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c487bd62on GTK 3.99

And they are free to continue adding features and maintaining their preferred software choices. Nobody else seems to want to do it. IIRC the X11 maintainers are the same people who started Wayland.

> https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...

> Once we are done with this we expect X.org to go into hard maintenance mode fairly quickly. The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time. We will keep an eye on it as we will want to ensure X.org stays supportable until the end of the RHEL8 lifecycle at a minimum, but let this be a friendly notice for everyone who rely the work we do maintaining the Linux graphics stack, get onto Wayland, that is where the future is.

But we were talking about Wayland here. You're free of course to fantasize about hypothetical scenarios or propose features to software nobody wants to maintain.

c487bd62on GTK 3.99

Why don't you propose a protocol to solve the issues you have? If it solves a problem other users have it would get adopted I'm sure (except maybe GNOME).

I'm not a Wayland developer but it's what I observed in the issue tracker of my WM. A limitation is often overcome by a protocol and a basic implementation after. If you put the work in, the wlroots and KDE people are always very nice and will help you get started.

https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/ma...

https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/tree/master/unstable

c487bd62on Typed Properties in PHP 7.4

Is most of the PHP ecosystem moving to static typing? Libraries, ORM, etc. When you're dealing with database objects, is everything a string?

c487bd62on Vue RFC: Expose logic-related component options via function-based APIs instead

I guess that's my cue to leave front-end programming forever, and my current job (I'm not joking). I've been through too many cycles and it will never end. There's no way I'm staying for whatever crazy migration my company is going to go through again. And we have apps written in every single JS framework ever conceived. Time to learn COBOL.

c487bd62on Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back control using open software

And when they raise the price to 20x or start doing something shady you can just move everything to a cheaper and more ethical competitor. Except that you can't.

c487bd62on Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation

>The only real solution is to have educated users that care about their privacy and security.

I don't believe that will ever be possible. Winning with technology seems like the only way to do it. Google wants even IMAP.

c487bd62on Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation

Very interesting. I wonder if there's a killer feature that would appear when you follow that line of thought. So even if adoption looks like 60~70% users and 30~40% enterprise, if you're indispensable to either of them, it would still prevent a take over because of the network effect. And the fact that you have an API that developers can trust would solidify the position even more. If that feature ever surfaces I hope it doesn't involve blockchain or machine learning.

c487bd62on Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation

Honest question. What's stopping Matrix from being adopted by, say, Google or Facebook, and then pulling a XMPPEEE? Imagine Matrix gets really popular, more even than Discord. So they offer their own "version" but add features like free 250GB on Google Drive or things like that. After they get everybody on board they do what they do best and cease control of it.

c487bd62on JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google

This is coming right after the reCAPTCHA v3 announcement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331159

Sorry, you don't have enough Google Points to browse the web. Please enable JavaScript and install Google Chrome.

c487bd62on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Maybe things are moving in another direction

https://www.pcgamer.com/vacnet-csgo/

https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/67364/microsoft-is-tryin...

c487bd62on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

No, it was just a mistake. Blizzard said in their own official forums that Linux (or Mac) users will not be banned for using Wine or Proton.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/can-we-get-ban...

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9g111m/blizza...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Blizzard...

> UPDATE - 14 Sep 08:03: Blizzard is investigating and they will be looking to overturn the bans if this is indeed the case. There appears to be at least five reports of bans so far and does indeed seem that the most likely explanation is a false-positive from Blizzard's anti-cheat technology having issue with DXVK.

c487bd62on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail...

Q: Any plans for macOS support?

While Wine and Proton work on macOS, there are no plans to support the new Steam Play functionality on macOS at the moment.

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https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/28/why-macos-mojave-...

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

c487bd62on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail...

c487bd62on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Around 85% of native D3D11 performance in most games. Certain Vulkan games can outperform their native Windows version (running under Wine/Proton).

c487bd62on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Maybe this could work for you? https://github.com/corbindavenport/creative-cloud-linux

I suggest making your own script instead of using PoL (abandoned, check Phoenicis).

c487bd62on Proton and Mozilla Partner for Privacy

So what you're saying is that money from a paid service going to Mozilla's pocket could be a new potential revenue stream? I can't believe nobody noticed that.

c487bd62on Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity

https://www.youtube.com/user/arcanfrontend

c487bd62on Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

I don't think Firefox ever touches your user.js, I've never seen that happen or anyone complaining about it. And then it overrides prefs.js generated settings. The only time I encountered problems was with a big update failing to replace a couple of prefs.js entries, and it was some really obscure settings.

c487bd62on Google app suite costs as much as $40 per phone under new EU Android deal

Don't get me wrong, I think MicroG is a great project and could work for many people. I already have to maintain a lot of Linux related stuff and I really don't want to worry about my phone too. The apps or workflow changes completely when you get rid of Google. I need to be able to trust that making the switch will be permanent, these things add up quickly (time). Death by a thousand cuts.

But if my phone fails it can put my job or even my life in risk. I can't affort to play cat and mouse with Google or the edge cases from and between MicroG and custom ROMs. I took a quick look at their issue tracker and it looks like these things still happen occasionally. As expected because no code will be good enough to fight malice in a platform you don't own.

c487bd62on Google app suite costs as much as $40 per phone under new EU Android deal

Google already locked down Android pretty badly. Many important apps require the Play Store and all that Google stuff to be installed or to be fully functional (e.g notifications). MicroG is not enough for my needs and they introduce new things like SafetyNet to make things even worse. To me that's WAY more important than Google being installed by default or not. They can't lose until you fix this.

c487bd62on Tracking Users Across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

And many settings are documented in this project https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/blob/master/user.js#L10...

c487bd62on Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released

> Snap was here before flatpack

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9oddtb/flatpaks_sand...

c487bd62on VSCode silently opts you in to data collection

> Stop using sha256(MAC address) for telemetry machine ID #8688

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8688

c487bd62on Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefox's tracking protection

I couldn't agree more. Everybody complains that monetizing content is really hard on the web, and then they try to triple dip the same user (subscription, ads, data).

c487bd62on Flatpak – a security nightmare

I'm not a flatpaker but maybe it was updating the runtimes? http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html

Honestly I would be more worried about running mint (a topic not suited for this thread, a quick search would probably show you what I've read about it in the past).

c487bd62on Microsoft is embracing Android as the mobile version of Windows

> because we’re stuck in 2003

It's called learning a lesson (repeatedly). Don't trust Google. And don't trust Microsoft, now or in 2003. Don't trust companies, period. Always have an exit plan and try not to get locked inside their boxes if possible. These companies exist to make money, so power and control is what they want. That doesn't mean we can't appreciate good products or initiatives, just keep in mind that the boot and the giving hand belong to the same entity.

c487bd62on Why I’m Worried About Google

What domain registrar was that?

c487bd62on Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

Awesome!

I hope you don't mind me ranting a bit about custom domains

> Custom Domain Protection for Cloudflare Registrar, available on the Enterprise Plan, protects your organization from domain hijacking with exclusively out-of-band verification of any changes to your Registrar account.

This is what keeps me locked into Google and other services. I just can't trust my custom domain, if I'm targeted by any semi competent attacker it WILL be hijacked. That you're offering this service only makes my suspicions stronger. I want to use your services but that's a showstopper. It's not your fault, of course, all registrars face the same issues. You need so many different factors to make the process secure it's not even funny, and you said it yourself: "That, obviously, doesn't scale".

A few years ago one of my customers domain was stolen by contacting the registrar support (one of the big ones, always recommended around here). They even had a scan of his passport. With so many data leaks, even from your own government, how do you even protect against these kind of things? His life for the next few months were living hell.

c487bd62on Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

I can only get "Stage lines" for files I previously commited.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but if I add a new file the only options are Delete or Stage. Or maybe it isn't implemented yet.

c487bd62on An open governance model for the AMP Project

Will you be able to use AMP without ever touching Google servers/services? So it actually works like said subset of HTML to clean up the mess we're in. You have to force those things directly in the core, you can already make pages fast with current tech, that's probably why they also talk about ads in the spec. At least for non-SPAs (I wouldn't complain about another layer for SPAs that cleans up the rest of the web). You can't even open most of the official AMP project pages and docs with JS disabled, that's often a red flag.

I'm not really an expert on AMP, but would only support it if they actually made things better without pushing for their own services or pull things like AMP for Gmail, variations of EEE.