ozymandias117 @ ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

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ION was the only thing supported by hardware manufacturers for many of those years - I’d agree DMA-BUF is the better solution, but switching from ION to DMA-BUF has also broken lots of functionality

It’s good that we can finally use the same protocol from hardware to software

Security is really hard, and these operating systems are built with new features and release dates as the primary concerns

If you’re trying to follow proper security practices as of today, ensure the device is up to date and rebooted daily

Use the parental control features as one part of parenting, but don’t expect them to be infallible

I only know how to get around my employer’s device settings for iOS. I would have to have access to your phone to try to get around them

The issue I have with your comment is “a child isn’t going to find a way around it” I was much more motivated to find a way around settings my parents set on devices when I was a child, and I definitely shared how to do it with my friends

Maybe your settings are secure, but it’s not trivial for most parents

One of the ways I got around my parent’s settings after getting caught by simply resetting their password was by using alternate operating systems on livecds

Saying they literally can’t be bypassed is why I’m saying it’s naive to trust them implicitly

I think you’re being a little naive…

Circumventing parental controls that “couldn’t be circumvented” is what I did as a child that led to me being a computer programmer

The big selling point of snap was getting packages directly from the developer instead of through maintainers. It’s strange that it’s using the maintainer model without Valve’s support

Then the intrusion detection software ends up being the entry vector for a virus and the company doesn’t learn its lesson

It’s not super horrible, and they’re meeting the requirements for GPLv2

I’d rather a git repo with history that can be cloned with physical media as a backup option

If you’re looking for a real bad one, Qualcomm has been trying to claim that their devicetree, which is equivalent to ACPI, and 100% necessary to boot anything is somehow “proprietary”

BMW requires you to go the written notice path and they send you a DVD with the sources

I don’t know about the audio equipment side - it’s just funny to me from a computer operating system side that FireWire “lost” and now USB is implementing the “bad” things that caused us to pick USB over it

FireWire was ahead of its time. Thunderbolt is USB’s answer to FireWire

From how well they’ve done with their upstreams, like the kernel and Mesa, I expect they will happily accept patches from their downstream

Valve hires lots of developers to improve graphics drivers for all Linux users

SteamOS is currently on kernel 6.1, a lot of the changes they’ve made have gotten merged into upstream which is at 6.7

A few changes they’ve made for their specific hardware have ended up causing regressions for other hardware, so it still needs more code review and testing before everything is completely upstream

HoloISO appears to be a rebuild from source of SteamOS

“Holo” is the code name for the current SteamOS version

The other side is Facebook Messenger started out as federated XMPP until it got big enough, then it changed the backend it’s using to a proprietary one

SteamOS is already open source, and they’ve even offered to help other integrators put it on their handhelds

I tried to find a manual page for special permissions (s-perm) as well…

The vehicle is unsafe to drive until the update happens

Whether it’s easier for the user to verify themselves, or it’s easier to take it to the dealer isn’t really relevant

It’s not being used to discredit the technology - it’s how you tell consumers that the product is not safe without a modification

mpd is the best music player on any system

I’ve started using Cantata as a graphical front end, though

Tape will be around until something better for archival purposes comes around

It lasts significantly longer sitting on the shelf than HDD or SSD by far

I doubt it’s being used for anything other than backups and archiving though

It seems somewhat damning that Google’s own browser had a workaround for this, though