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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm more excited about their possible contributions to the xdg portals.

Flatpaks need a more mature permission system that puts the user in control so that DE & standalone app store devs can make it powerful enough for the experienced user and easy enough for casual users.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Eww. Embrace, extend, extinguish?

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[–] 0t79JeIfK01RHyzo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago*

I think Flathub has actually received financial support from one of the previous Google CEO’s non profits in the past.

This is a request for $100k in funding from Flathub. On this page it states

The Open Source Software Virtual Incubator is now archived, but proposals are still available to view in this repository. Plaintext Group was a nonpartisan, technology innovation policy initiative developed by Schmidt Futures. For more information, see https://www.schmidtfutures.com/our-work/plaintext/.

Anyway, I think it’s fine, and have previously considered the governance of the Gnome Foundation as more weird.

While the GNOME Project was founded in 1997,[7]the GNOME Foundation was officially founded on 5 March 2001[1] by Compaq, Eazel, Helix Code, IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and VA Linux Systems

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Chill out. They've release debs and rpms for years as well, is that EEE?

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I think maybe CameronDev assumed this meant running flatpak packages inside Chrome which was actually my first interpretation as well

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[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I'd be more impressed if they stopped bundling random crap. It's their unwillingness to use upstream's dependencies and toolchains that makes Chromium a nightmare to package on Gentoo, and flatpaks are not going to fix that. They bundle clang, rust, and so many additional libraries that the "must keep bundled version to prevent breakage" list is almost 300 items long. This is not the correct way to ensure reproducibility, guys.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

chromium seems to serve as a basis for google dominance in the browser space so it makes sense that they would intentionally fuck with it in a way that doesn't let others have full control.

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[–] echo@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

I’ve been using the Flatpak version of Ungoogled Chromium for a while now (for websites that don’t work natively with Librewolf). Is this really that new?

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought that Flatpak breaks unprivileged user namespaces

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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

Flatpak does block userns. Apps on Android don't get unprivileged user namespaces, and Chromium is at its strongest on Android. So I have to assume there is some way of making it secure inside an app sandbox.

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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 months ago*

I thought Chrome (and Vanadium on GrapheneOS) are usually preinstalled as system apps, does it have the same limitation?

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[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 2 months ago

Thankfully Librewolf still uses AppImage as an option.

The only Flatpak I bother with is the Kodi one because my distro has incompatible (read stable) library version on several things for compiling it and I'm considering just jumping to jellyfin for that, as well.