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Comment · 22 hours ago
OpenWrt doesn't open ports by default so I think the impact is minimal, unless this can breach nftables as well. CGNAT also mitigates this as a side effect.

If you have services open on the IPv4 net however, close them immediately as a precaution.

Comment · 1 day ago
I'm certain many people signed up using established internet identities which can then be linked to real world identities through social engineering techniques.
Comment · 5 days ago
Scrolling through multiple lists for example. Windows 10 allows scrolling hovered lists like on macOS and various other systems, in previous versions the scroll wheel always scrolls the current focus and 3rd party implementations are never 100% reliable.

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Aero is a thorough evolution of the Windows UX, I think many people never realised just how much it improved when praising XP and prior.

Comment · 7 days ago
You can't clone decades of history.
Comment · 9 days ago
GrapheneOS relies on either having access to full upstream support or being the upstream themselves. You get neither with an unofficial port of iOS. So no there isn't an opportunity here unless your threat model has Apple as the sole attacker.
Comment · 17 days ago
Let them eat cake
Comment · 25 days ago
It'll happen regardless, as of now the public internet infrastructure still isn't fast enough to be comparable to local rendering, cloud gaming needs to deliver >50mbps bandwidth at sub 16ms latency.
Comment · 1 month ago
The historical baggage is so heavy I don't think anyone can realistically throw it away, so what we'll end up getting are almost certainly incremental improvements to existing foundations.
Comment · 1 month ago
Advantage of commitment and integration. Apple doesn't need to worry about critical vendors not cooperating because sticking with x86 is less risky.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sadly, even interfaces that do support keyboard navigation tend to implement it poorly. Microsoft Office is probably the gold standard here, almost everything can be navigated using mnemonics, all keypresses are buffered and the user seldom needs more than 5 presses to get anywhere.
Comment · 2 months ago
Tech debt, primarily. Flatpak is designed to be able to package apps not designed with it in mind.

If neither compatibility nor resources are of concern then integrating true Mandatory Access Control into both the UX and the entire tech stack would be the best way forward.

Comment · 3 months ago
Source uses licenced middleware such as Havok so SDKs are likely all we're going to get officially. Source 2 might be a different story if HL3 releases one day since Valve replaced audio and physics with in-house technologies.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's part of "What's been keeping Linux from having good UX up to this point?"

Making good products means lots and lots of drudgery, just for fun volunteers aren't going to touch that, and the stereotypical FOSS contributor is the type that's clueless about UX and puts stability above everything else.

Have fun convincing someone feature x is too overengineered to be usable by anyone who's not an alpha geek and should be simplified to a single switch. Not to mention proper large scale usability testing likely being unaffordable.

So designers stayed far, far away.

Comment · 4 months ago
Windows Vista primarily suffers from technical issues. Aero is virtually unchanged in 7.

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