cmeerw @ cmeerw @programming.dev

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It would have helped if you had actually posted a link to the correct web site.

Do you mean huntr.dev then? hunter.dev redirects to https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhuntermitchell

Edit: not sure, huntr.dev says "We accept vulnerability disclosures in most public repositories on GitHub."

"they put ads in the terminal" isn't really accurate.

Their "ubuntu-advantage-tools" adds information to one of their other products to the output of apt. You can easily get rid of that by uninstalling/replacing "ubuntu-advantage-tools". It's definitely not like they are selling ad space in your terminal to third parties.

Sure, but what about your chromium builds? (as mentioned in my post, replacing the firefox snap with a firefox deb is easy enough on Ubuntu, chromium is the more difficult one to deal with)

How is only having an LTS version vs. having a choice between using an LTS version or a non-LTS version not a downside?

but it's limited to Ubuntu LTS versions

Mint would be based on Ubuntu 22.04, but I'd like to have something more up-to-date. I believe all other .deb based distros have the same issue that they are not as up-to-date as Ubuntu 23.04?

I am using a single package from Mint, the rest is Ubuntu 23.04. Mint would otherwise be based on Ubuntu 22.04?

Not sure if they have only just added a clarification, but it now says

Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent.

I think it is Open Source now, see https://github.com/dlang/dmd

AFAIK the backend is based on the Zortech C/C++ backend and Walter Bright had to get permission from Symantec to relicence as Open Source.

XFS is 29 years old and certainly still in use as well.

They are seriously suffering from NIH (not invented here) syndrome. So, you can theoretically build your own Telegram client, but you can't re-use any standard components to do so. WhatsApp on the other hand doesn't open their clients, but under the hood they are just using mostly standard components (Noise protocol, modified XMPP protocol, Signal protocol), so it's not actually that difficult to build your own WhatsApp client by just piecing together these components.

In my case my main bank works exactly the same through the app than the browser mobile version

Main issue is that the two-factor authenticator app is usually only available for Android/iOS (some are still supporting SMS, but they are trying to phase that out)

WhatsApp

Their web app now actually works almost stand-alone. And as projects like yowsup have shown, it's also possible to create your own stand-alone WhatsApp client (it's only a matter of doing the work).

I am actually running Tizen on a Samsung A5 - bit of a shame that no one else seems to be interested in Tizen...

Ahh yes, but https://stalw.art/docs/configuration/general/ seems to suggest that it's both single binary and single process.

a single binary solution

but that means that it's not using any OS-level privilege separation?

I wonder if that could easily be fixed by just filtering the output of df to not show virtual disks (df already has an -l option to only show local disks, so would expect that changing df could be relatively easy).

Note: I am not saying that I like snaps...

lighttpd, just to be different

Anyone using groff? Seems like it just lives in its own little bubble?

They also used to have a MinimalCD, but that has been dropped after 20.04 IIRC.