These are why I use FVWM and set up everything by hand, better this than feeling helpless in a supposedly user-friendly environment.

But I think under normal usable desktops, like MATE, you can do such things easily enough.

but no one else really had the resources to maintain it

That’s what I’m saying to not be true. Right now the project is controlled by RH, and they are not interested, but also don’t leave it. Maybe if this weren’t so, we’d see changes.

Its critical infrstructure, they can’t just hand it off until they’re done with it (RH10).

Yes they can, the same way they ship kernels full of backported stuff and patches.

Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it’ll end up like KwinFT.

The guy is unfortunately accompanying his fork with anti-vaxxer and alt-right statements.

I think Xorg will keep existing. There are a few projects buried many times and still alive, one more.

But RH is intentionally blocking the good things that could have happened without their “leadership” and imposing opinion that it’s deprecated and on life support.

The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

Say, they do almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to. They don’t accept PR’s, sometimes with responses that the project itself is deprecated or something.

They intentionally keep control, to avoid someone picking it up.

They could mean that they were a Unix user since 1991. They could also mix up years, which would be natural. Say, with 1993 or 1994. In any case you’re the obvious RH shill here.

This is a good example of RH shilling.

Also not uncommon to see “community activists” popping up here and there, with no history at all, doing small things and then somehow participating in coordinated RH-aligned action eventually. Remember that moment Stallman was pressed into defense? Not that he’s a very nice person, but the campaign was interesting in the sense that not many normal people participated in it, mostly such activists.

Also Fedora and “well-built” - it’s glossy and smooth-looking, but not “well-built”.

Also this

from paranoid people new to the community who don’t understand how this ecosystem works.

is a marker of RH shill too. They usually start with casually stating that everyone is fine with RH and the only ones complaining are noobs, nuts and troublemakers, we don’t do that here. Except it’s not true.

Quantity of development doesn’t equal quality. I personally think if RH were to vanish overnight, Linux would be fine. Of course nobody spends additional effort on projects mostly done by RH. If there’s no RH, either the projects will be dropped for lack of necessity or there will be said effort from other sources.

Amount of contributions doesn’t equal quality, mind that. RedHat also does work to sink projects which don’t fit their strategy for Linux development, and I want to ask by what right they even have such a strategy and try to impose it upon others.

Alaska. SW prequels. There’s also the Soviet movie “Until first blood”, where kids play “Zarnitsa” and learn something.

Yes. It’s addictive.

I’m thinking of house cockroaches.

I dunno. If there were no meat at all - over time I’d probably think about it. Turned into some insect flour, then compressed into something between meat and mushrooms, then roasted.

But right now no.

Playing Europa Universalis IV for many hours instead of going for a walk or a bicycle ride to the park. Sundays should be used better.

All pr0n watched, all sweets eaten, cause they affect my ability to concentrate and also cause weird feeling of irritation.

OK, since most of that happened a bit earlier than strictly 24 hours back, not so good, but still.

But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.

So do that. You can do that with Signal.

I don’t see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.

Maybe I wasn’t clear, someone said that back in the day registration on a website was a new and bad thing, connecting it with privacy and comparing to Signal asking for phone number. I answered with the idea that not much commonly thought from that time about privacy has aged well. You wouldn’t register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.

Server code openness doesn’t matter other than functioning at all. For a system acceptable in a privacy community.

Normal people don’t anyway.

Well, some of the stuff they wrote, not said, wasn’t stupid and wrong.

1. People were complaining about JS existing when SSL and TLS were not omniscious. If we disagree on that fact, move on.
2. A sequence of digits.
3. OK, what are your “simple heuristics” for a bunch of pieces of ciphertext with unknown sender (except for IP addresses) in your storage to pick spammers from that?

Signal protocol guarantees that what’s on the server we can discard in your suspicions, it doesn’t matter, because you are not trusting it.

The client is fully open.

One account per phone number versus infinity of accounts without.

1. When people would complain about JS on webpages, they were not.
2. Completely different things overlap all the time.
3. Because your status updates and messages are encrypted and stored (until retrieved, of course) once for every recipient, and that includes your other devices and their other devices.

1. they were talking of something like year 2003, when they were commonly not.
2. no, PSTN is not private.
3. for something end-to-end encrypted, including message metadata (not connection metadata), this statement seems amazingly stupid ; “simple heuristics” are usually used on something like plaintext e-mail.

I think choosing a server, like in some ICQ clients, is not a complex modification.