antimba

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by antimba 4y ago
Podman winning is good. Red Hat consistently does things right, for example their quay.io is open source, unlike Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry. The risks of not using rootless containers weren’t blown way out of proportion, becau
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by antimba 5y ago
In the end, it seems what happened is that christel sparked a huge misunderstanding between freenode staff and Andrew Lee by making misleading statements to both parties and lying to hide the fact that she had sold freenode to get herself o
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by antimba 5y ago
Nix doesn’t guarantee binary reproducibility. It does help with reproducing build inputs and the build process, as do the tools used to create Flatpak applications and runtimes—flatpak-builder and BuildStream. Nix can build packages in a sa
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by antimba 5y ago
> The only real problem is that the Gnome Software program lists these programs with a green "Sandboxed" badge when the app may have anywhere from full sandboxing, to literally no sandboxing. The current mockups[1] for a UI ref
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by antimba 5y ago
> Have a small main drive? You can store maybe three or four Flatpak'd apps. That’s not true. Even the smallest consumer hard drives are big enough to store as many apps as you will want to install. > Slow internet connection? Go
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by antimba 5y ago
> Even official image on Docker Hub receive almost zero security updates Are you talking about the Official Images program? Because if so, this is not true.
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by antimba 5y ago
> So now instead of simply backporting a patch to the distibution's openssl library, every single app maintainer of each app that uses it has to do this and provide an update. That’s false. OpenSSL is part of the runtime[1] and only
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by antimba 5y ago
There are several technical falsehoods on https://flatkill.org/2020/ . For example, this one: > Almost all popular apps on Flathub still come with filesystem=host or filesystem=home permissions TheEvilSkeleton coun
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by antimba 5y ago
> That would be tough because the developer would have to integrate with flatpak APIs, and I don't think flatpak is big enough for developers to care. For GTK apps, they don’t need to do anything different, as GtkFileChooserNative[1
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by antimba 5y ago
Major GUI frameworks agree with you and have already adopted this approach and it is already used by many applications, and this has already been the case for years.
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by antimba 6y ago
This might be easier to understand with some context. This is the GTK maintainer, who is about to release GTK 4 in a few weeks, and GTK 4 needs some unreleased fixes in Cairo. He requested a release earlier this year.[1] The last stable rel