jw13

joined 1 year ago
[–] jw13@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

I use KeePassium on iOS, it uses the same file format so it works very well together with KeePassXC.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

I regularly use an 11” laptop and I appreciate how much screen space GNOME allows for my applications. The interface is very keyboard-friendly as well, so launching apps is just one keypress away.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is so cool! I love the theme.

You have good taste in DOS games as well. Is the “CAT” folder the 1984 game “Alley Cat”?

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure it wasn’t Xandros OS?

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You can use spaces in the title. This isn’t reddit.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Large batteries are a must-have to get anywhere near a comfortable range.

I wonder if larger battery packs fit in small cars. And it would also push the price beyond the level that people expect to pay for smaller cars.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Auto-type not working.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, that one is annoying.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

The probability of abuse is much higher with closed-source applications though. Almost all popular games are closed-source, and many are riddled with ads and spyware.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a valid concern IMO. Any application on X11 can install a key logger, record your screen, and influence other applications in a myriad of ways. With open source software from a trusted repository, this is not an issue, but an increasing number of people run random binary blobs from Steam, the Snap Store and Flathub. I am 100% certain that some less-conscientious publishers are already using X11 features to build ad profiles of their users; it's a matter of time before the first ransomware will appear. The only sensible way to prevent this, is to confine applications to their own space.

But ok, more security isn't a bad thing. But why not make it an option, like SELinux for example? That way users can choose a degree on a scale between security and convenience that suits their use case and circumstances. Why make it all or nothing?

Wayland simply doesn't have protocols for most of this stuff. (Applications are supposed to use D-Bus and portals.) Developing new protocols that offer X11-like functionality is a large investment and will also need changes in the toolkits and apps to make it work.

[–] jw13@beehaw.org 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That is a serious problem, but advocating X11 will not solve anything. Wayland is being improved every day, while X.org is in deep maintenance mode.

And let's not pretend that X.org is perfect. Race conditions at least can be fixed, even if it takes a lot of time and effort. Worst case, someone will rewrite wlroots in Rust. But in X11 any application can kill other applications, install a key logger, pin itself to the foreground, etcetera. This is by design: it's what makes window managers, xkill and xeyes work. It's also a huge security flaw that can never be fixed.

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