On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 6:21:21 PM UTC-4, Shane Optima wrote: > On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 5:27:12 PM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: > > I get the feeling when you talk about people contributing, you mean > > /other/ people. That's fine, but in my estimation what you're proposing > > would take under 30 lines of bash code. > > I think I've already covered this exact as comprehensively as can be done > without writing you an actual autobiographical novel > > What the hell, I'll try again anyway. Yes, I could do it. Yes, it would in > the end be a very small project (that's the entire point of suggesting it.) > Yes, it would be interesting and useful. It would also be useful for me to > figure out why Thunderbird is derping out again, learn Javascript, migrate > all of my boxes to COW filesystems (which entails researching and choosing > between ZFS, btrfs or bcachefs), and also do several thousand things that > *aren't* computer-related, many of which either involve my son or attempting > to make money doing non-IT things. > > To the extent that I am talking about this specific issue and not "ZOMG > systemd sucks, why haven't you built Alpine Templates that can do 3d gaming, > XFCE sucks why not use ObscureWM Deluxe, etc.", I was trying to be > considerate and constructive. I even mentioned semi-seriously how this could > (down the road) be part of a monetization scheme for Qubes, but despite all > of that you still managed to play the lazy, self-absorbed noob card. > Congratulations. > > If you can send me a package of free time, I would be more than happy to give > it a shot right away. As it is now, if it really is that so amazingly simple > as to hardly be worth mentioning and yet no one has done it, then I submit > that I have already made a "contribution" and it is to point out that this > thing *should be done*: > > *** > > Chris: "The schoolhouse is on fire!" > > Volunteer Fireman: "Have you ever hooked a firehose up to a hydrant before?" > > Chris: "No, uh, but I mean it's on fire *right now* and..." > > Volunteer Fireman: "Look, it's really quite simple. And this would be a great > opportunity for you learn something. Nothing beats hands-on experience." > > > *** > > Chris: "If you had enough time to write *all of that*..." > > Me: "Then perhaps you'd do me the courtesy of reading it instead of > attempting to use it (with no trace of irony) as a evidence of my sloth?" > > Maybe if you (or someone) could write a Firefox extension to modify all > browser page titles to be a concatenation of the page title and a short token > of characters generated from a salted hash of the URL (so that I don't have > to deal with any more hyperbole out of people like M. Ouelette), I could > write the Dom0 bash bit. Or vice versa. Couldn't promise delivery on a tight > deadline, though.
I'd rather not have such a tool sitting there "enabled". lol -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/6ea39552-b8e2-4aba-8a35-3511333a3b89%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
