Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. The energy saved by this legislation over 100 years is probably dwarfed by the energy spent to draft, enact and implement it.
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  2. 7:33 You hit the nail on the head. Centralization on the internet has been a big problem and this only encourages it. With that said, I have no problem with Cloudflare implementing this and it is a security upgrade but it's not a solution I would prefer.
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  3. I was surprised when I plugged my USB-C Chromebook into a 5V limited charger, it actually still charged. Obviously, it wasn't enough power to keep it going if it was being used but that's infinitely better than it just rejecting it outright.
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  4. @Adiee5Priv Whose intention? If the EU's, they should specify in the legislation. If the software authors, they should mind their own business, they don't know what's best for me. (Ideally the EU should mind their own business too but statists gonna state).
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  5. Yeah, I was going to say. It's been a long time since I looked at web apps but when I did, it was with the idea that it would be a way to provide an offline application without having to go through all the Android dev/Play store stuff. Every time I go to develop something, everything has changed and needs to be reinstalled and Google keeps coming up with hoops to jump through so apps that people found useful have become delisted (and since they were free, there's not much motivation for me to get them back up). PWAs would have (I assume) fixed most of that.
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  6. 11:33 Oh wow, the people who were advocating for Rust in the Linux kernel have reevaluated the trade-offs and found that Rust should be in the kernel? Quelle surprise.
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  7. The regulations are often written by lobbyists who stand to benefit from the regulations. That's why they often don't seem to make much sense from an objective standpoint.
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  8. The correct answer is that getaddrinfo should be fixed or redefined as not thread safe. If not fixed, a thread safe implementation should be used either through local implementation or using another library (this is open source, after all). I'm not sure the logic of why getaddrinfo calls getenv but it might be worth looking into that too.
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  9. This is why you shouldn't let politicians be in charge of anything important.
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  10. I seem to recall hardware that would run Java natively... (I may be thinking of JavaOS which still needed a bytecode interpreter).
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  11.  @scragar The error code was really useful for finding an MSDN page where a Microsoft Certified Professional would be condescending to you and totally fail to address your problem.
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  12. Pretty much. If there's one thing we've learned it's that given time, any large internet company turns to the dark side.
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  13. They're trusting the store to have done their due dilligence. Which is apparently not a good idea. Something like this needs to have something where it's signed by Ledger or something. The same should be true for Firefox, Chrome etc. I think what he says about known, trusted entities at 7:30 is probably a mistake. Who knows if the upload process could be compromised?
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  14.  @Poldovico  It breaks down on on personal and single product sites if when you fix a typo, your links break. Brodie's just being too dogmatic on this one. Another issue is when users type l instead of 1 for example (identical in some fonts). In the URLs described, the ID always takes you to the page and the title is typically just used to give more meaning to the user (not ideal but immensely useful often). Some fun has been had on some pages where the provided title is actually used to populate the title on the linked page itself.
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  15.  @eyz-4  Sounds perfect for adapting into a well-established project with long-time contributors.
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  16. It's like a used car salesman telling you you didn't really need a radio or windows that wind down anyway.
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  17.  @JonBrase  Seriously? So it started out as a window manager, became heavily complex then threw a bunch of being a window manager away? Have these people lost sight of their reason for existence?
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  18.  @BrodieRobertson  Some of us bought fairly recent hardware that Win11 won't install on. Of course, I'm something of a Linux adept and already have dual booting going on. To be clear, many people will buy new hardware but I know a lot of people who upgraded their OS or had someone (sometimes me) do it for them.
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  19. It happens easily when using tools like yt-dlp. It can break things pretty well like some files become invisible over samba (or maybe the vifs implementation in vlc, I forget). Fortunately it can be told to use a restricted character set which makes things ugly but at least they work.
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  20. It's generally better to harden code to handle it though because you're going to run across it sooner or later. Not taking care to handle input properly is how SQL injection attacks are born. But yeah, for quicky get-the-job-done scripts, it's easier to keep it simple. Just be careful of scope creep.
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  21. I still remember having to edit modelines just to get X to work on your monitor.
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  22. IPV4 is also going away. SMTP too.
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  23. The problem is, THE PEOPLE are using THE LANGUAGE as a Trojan horse. "What do you Trojans have against horses?"
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  24. I only drive on tarmac so we don't need knobbly tires. In fact, it would be easier to just do away with tread entirely.
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  25. The longer time goes on, the more the Linux world becomes occupied by people who wish they were really using Windows. It's unrecognizable from 25 years ago and a fair bit of it not in a good way.
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  26. Reader is a cut down version of the full Acrobat. It's less of a deal now but it's likely Adobe was encouraging redistribution back then. Certainly it was often bundled into other downloads. As well, the centralized repository has long been a thing on Linux so by not allowing redistribution, Adobe would have restricted their reach. Though Adobe has always been a bit weird.
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  27.  @elmariachi5133  I feel like some Linux desktops have gone astray. Basically, launch software and get out of my way is what I ask. Instead we get "I wish we was Microsoft". Fortunately, some still aspire to that and are even the default in some distributions.
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  28. Because it's not envconst?
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  29.  @autohmae I think you miss the meaning of decentralized.
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  30. So much bloat in modern Linux distributions. It makes me sad. Not every package needs its own new language and half a dozen frameworks!
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  31.  @CjqNslXUcM That's funny cause the older I get, the more I realize that other people have different wants and needs to me and that my aren't applicable to everyone. Also one of the great things about open source is choice. I don't really care either way. I don't use screensavers and I don't have any urgency for Wayland.
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  32.  @CjqNslXUcM Right. I do think this is something of a special case because their aim is to replace an existing solution. That means not being cavalier about the use cases you support IMO. Also, I do support your appreciation for minimalism (I'm currently working on a project which throws away about 98% of the usual Linux userspace) but I think there should be choice and that generally implies flexibility in the underlying systems which are there to serve the user and not the whims of the developer (though Open source does lean towards the latter, again, I would say this is a special case)
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  33. If the cost of replacing windows is to use utility and become windows, then what's the point? We're already a concerningly long way down that path.
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  34. A lot of what Brodie reads from these people sounds like idealism and not rational pragmatism.
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  35. Yes. In cases like shown in the video, the post-title is often just throwaway content to allow users to identify more info about the link. Not every URL is shared on a business card.
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  36. I've seen both "to be determined" and "to be done" depending.
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  37.  @SmplySilver Yes. This mode of thought needs to be unlearned by people. Why support multi-windows apps? Because why not, that's why. It's the job of this kind of thing to serve the users and application developers not for them to bow down to arrogant devs. Big red flag and a sign of likely ultimate failure.
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  38. Sync-on-green FTW!
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  39. Still waiting for Bonzi Buddy
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  40.  @BrodieRobertson Who's going to go to that effort when the devs are saying it's not a feature they want or are going to support in the protocol?
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  41. I think the better answer would be to keep to the rules for the kernel submissions but keep a parallel repository for those who want the latest-and-greatest bleeding edge version of his software.
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  42.  @AndRei-yc3ti A heavy refactor of X would probably be the best way forward in my opinion. Though I welcome competing options. Unfortunately, too many devs, especially younger ones, are divas. It took me a good few years to get that knocked off myself (and then, not all of it, to be honest).
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  43. That also plays into virtual desktops.
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  44.  @BrodieRobertson  You can but that's just more friction and who wants to take the chance it stops working? Sooner or later, you have to see which way the wind's blowing(Valve has). (Additional: I mentioned it in another comment but I don't know if you'll see it. Maybe you could do a video on the broken Steam user security model. I would like to see them fix it up. It's the 21st century already).
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  45. Things that are due to be replaced often stick around an inordinate amount of time. It's often best to work with how you know things are than to go out on a limb with predictions.
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  46. Really? I recall having to add 32 bit libraries back into my Slackware install to run Steam and it wasn't that long ago.
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  47.  @Rosentti  That's good to know. Thanks. Might as well make it all 64 bits then (though I know that's not great for 32 bit people but it sounds like we're basically in that place anyway).
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  48. I'm not a huge fan of emojis as characters but they characters they are and so should be handled appropriately. What this indicates to me is that a boneheaded decision was likely made somewhere else.
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  49.  @GeroldViolenceBlemson  Then there was the time PDF 'encryption' was found to be a simple XOR.
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  50. I'm still hoping my qb45 Bluetooth stack can make it in.
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