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0·8 days agoBasically instead of launching completely new processes for each tab, which uses the (now updated/different) binary on disk, it uses a small secondary process that stays running the whole time the browser is open, and new processes are forked from that one, which makes them all use the same in-memory copy of the old process even after the program is updated.
This only works on *nix because you can’t overwrite binaries on Windows that are in use… but Linux keeps the old binary in memory the whole time, so it doesn’t care if you replace it, as it won’t be used until you restart the program.
So it doesn’t actually update anything at all while it’s running.
Will this stop the constant crashing I’ve been having the last several versions?
Did you read the article?
0·13 days agoduckduckgo, icon.horse and favicongrabber.com also have their own APIs for this
I bet there is a way this could be abused in order to proxy/tunnel arbitrary requests via google IPs. Even if it’s slow and must be done through e.g. PNG image data and dynamic subdomains or something, it would still be possible.
If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.
To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.
I said I will take it, not that I think everyone else should, or is capable of recognizing/ignoring conspiracy theories. I struggle much harder with ignoring bad attitudes than I do obvious bullshit, but to each their own.
tbf I’ll take Dale Gribble level conspiracy theories over Linus’ bad attitude any day.
They actually do. To quote a major FOSS developer, “popularity is not a project goal.”
Reminds me of early punk rockers that get upset when their tiny little nobody band that fits in their back pocket, gets too big to fit in their pocket anymore. Some might call it “selling out.”
About four years ago, Linus Torvalds rebuked him for spreading anti-vaxxer misinformation on the Linux Kernel Mailing List
I have the feeling that limiting yourself to Gemini would guarantee you basically only ever communicate with the weirdest of the weird.