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4K doesn't really say anything about image quality, just the resolution of the picture, which tells you the theoretical maximum level of visual detail.

Focusing on resolution is like asking "how strong is one meter of rope" without talking about the composition of the rope.

With streaming video, image quality ultimately comes down to the codec and the bitrate. They probably use a relatively low bitrate regardless of codec.

Ever heard of Sourceforge?

I agree, it could be seen as a self-inflicted wound.

I'm a Guix developer but I still use Guix on Debian for important deployments, mainly because of systemd / journald.

But, we could also think of it as an opportunity. Well, I hope you'll find Guix useful and enjoyable, and maybe even help us improve it :)

Hey, we're glad to hear you're interested in Guix :)

I just wanted to say that Guix doesn't hate systemd, or think of itself as an anti-systemd project or anything like that.

Systemd was not chosen because GNU already had a (quite simplistic) init system written in Guile Scheme, and we want to use Guile for the entire system.

Eventually, our goal is to offer a fully integrated interface for managing the system, just like systemd. We are not there yet :)

I concur: Wingo's opinion is widely shared within GNU, and I wrote about it a few months ago, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193674

Thanks for mentioning this. I think you missed the actual message where LLVM was offered to the FSF:

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01112.html

Even within active GNU projects, this egregious incidence of mismanagement is still not widely known, although many maintainers of active GNU projects have their own stories of when Stallman's ignorance of a subject led him to make poor decisions.

For at least a decade, his near-total ignorance of how people (billions of them!) use computers has been encouraged and deepened by the sycophantic acolytes who encourage him to ignore developments in computing, like the ostrich with its head in the sand.

All the while, the FSF and GNU can do less and less for the users who are stuck living in the dystopia that he predicted in the 80s and 90s.

It's as if, after the first time they booted a computer with a fully-free operating system, they declared the work to be complete, abandoning the future.

Can you send a message to <guix-security@gnu.org>?

https://guix.gnu.org/en/security/

It's possible to maintain software quality (or quality of any endeavour) without being rude or making people feel bad.

On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be any correlation between rude behaviour and high levels of technical quality, nor is there any plausible explanation for such a correlation.

My hunch is that any successful project with a rude atmosphere succeeds in spite of the rudeness.

Right, Debian Testing is not supported as an "operating system" in any way. It's just a place for Debian developers to test their changes.

I see this misunderstanding all over the net — people think that Debian Testing is more supported than Debian Unstable, when the reverse is true. The Debian project has serious problems with public communications and expectation management.

It's true that RMS founded GNU and was the key leader for decades, and is basically its mascot. To many, RMS and GNU are the same. One cannot overstate his impact on the ideals and values of GNU.

I disagree with the suggestion that the group of people under discussion — who aim to distance themselves from RMS — want to "reduce the GNU project to a mere formality".

I think it's the opposite: that those people want to embolden GNU and strengthen the bonds between the various GNU softwares to create a first-class operating system made of free software, the GNU way. They ended their association with Stallman but continued with GNU because they believe in its goals. One could even say they did it because they believe that GNU is important.

It's been a very long time since RMS was able to marshall a group of people to work toward that goal. The maintainers of Guix and the other signatories of the statement against Stallman's leadership are doing that very thing.

The proof is in the pudding: the latest Guix release had 201 contributors. I think that's a lot.

GNU is internally managed on a private mailing list. Guix and other GNU maintainers coming out against Stallman may have been surprising to those who aren't privy to that list, but for the rest of us, it has been a long time coming.

For a long time, key GNU projects have either effectively quit GNU or, with great effort, wrested authority away from RMS because what goes on "behind the scenes" in GNU is not good. The only change is that now they are doing it in public.

It's not weird that this article, which translates the technical firefighting and structural aspects of the fire for laypeople, does not mention a xenophobic conspiracy theory that has been rejected by the French authorities.

Debian, Ubuntu, UNIX, Linux — none of these have an obvious pronunciation to a native English speaker from USA.

Why take such a defeatist attitude? I'm sure you can get the pronunciation right with a little effort.

That service was worse than anything else because it failed to provide the crucial "availability" property. And in the end he gave the keys to the government anyways. So he failed on every count.

Do you think it's different in other countries? Everywhere, the email service will have to give your emails to the police when they come knocking...

It's not supposed to rhyme with Nix. Rather, it's a portmanteau of Guile and Nix. The pronunciation is indeed like the English word 'geeks'.

Installing Guix in a VM has its own section of the manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Instal...

I don't know anything about this case but innocent people plead guilty all the time in the USA. It's a much safer choice than going to trial where the sentence may be much much longer.

In the beginning, when Gmail was only accessible by invitation, the killer feature was the relatively huge amount of free storage it offered. 1 gigabyte vs 20 or 100 megabytes at other providers.

Are there any falling sand games where it does work?

No, none of that music sounds like acid house.

Do you have any links to bug reports or other documentation about this?

Can you give any more detail about this? Or a reference to a bug report or mailing list thread?

Why won't we ever have cross-platform and usre friendly signing software that also has bulletproof security?

We already have many programs that are cross-platform and user-friendly while also addressing way more complicated use cases than cryptographic singing.

This is a port of OpenBSD's code:

https://github.com/aperezdc/signify/

Manhattan's population is only ~1.6 million, whereas Switzerland's population is ~8.5 million. During weekdays, Manhattan's population increases to ~4 million.

It would be more correct to compare Switzerland to all of New York City.

The problem is your second sentence which is structured like this:

"Obviously death threats are unacceptable [...] but [...]".

Thanks for the clarification. My impression as a Debian user was that it had been mostly curtailed.

It doesn't matter too much... you either trust your contributors or you don't. But it's still a bit icky.

Do Debian contributors just upload a binary blob to the Debian servers and that's it?

The practice has either been eliminated or curtailed but, yes, this was done for a long time.

In many places, the trains are always late, but never early. So you get to the station at the appointed time and just wait. You couldn't tell someone to get off the train at "1:11" in the US.