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You are not wrong. But history also somewhat shows that appeasement is even worse.

> because "maintenance" I like those scare quotes. They really show the lack of respect for the people who actually maintain the stuff you use daily, most of them in their free tim…

X forwarding works on Wayland compositors that ship XWayland. Just like any other X11 application that does not rely on weird things like intercepting all your keypresses, capturin…

Hold on. CVS?

Not sure how this relates to desktop, but from the article it seems that Arm got some nice involvement going: > Another huge change is Arm officially joining the party. We were not…

Except that it never happened.

> I am filled with rage just thinking about how we took a fundamental part of the Internet, simple enough that anyone can implement an HTTP server, Ahahahahahah, yes, anyone can im…

Right. In my opinion it's even worse. The thing that piss me off about Spock is that ignoring the emotional component is a very illogic thing to do. :)

Important to whom?

Maybe "In previous Rust versions you could already define traits, ..."?

Right, shaming mothers does more damage than anything else, even if breastfeeding was a big deal (and I think it is, sort of).

Doesn't that applies to the kernel, libc, openssl, the X server, desktop environments, and web browsers?

Arguably, if the situation is the one described, I'm not sure what "the best maintainer" is. :( Changing name and leaving the old project eventually die or be subsumed by the fork …

Arguably, SJ-related topics get their share of downvotes too. But yeah, I agree with you on the fact that HN is mostly an echo chamber. I'm just less sure that we're hearing the sa…

No need to nudge, `xdg-app` for Debian has already been in the works for quite some time[1]. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813308

Windows does not have this issue either. But on sysvinit if you mount efivars rw for any reason and your hands slip a bit a stray `rm` could still brick your motherboard, so it's n…

It's also the good reason why having systemd mount efivars read-only would have been the wrong thing to do.

What happens if a stray `rm` runs while `grub-install` runs? The kernel fix prevents that, using mount flags alone only restrict the vulnerability but it doesn't make it go away.

Possibly, but what happens if a faulty script does a `rm` too much in that short time window? The kernel fix prevents that, using mount flags alone only restrict the vulnerability …

Your approach still bricks motherboards if somebody forgets to remount ro after having remounted rw. The kernel fix doesn't have such drawback.

There's a layer between userland and firmware where those things should be handled, and indeed everyone agreed that it should be handled in the kernel Saying that Lennart is wrong …

I guess everyone is aware of that, thanks, The parent comments were discussing why choosing dicts over namedtuples for db-originated columns, and the fact that field names are rest…

Arguably, it deserves a page because it provides more features.

> just the text of the articles is 8.8GB compressed Which seems to mean that storing only the version in the user's language should not pose a huge challenge, storage-wise. No?

It surely depends on the projects, but I always found using C# with Mono on Linux to be a pleasure. Apparently some releases of F# already work on Mono: http://www.mono-project.com…