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jbichaon Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparently)

Debian and Arch are exceptions. I believe maintainers of every other mainstream distro are exploring immutable distros or at least shipping confined apps.

jbichaon Ubuntu Plans to Ditch Its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

That is no longer the case with the new default Desktop subiquity installer in 23.04. Instead of a single squashfs, there are separate squashfs files so the minimal install is faster than default in 23.04.

jbichaon Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmission to the FSF board

Debian knows how to do secret voting. In fact, Debian's latest election of their Project Leader which also ended last night was secret.

It looks like it would need a General Resolution to allow secret voting for future General Resolutions.

jbichaon Flatpak – a security nightmare

It is far more likely that the website was created by an individual, probably by the guy who submitted the site to Reddit's Linux forum.

jbichaon Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

There will be an update for that soon. (Ubuntu non-security updates are normally in -proposed for at least 7 days first.)

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/3.26.1-0ubu...

jbichaon Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

Make sure that gir1.2-gdm-1.0 is installed. I think the dependency was accidentally dropped.

jbichaon Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

Mir is still used for some of Canonical's IoT products. Since Canonical has paying customers, it's worthwhile to continue maintaining it.

jbichaon Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

It depends on the app whether screenshots work. Some apps use the GNOME screenshot API and are fine; other apps assume X.

jbichaon Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

Have you tried again after upgrading to gnome-shell 3.26 (it's only been in Debian unstable for one week)?

jbichaon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

Ubuntu 17.10 Alpha already has an early snapshot of gtk4. Debian will get it later this year.

jbichaon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?

That package is installed by default in Debian 9 (but it was added fairly late in Stretch's development cycle).

jbichaon A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab

GNOME isn't really part of GNU these days.

jbichaon Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks

So I can blame Farmville for Firefox not being 64-bit by default on Windows? :)

jbichaon Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Why can't Ubuntu ship some extensions by default? After all, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships GNOME Classic which is GNOME Shell with some extensions and a tweaked theme.

jbichaon Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Windows 10 will have it next week in the Creators Update. Android has it in 7 "Nougat" but most Android users don't have that version yet. It seems to me like GNOME was right on time.

jbichaon Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

There is nothing to strip out. The GNOME Software app (an app store) has an optional Flatpak plugin but except for that, nothing in GNOME depends on Flatpak.

jbichaon Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna

No, it works fine here.

The site is non-https which allows for an internet provider to manipulate the page too. :(

jbichaon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1649537

jbichaon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

> Multitouch trackpad gestures

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/734416

jbichaon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

> not installed by default

They are installed if you click the box during install to "Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, MP3 and other media"

jbichaon New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approval this year

[citation needed] (for your claim that the prototype male "pill" is 100x as bad as the existing female pill)

The side effects of female hormonal birth control are really bad for plenty of women.

jbichaon Firefox 52 released

It's not the user's responsibility to update their browser. The updates happen automatically unless a user intentionally disables it.

jbichaon Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads

But will they penalize mobile apps with intrusive pop-up ads?

jbichaon Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)

It's appropriate to call this at least GNU/Linux, right?

jbichaon Elementary OS

because almost everyone has JavaScript enabled because websites are broken with it disabled…

jbichaon Japan has a worrying number of virgins, government finds

Yes, that's what's taught in US schools, but there's significant controversy among historians over whether the Japanese may have been about to surrender in the late summer of 1945 anyway.

It's mentioned in the (rather "left") book and Showtime series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone%27s_Untold_Histor...

I don't think it's a stretch at all to believe that the US did not need to drop the second bomb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

jbichaon The basic neurobiology behind the 12-dot illusion

Your brain can also adjust to your eyes seeing everything upside down.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable...

jbichaon FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in Society

> If you stumble onto CP accidentally and either report it to the police (only) or delete it and show no one, you're fine.

Please do not assume you'll be fine if you self-report to the police.

jbichaon FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)

Although given the breadth of their fishing, I guess trawling (using a net) is more accurate than trolling (using a line).

jbichaon Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice

Are you using a distro from 2010? Because I believe most of the major Linux distros include LIbreOffice as part of the default install.