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Podman winning is good. Red Hat consistently does things right, for example their quay.io is open source, unlike Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry. The risks of not using ro…

In the end, it seems what happened is that christel sparked a huge misunderstanding between freenode staff and Andrew Lee by making misleading statements to both parties and lying …

Nix doesn’t guarantee binary reproducibility. It does help with reproducing build inputs and the build process, as do the tools used to create Flatpak applications and runtimes—fla…

> The only real problem is that the Gnome Software program lists these programs with a green "Sandboxed" badge when the app may have anywhere from full sandboxing, to literally no …

> Have a small main drive? You can store maybe three or four Flatpak'd apps. That’s not true. Even the smallest consumer hard drives are big enough to store as many apps as you wil…

> Even official image on Docker Hub receive almost zero security updates Are you talking about the Official Images program? Because if so, this is not true.

> So now instead of simply backporting a patch to the distibution's openssl library, every single app maintainer of each app that uses it has to do this and provide an update. That…

There are several technical falsehoods on https://flatkill.org/2020/ . For example, this one: > Almost all popular apps on Flathub still come with filesystem=host or filesystem=hom…

> That would be tough because the developer would have to integrate with flatpak APIs, and I don't think flatpak is big enough for developers to care. For GTK apps, they don’t need…

Major GUI frameworks agree with you and have already adopted this approach and it is already used by many applications, and this has already been the case for years.

This might be easier to understand with some context. This is the GTK maintainer, who is about to release GTK 4 in a few weeks, and GTK 4 needs some unreleased fixes in Cairo. He r…