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

  1. ​ @Jossandoval It's like the most requested feature on their forums.
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  2. This is one area where RedHat (and Canonical) need to step up. Can't sell your software to corporations and governments with disability protections if your software doesn't have basic accessibility.
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  3. ​ @vidal9747 I think it was LIGO that could detect when someone was microwaving popcorn halfway across campus.
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  4. Guy mostly works on Postgres. Compared to DB vulnerabilities, running point on this probably didn't even raise his blood pressure.
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  5. ​ @caron27 The reason to pay for RHEL was support--if you needed a mainframe set up to do a certain thing, they'd deploy and manage the solution for you so that you weren't utterly at the mercy of the weirdo in sub-basement six who built and maintains a custom stack that nobody understands and that breaks every time they go on vacation. What IBM's reacting to now is that companies aren't using mainframes any more--they're putting everything on VPCs and abstracting their code into microprocesses running in containers that don't care if they're running on RHEL, Ubuntu or Biebian. In that world, the people you're paying for support are AWS or Azure, not RedHat. This is a last, desperate grasp for profitability from RedHat, and all it's going to do is hasten their demise at the hands of their parent company.
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  6. I unsubscribed from the LTT main channel after the waterblock thing and from everything featuring Linus after their response to GN. The two channels I still watched were GameLinked and TechLinked, not just for Jeff Geerling's son, but more for Jakob and Jessica, the two best writers they ever had. Had. Because they were laid off (along with Horst of MacAddress) a week after Linus talked on the WAN show about how LMG was doing record numbers. Linus is a garbage human being, and that whole company is a rotting fish. They can't fall into irrelevance soon enough.
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  7. So wait, this whole time has lacros essentially been, "Yo dawg, I heard you liked Chrome. So now you can run Chrome in your Chrome on your Chromebook (and if that's not enough Chrome, you've got a second Chrome so you can keep Chroming)"?
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  8. First Reiser, next the Decade of 2.6. Brodie is taking me—and, I suspect, a large portion of his subscribers—on one heck of a trip down memory lane.
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  9. ​ @NormTurtle 0:48 — the SQLite development team are explicitly saying this is not a "code of conduct" but merely a statement of their own principles. They're not requiring anyone to abide by these "rules," they're just promising to abide by them, themselves.
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  10. ​​ @jirikral1052 Yes. That's why the "this isn't open source!" guy is a doofus.
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  11.  @VaDR3d  I wish! My dating prospects would be considerably improved.
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  12. 1. That new logo slaps—the devs should just embrace it. 2. IMO if you're really wanting to fight Google's web dominance, use Firefox or another non-V8-powered browser so Google doesn't have so much power to dictate web standards. 3. Iceweasel memories ♥
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  13. As I understand it, "fairly good" in Aussie is "incredible" in Amercian English. That is, a step above "not bad" and just a shade below "Vegemite-grade."
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  14. I'm frankly shocked that Adobe hasn't gone browser/cloud only by now.
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  15. ​ @AClockworkHellcat That works. Verified / unverified is fine too. The issue I have is solely with the scare warning about the potential for malware—not because unverified packages can't contain malware, but because verified ones can as well.
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  16. They're already shielded—pretty much all FOSS licenses contain an "as-is" disclaimer disavowing all warranty and responsibility for their use. If anything, marking certain packages as "safe" opens them up to legal risk.
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  17. Fun fact: your original video on rootfull XWayland is what brought me to your channel (not many resources on the subject). I was trying to run Pantheon (Gala) on the Steam Deck in Gaming Mode. Never got it working (ended up settling for sway), but it was quite a brainfudge trying to make sense of the stack, and your video helped me more than any other resource.
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  18. Damn, you got me with the clickbait thumbnail, but I stayed for the really informative update. RIP Bram. Your legacy is in good hands.
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  19. It's partially a reaction to the Rust fanbois—who, in my experience, are an entirely separate group from the folks who are actually proficient in Rust. It's a case of the 5% most obnoxious members of a group arguing with another group and not realizing that the only people arguing back are the 5% of that group.
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  20. Danielle Foré also announced a few days ago that elementaryOS 8 (due out in late 2024) will be Wayland. And critically, even if you don't care about Pantheon, that means they're working on a new dock.
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  21. Nice call-back to the last video.
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  22. Seconded. I've never been a fan of desktop search. I encode my "metadata" using folder names and file paths.
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  23. ​ @GhaleonStrife "Skill issue. If you need --help, you shouldn't be running this command in the first place."
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  24. 2to3 is right there. Please, for the love of Guido...
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  25. I used Linux for 15 years without knowing more about POSIX than "it's non-Windows."
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  26. Modularity, bro. Imagine if a 9.8 Severity CVE was found in is-odd that, due to an integer overflow, would incorrectly return false if a sufficiently large odd number were provided. By having is-odd separated, users who only need to check for evenness are kept safe. Because internet: this is a joke based on Brodie's last video.
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  27. In the early days they definitely used a distinctive box that was covered with Portal memes. They switched to nondescript packaging after reports of unscrupulous delivery drivers stealing the devices.
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  28. Eh. The migration system could be a script that users run exactly once. I'm usually against breaking backwards compatibility, especially without a deprecation window, but when your design is this bad, it's fine (and it's even fine by semver if you save the change for a major release).
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  29. Good to see you mention Decky as an essential. CryoUtilities is the other one. I'm also hoping that you do a video exploring Nix on the Steam Deck. I have Hyprland as a non-Steam game, and Steam Input + Tiling WM = OP
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  30. Reminds me of Brodie's "bad software licenses" video. I wonder if there's one that says, "You may redistribute this software on the sole condition that you do so under proprietary and non-free terms, with no attribution to the original author or inclusion of this license."
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  31. When I clicked and when you said Intel, I thought this was going to be about Pathfinder, Intel's RISC-V project that only ever existed inside their "Simics" simulator (is that somehow distinct from an emulator?)
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  32. Thank you for the tireless work. I hope you have some inkling of how much joy you've provided to people using your WM. There are DEs that are inoffensive and just stay out of the way, but that's not Hyprland—Hyprland is positively a delight to use (for me, specifically on the Steam Deck). I'll try to contribute where I can—I've written C++ before, but I'll probably be more useful contributing to the documentation. Again, thank you so much for your hard work, and, more importantly, thank you for having the courage to speak up and ask for help when you felt the grind was getting to be too much.
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  33. The thing I love most about Brodie's videos is the comments from people like you, who are regularly making my Linux experience better. Your applet is awesome. Thank you for building it.
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  34. Yeah, Brodie didn't really acknowledge how much Hyprland emphasizes Discord as a support forum. While my personal take is that Discord is a garbage platform to use as a support forum, even Minecraft is using it as their official feedback "site" now, so I think I've lost that battle...
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  35. ​ @cameronbosch1213 But how much of RHEL is v3 as opposed to v2?
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  36. Yeah, if Google actually did anything with their user reporting data, the comments for this video wouldn't include an obvious pornbot.
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  37. ​ @eikotokura1117 As I understand it, they're kinda like berds but don't grow on trees.
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  38. Are you sure you're not conflating this with another issue? I'm not finding a recent bug report on the repo, and jedenatska explicitly recommends using dry-run as a way to safely repro the "bug."
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  39. Pat "80386" Gelsinger recently made some noise about how CUDA's proprietary API needed to die. My hope is that Intel starts contributing to ROCm and HIP and picking up AMD's slack when it comes to documentation and compatibility. Throwing some developers at ZLUDA wouldn't hurt, either.
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  40.  @reilandeubank  Idk, I feel like I'm seeing a significant rise of "Linux first, Mac second, Windows eventually" tools in the software development space. It's significantly easier to get PyTorch running on Linux. Same with anything that interfaces with a local webserver.
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  41. ​ @lua-nya It was good, though. It did its job and otherwise stayed out of the way. Especially coming off the heels of the bloatfest that was Vista. Then again, take what I say with a grain of salt—I was on Hardy Heron when it dropped and Trusy Tahr when it was discontinued, so I only ever used it in a VM.
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  42. Convicted in 2008? Yeah, I would have read about this on Ye Olde Slashdotte.
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  43. Allegedly SteamOS 3.5 adds support for installing software via nix. I'm eager to try that out and can totally see it changing my desktop approach.
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  44. Your criticisms were valid. You weren't pointing to open issues on their TODO—your focus was on wontfixes. The only thing I thought was premature was workspaces—it's clear that's something they're iterating on (case in my point: on my multimonitor tiling setup, moving a window to another workspace just got 2x harder in the latest alpha) and where I think we should let them cook for a bit longer.
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  45. Minecraft Java is de facto "source available," as Mojang even publishes their own de-obfuscators. I don't know if this has ever been legally codified, but their attitude has been: "You can alter the code" (through mods) "as long as you don't publish the original code, and as long as you don't sell your mods," and even that last bit hadn't been enforced, as a bunch of mods these days are locked down—either in early access or completely—behind Patreon paywalls.
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  46. See that? 👆 That's bait.
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  47. FYI, the Nix package has been working great for me on the Steam Deck. Thanks for providing that option—controller layout + Steam Input = a glorious Hyprland experience
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  48.  @BrodieRobertson  No, the internals are completely different, down to the fan orientation. GN actually shows side-by-side comparisons of each an every part—even if you don't know the first thing about soldering, it's striking how many fewer SMT components are on the new motherboard, for instance.
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  49. Python 3.12 will run 99% of code written for Python 3.4. They're extremely good about following semver and giving long deprecation windows.
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  50. As much as the headline is HDR, it's still wild to me that they made the Deck's APU more efficient given that the OG Deck is still the performance-per-Watt champion under 10W PPT.
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