Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. This is why I'm actually strongly in favor of the Hot Potato License: you may do whatever you wish with this software, so long as you update the contact information if you make any changes.
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  2. For those that, like me, didn't know, NVD is the US National Vulnerabilities Database and is part of our National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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  3. Honestly, one-way covenants are pretty goated—"if you submit a PR or a bug report to us, you can expect us to treat you in this way, and we expect zero reciprocity" is refreshingly mature.
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  4. I've seen so many comments from people saying, "That's it, I'm switching to Linux." I hope even a tenth of them do and that they don't choose something dumb like Arch, Nix or Holo for their first distro—we veteran members of Club 🐧 owe it to these newbies to suggest Mint, Pop or Nobara as Baby's First GNU. Don't worry—the true neckbeards among them will find their way out of the kiddie pool when they're ready.
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  5. 13:29 Counterpoint: the Mastodon devs successfully forced Truth Social to share their source code under the AGPL with only the threat of litigation.
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  6. The threat of MV3 is literally what motivated me to switch (back) to Firefox, after I was literally one of the first adopters of Chrome back in 2008.
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  7. "Smart golf balls" reminds me of that prank gift where the ball has a remote-controlled motor inside, so your dad slices a perfect drive, and you curveball it right into a tree.
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  8. Bear in mind that DARPA funds a lot of weird research that isn't directly—or solely—related to defense. Makes complete sense that they'd be interested in developing a high performance file system if for no reason more interesting than... the US military stores computer files.
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  9. Hot take: a man page is not a substitute for an indexable HTML site. There are so many autodocs tools, there's really no excuse. Fwiw, the reverse is true as well—just because the docs are online doesn't mean your tool shouldn't have a help CLI entrypoint.
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  10. Such a dumb mistake. Who could possibly think that package signing has anything to do with anti-cheat? It's obviously about combatting Steam Deck delivery thefts. 😉
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  11. As a federal employee, this was your hardest troll I've ever clicked on.
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  12. 12:58 is kind of hitting the nail on the head—if GTK5 doesn't support an app developer's target environment, then they won't update to GTK5. If GIMP is still using GTK2 after 20 years, our grandkids will still be using something written using GTK4.
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  13. "GNOME used to stand for something!" "I know, the project has really compromised its principles." "No, I mean the name had meaning!" "Yeah, and now it's just a shell of its former greatness." "You're not listening. These days GNOME just stands for GNOME." "I know! They're just in it for themselves."
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  14. This is incredibly validating to read. Today is the last day of six months of unemployment. Between job hunting I spent most of my time writing my own FOSS projects. I justified it as keeping my skills sharp, learning new tools and paradigms, and building a public portfolio, but mainly if was because I needed to write code. Thanks for sharing, Brodie!
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  15. The Steam Deck was my first computer that had a non-"this incident will be reported", and I thought it was so smart of Valve not to scare the pants off of 1MM+ Linux n00bs. Only found out later that it was changed way, way upstream.
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  16. I get that it's not exactly a coincidence but it's still shocking to see all these companies suddenly competing to be the absolute worst. Suddenly, the Ubuntu Pro motd ads are looking a lot more palatable... 🤢
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  17. I think I have an explanation for why "RF Burns" asks this question once per year and doesn't respond to questions—it's those rascally students keeping the meme alive as a class prank and rite of passage.
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  18. Can confirm you are the only person talking about XWayland rootfull. It is literally how I discovered this channel.
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  19. I'm a simple man. I don't need my terminal emulator to be fast or hyper-customizable. But if your terminal is dropping frames, you're doing something terribly wrong. I use the elementaryOS terminal, btw. Even / especially on Arch.
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  20. Yep. And the people who know enough to disable the ads are the exact same people who would never click an ad for whatever sketchy product is paying for that placement in the first place, so from Microsol's POV, it's literally nothing lost.
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  21. He hated it so much he had to violently purge his system.
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  22. Fwiw, Brodie, I do find COSMIC daily-driveable and am finding fewer and fewer reasons I need to hop over to my X11 fallback. I happen to really like the design language and find COSMIC's UX to be extremely intuitive (as someone who never found a good multi-monitor tiling flow with sway or Hyprland). Anyway, I should hope Vaxry isn't madly in love with COSMIC—if he were, what would motivate him to continue to work on Hyprland?—but writing a whole blog post to 💩 on the project is just weird. At the end of the day, it's a free internet, and the Wayland ecosystem is net-net better off with Vaxry doing his own thing in his own corner, so I wish him the best.
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  23. Valve—and specifically GabeN—see the XBox Store as their #1 existential threat. If Microsol decides to pull a Cupertino and limit certain capabilites to their "software partners," Steam is hosed. Sinking all this investment into Linux is their escape valve 🥁. Of course, them deciding to open source their secret sauce is what makes them the 🐐.
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  24. In our defense, we developed a strong passion for bicycles and bicycle storage.
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  25. Wow, that certainly is-odd... Hopefully nothing critical is actually using these packages—seems like a great way for someone to get even
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  26. PS/2 users: "My my my, how the turns have tabled." (just make sure your mobo has a real PS/2 port and not a hidden USB adapter)
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  27. This is a great explainer. You can really tell that POSIX' privilege model comes from the mainframe space where you had a ton of users with varying degrees of ownership / trustworthiness all sharing one giant machine of vacuum tubes and mechanisms that went "bing." I kinda like that it's taking this new form of properly keeping daemons on short leashes.
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  28. As someone who'e been trying to get people around me to drop support for 3.7 and the other EOL versions, this is pure violence.
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  29. Funnily enough, of my first full system lockups on COSMIC was because of a memory leak... in IntelliJ from trying to open three projects at once. 😂 All the Rust in the world can't save Java from Java.
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  30. EVE Online players: "Wanna compare Excel macros?"
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  31. Just finished my systems audit. As expected, half (Debian, elementary and SteamOS) were using an old xz (5.2), and the other half are Arch, which don't build from source tars. Looks like very few real-world systems were actually compromised, thanks to how quickly this was caught. Thanks for covering this, Brodie!
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  32. I'll never forget the xkcd line about Haskell—it's guaranteed to have no side-effects because no one will ever run it. 🤣
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  33. ​ @mjdxp5688 That's the optimum in my book—GNOME is bad, GTK is bae.
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  34. Can't believe for the whiteboard you didn't write: "WINE 10 X11 SHELVED"
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  35. I'm pretty sure his April Fools video gave at least three "X12" developers fatal aneurisms.
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  36. The thing to remember here is that COSMIC is meant to be a lot more newbie-friendly and batteries-included than KDE (and certainly Hyprland/Sway). As such, I'm fine with them being opinionated even if I don't always agree with those opinions. That said: I hope that the smithay compositor supports everything you're noting and that eventually we get a "COSMIC Tweaks" application that lets advanced users customize these behaviors.
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  37. Blood doesn't rust because the iron in hemoglobin is already oxidized.
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  38. Fun fact: AMD's XDNA "NPUs" are (most likely) Xilinx FPGAs, which, if we ever get a Linux SDK, will make those chips incredible for retro console gaming.
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  39. While I have been thoroughly impressed by the M1 macbooks (and have felt strongly that the bloated macOS is what's holding it back), the fact remains that macs—laptop and desktop—are NUSPIs¹ to a degree that even Dell and Lenovo could scarcely dream of. Guarantee that if your screen goes bad or your touchpad disconnects, Apple will refuse to touch it if they turn it on and see a KDE splash screen. ¹No User Serviceable Parts Inside
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  40. It would be cool if there were casual users doing The Linux Challenge. Like, imagine System76 mailing out fully loaded Thelio desktops to a bunch of content creators and streaming influencers. That would be huge.
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  41. We thought the Primagen interview was a big deal. Imagine if Brodie got to talk with Rossmann for two hours!
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  42. I read that the creator of of Xvi had switched to vim years ago. No greater praise for a project than your rival switching to using your software. ESC+:q, Bram. You will be missed.
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  43. Vaxry's "normies don't care about tiling" line reeks of gatekeeping, and it's also patently false. I love tiling, but I don't know enough about what I love about it to properly write a good config for every system (Hyprland on the Steam Deck is 🐐ed, but I never got a good flow on a desktop). tl;dr—there's a clear niche for an opinionated tiler, and System76 is filling it.
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  44. There's an episode of The IT Crowd where our heroes accidentally get trapped next to a bomb-diffusing robot, which locks up, leading to the following interaction: IT worker: "What operating system is it running?" Police officer: "Vista!" IT worker: "I'm going to die!"
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  45. In this case, it's more like: "We used to slap a body kit and a new badge on a Nissan Sentra, but now we want to build our own car. "Building a car from scratch is hard, so instead we found this woman building the Planet Express Ship and brought her on board. "Sure, our users don't need to visit The Moon or Atlantis Atlanta, but aside from the clingy, possessive alcoholic autopilot, it's actually a really good basis for a daily driver."
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  46. ​ @systemchris Damn, I just started learning Rust. Maybe if I just grow my neckbeard out a little thicker people will just assume it's a fursuit?
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  47. It'll be interesting to see if they get "Sherlocked" the same way the gigachads at CodeWeavers got shafted when Apple: 1. took CW's open source work on WINE 2. rolled out an extremely lazy (but officially supported) DX-to-Metal translation layer 3. And made CodeWeavers' product in that space obsolete overnight.
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  48. elementaryOS Stan here. Pantheon is the definition of a DE that does its job and gets out of your way. It's for people who loved OSX but think macOS is waay too busy. The main problem with it right now is that the development team is tiny, and they're rebuilding the DE from the ground-up to work with Wayland, so the current stable version is still based on Ubuntu 22.04, while the Arch packages break fairly often. That said: elementaryOS 8 is nearing the finish line, and I'm pretty psyched to see how it compares to COSMIC Alpha.
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  49. On the one hand, this seems like a Brodie troll, and that popping is a pretty easy effect to add. On the other, Kdenlive just did this to one of my videos for zero reason (the source audio was fine), and the popping was still there on a re-render, so 🤷‍♂️
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  50. Tomorrow's news: "50k Linux nerds across the world were found dead of alcohol poisoning. Security researchers say to expect major problems across the IT space, and three major waifu body pillow manufacturers have already announced layoffs due to a loss to their core customer base."
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