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[ssokolow]

I'm also curious about that, given that it would seem more fitting to have the free-to-the-firmware machines running the browser developed by a public-interest...

[ssokolow]

Thanks. I'll definitely want that for things like Inkscape which I probably won't be able to find suitable Qt replacements for... I just hope they aren't...

[ssokolow]

I said "KDE, GNOME, etc." Last I tried them, all of the standards I listed were being followed by KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, and various standalone...

[ssokolow]

It was originally known as the X Desktop Group (XDG) and is a collaboration between KDE, GNOME, etc. that's responsible for unifying various formerly...

[ssokolow]

Yeah. With the advent of KF5, KDE is probably more modular than GNOME... and I rarely see anyone complaining about how various applications require one...

[ssokolow]

I haven't read the details, but I'm guessing that it's the difference between printf/scanf and iostream. The former is a C API with C idioms, while the...

[ssokolow]

IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_NATIVE doesn't prevent you from writing a desktop application. It just opts out of automatic handling of certain boilerplate that 99%...

[ssokolow]

oiaohm is saying that, by setting the Subsystem field in the Optional Header of the PE file format to IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_NATIVE, you can opt out of having...

[ssokolow]

The problem with license proliferation is that companies are very careful about what risks they are willing to take, so they'll only use something once...

[ssokolow]

Sorry I took so long to reply. Got distracted by having to have some wisdom teeth out.

That does solve the problem of rights for the backing...

[ssokolow]

Looks like either a smear or propaganda to me.

Here are some reasons that I'm not very impressed by that page:

• The overall feel of the

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[ssokolow]

True, but that's to be expected. Flatpak has been taking a very measured approach to things:

First, stabilize the spec and core stuff, so...

[ssokolow]

Not to mention that I trust the Debian maintainers to vet my updates for "tentacles of evil" attacks (term taken from the Debian Free Software...

[ssokolow]

While it's not to my taste, that kind of thing is hard enough to do by accident these days that it's almost certainly intended to be artistic.
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[ssokolow]

Rust code in general, or the code written for Kazan?...

[ssokolow]

If that were the case, then we really would have a totalitarian politically correct state.

There's nothing illegal in either the U.S. (Phoronix's...

[ssokolow]

That joke worked pretty well. I don't really think it needed a response....

[ssokolow]

Actually, for all that I want to keep master/slave for the sake of familiarity (I've been working with PCs since the early DOS days), communicative clarity...

[ssokolow]

The point was that bad design caused far more slow-down than the presence of context switches.

(eg. If you have a program that's slow because...

[ssokolow]

It's likely that "sys-apps/dbus" is needed because it contains multiple components, not all of which dbus-broker reimplements. (eg. both a daemon...