Packages or dependencies with only one maintainer that are this popular have always been an issue, and not just a security one.
What happens when that person can't afford to or doesn't want to run the project anymore? What if they become malicious? What if they sell out? Etc.
It's not just that they demand more, they demand more/faster growth all the time. It doesn't matter that the economy has slowed down to borderline recession, it doesn't matter that they pretty much captured all the market they can, they still need to make more and more money every quarter otherwise they're considered a failure even if they are one of the biggest companies in the world.
One they Linus seems determined to ignore so that they can keep raking in big sponsorships and sales of their overpriced over hyped merch so they can buy ever bigger mansions.
I don't think it's that bad; Linus' heart seems to be in the right place but his ego and occasional lack of self-awareness does definitely hurt at least the image. But that's something the new CEO can actually fix, potentially.
As for the need to make money and churn out content, I kinda get the need; he probably feels immense pressure because in order to sustain 100+ people they do actually need to put out a shittin of content and can't really take a break.
With that being said issues like these should be a very strong signal that change needs to happen, and dismissing people's concerns and not being able to put his ego aside will hurt them a lot if this continues.
...or maybe they just don't want a busy looking logo.
You want an Xperia. No removable battery (there are almost no "normal" phones with removable batteries) and instead of a popup camera you get a regular front camera in a tiny bezel (so assuming you don't want a stupid hole/notch in the display that's what you want). But they are overall solid phones with excellent DACs and very clean Android. And it's still a mainstream, non-Chinese brand.
The only disadvantage is price, but they target a niche audience. If you can take a deal with headphones or such it's very much worth it.
This is cool but it'll be a nightmare to update.
Also, chances are that if you use Alpine the person using your image already has the base layer downloaded, so your image might actually be "bigger" for most people.
The fediverse really needs some kind of universal login and a way to easily migrate accounts between instances.
And they wouldn't watch Linus video on it going on the wrong gpu.
They absolutely would, it's literally the only video on it in huge part because Linus managed to give away the only prototype without permission, accidentally ensuring exclusivity.
And sure, they'd know he fucked up but it might still sway their opinion, maybe even unconsciously.
Oh and when you ask what Linus is going to do to prevent crap like this in the future (after already tripling down on their stupidity with the testing) is "nothing, it's a one in ten years occurrence".
The guy absolutely can't stop jamming his foot in his mouth.
As someone using Wayland on a HiDPI screen it's not a great experience with legacy apps. You can't completely rely on application-controlled scaling since not all apps support it and if you switch to system-wide scaling everything looks like crap.
The irony bring that Reddit itself doesn't ban piracy related stuff as long as you don't outright post links publicly... It's a shitty kind of platform to do that anyway.
I don't want to step on your workflow too much since it somehow seems to work for you but your main issue stems from the fact that you clearly don't work with your server as if it actually was a server.
You shouldn't really have a desktop interface running there in the first place (let alone as root and then using it as a regular user). You should ask yourself what it actually solves for you and be open to trying different (and more standard) solutions to what you're trying to achieve.
It'd probably consist of less clicking and using the CLI a bit more, but for stuff like file management you can still easily use mc.
If you need terminal sessions that keep scrollback and don't stop when you disconnect you should learn to use tmux or screen or something like that. But then again if you're running actual software in there then you should probably use a service (daemon) for that.
As for whether it's a security issue, yeah it most definitely is. Just like it's a security issue to run literally any networked application as root. Security isn't black and white and there are trade offs to be made but most people wouldn't consider what you're doing a reasonable tradeoff.
Or maybe Firefox should find a sustainable business model.
I love and use Firefox the software, but their nonprofit is questionable, their leadership is scummy, and their business plan is nonexistent. They could, for example, start by accepting donations towards the development of the actual browser, which is the core product of Mozilla.
Because there really isn't one, lol.
By the time an attacker has a write access to your boot permission everything else is kinda fucked already.
Well I (not OP) would love me some actual Mass Effect 4, for example. Not really excited for a sci-fi Bethesda RPG though.
"Removed by Reddit" implies admin action though.
If you have a large USB stick you can even install Ventoy and put multiple distros on it so you can try out several live distros one after another!
...especially when they don't bother to fix years (sometimes decades) old bugs.
Yeah, just like headphone jacks. Oh wait...
Well a review is also useless (or at least extremely disrespectful) if it comes from a place where it unfairly tests the product and shoes it in a bad light from the beginning by fucking up the process.
Like sure, the conclusion would likely be the exact same. But you still need to actually test that, and give the product the benefit of the doubt that it actually might be better than it seems and showing it that way.
There's still a difference between "this is a shit product and nobody should buy it" and "this works as advertised, is cool but nobody should buy it", since in the latter case someone will definitely still buy it for some reason even if it's impractical.
Prove to me, right now, that you're sentient. Or I won't talk to you.
We don't even know what sentience is, FFS.
Kinda is, sure. The problem is when you become overly reliant on the tech without it being reliable. It's also kinda bad when it causes you to lose skills that you need to maintain it or further it.
That's probably pretty negligible numbers. In fact I'd suspect that the number of people who buy a single copy that they then install on multiple devices is lower than the number of people who buy a game and never play it.
It's also much simpler to implement and the numbers are verifiable. Unless... that's exactly what Unity wants; just "trust me bro this is the correct number" kind of deal.
AGPL, to prevent streaming (while not sharing the code).
Yes, this would be possible (and not too hard technically either). But all instances would have to agree to link this instance as canonical.
You'd also want to add a feature where you can set you home instance where this canonical instance would redirect you (perhaps even automatically). Home Assistant does something like that.
What pisses me most about Lemmy is that each instance has its own post IDs which means that crosslinking and switching instances based purely on URLs is impossible.
IMO posts should have random GUIDs for IDs; that would help a ton with these kinds of issues. It'd then be trivial for Google to detect same content (if they wish) this way
...and, more importantly, none of the donations go towards Firefox development. Instead they go towards "causes" that Mozilla Foundation finds worthy, and usually they have nothing to do with the open web.
There's literally a wikipedia page for it.
Which, I'm sure, would be impossible to fake in order to hurt developers.
...and there is no way to do that, currently.
When you comment you make a conscious decision to put your opinion out there and sign it with your "name" (or alternatively you switch to a "burner" account and do it pseudonymously).
But when you vote for stuff it's often without much thinking, and it's private on pretty much every other platform. Where it isn't it's usually blatantly obvious that that is the case.
What difference does it make that votes can be viewed, other than for transparency during discussion?
There are many reasons that have been stated time and time again; one is simply that people may wish to stay anonymous when supporting certain opinions.
To me it feels like comments are what you can actually stand behind publicly, while votes also show what you think privately. And not everyone is willing to stand behind all of their opinions publicly, often for fear of backlash or harassment.
Even a full 180 isn't enough unless they commit to not changing fees for years or something. The trust has already been broken, and they show that changing fees however they see fit isn't beyond them. That's terrible for anyone considering Unity as their game engine of choice because it could completely fuck up your business plan half way through.
Anyone knows why Mastodon is so disk space hungry? Seems kinda stupid.
I think their point is that that's precisely why you can never allow anything just because "think of the kids". It's always a misdirection.
That's not something that'd likely scale enough to bring any meaningful sum of money.
Even then it targets a tiny, tiny minority of their even current userbase, let alone if they want to approach more "average" users.
Some of my most favorite games were fairly short experiences.
In fact I value when a game doesn't waste my time and is 100% fun, great content without fillers and stuff to just give you FOMO that ends up being boring and underwhelming when you actually try to do it. Even worse when you can't tell what is and isn't the filler.
Like, I've bought Outer Wilds for maybe 20€ or so and it is probably my favorite game of all time. I wouldn't have bought it for 60€ (and it's especially a hard sell because you can't really entice anyone to play it without spoiling some part of the game to them which really sucks; like, I'd argue even the Steam description already spoils some of the magic). But it would be 100% worth it even if I 100% the game after maybe 10 hours (and there is no way to replay it, unfortunately).
Similarly, I've gotten A Short Hike for free with a Humble Bundle subscription (and not like free to own as part of the monthly bundle but just free in their "trove") and I also completely loved it - was maybe 5 hours.
Meanwhile I played, say, Cyberpunk 2077 for free, finished it, and I am still kinda disappointed? Like there was good stuff in the game but I'm really glad I didn't pay for it - it's enough that I paid by putting the time in it. It left me with a feeling of wasted potential and like "surely there has to be something more" and then I finished the game and there wasn't more. It's so hard to explain... Like yeah, I enjoyed many hours of it, I think. But in the end it doesn't feel good overall.
So yeah, these are the extremes, but I really don't think you can put value on a game like that. Games by their very nature vary a lot and length isn't (or shouldn't) really be the main criteria. And enjoyment varies a lot as well. It can be so good that a few hours of it is enough, and it can be so mild that it's not really worth playing. Oh and that also completely ignores the fact that some games are made to be played for hundreds of hours by design (Factorio, Rimworld), while purely story games can hardly be stretched for dozens of hours and still be fun/interesting. And games with balanced narrative and gameplay can reach a few dozen hours but even for the larger ones going 50-100 hours is usually a stretch.
If you ask a user to show you a "core dump" they're more likely to shit on their floor and send you a photo than do what you actually mean.
Telemetry is absolutely crucial in determining what to focus on in development, to fix issues the users might not even realize exist. Especially for projects that aim at the general public. As long as it's communicated clearly, used truly only for development purposes and an opt-out is available there's nothing wrong about it.
The same thing that happens when you have electric or gas heating. It stops working, because none of those work without electricity nowadays. Hell if you have a coal/wood burner for central heating chances are it doesn't work without electricity either.
Firefox has a profile manager (the thing that's also exposed to about:profiles). Run it like firefox -profilemanager and you'll get a profile switcher.
Run firefox -profilemanager -no-remote if you want to open multiple different profiles at once (only the original one without "no-remote" will open new tabs when you click on links outside the browser). You'll probably want to make a shortcut for different profiles though, not sure from memory what it is (but probably -profile ProfileName) and then you can easily use profiles.
The support is actually pretty decent, just kinda hidden. You don't get a profile switcher because the browsers are completely separate, they don't really know about each other.
I mean if you train a model on porn with adult actors and on regular photos with children, it shouldn't be hard to generate the combination.
You probably wouldn't even need any fancy training data but if you really wanted you could pick adult actors that look young or in other ways similar to the children to help the process.
They won't even have to force them this time, they'll do it voluntarily because it would mean they can serve unblockable ads, track users much better, and for banks it would actually increase security for the user (but also force you to consume their content how they want, preventing stuff like accessibility extensions).
What if it's your bank's website? Or email provider? Or literally anything else you actually have to choose and can't pick? "It's okay because I don't think it affects me / I can ignore it" is always a bad reason to allow a bad thing happen.