? You must be new.
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  34.  @tacokoneko  It's perfectly understandable why someone would want more than 60hz or why someone would use Linux. It's completely baffling to me why anyone would want screen tearing. You're going to have to explain that one to me.
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  35.  @deusexaethera  I don't guess you've heard it before, but free as in speech, not beer.
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  36.  @janglestick  In other words, you didn't really read the entirety of what I wrote. Got it.
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  37. A lot of people don't seem to be aware that even on Debian and Red Hat based distros they still have the source available. You can use the package manager to download the source code directly from the repos and compile it yourself or even if you only want to audit what they provide. I'm sure others probably do the same thing, but at least those distros and the one I'm using provide the convenience of binaries with all the source available as well.
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  38.  @uis246  Yeah, his rants are the best. Some people rant and it's completely inane, but not his, he keeps it on point and chock full of information.
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  39. Agreed, they should just keep using that name and give Discord the middle finger.
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  40. I've always used EXT, starting with 2, moving through 3 and now I'm on 4. Never had a single problem with data corruption or data loss. Every single time I've had some hard drive fail, it was one formatted for use with Windows computers and it always failed when plugged into someone else's machine, and they didn't fail consistently either. That tells me all I need to know about using Windows.
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  41. I found this somewhere else and am going to partially quote it here because it was fairly well written and I agree: /* I think many people who still use C do so for the same very simple reason I do: it works, has a reasonable community (many libraries) and, most importantly, code written today has a high chance of continuing to work unmodified far into the future. C is the only language which delivers all three... No matter what I find exactly no enjoyment being on a permanent treadmill having to jiffy my code around so that it works again with whatever "awesomeness" the language designers decided to change in the last few months or, even worse, to find that the language has been abandoned and now my code needs a full rewrite in something else. Is this really so bad ? No, C programmers are not degenerate psychologically challenged moronic narcissists who work day and night just to deliver security issues and bugs to you. Could we be civil and stop looking down on people who code in C, please ? */
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  42.  @Mantikal  Sort the comments by newest first, you'd be surprised how much YouTube suppresses our speech.
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  43. I would love to see all of the shadowed comments.
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  44. My take on it is that if a project was started with the goal of supporting both, it'd be rather easy over time for them to achieve that goal. But most projects are started with the idea of only targeting one, so they don't bother to understand the other and as a result the implementation and end users suffer. Understanding the differences is part of what makes us and the software better. The same method of development should be applied everywhere, and if it were, Linux would be an overnight success because game developers would be better at targeting it.
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  45. Someone should create a distro and label the different levels of packages something weird like otter, pelican and salmon. Good luck figuring out which is for what.
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  46. I don't. If the old version worked perfectly fine, why rewrite it? Why not get to work on solving a new problem? Or a problem that's old but hasn't been solved? Or writing a game? Why rewrite everything that already works, and in most cases works better than the rewrite and retains full features, when you could actually write something new?
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  47. Because it was more fun when you had to profile things and determine the fastest and lowest memory method of doing something? Or maybe it's because you enjoyed rewriting it in assembly and tweaking? Being limited with the hardware is part of why I don't have a gaming PC.
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  48. Microsoft proving their quality as stewards of GitHub by having such a stupid and obvious bug and then patching it out when people obviously wanted it as a feature.
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  49. That really makes me feel old.
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  50. I remember RCS with the annoying strings in source files, and I think CVS did too, but I can't remember now. SVN looked interesting, but I never got into using a VCS even back when git first popped up. It wasn't until git was maybe a decade old before I got into it, and it's literally the first VCS I used for any project I've worked on. That Arch took so long to switch doesn't bother me, because I'm slow to change too.
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