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[–] entwine@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Afaik it works perfectly. Podman can use Docker hub with zero issues, and is sometimes configured as the default repo for fetching images without a qualified name. Conversely, I think Docker works perfectly with the Podman ecosystem repos too (like quay.io)

[–] entwine@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The way quadlets work is just such a struggle, if you have been using compose for years

Learning new things is hard, sure, but quadlets are not that complex. Take a few hours to sit down and read through the manual or a tutorial, and you'll find they're easier to maintain, write, and deploy.

Hot take: Docker compose is poorly designed, and very little thought went into the deployment side. It only 'won' because it was there first, and bad habits are tough to break.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

You didn't get my point. AWS is incentivized to offer the best product they can sell to their customers, regardless of license. If the Rust core utils reach feature parity with GNU core utils, then Rust's memory safety makes it the superior product (at least on security) and an easy sell to customers.

That is the point at which the license choice matters for what I said: when it's widely adopted by AWS customers. If it isn't GPL, then AWS is free to do what I described, and incentivized to do so.

Sure, if AWS customers widely adopted the BSD tools for whatever reason, then it'd be the same situation. I just don't see any particular reason for that to happen.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think a Linux anti virus program would be such a big security win. Phishing is the biggest security threat to most users, and no amount of software can prevent that.

Sure, downloading and running random shit is a concern, but people in that group are a bit of a lost cause. The best solution for that is to harden the OS, prevent running executables through the GUI, or from user folders (I think SELinux could do that), disable sudo on the user account, and only allow installing Flatpaks. The security of Flathub may not be perfect, but it's a smaller attack surface than the whole internet.

But even if you do that, an Indian call center scam is still going to manipulate your grandma into buying Amazon gift cards, so... It's a lost cause.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A rust rewrite of these tools has a lot of potential commercial value, and I can totally see a cloud provider like AWS putting this into some "hardened cloud AI distro" or whatever. They'll be able to do exactly what they did to Elastic Search, or do the EEE thing and add bugfixes/features that they don't contribute back in order to make their offering more competitive, make minor changes to the CLI as a lock-in strategy, etc.

Not licensing this as GPL will inevitably lead to the erosion of freedoms for everyone.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 99 points 2 months ago (25 children)

I installed Opera and used it exclusively.

Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is actually kind of interesting. This gamble is very likely to fail, EA could finally die, and its valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them.

The only wrinkle in this is that Trump's son in law owns EA now, so if it does end up failing, they'll probably find a way to get US tax payers to bail them out.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

This is stupid fear mongering, and the same shit we saw with Google Glass back in the day. Recording people without their consent is easier to do with your phone, and the video will be higher quality. If anything, what makes these glasses seem scarier from a privacy POV is that they're harder to be discrete with than a phone because they're on your face (regardless of the LED)... Which ironically makes them more privacy friendly.

Don't get me wrong, nobody should buy this crap, and it is not privacy friendly at all. Every single sensor/camera on that shit will be uploading data straight into Mark Zuckerberg's veins 24/7. You are stupid if you buy one, simple as that.

But this type of fear mongering is also stupid, and nothing more than click bait. If you want to raise the privacy alarm, focus on the important part: Meta.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'm a simple man with simple tastes. Saltine crackers with mayo are a comfort food for me.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure that's all tongue-in-cheek. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is a good default setting.

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