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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Artix Linux and Xlibre
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 13:36:21 -0700
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 19:56:46 -0000 (UTC)
Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

> They partially have a point.  The X11 protocol is from the era of
> most isolated systems on local in building networks without general
> internet connectivity.  Under X, any program can "screen shot" any
> other window, and/or listen in to the keystrokes being fed to the
> window with keyboard focus.

Oh, definitely not arguing for Xwindows as a model of good design, in a
security sense or otherwise. It's been ripe for replacement for *many*
a year now - *provided* that the replacement actually fills the real
needs that the original did (if poorly.)

> It's the mindset of the idiot savant who is so focused upon his
> little sliver of the world that he completely overlooks everything
> else around him.

Sure seems that way. It's one thing to hyper-focus on your particular
way of working when building a thing for yourself (and, by extension,
people like you,) but when your expressed aim is to replace a whole
huge chunk of infrastructure used by countless parties in any number of
use cases and yet you refuse to consider other people's needs, you
deserve a hearty whack from a clown-hammer with the hilt inscribed:
MECHANISM, NOT POLICY.