I know that there are people who cannot tell the difference between IDA and other tools. It is perfectly understandable that they would prefer free solutions (if the result is the same, why pay?) Our tools are used by the elite, as someone put it.
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I’d argue the most elite use
@radareorg with ghidra’s decompiler :)1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @Jaywalker @ilfak and
I wish, but the fact that https://github.com/radare/r2hate still exists paints a real bad picture for the entire project... (inb4 i’m bombarded with hate mail from the devs)
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How so? I don’t see the problem. If you don’t like how they run the project you can fork it.. that’s the beauty of open source
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Replying to @Jaywalker @andxoror and
No, the beauty of open source is collaboration and being able to work together on a shared goal. Forking (in the impactful sense, not the GitHub fork-and-merge sense) isn't a "beauty", it's a defense mechanism against toxic communities, like Radare's.
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Well, I guess it depends on your ideal end goal. My ideal end goal is everyone running their own individual forks of just about every software so that it fits their needs so uniquely specifically that only they can drive it. Like suckless tools! To that end, forking is beautiful!
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Replying to @Jaywalker @andxoror and
Unfortunately, nobody has time time to fork everything. I have a grand total of 21 custom patches I use for all software on my main workstation and that's already a bit silly. It's a lot easier when projects are friendly, and everyone can share their improvements.
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But “friendly” usually means bloat and bloat is a great place for bugs to live. Skinny and easily patchable is better. I don’t know off hand how many personal patches I have exactly, but it’s certainly similar if not more. I don’t consider it silly; it’s just *nix user endgame.
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Replying to @Jaywalker @marcan42 and
Fwiw i use Linux for years now and the quote "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing" still struck a nerve. The cost of maintaining seems underestimated in your approach. Yak shaving your shell and removing bash features you don't use because "bloat" has a cost.
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Replying to @Alexeyan2 @marcan42 and
The amount of time I save doing my day to day tasks thanks to my highly tuned and configured environment has more than covered the cost of investment to build and maintain it. That said, I am the only person it could ever possibly serve.
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I tune and configure my software to serve my needs too, I just do it by ticking boxes in config UIs or editing config files or writing scripts in supported scripting language and APIs, instead of faffing with a pile of patch files.
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Replying to @marcan42 @Jaywalker and
I still run Gentoo, among other things, because when I *do* need an unsupported feature it makes it extremely easy to patch, for that 1% of cases. The other 99%, stock software is fine.
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Replying to @marcan42 @Alexeyan2 and
Not usually a checkbox in kde to enable vim bindings or otherwise sensibly control the whole system with my mouse disabled. Not to mention that I use a non-standard keyboard layout that isnt shipped by default with any distro Ive found which also needs patches applied to software
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