argv_minus_one @ argv_minus_one @beehaw.org

Posts

0

Comments

1,229

Joined

2 yr. ago

Sounds like an interesting idea. Pity MS can't be bothered to iron out the issues with it.

There are a lot of meaningful but awful jobs out there, like picking crops and scrubbing public toilets, that nobody in their right mind wants to do. Perhaps they can be automated, but we'd have to automate them and institute UBI at the same time in order to avoid mass starvation and/or civilization collapsing. Seems tricky…

But does it work without prompting the user?
Also, I’m not too familiar with how it works, but afaik global hotkeys on KDE are implemented by the display server/compositor/whatever it’s called itself, and not sourced out to a different program.

Right, but they're configured by an unprivileged program: the settings app. Presumably, a keylogger can pretend to be the settings app.

I'm just worried it's going to be some Denuvo-encumbered, unmoddable, play-once-and-forget game.

Vacuum robots are cool and all, but what about laundry-hanging robots? When do we get those?

Why do people like Docker so much, anyway? Seems to me like it's just static linking with extra steps and extra problems.

It's basically the new Electron, without most of the bloat of the old Electron. Pretty sweet deal for app developers who need to write an app for both desktops and phones.

If you have an Windows account you also can recover it from any desaster with one click, restoring the system.

Only if there's enough of the operating system left to successfully boot and restore itself. If not, good luck.

I can resuscitate a broken Debian setup by booting a USB installer and reinstalling all of the packages on it, assuming the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status is still intact. I can also back up the entire system, apps and all, and later restore everything; there are no hidden secret invisible file shenanigans like on Windows.

“Bad elf magic” isn't a particularly helpful error message. (It means a shared library couldn't be loaded because it's corrupt, for a different kind of machine, built for a very different dynamic linker, or something along those lines.)

This is why I use Aptitude and review all proposed changes (other than straight package upgrades) before proceeding. Blindly running stuff like apt full-upgrade is crazy to me.

My point is that most computers last longer than Apple ones.

'Fraid so.

There's a decade-old Windows 10 machine around here that says otherwise.

And even older Linux machines.

And their hardware still works.

There's also a MacBook that started falling apart a couple of years after purchase, and an iPhone whose battery life has gone to hell in only a couple of years (meanwhile, some even-older Pixel 3as are still running like champs).

Apple hardware is junk.

Don't worry, I won't. Not until someone offers me one without having to agree to an arbitration clause.

They want to make it impossible to block other machines by address? Including ones that are attacking you? That's a horrible idea.

Also, this sounds like it will require way too much intelligence in the network itself. The Internet works because the big trunk routers do very little processing per packet—just look at the destination address, decrement TTL, and send the packet to the next router. If trunk routers have to do a lot of per-packet processing or keep track of every single node on the network, they'll fall over very quickly.

Heh heh heh. They said “erected”.

Similar longevity to Apple products isn't a high bar.

Oh boy. Last time an Austrian politician went around tattooing people, it sure didn't end well…

Ruin millions of lives, then misdirect the resulting outrage by telling everyone it's the fault of immigrants/gays/trans/etc.

Never ceases to disappoint me how many people are fooled by that trick.