Thanks, I hadn't heard of that. Time to add a few hundred lines to my dotfiles :)
What makes you think XDG doesn't apply to non GUI apps?
Instant messaging.
20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.
The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.
Today's kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.
Article author seems to have completely fabricated the "10 more". There are no quotes from anyone even hinting at more whistleblowers existing, let alone ten more.
I am sad that the current generation of federated social media/networks still doesn't have much, if any, implementation of web of trust functionality. I believe that's the only solution to bots/AI/etc content in the future. Show me content from people/accounts/profiles I trust, and accounts they trust, etc. When I see spam or scams or other misbehavior, show me the trust chain connecting me to it so I can sever it at the appropriate level instead of having to block individual accounts. (e.g. "sorry mom, you've trusted too many political frauds, I'm going to stop trusting people you trust")
Take everything you feel about this, and apply it to everyone you know who looks down on their peers who don't drink.
To be fair, CD/DVD burning peaked and declined extremely quickly in comparison to most other media technology. We went from nobody having a CD burner to most people ditching DVDs for blu ray and/or streaming in what, 15 years?
Because more people playing on Linux means more games get published for Linux, which is an outcome we want.
My proposal is for a mandated label on software and hardware to indicate that it will stop working when some online service goes offline.
https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/
Students don't know what files and folders are, professors say A whole generation has grown up with powerful search functions, and don't think about computers the same way.
Apparently this has become a widespread problem in colleges starting in the last decade.
Web of trust is the solution. Show me vote totals that only count people I trust, 90% of people they trust, 81% of people they trust, etc. (0.9 multiplier should be configurable if possible!)
That name is decades old. XDG stands for "Cross Desktop Group".
A "pure" X environment (e.g.
startx xterm
) also doesn't define those variables, but many desktop environments do, just like many shell configurations do.