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  • The really short version is that the Wayland designers are still debating how to best allow clients to do certain things like intercept key presses or take screenshots in a safe way. The makers of wlroots on which Sway is based got tired of waiting for a standard and safe way to do those things and added their own insecure and nonstandard APIs for allowing that.

    That said, X11’s way of doing those (and many other) things is if anything more insecure than wlroots’ way.


  • The only one on your list I’ve ever touched is Weston.

    Feel free to ignore me if you’re married to that list but I’m a huge fan of Sway. I can’t imagine ever switching. It’s pretty much “i3: Wayland Edition”.

    I can see not wanting to use it because it’s based on wlroots, though. The nonstandard wlroots extensions to the Wayland protocol are a bit controversial and have security implications. (Though no more security implications than X11, which I get doesn’t inspire confidence.)



  • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeetoMemes@lemmy.mlwhat if?
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    1 year ago

    Just my own $0.02, but…

    If people are hoarding and stockpiling, at least part of the response needs to be to look at the motivation these people have to stockpile and address that motivation. A hoarding problem is probably a valuable signal of some deep societal issue of distribution that needs resolved.

    The vast majority of scarcity we face in this capitalist-controlled world is manufactured, so I wouldn’t think actual scarcity would often be an issue, but if hypothetically it was and someone was stockpiling more than they could use of some basic need like food allowing others to starve, I’d say the starving taking the surplus (the portion the stockpiler can’t use) by force would be justice.