federalreverse

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This is my old account. Now primarily at @federalreverse (note the .org!)

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federalreverse OP , (edited )

Afaiu it, he added a second package with (quote) "all the crap" later, after the storm.

And no, it wasn't just the favicons feature that was removed (which like ... is that really such a big privacy issue that you need to remove it from the binary?). Support for Yubikey was removed as well — which is not a privacy issue. The reasoning mentioned by the Debian maintainer is that all of these features might turn out to be security issues in the long run. Thus, in his view, a password manager application must do nothing but provide access to the database within the app.

I find it an interesting example of diverging upstream, maintainer, and user interests in any case.

federalreverse OP ,

Yes, these are off-by-default features.

federalreverse OP ,

You have a point to some degree, yet I still think it is defensible to make this post. He majorly altered software

  • downstream
  • against user expectations
  • for somewhat spurious reasons
  • seemingly quite ad-hoc

He then went on to defend that decision in a less-than-graceful way before announcing there will be a second, new package.

But, to make it clear: I certainly don't approve of hate directed toward him and I don't have a personal issue with him.

federalreverse ,

I hear that Amazon sells a locked-down e-reader, they're the market leader as well.

federalreverse ,

The most prominent of those being Adolf Eichmann.

federalreverse ,

I don't know, you may need to ask someone at Facebook.

However, most people who want this kind of feature hope to use it to violate the privacy of others, I think. Which is imo a good reason against such a feature. Another reason against it is that a significant portion of people are not logged in, so the data would be wrong anyway.

federalreverse , (edited )

GTK is a UI toolkit, i.e. a piece of software that draws uniform-looking buttons and scrollbars and the like.

GTK used to stand for "GIMP toolkit" but GTK and GIMP development are now entirely separate, so much so, in fact, that 13 years after the release of GTK 3 and 3 years after the release of GTK 4, GIMP still hasn't upgraded to either.

federalreverse ,

Porting Wayland compatibility to GTK 2 would be incredibly out of scope for GIMP developers. :)

federalreverse ,

GIMP has had a GTK 3 port in development for years. They just lack the developer bandwidth to finish it. And in general, using EOLed libraries for your very popular application is not great, not for security, not for usability, and not for compatibility with modern systems.

federalreverse ,

Actually, part of the reason that American cheese cannot be called "cheese" even in the US is that it's not just cheese + sodium citrate anymore. For cost reasons, it's now cheese + butter + skim milk powder + sodium citrate.

federalreverse ,

I hate it when when my local /dev/shm gets smelly.

federalreverse ,

Why not go for "redneck woodpecker" though? Granted, it does look a bit too elegant for that name.

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