sourcefrog

8 ms·

1.
by sourcefrog 3y ago
Yes, there seem to be really valid security concerns about the current extension interface. Perhaps Google is making the wrong tradeoffs here. I don't know, it's very complicated, but the article is not really engaging with those
2.
by sourcefrog 3y ago
Hi Rusty! For a later hack in the same vein, check out https://github.com/sourcefrog/cargo-mutants
3.
by sourcefrog 3y ago
This was the original approach, although later work added an optional "pump mode" in which headers are distributed: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/distcc-pump...
4.
by sourcefrog 3y ago
They will work over the internet. You should use SSH or a VPN like Tailscale because the native protocol is not encrypted. Bandwidth and latency effects will have some effect on how well it will scale, but on a reasonably high latency and l
5.
by sourcefrog 3y ago
Yes, that's correct: reusing developer's computers means you're trusting all of them. At small scale, that may be acceptable because you probably trust them all a lot anyhow, and perhaps are unlikely to have a strictly hermet
6.
by sourcefrog 3y ago
Hi, distcc's original author here. It's really nice that people are still enjoying and using it 20 years later. I have a new project that is in a somewhat similar space of wrapping compilers: https://github.com/sou
7.
by sourcefrog 14y ago
There are 1780 comments on the bug. And as http://pad.lv/1000000 observes, "For every bug on Launchpad, 67 iPads are sold."
8.
by sourcefrog 14y ago
Yes, this: the "will" of the title is unjustified. "Someone would like to have a terminal on the Ubuntu phone" would be more accurate. There are plenty of "official" blueprints that never made it into the product.
9.
by sourcefrog 15y ago
> Ability to link to documents, bookmark, meaningfully use history and save pages to the disk for offline use. Ability of the users to customize standard behaviors without reverse-engineering your JavaScript code. Transparency, which of
10.
by sourcefrog 16y ago
The problem with "what do you know" questions is not (or so much) that they may reject people who know stuff but recall it differently, but that they aren't selective for having the ability to stick with something for an extended time. Avo