Ariadne Conill 🐰
someone has a sense of humor here
here in the main hall, they have on royalty-free techno music. the music is being played on a mac (non-free software), in the brave browser (free-ish software). in the dock there are several icons for microsoft and other non-free software.
i am just pointing this out because, you know, it's FOSDEM, the free and open source developers' european meeting.
last year the computer they used for this was running KDE 🙃
they have swapped out for another machine running KDE (free software). it is showing a slideshow authored in Google Slides (non-free software), and the browser appeared to be Firefox (free software).
RichiH has a strong message to kick this one off, definitely saying what everyone is feeling
evariste.gal🌈is@ariadne 💯 this. I started to follow you for your technical skills, continue to follow you for ideas :)
Klaus FrankSame here. Discovered because of association with a project and stayed because you're your authentic self and a good person to have around and interact with.*
:)
* and that is not because you'd agree with everything but because you actually engage in honesty and also push back against things that are stupid on 2nd thought.
@agowa338 @evaristegal0is heh, i feel a little bad about how strongly i pushed back on the Alpine WSL work (which I believe was our first interaction).
on the other hand, I still do think that big tech embracing alpine has been a mixed bag for the project.
Well I can't say that you were wrong though. With moving towards WSL2 microsoft basically did exactly go into the direction you said they would.
I'm considering taking the app down by now. They allow to import archives without the need for the wrapper now and all versions that don't have that feature are now probably also out of support (need to check first though).
@agowa338 @evaristegal0is to be honest I never really understood why they didn't just use OCI images for it
Well that would imply that they didn't constantly try to reinvent the wheel in a shittier and incomplete way.
Like did you know there are literally fields for linux filesystem permissions within the NTFS filesystem? Or that Windows has special well known entries for its ACLs to represent the Owner, owning Group, and others that they use for their NFS server?
And now guess wich one they used for WSL1. Right neither. They invented a new way...
But on the other hand it is kinda understandable that their devs loose track of what is all in windows when you forget to reverse link your documentation.
Like try to look up how they implemented anything. e.g. say you'd be interested in reimplementing NTFS or ReFS. You'd think you go to the "NTFS" documentation and have everything you need. Well - no.
You've to go through all of the documentation an see if there is a section that mentions modifying it...