Yeah. Here I am 26 days later effectively repeating the meme because I’ve started writing a project on Rust

No they probably wanted to hear how great some random Arch derivatives that does that thing 3 people are talking about

I’m not comfortable that Fedora and derivatives give the same stability opportunity as Atomic distros

Atomic distros + distrobox/toolbx. Bluefin is a good start for general desktop or Bazzite for gaming (But Bluefin can be more stable, I use it for some games with steam in flatpak). If something breaks roll back to any release in the last 90 days with a single command. Install all of your packages in a distrobox (Arch if you need it). Otherwise in general Fedora is pretty good.

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I don’t understand how “appalled” being strong language is so controversial, maybe everyone here is just a rude little shit.

I would have worded it like so:

Hi, I’m concerned about the BLOBs used in this repo as they are a security risk, making the code less auditable. It looks like we could generate these BLOBs in a github action or something so we can keep the fast build process while making it easier to audit the code. I’m not exactly sure how to go about this myself but I’ve done similar things in other projects, maybe you could point me in the right direction as I am unfamiliar with the ventoy build process? Thanks for the really cool project, and hopefully we can sort this out easily. Looking forward to your response.

I did it with less anger and entitlement and in less words

I’m not saying don’t criticise it. It’s about communication. The language isn’t very good. See my other comments

Is this not rude:

I checked the code and I’m appalled. There are more BLOBs than source code

And this:

I understand that removing BLOBs isn’t a priority over new and shiny features. But due to recent events, this should be rethought.

We didn’t like it when MS made an issue trying to direct ffmpeg

They should have opened with a complement or asked for directions if they didn’t know. In this message “Thank You” means fuck all

I didn’t say they’re wrong it’s the way they communicated which I found off-putting and Gordon Ramsay -esque

I mean if I got an issue that sounded that entitled and this is something I do in my spare time, I’d probably ignore it.

My point is they could have worded it better and it might have gotten a response. If you ask kindly about the BLOBs and maybe for some help to push you in the right direction instead of saying “I don’t know”, then it is fair to call the maintainer rude for ignoring it completely.

I haven’t read to far into this but the issue is completely devoid of contributors and maintainers. I find the wording of the issue quite concerning:

Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I’m appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/cryptsetup https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/Unix/ventoy_unix https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f894657802/DMSETUP

There is no reason to have those not be build in the release process. Of course it’s convenient, they are prebuild, it’s fast and nobody has a problem with it.

Recent events however showed that these BLOBs can contain everything and nothing. The build instructions would not produce the exact same executable for everyone. It’s better to have GitHub build it on-push and use them out of the build cache.

I would do it myself, but unfortunately I’m not familiar enough with the Ventoy build process to actually do it. I understand that removing BLOBs isn’t a priority over new and shiny features. But due to recent events, this should be rethought.

Thank you for reading this and I hope for a productive conversation

This is free software, they don’t owe you anything and this kind of language sounds angry and entitled. You can’t just Gordon Ramsay on someone else’s codebase.

Binary Large OBject

Also GitHub has full-text search and doesn’t filter profanities if you’re looking for material

Developers who are not willing to learn something new and not adapt are the worst

I think you mean people in general. Life is short, try some stuff, take risks

Does it show in the post body?

I’ve been keeping an eye on bevy, it looks really cool. I’ll probably make something with it one day when their ECS gets support for entity relationships (which appears to be in the pipeline). A really cool project though, basically looks like everything I’ve wanted out of a C++ engine which I can’t really use due to build system mixing.

Was that “The C Programming Language”? I learned C from that after a bit of C++ and it made everything make so much sense. C is refreshingly simple.

I’ve heard templates are a thing of note when it comes to complications but not sure

It’s funny because that is the one feature I really wish C had, I can live without member functions but templates or even a good generics system would be great. I did some C# with MonoGame and FNA. Language has gotten better as of late but idk about performance, way better than VB.

Yeah I meant for that to be a bit inflammatory. I actually don’t mind python apart from the execution speed, but the indentation I find makes it more difficult to read stuff that is extremely nested. I use it mostly for creating plots and basic stuff for my science degree but for any serious project I wouldn’t consider it