trevor (he/they)

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, which is different from a social democrat, as you labeled him. Yes, many of his proposed policies are steps toward social democracy, rather than actual socialism, but I can’t expect one mayor, even in one of the largest cities, to somehow enact real socialism.

That distinction aside: all we can do is apply pressure and hope that Mamdani doesn’t meaningfully sell-out the working class in NYC.

You’re a different kind of VM enjoyer than me, and that’s okay 😎 I’m glad GNOME Boxes and virt-manager are getting the job done for you. I’m okay with the latter, but I think it needs some love, which is why I’m eager to see alternative frontend options.

Docker works. Podman requires a ton of workarounds and wastes my time. I hope it gets good one day, but I’m not reverting to using systemd to manage containers.

This isn’t just VirtualBox. It’s VirtualBox with a KVM back end. So you get the performance of KVM, but with a much better GUI than virt-manager.

Well, MIT projects can be forked into a new GPLv3 project, right? If Canonical cared, they could have done that to assuage this concern.

I think it’s a valid concern. Pushover licenses are bad. But even if a GPL Rust coreutils project exists (I actually have one, but I don’t have the same goals), it seems unlikely that Canonical would be bothered to pivot to it.

Ah, to live in a world without JavaScript and weird, Nazi crypto dipshits 🥰

The Linux app is just the desktop app, which doesn’t have the functionality that the Android and iOS apps do. It only works when paired with an Android or iOS device, so you’d still be shackled to those ecosystems without proper support for a mobile Linux app.

Canonical does a lot of bad shit, but switching to uutils is not one of them. The “challenges” are expected because it’s going in a non-LTS release, which is basically meant to be a beta of the next LTS. And those challenges are being quickly addressed as they’re being surfaced. This is exactly the right way to introduce something new, IMO.

I don’t like the uutils pushover license license though :/

Because their sandboxing format subtly breaks so many applications (more than flatpak) and Canonical very nefariously co-opts your apt install <package> with a deb package that’s actually a stub to install the Snap version, so when your shit breaks, you can waste hours before you realize that they fucked your installation.

Beyond that, Snap cold start times (installations or updates) are slow as shit (yes, even with LZO compression), and since each snap application can update on its own, you’ll also encounter random times when your shit appears to “freeze” but what’s actually happening is Canonical is busy polluting your loopback devices to decompress their shittified version of your app.

Canonical, being demons, have Snapified things like GNOME, so even your desktop environment will be encumbered by that dogshit packaging format.

Do not use Ubuntu if you value your time and well-being.

Pedophile defender, Ted Cruz, doesn’t want you or your children to have privacy. I wonder why…

Rapist’s mentality.

Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections “drama”? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they’re being immature, even when they’re obviously right.

Objecting to a fascist government’s influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.

This type of comment is indistinguishable from the low-tier, rage bait comments under every Phoronix article.

oniux might be exactly what you’re looking for.

It was still in early development when I played with it months ago, so I’m not sure if it’s ready for daily usage, but it’s from the Tor Project team themselves, so I imagine it will only keep getting better.

Lol. No.

If this works out, it’s likely something that container engines would take advantage of as well. It may take more resources to do (we’ll have to see), but adding kernel isolation would make for a much stronger sandbox. Containers are just a collection of other isolation tools like this anyway.

gvisor already exists for environments like this, where the extra security at the cost of some performance is welcome. But having support for passing processes an isolated, hardened kernel from the primary running Linux kernel would probably make a lot of that performance gap disappear.

I’m also thinking it could do wonders for compatibility too, since you could bundle abandoware apps with an older kernel, or ship new apps that require features from the latest kernel to places that wouldn’t normally have those capabilities.

Thanks for sharing! Bounds checks are a fair critique. The Rust Performance Book suggests that bounds checking has little performance impact compared to many other factors that you could optimize out, but it’s certainly not zero performance impact, as I initially claimed.

Unless you’re talking about some sort of reference counting, which has to be explicitly added by the programmer in cases where doing so is required for memory safety, I’m not sure what runtime checks you’re referring to?

From what I’ve seen, the performance of programs written in C and Rust are generally the same, more or less, with C or Rust coming out on top with roughly coinflip odds in a handful of cases. This feels like the primary differentiator in performance really comes down to the implementation of the person writing it, and less to do with any performance differences inherent to either language.

The --stream functionality looks very useful as well. Super cool!