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R0b0t1
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think it is more likely they shifted a power of two over implicitly by a base 10 place value instead of a binary one. Or multiplied by 10. Unsure why. But, seems simpler.

52 is notable as 2^4 + 2^3 = 24, 24 + 24 = 48, 48 + 2^2 = 52. But 57?
R0b0t1
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's a power of two shifted by a decimal place value instead of a binary one. Unsure why.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Err, have you asked them not to do that? About the only communication use for my smartwatch I've found is sending people voice snippets, because heaven knows you can't type on those screens. It's not too hard for the recipient to read them, and if you turn whatever you were going to type into your voice snippet there's no issue with length. (This genuinely seems useful for the people who get a cell-enabled smartwatch. Could exercise without anything in your pockets.)

Can also read text messages; can't see pictures very well, though they try. The speech to text is another option but less reliable than just sending your voice. It's gotten pretty good though.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's definitely against the license terms. You're supposed to distribute the code that generated the distributed binaries.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Jet fuel is carcinogenic and causes other problems, I didn't say this was just about lead.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/973128/ as an example.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The fuel itself is toxic to the environment and animals. The fuels can have really harsh things in them like benzene, iirc.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Those problems were solved for cars, they can be solved for planes. We shouldn't use it. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals was understood very early. Everything has a cost, spraying lead everywhere should be higher than what we are willing to pay.

I am guessing it's still allowed because people who fly planes can afford to lobby.

I was astounded to find TEL was still allowed in aviation fuels. Rates of cancers etc are higher near military bases due to fuel handling incidents.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don't need to demonstrate that. What I said was: Many people who are proponents of Wayland act like it solves all security problems you get while running X11. It doesn't.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> It is not sufficient but noone said so and it would be stupid to even assume that

Err, no, a bunch of people who bother talking about Wayland propose it as a solution to everything. Now that they are being called out on it they are walking back their positions.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Can be restricted when appropriate. Removing the ability to share resources and calling Wayland complete is what people are laughing at.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
That's fine, I know. But acting like Wayland is feature complete when it obviously isn't is pretty ridiculous. Instead of solving hard problems the Wayland maintainers are acting like you're stupid to want to have the features solving the hard problems enables.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
He's saying, literally,

> So my new approach is “fuck you”. None of the Wayland detractors have a clue.

Lumping everyone who may not have a rosy view of Wayland together.

There's a good comment by an (alleged) pentester mentioning how Wayland doesn't really buy you that much. He's right. The bigger issue is lack of isolation within a gid. I can still debug your terminal and try to get your root password.
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·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> I’m saying that because if you ever type in your password, e.g. into a screenlocker, into a terminal with sudo, or an apt-get gui, every application can listen to those input events.

And any program can (on a relatively default box) trace arbitrary programs under your gid and scan memory for passwords. The real issue here is that there are very weak process boundaries within a gid (because it is historically most convenient), not necessarily a lot wrong with X11.
R0b0t1
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Because then you end up with something like X11, which we already have.

The codebase could be re-engineered, sure, but a lot of people championing Wayland tend to see this duplication of effort as good for some reason, and at least last I engaged with them did not like the idea of a "new X11."

Personally I think something like that is an inevitability.