Ooooh boy, that’s a nice one, almost got me!

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Well yes, you didn’t get first ads. But what about second ads?

Absolutely, I’m still regularly shocked how normalized those words have become. They are absolutely accurate from a corporate perspective, but why are we all using those same words? They reduce any creative endeavors to the positive effect on the extraction of wealth by the rich through influencing others into buying shit they don’t need or want. “Influencer” should be a pejorative, not a job title!

You mean on Iraqi landscapes?

Man, your dad must have had you early, two children before 9…

Well if it were closed source, it would be harder to repackage proprietary apps because you would not know how the snap “root filesystem” translates to $DISTRO root filesystem.

Only if all the other tools (like Snapcraft) were also made closed-source and obfuscated, but that’s besides the point. What if, for example, Snaps start costing money, and you can’t legally turn them into Flatpaks and distribute them? What if the only legal way to get some software for Linux will be the official Snap repository? This approach will make for a far worse user experience than simply using the already working, already open-source and non-enshittifiable alternative.

Because some apps are only packaged as snaps so if you want them to be accessible to users, you have to install snapd. Flatpak can still be the default which on non-Canonical distros already is. Which why I don’t even worry about snap becoming the standard.

And by promoting Snap to the same status as Flatpaks on other distributions, you’re opening the gates for enshittification and a worse user experience tomorrow. Again, why support it as an equal option if we all know the price?

I’m aware, it was mostly a joke about these “features” making Notepad worse. Nevertheless, thank you :)

More like Notepad–, amirite

Okay, and how does snapd being open source help with that? It literally has no effect on it.

And when your best argument is “if it gets enshittified you can switch off of it”, why help it get popular in the first place?

How have I never heard of “gayety”

When I wrote that I was imagining something more significant like a code refactor,

Again, a code refactor is not a change in public API and thus does not constitute a semver major bump.

I’d like to have written a more constructive reply, but with most of your comment consisting of explanations with arguments couched in I’m not interested enough to parse out what is what, sorry. Don’t know why you explain UserChrome.css to me.

All the feedback and attempts at studies I’ve seen point in the opposite direction, don’t know what to tell you.

I think you have a misconception about what Semver is. No, changing private interfaces does NOT increase major version - why do you think that Semver specifies that you must declare a public API? This would also mean any bugfixes would result in major bumps, but they don’t, because not every interface change is treated equally.

You also skipped the actual question. What are all of Firefoxes interfaces? Is user flow itself an interface?

That works for libraries, but applications? What is the interface you’re looking at for backwards compatibility? Towards websites, towards workflows, towards CLI arguments, towards ABI, or something else?

There’s also the disadvantage of being perceived as moving slower than the competition. If Chrome is at v162 and you’re at v3, people perceive the version numbers to reflect the quality and development. Shouldn’t be the case, but it is.

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Though you’d get the same speedup if you used SIMD intrinsics. This is just comparing non-SIMD to SIMD.

My guy. There is no open backend for Snap. If Ubuntu enshittifies Snap, nobody can host an alternate backend for them. How does the client being open source help you?

Wow, it looks exactly like when god changes the input from daytime to nighttime!