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kebolioon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

firmware is specific to chipset and are binary blobs supplied by the manufacturer. ath9k-supported and generally realtek cards don't need firmware; theo de raadt noticed the culture difference between american vendors like intel and broadcom who leave the functionality to the firmware so they can be first to market, and chinese vendors like realtek who take their time to best fit customer needs

kebolioon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

has nothing to do with apparmor.

kebolioon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

HEADLINE: easier, simpler package creation and building

DESCRIPTION: on distros like arch, to a lesser extent void and even gentoo, writing package definition files (PKGBUILDs, ebuilds, templates) is relatively straightforward; in contrast, i don't even know where to start with finding, editing and building debian packages. i think they're built from source packages but beyond that i have no clue. i think visibility of documentation could help here, if not more radical changes to be more similar to the arch/gentoo workflow.

kebolioon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

firmware support involves supplying the binary blobs that the driver needs to upload to certain peripherals like intel wireless cards.

personally i would like to see non-free software kept out of the main disc images but the images including firmware being more visibly advertised and it made clear on the download pages what hardware requires it and who needs it.

kebolioon WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps

Slightly disconcerted that the first thing webdevs are rushing to do with wasm is to port massive language runtimes to it, continuing the web tradition of piling shit upon shit upon shit. Personally believe that this is totally the wrong idea; compilation or transpilation from intermediate forms is far more interesting and sensible in my view

kebolioon HardenedLinux: The way to the Ark

You can sell GPL software under all the terms of the GPL, but the users can redistribute it under freedom 0, 2 and 3. You can mitigate this by being a single source of development and offering support.

kebolioon Ask HN: Would you be interested in a “cyberpunk” inspired news site?

hmm the .jp international clique really does spread far and wide...

kebolioon Award-Winning Nautilus Enters Rough Waters

What's the difference? Capitalism is always going to end up with consolidation, monopolisation and anti-user practices.

kebolioon Award-Winning Nautilus Enters Rough Waters

Yes, it is to do with "capitalism" and the product of a society geared towards making money instead of making cool stuff. It isn't immutable, there are better ways of doing things, but then again that's beyond the scope of the argument. :^)

kebolioon Award-Winning Nautilus Enters Rough Waters

Capitalism is why we can't have nice things in the first place. Capitalism precludes news media from reporting fairly and accurately rather than pander to their advertisers. Another example: want cheap fast internet? Too expensive to run fibre even though these corporations are making profits that run into billions and none of the US giants will have this so-called "common carrier" policy.

kebolioon UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU

Don't get where people get the idea that Wales are agitating for leaving the Union. Wales is more legally entrenched than any other of the constituent countries of the UK and also majority voted to leave the EU.

kebolioon LLVM 4.0.0

LLVM is a compiler toolkit, used by, for example, Clang for C/C++/Objective-C, Rust, and various libraries like Mesa.

kebolioon Firefox 52 released

> for no reason

What's the reason that they should accommodate you and write you a dockerfile?

kebolioon What makes WebAssembly fast?

At least in Rust's case, RAII/lifetimes provide mostly the same development experience without GC overhead.

kebolioon Do we really need swap on modern systems?

I've found you definitely need swap if you don't have 8GB of memory. I personally have nowhere near the amount of patience required to wait for the OOM killer.

kebolioon Curated list of Clojure-like programming languages

You mean Lisps?

kebolioon Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X

I just wondered seeing as it had been flagged dead within an hour I believe.

I believe however that this is one of the fundamental flaws of Reddit-style websites. On an imageboard you are obliged to make your disagreement in words, constructive or otherwise. Here, you can passive aggressively click the downvote button and leave the post in limbo.

kebolioon Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X

Reason for downvoting?

kebolioon JavaScript Start-up Performance

Would have like to have seen Firefox's particular handling of this, but it seems like the author's definition of "browsers" (plural) == Chromium.

kebolioon Git-scm.com status report

Pretty sure PuTTY is a one man job and the page is just a personal one hosted on chiark.greenend.org.uk, which seems to be just a server run by his mate

kebolioon What’s up with Firefox?

Something ruffled your feathers. Why do you want Firefox to be abandoned rather than improve it's security? For my and most other's mundane browsing needs Firefox _is_ secure enough. Mozilla is the only browser vendor actually innovating with Rust, Servo/Quantum and WebRender as examples, the first two give me hope that Mozilla really can tighten the ship and make a more secure browser than Chromium would be.

kebolioon What’s up with Firefox?

>thanks in large part to code from Chromium

This is false and misleading. The only bits Firefox plans to nick from Chromium are things like the C++ PDF reader which is a regression compared to pdf.js running in a nominally memory-safe runtime. The browser itself doesn't use code lifted from Chromium.

kebolioon How to Deal with Populism

Don't like this pejorative use of the word populism. Populism is getting people to vote for you for what they want, telling them they need to do what you want is the polar opposite of what needs to be done to fight the far right.

kebolioon Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps

Many I know who have recently started using these free VPNs only do so to skirt content filtering on free wireless networks. They do not have any expectation of security or privacy and are not conscious of the possibility of their traffic being collected or inspected by a rogue third party.

kebolioon Tox Handshake Vulnerable to KCI

I would say try not to be prejudiced. Making good software and posting on imageboards aren't mutually exclusive.

kebolioon Tox Handshake Vulnerable to KCI

I'm not part of the Tox/Toktok project.

kebolioon Goodbye to GNU Libreboot

Libreboot also disables Intel ME and other such unwanted gubbins, which Coreboot doesn't do (or doesn't expose a means to configure it to do so).

kebolioon Tor at the Heart: Firefox

"uplift" in this context seemed to mean to me that they were not upstreaming the patches verbatim but neutering them for Firefox.

kebolioon Rust is mostly safety

Over the last year of intermittently dossing around with Rust I encountered the need to use nightly regularly, with various crates refusing to compile (and usually I stopped my experimentation there as my barrier to entry was anything harder than pacman -S rust cargo). Yet I did not know until just now that Serde is moving off a dependency on nightly and it is encouraging that this is a trend with similar libraries; I stand corrected.