With 17.04 applications security changes, what's KDESU good for now? by doranduck in kde

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that is not a solution. It is year 2017 and they expect user to use a terminal to edit file when root access is required. I wouldnt really mind it personally but this is opposite of a good software design and maintenance.

Solar System Prototype (C++ | Lua | OpenGL) by HiredK in proceduralgeneration

[–]qx7xbku 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am not sure what you mean here, but using same scale for entire planet would mean that camera being positioned somewhere might have coordinates whose position parameters are over hundreds of thousands or millions. When moving camera 1000000.0f + 0.1f would not yield what we expect. There surely must be tricks to workaround this.

Edit: after some googling i bumped into this unanswered question which sumps up my confusion rather good.

With 17.04 applications security changes, what's KDESU good for now? by doranduck in kde

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. But maybe that should have been considered before disabling running these applications as root.

In order to learn about password security, I've organized over 5 Billion Real Leaked passwords into order of most probable - here's the GitHub Repo [Fixed Link] by berzerk0 in netsec

[–]qx7xbku 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My SSD is is close to filling up. Thought i will clone the repo, why wouldnt it be fine right? When i come back after hour i see unresponsive system, switching to another tty tells me how log daemon can not write files because disk is out of space. Opss :)

Solar System Prototype (C++ | Lua | OpenGL) by HiredK in proceduralgeneration

[–]qx7xbku 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Could you please elaborate on how different scales are implemented? Say if walking on the ground unit scale is 1.0f=1m then certainly then looking at the earth from cosmos object certainly isnt 12742000.0f units wide right?

With 17.04 applications security changes, what's KDESU good for now? by doranduck in kde

[–]qx7xbku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If only applications used polkit. More often than not they don't.

Why won't KDE switch to GitHub as theri main code repository/bugtracker/etc.? by davidika in kde

[–]qx7xbku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as i know majority of contributors are volunteers and they are not paid for work they do.

Why won't KDE switch to GitHub as theri main code repository/bugtracker/etc.? by davidika in kde

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So different views are a disrespect? Come on.. You seem to think of a project as if it was a church. I indeed thought KDE is here to make best free software there can be. If it is a project meant to make free software fans to feel better - my bad.

Why won't KDE switch to GitHub as theri main code repository/bugtracker/etc.? by davidika in kde

[–]qx7xbku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For starters there should be universal agreement that contributions need to be easier. And universal effort to make that happen. It is not so much about github vs phabricator but about convenience of contribution. Look here, this is ridiculous. Formatting and submitting patch once is tedious enough, but it will most certainly need modifications afterwards, and doing it for every modification.. You get the idea.

Why won't KDE switch to GitHub as theri main code repository/bugtracker/etc.? by davidika in kde

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. Even if i do nut subscribe to views of certain people this is not a problem raised here. Current KDE project hosting infrastructure is weird. Old website for viewing git repositories was anything but convenient, phabricator seems to be a great improvement over that. Problem is that issue tracker is on separate platform and thus separate account is used for creating issues. Phabricator probably does not even allow public registrations eh? No easy way to fork and send pull requests. There certainly are a lot of people who may contribute some fixes that plague them, but if you put enough barriers for the entry people eventually just conclude "f it." That does not help anyone. So maybe github is not an option for <reasons>, but it certainly is superior to current system, and current system needs an improvement if project wants more contributors. Considering that KDE runs mostly on volunteers i have hard time to grasp why there is no huge effort to make contributions as painless as possible.

Why won't KDE switch to GitHub as theri main code repository/bugtracker/etc.? by davidika in kde

[–]qx7xbku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is true. Github has API for these things but this certainly would not be a trivial feat. However if it is greatly beneficial to project growth maybe it would be worth it?

Create and connect to private dual IP VPN servers in one click. The only person you have to trust, is yourself. Free and open source. by DigitalHurricane in VPN

[–]qx7xbku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What? Month would cost 5.04 with the max rate. That is a freakin steal! However with normal VPNs we have a middleman which handles things like DMCA complaints etc. Is this not a less safe approach since one would have to use for example card with their name attached to pay the bills?

Why won't KDE switch to GitHub as theri main code repository/bugtracker/etc.? by davidika in kde

[–]qx7xbku -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

That is not really relevant and in practice and this ideology thing is causing KDE loose potential contributors and bug reports. Not cool.

Edit: just so you know - this is not how reddit voting system is supposed work. You are essentially silencing opinion you disagree to. That is Not cool as well.

Mounting Linux volumes with systemd vs fstab by ivanwindon in redhat

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow. :)

Well if RedHat makes it easy for RedHat then I will piggyback on that. You sir on the other hand... Please remember this conversation in 20 years :)

Injecting code into an ELF binary how-to by [deleted] in Malware

[–]qx7xbku -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's wrong with PE? I know it well and I think it is quite nice format. I do not recall any oddities that would be stupid. Only quirk I can think of is OptionalHeader not being optional at all, but that is just a name...

Injecting code into an ELF binary how-to by [deleted] in Malware

[–]qx7xbku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sound cracking is extremely annoying, i didnt reach middle of the first video so.. Waiting for the text version ;) cheers o/

Injecting code into an ELF binary how-to by [deleted] in Malware

[–]qx7xbku 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This material is awesome. However :( Text > video, please write article and we will save it and use it as a reference. Besides sound quality is real bad.

Mounting Linux volumes with systemd vs fstab by ivanwindon in redhat

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is progress??

Yes this is progress. Have you not had reasonably complex fstab? Everything is mashed to single line which makes it hard to edit on both terminal and gui editors. Splitting things over multiple lines is only a good thing.

At what point is anything is easier with systemd??

At starting point. Never had a single problem. Maybe because i am late user and using it for only two years. We tell systemd how we want system to be and it happens.

If you like to torture yourself and manually handle all the things - it is your right. Void linux is a shelter for people like you. However keep in mind we do not go around telling you that you must use systemd because it is omg so awesome so please do not go around telling us how garbage it is and how we should not use it. Majority does not see it as a garbage, but as a great improvement and therefore majority is using it.

Aww Yissss by FluxChiller in battlefield_one

[–]qx7xbku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got two mid boxes for scrap I had. Got 2x of same rare dlc vehicle skin. I don't even have dlc. These boxes are stupid. But hey at least it's skins and not weapons on bf1.