Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. "Yo dawg, I heard you like articles, so I wrote an article about your article" -Journalism in a nutshell
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  2. Zig isn't quite ready yet, but it already synergizes with C much better than Rust ever will in both language design and its community. A large portion (most?) Zig devs are also C devs, use C in their Zig projects, build C projects with Zig's build system, etc. There is mutual respect between both groups, not one group forcing their way into a project and making demands.
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  3. Just let the OS clean it up when we are done, amirite? I say we stop concerning ourselves with trivial matters like RAM, and just treat our applications like one big arena allocator managed by the OS. If we run out of RAM, we can always download some more, so win-win.
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  4. Oddly enough, switching between Linux and Mac is relatively easy, as they both adhere more strongly to UNIX principles, file hierarchy, the concept of package managers, etc. I would disagree with your comment about things changing too quickly, that is completely your choice. There are multiple iterations of each major desktop environment, but there is nothing so drastic between them which would make someone not know how to use them from one version to another. For people who like things to stay the same, there is Mate, which is based on Gnome 2, which was released in 2002, and is till going strong as a popular desktop. Windows 7 was released in 2009 and is well past its end-of-life and support cycle.
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  5. There is no such thing as a memory-leak safe language, and likely never will be. The misunderstanding comes from three things: 1. People who don't write systems languages and don't fully understand the difference 2: Rust zealots constantly boasting about how safe the language is and often implying such indirectly 3. People love to hate Rust because of #2
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  6. It should be noted that this is not exclusively an "Ubuntu" problem, as "needrestart" is not developed specifically for Ubuntu, nor maintained by Canonical. The package is also available on other distros via their package manager, Ubuntu Server just comes with it installed by default.
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  7. LowLevelLearning did a really good job explaining the exploit, as he usually does. It is actually an impressive exploit, kudos to the random guy who found it by digging into why his logins were taking longer.
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  8. False dichotomy. There are other tools like (i.e. Valgrind) that can be used to alleviate most memory issues without the need for Rust. We don't all need to drive around wearing helmets and 5-point harness with a roll-cage for a trip to the grocery store either. Being "more safe" isn't always practical, there is a balance that Rust developers seem incapable of acknowledging when making hyperbolic analogies like this. Memory safety is a obviously a good thing, and Rust does it well, but this is not the be-all-end-all to development like Rust users think it is, even for kernel/driver development.
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  9. I literally add custom "Conduct Yourself However You Want" CoC to my projects. It is pretty brief, but essentially just states that I am not your mother or your spiritual leader, and am not going to dictate how you act. If I don't want you interacting with my code, I will remove you, simple as. I don't need an excuse or exhaustive list of nebulous and subjective buzz-words to describe it. People really need to stop being so sensitive about everything and come back to reality.
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  10. I wish it was simply a matter of them being too old to understand, unfortunately time after time has taught us that it is more a matter of who is lobbying for them and writing the biggest "donation" check to their campaigns.
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  11. I am not against the inclusion of the protocol whatsoever, but there should always be someone who pushes back, even if only playing devil's advocate, and make the advocates make a case for it. Adding features just because someone, somewhere, might find them useful is how you end up with X11, where no living person knows the entire API.
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  12. Your point is well-taken, but let's not pretend that the stereotype doesn't exist for a reason. I don't think anyone is under the illusion that drama is exclusive to Rust, but is the the chief offender in the entire ecosystem. Wayland drama is usually people (such as Brodie) over-dramatizing what is going on, while Rust's drama often stems from over-emotional public temper tantrums by its most notable users.
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  13. The same can be said when comparing kitty, alacritty, and wezterm, etc. Ghostty is just another addition to this group of high-tier terminals. Reasonable people will disagree on which is best, and it is no one's duty to try and sell you on which one is good for you, the decision is yours alone. If you like it, then use it. If you prefer kitty, then use that, the feature-set for each is on-par.
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  14. People/groups with their mindset never do, they will go to their graves blaming their woes on everything but their own actions (or lack of), and will continue to double-down. If they loose half their user-base for banning people, they will simply ban members who bring that up as a topic of concern.
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  15.  @TheBlueThird  I completely agree that X11 will be around for (likely) decades longer, but at this point, Wayland has already displaced it for the "top-spot", and the major distros/DE's are shipping with it as the default session type. It won't be long before X11 support becomes a second-class focus for projects, and you will start seeing "this feature is not supported on X11" instead of vice-versa.
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  16. You will take the webp and you will like it.
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  17. Memory safety and memory leaks are unrelated to each other. Rust offers no more/less protection from memory leaks than any other language does. While it is an understandable misconception, novices and non-programmers seem to conflate the two concepts quite often.
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  18. There are numerous reasons "why" Windows is popular for desktops, but the most dominant reason is simple: new computers come with it. There is a few niche manufactures that offer Linux. and of course System76, but this is generally true, and will ensure that they always stay on top. Linux users simply expect to reinstall their OS when purchasing a new machine, and everyone else expects Windows and isn't using Linux anyways, regardless of how terrible it is.
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  19. ​ @isofruitfruit9357  Perhaps I am simply misunderstanding the term, but what was "racist" about what they said? I thought DEI was "diversity, equity, and inclusion"? Does that exclude a particular race?
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  20. I don't particularly have an opinion one way or another about password managers, but there is legitimate and logical reasoning to that argument. I would say is most fair to state that managers simply move the problem-space. Technically managers are adding a new attack vector, but are likewise helping to alleviate human-error. Comparing these two is apples/oranges in regards to which is more "secure", and will vary greatly from user to user.
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  21. Ironically the growth of AI garbage is helping GPU vendors support Linux more, as it has expanded the industry to be more than just game studios who choose DirectX because of the Microsoft money. Realistically Vulkan and DX12/D3D are comparable technologies, they are both abstractions over the same hardware instructions, but Vulkan being open-source and running natively on Linux platforms makes it more attractive to the expanding industry which relies heavily upon Linux. I doubt we are going to see a bunch of AAA game titles coming out with native Linux versions anytime soon, but this is one small step towards it.
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  22. I honestly think that for newcomers, it is more important to explain the difference in desktop environments, and worry less so about the distro it is running on. They will learn the differences and experiment on their own in time, but it is not beneficially to overload them with distro names that are all equally meaningless to them. They are going to base their initial experience based on what the DE is, not the nuances of package management, init systems, X11/Wayland, etc, etc., which are foreign concepts to a Windows user anyways. While I don't neither a DE nor a Debian(-based) distro, my typical approach is to have them look at screens for GNOME and Plasma, decide which they like better purely based on aethestics, and then choose a popular Debian(-based) distro that supports it. They can experiment and distro-hop all they want later, just get them up and running with something that isn't broken, and they enjoy the appearance of.
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  23. I choose not to create a a bot-net with my kitchen appliances.
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  24. I see what you did there lol
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  25. They wouldn't have removed it if were just under consideration, full stop. I can't even envision a scenario where they haven't already entered into legal agreements with buyers of the data. Businesses simply don't make these kind of changes based on "well maybe someday in the future if the opportunity arises", especially when it obviously is going to have a negative impact on public perception.
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  26. I feel guilty for not having yet invested any time in learning it, I have still being using OpenGL for my hobby games.
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  27. I embrace vaxry in both his project and how he treats others. Whatever he is, his way seems to be working better than what HR-inspired institutions like the FDO, OpenSUSE, etc. are currently doing.
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  28. ​ @tragivictoria  Literally not true, nor even make sense, unless you are mistakenly confusing FOSS for the the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Surely you aren't claiming that every person who pushes to a public repo is making some concerted political statement?
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  29. ​ @bigmistqke  If you "heard" it, does that not by definition make you one of 'le bad people" that it was intended for? Keep in mind that despite being only 13% of the population, 51% of YouTube viewers hear dog whistles where none exist.
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  30. "We are just asking for a little documentation" is the salesman's pitch. I assume every person in that room is smart enough to read between the lines, especially after the first ~10 minutes that preceded it were a presentation on how Rust makes everything better is and is superior to C, in a room full of C devs who are likely sick of hearing the same pitch over and over.
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  31.  @GSBarlev  It should be noted that a memory leak is mostly unrelated to "memory safety". You can create memory leaks in every language quite easily, including Rust. What you can't do in Rust (without effort) is access illegal and our-of-bounds memory.
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  32. ​ @PerilousBooklet  Non-Arch users think that using software within a month of its stable release by the upstream developer as "bleeding edge". I can't count how many times that I have encountered someone who is literally under the impression that Arch is running something akin to "nightly" builds for every package.
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  33. You will never regret your choice. I jumped to Linux during the Windows 7 era, and am affirmed in my decision with every new Windows "feature" that gets added. The initial growing pains and feeling foreign goes away, and eventually Windows will feel like the foreign system; you will wonder how you ever used something so clunky and unintuitive. Windows feels intuitive to Windows users only because it is the baseline that most first become familiar with, not because it actually is. I don't believe I have ever heard the story "long-term Linux user switching to Windows and loving it!"
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  34. This is GNU+Linux level of pedantry....
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  35. I abandoned GUI music players years ago. I wrote a custom MPD widget for waybar and use ncmcpp/mpc for the occasional management of playlists, but don't even remember why I ever used a full-blown graphical interface for music. I did used to use Guayadeque, but it was sadly discontinued.
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  36. @ "reported". lol, this is like poetry. What a wild world we live in where people get reported for using a percentage.
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  37. I don't even understand how they could nuke it mid-version if they even want to pretend GTK is semantically versioned.
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  38. Developers are rarely the ones that do this anyways, even more rarely for companies to do that. They just release a tarball and the package maintainers for the respective distro do that. This is a non-issue.
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  39. Perhaps I am missing what you are saying, but why do you need flatpak in order to backup a Wine prefix?
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  40. Don't assume there isn't drama in Microsoft, Apple, etc, they simply don't have a public mailing list. If you ever work anywhere, I am sure you can think of examples of inner-company drama, now pretend that it is posted online, that is the only difference.
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  41. Gee-Lib-See. This is how I pronounce it, what do others do? I won't change how I say it regardless, just curious.
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  42.  @UlcerousAxis  The comments section on YT regarding a video with a tangential political connection is not open-source code. No amount of cope or gaslighting is going to change my mind about this commonsense and self-evident truth.
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  43.  @cyberpunkspike  This isn't Google vs Mozilla, they are both bad, don't try to move the goalposts.
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  44. No such thing as hate speech. People can be rude and insulting to others, but it is silly to make a special scary category of rudeness just because they hit you in the feels harder.
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  45. Let us not forget when Manjaro pushed out a bugged version of their package manager that turned all their unwitting users into a combined DDOS attack against the AUR, making it unusable for nearly all Arch (-based) users.
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  46. As long as people continue to support it, even if only out of ignorance or lack of technical know-how to switch, there is little incentive for Microsoft to ever change their ways, if anything it only enforces these terrible practices. No one other than Microsoft have ever accused Microsoft of being an ethical company.
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  47. It only takes one or two people with that specific ideology to acquire a foothold somewhere in the company leadership. From there, they can wield self-proclaimed victimhood as a weapon to silence any opposition, and they get whatever they want by using the same old tropes and buzzwords like "safety" and "inclusion".
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  48. Meh, this particular one was a bit of stretch to make content IMO. I don't mean that as insult, I love the channel, but that is my thoughts on it. The issue isn't nearly as dramatic as this. Reverting a change the maintainers didn't desire to begin with, after years of the actual responsible party not fixing their problem, and it results in a very small number of Arch users playing a very small number of old games not working.... am I missing something? This is a subset of a subset of subset of Arch users. Comparing the LoC of the patch, which are build flags and not indicative of what it actually pulls in or wider implications, is a serious stretch....
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  49.  @boredstudent9468  Actually, not a Linux nor Arch problem. If an update, of any distro, is bricking your system and not others, it is obviously something unique to your configuration. Not learning what you did to cause it will ensure it happens again, and throwing your hands in the air and blaming the software ensures you will never learn it.
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  50. Same. I am truly glad to see a brand new DE enter the fray that isn't based on Qt or GTK toolkits, this is a very good thing, but I am content with Hyprland, and haven't seen a single thing that is compelling enough to warrant a change.
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