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It's film_girl, but on Mastodon. I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, a podcaster, a journalist turned developer and someone obsessed with tech, OSS, and pop culture.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! I’m with my mom today and feeling very blessed!

film_girl,
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@rogelin huge love to your mom today!

film_girl, to random
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Watching Linux distros (and yes, it is usually Debian packagers who act the most sanctimonious) shoot themselves in the face and then insult upstream AND the users of a popular package under the delusion that only the distro's self-declared experts are capable of making decisions is always a good reminder as to why you will never be able to waterboard me into using Linux as my primary desktop. Very sorry this is happening Team KeePassXC. https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720

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The KeePassXC GitHub repo where Debian users are filing bugs (b/c people by default blame upstream, in part b/c the distros love to blame upstream for everything, even when the changes are clearly the packagers fault) and the Debian packager responds by calling the software crap is my favorite part. https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725

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@moelassus @keepassxc FOSS not only isn’t immune, its ground-zero for the whole concept.

film_girl,
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@mambocab @keepassxc by doing this they also broke YubiKey support. So it's just great decisions all-around.

film_girl,
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@johnmark no. Me, a person who loves drama and mess is completely unaware that software development comes with drama. That’s why I haven’t spent fully half my life enmeshed in open source circles. /s

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@drwhitt oh, I think it is very emblematic of a lot of the bad/toxic parts of open source culture. It isn’t unique to OSS, but OSS culture (and I’m a huge OSS fan, but we have to be able to call the baby ugly) empowers and promotes lots and lots of anti-social behavior and even worse, puts those people in power.

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@keyboardg @keepassxc I mean, this is the natural evolution. And I don’t always love Flatpak or Snaps, but I fully understand why so many pieces of software want to avoid the distro packagers at all costs. It’s a role that made a ton of sense 25 years ago. I think it is a role that still makes sense for non-GUI tools. But when packagers make decisions that negatively impact users without even communicating with upstream, that’s just not cool.

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@kgMadee2 I agree with this but again, a change of this magnitude without any rational reason (I’m worried about future xz-like backdoors is not rational), especially when the features are turned off by default, and with Debian’s complete lack of willingness to alert users who now can’t access their password database b/c YubiKey support was removed, goes far beyond the RTFM expectations of using testing.

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@kgMadee2 More disturbingly, these problems were found in testing and when users bring up the very real issues with this approach, the asshole packager has the nerve to insult upstream, insult users who use a password manager differently than him, and then has the temerity to call them “his” users. No. They use KeePassXC. They don’t belong to him just because they happen to use Debian.

film_girl,
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@matdevdug in general, I agree with you. But thankless task or not, this maintainer decided to make decisions without even trying to coordinate for upstream — problems that will primarily affect upstream, and not this person or Debian — and did it in a way that will be most disruptive. And then when faced with the edge cases and problems of his own making, this asshole decides to insult the project and its users. Users he then claims belong to him.

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@glassresistor ok, but how are users expected to know about this when this hits stable or Ubuntu or Mint and their various derivatives? All the user sees is that features they used to have enabled don’t work. Or that they now can’t access their password manager with their YubiKey. And Debian is historically very against any sort of user-alert. If there was actual user awareness, fine. But the response is “read the Debian.NEWS file” as if that is sufficient. And there should be complaints here!

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@matdevdug I don’t like criticizing maintainers either but decisions like this are why so many developers are trying to cut the middleman of the packagers all together for the much clunkier world of flatpaks and snaps and appimages. And it’s frustrating to see.

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@glassresistor I just think it’s a lousy decision and incredibly anti-user and it’s going to cause a lot of problems for upstream because downstream made unilateral decisions about what is and isn’t necessary. This is like what they did to @jwz all over again, except somehow worse, b/c these changes could mean people with YubiKeys can’t access their databases without installing a new package and downstream doesn’t seem to care as long as they put the poorly-worded update in the NEWS file.

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@kgMadee2 But this will trickle down to stable! Ubuntu and all its derivatives use Debian testing for their repos and so that’s even more headache for upstream. And unless they have a CLI and GUI pop-up about the new keepassxc-full, existing users are still very much going to be out of the loop. There are ways to make this change and this was not the way.

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@kgMadee2 I mean, I’m blaming Debian downstream because this is a problem that will proliferate for a year or longer. I’m not saying users shouldn’t be aware of what they are doing (but Debian testing is used by lots of distros and Debian knows this so saying don’t blame Debian for Ubuntu’s decisions, esp when this Debian maintainer works for Canonical doesn’t work when this has been status quo for 20 years), I’m saying this decision is bad and wrong.

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@kgMadee2 should be, no. But after 20 years, it’s obtuse to pretend/ignore that Debian changes don’t have broader impact is my point. So changes need to be more considerate. But the real loser is upstream, who already has a heavier burden just from Debian users, even advanced users who knowingly choose Sid, because they file bugs upstream instead of with Debian. In this case, the person who maintains the Ubuntu package is almost certainly the same person anyway. Because he works at Canonical.

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Next up for Apple focused faux-rage?

“New iPads won’t include stickers in the box”

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/new-ipad-pro-ipad-air-apple-stickers/

film_girl,
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@KingShawn not even remotely. To me, it’s all greenwashing. Like removing power bricks from $1500 iPhones but then having them pushed by sales associates at the Apple Store during checkout (extra packaging used for those separate bricks). Or getting rid of leather from cases and replacing them with plastic fabric that is poor quality and also, plastic.

film_girl,
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@davidbcohen @craiggrannell @KingShawn there are paper-based vinyl that are probably “greener” but the quality sucks. I honestly just don’t think this move saves that much; even at Apple’s scale, to be a worthwhile trade off. Other things they could do to make more of an impact that wouldn’t take away the whimsy.

film_girl, to random
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The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/

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@a40yostudent I think a lot of people would! I understand Apple is probably worried about cannibalizing their respective product lines but they are already doing that. And if I’m honest, Apple could charge MORE for an iPad Pro if they did that. Want to convince me to get a 16GB of RAM iPad Pro? Let me run a containerized or virtualized version of macOS and I will give you that $2000. And I’ll still keep my main MacBook Pro!

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@john @jsnell I mean, virtualization allows pass-through access to network and storage components. So you’d just approve permissions to access stuff stored locally to your iPad. But in the case of Procreate, the default for both Mac and iOS of those is iCloud anyway. And the VM wouldn’t be using a separate storage device. Again, there might be some edge cases and limitations but that’s why this would be an option, not the only solution.

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@markv @a40yostudent I would pay for that so hard. Fuck, give me cloud-based macOS I can use on my iPad seamlessly (so not just via a VNC) and I’ll pay for that!

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Love this from @ismh - I haven’t written much about the new iPads yet because if I buy one, it will probably be so I can hand my 2022 M2 Pro to my mom (since trade-in is less than a 10th gen iPad with 256GB and cellular costs…which is insane. Not for the trade-in but the iPad 10th gen price) and not b/c I need to upgrade. B/c the software means I still use my iPad primarily as a media consumption device. No matter how great the hardware, the software is the rub. https://512pixels.net/2024/05/the-problems-never-the-hardware/

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@luis_in_brief @jsnell I think for the group of people who consistently buy iPad Prod and accessories, we’re probably a lot closer to being representative than the people Apple shows in its announcements. I think the average iPad user is an iPad Air user. And the new iPad Air is basically the old iPad Pro. But for iPad Pro, I think we’re probably fairly representative. But even yourself, you still own both an iPad and a Mac b/c of limitations you run into.

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@luis_in_brief @jsnell now, Apple might lose a future MacBook Air sale for you if they did what Jason and I want. But they’d also potentially get you to spend more on an iPad Pro, which might negate that lost income. And I said this in a reply to someone else but if they did this, I think they could absolutely charge another $100 or $200 for the iPad Pro just for that feature. B/c as Jason pointed out, the beauty of the iPad is the flexibility. But the software limitations hinder that beauty.

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