There are a lot of binary packages now, and explicit bin versions of big ones like firefox or the kernel. Without using those an update after some months may take half a day. With them, even a weak laptop only takes a few minutes.
Gentoo doesn't want to push you into some compiled utopia, it's offering you the option of customizing or taking control where needed.You can have your system use binary packages but then set one packet to source, download the source, modify it, write a patch, and have a package with a completely custom sourcecode modification that you can easily keep updating as normal at the cost of it now taking longer due to compiling from source.
It'll train everyone to ignore the warnings, so if a different platform implements such a system more sensibly users will be inclined to ignore those warnings too now. Overusing a warning is a really quick way to make people ignore it even where used correctly.If you placed wet floor signs everywhere just in case, fall injuries would increase.
Systems around this will develop, either people will learn to dig up the dms, or it'll be incorporated into normal communication. It's already become the norm to use friend requests as a dm request on discord, due to previous dm restrictions.
On laptops it usually replaces right ctrl, sometimes right alt.Both these are needed to make lots of shortcuts viable, or possible at all with one hand.
right alt is also an importand 3rd shift layer for many languages' keyboards, hence them replacing right ctr often instead of the less popular alt.
Don't wanna interrupt your rant, but "determinism and verifiable integrity" doesn't sound like it'd impede changes.
Determinism/reproducible builds allow independent verification that a source corresponds to the binaries some repo ships. You can set up most languages, build systems, and environment to be reproducible, and once done it doesn't have any additional effects, except maybe when changing build procedures you have to maintain the reproduceability.
"verifiable integrity" to me sounds like computer proof systems. Showing an algorithm/code/program corresponds exactly to some written spec, mathematically.
The project seems to be positioned explicitly against points of authority and "security" through compliance checks and certifications.
Keeping acidic things on your teeth pulls out the flouride making them brittle over time. The flouride added to all kinds of stuff is meant to help with that but the effectiveness is questionable. Better to simply not keep acidic stuff in your mouth too long, and to clean your teeth with your tongue after or swish some water.
Youtube and android have strong network effects. I don't think openai has anything close to comparable. They tried I am sure, I recall an app platform they added to chatgpt, but I haven't heard of it in ages so I assume it hasn't been a dominant factor.I also don't get the impression there is enough training material available exclusively to openai it'd be such a factor.
I cleaned it up. Your editor doesn't like to nest formatting apparently. Using an editor that lets you write the markdown directly is probably better, and you are probably already familiar with markdown anyway, since it's used all over the place.
There were - and still are - many false-positives reported in the previous version v8.8.2, by the antivirus software due to the absence of Windows code signing certificate.
How to install the root certificate:
Double-click the certificate, it may tell you it’s invalid, ignore that and click: “Install Certificate..”.
In the Certificate Import Wizard, select “Local Machine”, then click Next.
If prompted by UAC (optional, depending on admin Previleges), click Yes.
Choose “Place all certificates in the following store”, then browse and select “Trusted Root Certification Authorities”. Click Next.
On the final page of the wizard, clickFinishto complete the installation.For detailed instructions, see Notepad++ User Manual.
We’re still trying to obtain a certificate issued by conventional Certificate Authorities, for a better user experience. But let’s be honest: it’s probably not happening. Notepad++ isn’t a business - it’s certainly not an enterprise - and apparently, that makes a popular open-source project invisible to their gatekeeping standards.
If the “gatekeepers” won’t issue a certificate under the name we deserve - so be it. At least it spares us from wasting time and energy on a frustrting process that demands we beg for a new certificate every 3 years. The Notepad++ Root Certificate may not carry their approval, but it leads us to freedom.
Edit (2025-12-03): Starting with v8.8.7, Notepad++ binaries - including the installer - are digitally signed using a legitimate certificate issued by GlobalSign. As a result, Installation of the Notepad++ root certificate is no longer required. We recommend that users who have previously installed the root certificate remove it.
I use an encrypted rootfs without "an initramfs". Just requires some advanced fuckery.
A little known fun fact is that almost all kernels have a tiny stub-initram built into the kernel file. This is added when initram support is enabled, and is loaded before dedicated files are. It is however possible to supply your own initram directory or archive during kernel build to replace this built-in initram, so you can bake it in without leaving a separate file. No juggling with partitions, no boot options. Works just like a normal kernel "without initram", since even kernels without one usually do have that stub one anyway.
The downside is that a) you have to build the kernel, and b) the files to pack have to be available when the kernel is built, meaning you can't pack in modules of the kernel. But when building your own kernel anyway you can simply set the needed modules for encryption built-in and only pack the userspace cryptsetup executable needed for decryption, that way you get it all in a single kernel build, and the output is a single uniform kernel binary capable of decrypting your boot drive. No flags, no extra files, no access to the esp needed.
There are a lot of binary packages now, and explicit bin versions of big ones like firefox or the kernel. Without using those an update after some months may take half a day. With them, even a weak laptop only takes a few minutes.
Gentoo doesn't want to push you into some compiled utopia, it's offering you the option of customizing or taking control where needed.You can have your system use binary packages but then set one packet to source, download the source, modify it, write a patch, and have a package with a completely custom sourcecode modification that you can easily keep updating as normal at the cost of it now taking longer due to compiling from source.