App Icons are the identity of an app. Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand.
Here’s an novel solution to that: fuck off! A lot of us use Linux because we’re sick of corporations and rightsholders trying to control how we use our devices while treating us as marketing tools by shoving their “vision” in our face.
Curious what kind of real world use makes it a good choice?
It’s declarative. Everything is (usually) configured via Nix itself, without requiring manual steps of running additional commands. This ends up being pretty useful when you have a fleet of devices that you want to configure.
Changing config is atomic. If you end up breaking your system when trying to tweak it, you can boot into the previous generation and try again with different settings.
How would this impact F-Droid in any way?
F-Droid itself builds the APKs to ensure that they’re reproducible and not signed on a development machine that could be compromised.
https://f-droid.org/en/docs/FAQ_-_General/#is-your-building-and-signing-process-secure
With these changes, either:
They also aren’t learning skills that will help them when they are released
That’s by design. Teaching people skills to support themselves gives them an opportunity to break out of the cycle of recidivism. Teaching people skills that are useless for most employers but are profitable to the slavers ensures that they are left disadvantaged, where they’ll eventually end up back in prison for another round.
To the same end, having a culture where employers are legally permitted to background-check candidates for any old job makes it harder for reformed criminals to reintegrate into society.
When adding “tough on crime” politicians and their legislature to the mix, you can begin to see exactly what the goal is.
They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.
Even if they did, anyone desperate enough for the vague promise of money isn’t going to have enough of it to hire a lawyer.
I think most (all?) linux distros could learn a lot from ACTUALLY showing the error when the machine dies a horrible death
Linux recently DRM (Direct Rendering Manager, not copyright protection garbage) subsystem recently gained the ability to do something even better.
It can render a QR code containing debug information and kernel logs.
Oh, absolutely.
I would understand paying for online news as an alternative to ads, and only if the news organization does actual reporting free from political or billionaire interference.
Off the top of my head, I can think of exactly one news website that seems to meet that criteria at a surface level.
For everything else, fuck 'em— archive.is :)
when you do have big problems its still kind of annoying
Or small problems. Very annoying small problems. Like GTK 4 windows freezing when you try to close them.
Removed by mod
I think we all know the answer to this.
Look, we’re not asking for much. Just the tip.
“Paid sick leave? Yes, we do have paid sick leave. If you want to leave while being sick, you have to pay us back for every day you’re on leave. And no, we don’t offer health insurance.”
Are you saying you don’t use The Google anymore? But how do you find all of your baking recipes?
Who’s going to win?
SELinux+Seccomp+Containers…
Or the sysadmin with sudo and chmod.
Neither! It’s whichever script kiddie gets lucky first.
It’s the same for a lot of people. Beginners are still learning good practices for maintainable code, and they’re expected to get better over time.
The reason people are ragging on PirateSoftware/Jason/Thor isn’t because he’s bad at writing code. It’s because he’s bad at writing code, proclaiming to be an experienced game development veteran, and doubling down and making excuses whenever people point out where his code could be better.
Nobody would have cared if he admitted that he has some areas for improvement, but he seemingly has to flaunt his overstated qualifications and act like the be-all, end-all, know-it-all of video game development. I’m more invested in watching the drama unfold than I should be, but it’s hard not to appreciate the schadenfreude from watching arrogant influencers destroy their reputation.
you’d end up using modulus and move on quickly.
But where’s the fun in that?
There are so many better for obfuscation ways of checking for oddness!
(a & 1) > 0
a.toString()[a.toString().length()-1] - '1' == 0
iseven(a)?(1==0):(1!=0)
That code is so wrong. We’re talking about Jason “Thor” Hall here—that function should be returning 1 and 0, not booleans.
In the source code for his GameMaker game, he never uses true or false. It’s always comparing a number equal to 1.
It’s not like they needed all 11000 of them. Half of them died from being submerged in boiling dye… Surely, it would have been easier with half a magnitude smaller quantity.
I agree with them when they say distros shouldn’t be theming their apps by default. When the packager breaks a package, it misleadingly gives users the impression that the software is at fault. Unless the distro itself is willing to field all the user complaints and bug reports, it just ends up causing problems for the maintainers.
Where I will never agree with them is in the demand that the developer has exclusive control over the application icon. It’s inconsequential to the software’s functionality, and if anyone thinks their brand should have more rights to a computer than the person who owns it, they can rightfully fuck off with the likes of Apple and Microsoft.