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the bonus point is that I can have access to its source code

Are you actually reading all the code before you run it? Are you re-reading it for each update? If not, then what's the point of bragging about having access to the source?

The point of sandboxing is that it's impractical to reliably audit, on a continuous basis, the massive volume of software that the average person runs. It's more economical to apply the least-privileged principle, and only give apps access to the things they need to function.

Can someone explain to me what pipewire's goal is? to be a better pulseaudio? if so, in what way is it trying to be better? also, how's the codebase quality? from what i heard, pulse's codebase is a mess, so if it can improve in that sense, i guess that's a win (?)

why does it do video? is trying to do media capture like OBS or be a compositor like wayland? if so why bother? those solutions exist already... maybe it should just stick to audio, cuz that part of it feels like feature creep.

Now, more free games? It doesn't satisfy an urgent practical need, obviously... But the crucial thing is, free ones might make it easier for some people to say, 'Let's move off this non-free thing, and play a game that is free. So we can have the same pleasure, but without paying freedom as the price.'“

i'm sorry but i just can't read this without laughing. what does stallman think gamers are like?

i can only imagine the average teenage gamer trying to get their friends to stop playing virtually every game on the market and instead play some obscure game and trying to teach them how to install gcc and git to get it running

I've seen the pay-for-binaries model in a few places. Not sure if it's scalable since someone can write a build script and share it with the community.

No offense, but it's hard to monetize FOSS operating systems. I've yet to see a scalable business model. All FOSS OS's rely on either donations or consulting/support for revenue. There's just no money to be made there, unless someone comes up with something innovative.

Why do people need to be rewarded money to do something like this? Why can't the reward be a better social life or better mental health? As the person says in the article, "Getting away from the smartphone has been freeing, and it has opened my eyes and made me more aware of some of my other bad health habits." That's a pretty good reward for most. I'd take that $100k and use it to spread awareness about social media and its health effects. All a project like this does is reinforce the idea that people should only do things for monetary gains, including bettering their body and mind.

-save my chat history in the cloud so that i dont lose everything when i move from iOS to Android or vise versa.

the key is that the data has to be encrypted. currently i think whatsapp uploads your chat history as plaintext. this basically allows the corps. to get your data.

So i tried to find the actual UN report. The article linked to this http://www.grida.no/publications/431 but it doesn't appear to exist anymore (??) Luckily there is a Google cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w_-_g9l... which links to the report https://gridarendal-website-live.s3.amazonaws.com/production...

In the cbc article, they say "According to one study cited in the report, up to 70 per cent of Arctic infrastructure could be threatened because of thawing permafrost by 2050. ". This refers to page 17 of the report, which cites this study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07557-4

In the abstract, they clearly state "We show that nearly four million people and 70% of current infrastructure in the permafrost domain are in areas with high potential for thaw of near-surface permafrost." While the CBC sub-headline says "70% of infrastructure will be threatened because of thawing permafrost by 2050"

Seems quite misleading. CBC will have people think that 70% of all infrastructure is threatened (subjective interpretation) whereas the study clearly indicates it's 70% of the infrastructure in the permafrost domain, which affects a whopping 4 million people. I'm sure there will be plans to help those affected in time.

I'm not saying it's not a problem, I'm just saying, as usual, the media hypes and sensationalizes it, most likely for some ulterior agenda.