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A capabilities system like pledge could be a way to safer use _existing_ packages. However, I think that it's not a very nice way to continue. Every application will end up doing i…

> "If I can't search the file for this variable and find it easily, it's a bad name" Like parent mentions, this is about scoping. My rule about short variables is that I have to se…

From the thread is becomes painfully clear how horrible Actalis is set up to act as a CA. Instead it seems they chose to break the BR by default. Almost 5 months to reissue a littl…

There are various ways. One would be to use standard imap and decrypt the message on the client. Their bridge sort of does that but with proprietary protocol. Either way, that has …

> the author prefers dubious advantages to real improved security Encrypting the data transfer doesn’t improve any of the HTML email security issues. So I fail to see how that woul…

> I constantly need to spend mental energy on remembering which is the Ok and which is the Error Right is actually a synonym for Ok.. besides, Either is useful for _much_ more than…

> you went out of your way to choose a hardware combination that is known to properly handle PM on Linux This is no different than with windows. Except that more vendors sell you w…

Lol. This is actually the first time ever someone said I use very mainstream tools, so thank you for that! I can tell you don't know me :)

> reason the Linux Community don't want this sort of thing is that, frankly, they just hate stability And yet I fearlessly upgrade my Linux system at any time. With OSX you first h…

Right, I worded that quite strange. Thanks for the feedback!

> ELFs still don't even have an accepted embedded icon standard FFS Also Apple does not embed icons in their binaries. Their app bundles are not binaries, they are a directory stru…

That _long_ list is limited to the "basic level" telemetry data and does not include e.g. automatic sample documents that Defender sends by default (those include you actual docume…

Since it's hardware sold by Apple I would assume that Apple figures that out with NVIDIA and collaborates. Apparently I'm wrong and Apple just doesn't give a crap as long as they c…

You're correct about the card, sorry about that. Got confused I suppose. Indeed I meant to say I have the GT 750.

> I have no reason to suspect that Apple broke hardware they themselves sold In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support …

> If Nvidia are being dicks in the face of reasonable requests, why would that be Apple's fault? Because Apple sold the hardware /with/ the software, and now they completely broke …

Since there's nobody else responsible for releasing Apple's closed source OS, what makes you think Apple is not to blame on this?

> Can you just not write graphics drivers for macOS? So this is seriously what you suggest owners of an older MBP (official Apple hardware, just over 4 years old) to do? Since both…

Owner of a late 2013 15" MBP here. I never been eager to upgrade to new mac version too. > Some time ago I was forced to upgrade to Sierra Until about a month ago I ran Sierra - wh…

You can still get patch emails with Git repositories. In fact, you can easily create them from your own copy of the repo. This hack has nothing to do with the scm but everything wi…

> I can't make sure my computer is running the code I want it to if everyone else can make my computer run the code they want it to This is exactly why _you_ must be in control of …

Most items from your list sound a whole lot like the path the US is on. I don't believe these things are related to communism or capitalism, but more so to a few people who want to…

> it is fundamentalist if the only reason for the rejection is that it's proprietary Personally I don't use software that I cannot review myself for tasks that are important to me.…

So please tell us honestly. Do you include _any_ kind of monitoring in your software to track your user's actions, errors, etc? You have to at least understand that (some) people h…

IMO there's nothing "fundamentalist" about rejecting a _particular_ piece of proprietary software. When trying to sell a niche product, r/linux might not be the best place to ask. …