Changing the Duolingo icon to look sad, old, and wrinkled is a strategy to make users curious, so they open the app to see if there are new updates or content. In other words, Duo is only trying to get your attention.
This tactic is rooted in the psychological effect known as the “novelty effect,” where new stimuli can temporarily increase engagement and motivation. Snapchat similarly employs this strategy with the red dot and yellow dot on the Bitmoji.
Yes for sure and I dont know what I think about that RedHat move. But specifically about redis, (the thing I forgot the name of) and others, I get the feeling they just try to protect themselves against being used for free by megacorps.
They offer support for it and contribute a lot to all those projects. But I was mainly focused on projects restricting their license, RHEL is a complicated topic.
Please be aware that you just commented on some of the points.
Madaidan is often criticised and debunked, and that “linux is insecure” post is pretty old.
They say that many flatpakked apps have broad permissions, which is not a flatpak issue, because those are simply legacy apps that are often huge, dont support Flatpak at all and often also dont care.
They mention the “badness enumeration” like restricted syscalls, which is really problematic and seems to still be used. This is really bad and I hope it gets fixed, will open an issue about that.
But dont forget: flatpak apps may have broad permissions, but native apps have all permissions, appimages too. They have unrestricted syscalls, if not changed in the system itself.
So these might be valid points, but not a defense of Appimages at all.
Why use an appimage when they also have official RPM or DEB repos? There is nothing gained here, but you have an insecure install and update mechanism.
Would you say portable builds (like deadbeef) also install another distro onto your system?
They statically link binaries which is pretty similar.
You can also extract the appimage and run the AppRun script, comes with the downside that…
I guess you cannot update an app anymore when doing that.
Flatpak uses BTRFS compression afaik, so I dont know if it has a performance hit and it can likely not be turned off.
Is it strange idea to not want my home cluttered by a bunch of useless top level dotfiles?
That is .firefox etc. Flatpaks put everything in ~/.var/app/ which doesnt clutter anything.
Those Appimage helpers sound interesting and I will look at them. The tasks of placing somewhere, creating desktop entries etc. is not hard, but needing to do that manually is a strange and broken concept. I suppose those helper programs have some kind of community support, as Balena Etcher or whatever dont supply .desktop files.
I agree with the problems you mentioned after that. Relying on glibc is bad, using outdated x86_64 architecture is silly. The last one could be fixed easily. The former one probably not that easily.
Desktop Linux is messy for sure. But Flatpak is just really good at what it can do.
Hahaha that is actually mentioned in the article below
According to Robin Stern, PhD, co-founder of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, “Gaslighting is often used in an accusatory way when somebody may just be insistent on something, or somebody may be trying to influence you. That’s not what gaslighting is.”[17]
Flatpak does this, just have a look. Every app has its config stored in its own directory. Apps only have access to that directory, if they dont get other static permissions.
yes you could of course script that, but it doesnt change the problem with appimages having insecure updates. Flatpak uses OSTree, Android has a package manager that saves the signature and if that doesnt match, an update fails.
Is that sandboxing graphically available like with Flatpak? To my knowledge it required Apparmor patches but that these are upstreamed is a good info. The SELinux implementation sounds interesting, but well… I dont see the point?
What happened to the Duolingo icon? (sh.itjust.works)
Is it just me or does the Duolingo bird looks sad/old/tired? What happened to the previous icon?
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