I found myself really frustrated trying to use MacOS at work, because I'm a heavy user of virtual desktops. Turns out, I couldn't find a way to disable animations to switch between virtual desktops on MacOS. If there is a way, I'd be surprised.

Shortening the animation to minimum was not sufficient for my preference.

> Do they still do that?

Yes. I know its more than firefox, but I don't have the full list. On 24.04:

  me@comp:~$ apt info firefox | head -n 5
  
  WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
  
  Package: firefox
  Version: 1:1snap1-0ubuntu7
  Priority: optional
  Section: web
  Origin: Ubuntu
  me@comp:~$

Why would you want to make a podcast then? You don't need to offer a sub-optimal product if you don't want to make it.

I like writing out the scripts and doing the research. I don’t enjoy cleaning up the audio.

That's good to hear. The intolerance to non-guix (or, possibly, my perception that it was intolerance) made me shy away from the project. This was especially so because I use repaired devices with proprietary HW that would otherwise have been binned by their owners.

we need to speak up for common sense. i did, maybe too much even, and it has cost me some standing with the project lead... but it must be done nevertheless!

people need to understand what freedom means. sure, do inform others about the downsides of using non-free stuff... but it's very hard to help freedom by shaming and alienating people for trying to use hardware they already own.

> At some point, is open sourcing your work a liability?

I argue that open sourcing your work is no more liable than making a comment on social media. The biggest risk to an open source maintainer is publicly losing their patience and/or being heterodox in their beliefs. Code isn't a requirement for that to happen.

I'm having trouble with this one due to a lack of experience, but if there is no consensus between the two parties, my assumption would be that you trust neither and ask again. Why is that not the case in a split-brain scenario here? Do you /have/ to make an immediate decision?

You could see that as a lack of detail of the problem as posed. Alternatively it's a breakdown when applying it as an analogy.

Time critical scenarios are one possibility.

In a safety critical scenario intermittent sensor failure might be possible but keep in mind that consistent failure is too.

A jury scenario is presumably one of consistent failure. There's no reason to expect that an intentional liar would change his answer upon being asked again.

> Virtual machines are treated as a security boundary despite the fact that with enough R&D they are not. Hosting minecraft servers in virtual machines is fine, but not a great idea if they’re cohosted on a machine that has billions of dollars in crypto or military secrets.

While I generally agree with the technical argument, I fail to see the threat model here. Is it that some external threat would have prior knowledge that an important target is in close proximity to a less hardened one? It doesn't seem viable to me for nation states to spend the expensive R&D to compromise hobbyist-adjacent services in a hope that they can discover more valuable data on the host hypervisor.

Once such expensive malware is deployed, there's a huge risk that all the R&D money is spent on potentially just reconnaissance.

Yes. Docker too.

Its not impossible that someday a new non-chromium browser reaches feature parity (or close enough) with the chromium browsers. At that point, Google could stop worrying about funding Firefox's development.

Backwards compatibility has always been a Microsoft staple. What used to be a huge selling point - depending on the audience - is now clearly a crutch. Right now, it seems that the tech debt has finally started making the whole stack lean like the Tower of Pisa.

Because you can't sell a better browser to LLM companies. That's their current business model.