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GrapheneOS has the functionality "Contact Scopes" in the same vein as "Storage Scopes" that only provides access to the specific contacts and files you allow.

Seems pretty cool, but I would probably object to `--best-effort` being enabled by default. This is a sandbox and a security boundary, and degrading security should probably be opt…

Plan 9's cool ideas largely still haven't been surpassed or reimplemented. https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/3rd_edition/rio/rio_slides.pdf

I struggle to take such an article seriously when it cites Brainfuck as an example. A common use of Brainfuck isn't to write programs, but rather to prove that it is possible to wr…

I appreciate the commitment it has to backwards compatibility - the TUI apps are better by virtue of running on top of Arcan's layer, with no changes.

Have you heard of Arcan? https://arcan-fe.com

This is very funny. Let's take a different approach. You are in a situation where you have a particular benefit. You may choose to share part of this benefit with another individua…

Precisely. As of such, those with increased capacity for access will deprive access to others. No balance of care forms. Your recommended ethic is what Kant wished to address with …

No, it isn't, which is why I added "definitionally". Let's say we have a limited resource, X, that is beneficial to hold, and it is more beneficial to hold more of it. As it is lim…

The problem with optimising exclusively for oneself is that you definitionally optimise at the expense of others. Gaps are easily widened, and your balancing idea falls apart when …

I've used Lineage. I'd say it's worth a look, yes. I got a Pixel for Graphene, though.

Graphene mitigates the locked bootloader issue by only supporting one line of phones (Pixel), which have unlocked bootloaders. A large amount of work has been put into making Graph…

Makes sense.

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For what? The simplest possible ISA? Something like an OISC or a ZISC, probably. Simplest "virtual computer"? Maybe the SK(I) combinator system? Specific improvements to this archi…

The path of least resistance is to jam flags where they don't belong, sed patches, etc. Works well enough, so that's what ends up happening.

See https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis for a proof of concept. No dynamic linking locks you out of Clang+LLVM (mostly: static clang isn't an officially supported configuration, bu…

The ISA leaves something to be desired for "simplest". Simple, sure, but parameters (and unused ones, at that!)? Memory copy instructions? Multiply and no shifts? Addition _and_ su…

PDFs support JavaScript. Here's Adobe's guide on how to add JS to your PDFs: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/using/applying-actions-sc...

Note: Child processes can't change the working directory of the parent. An external command (that is, not a shell builtin, shell function, or externally loaded module) cannot chang…

Petnames? https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html

In past, there have been Linux-based operating systems that have been certified as Single Unix Specification compliant, and part of said specification is POSIX. I would imagine GNU…

Most utilities that create files are encouraged to error on newline filenames, which makes this effective illegality stronger. The post also discusses the future of this encouragem…

A lot of this post hinges on the fact that newlines in filenames were legal, and that people wrote shell without handling quoting correctly. While quoting (as well as ls altering f…