Weston has the potential to clean up the UI quirks, I hope they're headed in the right direction. It's way past time we got rid of X11, it's been holding us back for far too long. If they can't do it, I doubt anyone else will bother.

For 20-ish years windows games have been optimised for windows proprietary drivers, and vice versa. That's a lot of invested effort from both sides, that the linux eco-system hasn't had. Frankly I'm surprised at the recent rate of improvements, but linux is still a long way from parity.

So, how long until a VPS provider only allows access via tor, with payments via bitcoin, in order to profit off anyone who wants to build silk road 3.0+?

Just because you can prove that there are *some* programs that can't be proven to halt, doesn't mean that there isn't a subset of programs that *can* be proven to halt.

We can build a language / compiler that rejects all programs that aren't provably correct. It might be difficult to get any useful work done, but it's not impossible.

Something like the rust programming language might be more useful in practice. You can still write completely unsafe code, while being careful to limit the impact of doing so.

Which should highlight if the application you're using can detect the attack or not. If the software you are testing can't detect the MITM, then it's broken. If google could write a better MITM detector, then it should be implemented in the libraries used by every application. Not in a separate tool.

This is not a new problem, suddenly created by this clock. It already exists with our standard definition of time.

So now we'll be averaging due to relativity differences as well as precision errors.

... they *don't* want other search engines to use this?

Or are they planning to somehow force search engines to license the process?

Or blink a bright IR diode... In the short term the cars will need to learn how humans do it. In the longer term the cars may have their own information channel to augment how we currently do it.

That's not what I'm talking about, and I can and have done that with git using only a single copy of the history of the repository.

I mean that I can make a whole bunch of changes to one file, then tease those changes apart into multiple patches and commit them in the order I want. And if I'm not happy with how things ended up, I can re-order or re-write those patches before I push them upstream. To do the same in a single branch with SVN, I'd have to copy the file, revert it, then manually apply each change one at a time. Hoping that I get everything right the first time.

If I want to run a suite of tests against every patch one at a time, I can script that in a couple of minutes. Or if I notice that something is broken, I can do a binary(-ish) search of everything I've done to find it.

Mastery of git makes almost any workflow possible.

Every time I'm forced to use SVN or TFS, I'm annoyed by how difficult it is to work on multiple patches for multiple features at the same time. With git I can create my own local feature branches, and create as many versions of each patch series as I want, until I'm happy to push them for review. And I never feel like I'm at risk of losing any half finished work I've already completed.

And then there's the launchd / inetd way of launching services that systemd also copies. The service config file can list a set of sockets that the service binds in order to service requests. For example Apache binds to port 80 and 443. So long as all services (including mounting filesystems...) describe *all* of their external interfaces, dependencies no longer matter at all.

The init system can bind all of the sockets that every service needs all at once, and either start the real service the first time the socket is used, or start them all at once. If one service connects to another, the first request will block until the other service is ready to handle it. Then all you have to worry about is the potential for deadlocking, which you'd have to consider anyway.

... and less than two arms, legs, eyes, etc.

Better, the article should only be hidden for certain search terms, like someones name, when that person is not otherwise remarkable.

But this doesn't really add anything. You can use facebook for this purpose anyway by posting an "I'm ok, and so is " status message.

X the network protocol is bearable, if you are trying to use a Motif style application remotely. But almost nobody is actually doing that any more. Most GUI frameworks were just using X to push graphics buffers.

The async design of the X protocol had a number of weak points. If both the client and the server changed something, this could lead to undefined behaviour. A number of fairly simple use cases resulted in the client needing to wait for multiple network round trips. RDP is a much saner protocol in comparison.

On linux specifically the problems were even bigger. The X server was doing absolutely everything graphics related, including driving the graphics card(s) and input devices directly.

So there's been a big effort to split up the responsibilities of the X server, shifting lots of low level driver "stuff" into the kernel. Building wayland / weston to just do local window compositing. Building a vastly simplified X server that displays windows as a wayland client. And supporting other protocols like RDP for remote desktops.

Seriously? Forking is practically how git works, and there are lots of people running kernels with patches that aren't in mainline. Practically every distribution does this. And every embedded hardware shop.

Of course these people usually merge new changes from the mainline kernel periodically. So maybe that doesn't count for your definition of "fork".