Is it only me or does arcan lack some catchy presentation ? This is not the first time I read through the documentation and find myself wanting screenshots or examples. Something that shows how far this is, what the next goals are etc. As it is now it seems like a great idea where I can’t say how much progress and manpower there is, to actually bring this project to the point it replaces current gnome/xfce/kde setups. There are some demos in the page linked by ansible-rs, but there may even be too much (textual) information.
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It was born, and pays homage, to an era of riddles (see also: search lores) and is deliberately disseminated backwards from drawing the outline ‘and then the rest of the damn owl’. Ted Nelson brushes on the dissemination problem in this series (and he had it easy.) “I have had a hard time explaining what the web isn’t because most people can only imagine what they have already seen.”. The entire series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4 is worth revisiting periodically.
This doesn’t feel like a concrete proposal. Compare and contrast with this 2006 presentation, particularly the demos starting at 40min. They showed that security and accessibility can be retrofitted onto arbitrary windowing environments, if we’re willing to commit to using capability-oriented designs.
It is a concrete one but not a complete one - I only brought in enough overlap with accessibility as scaffolding / foreshadowing. The full writeup on the security aspects, examples on threat models and mitigation itself is a very long read and a complicated write; my day job is in malware reversing, not system graphics.
The argument here would be that active capability set and capability granularity is dynamic. As an example, Working while at a security conference or airport to/from one is very different from the comforts of your home, as are the state transitions. Which model should be the default? well neither.
I have very little faith in hardware enforced virtualisation for protection or the softer ‘stitched together from barely working OS primitives’ like docker or the windows one in the linked presentation (heck toy malware has used the latter to hide). One of my test benches is thus cluster of devices that are preimaged with one piece of common software, say a browser, lying in wait.
When I open a new tab on whatever machine I am on with access to this setup, that browser instance gets cast via the tools in the article, I do my thing and when it I “close” it the device reboots and reimages. If some monitor trigger happens (memory allocation patterns, disk use, …) it also compresses a diff to the reference and adds it to the triage pile.
This is not for everyone, but the underlying mechanisms scale from ‘running client natively’ to ‘inside a VM, passing descriptor tokens’ to this networked form and can transition between these states. The combined ‘interaction, presentation and threat’- model is the set of scripts that is your WM.
Is it only me or does arcan lack some catchy presentation ? This is not the first time I read through the documentation and find myself wanting screenshots or examples. Something that shows how far this is, what the next goals are etc. As it is now it seems like a great idea where I can’t say how much progress and manpower there is, to actually bring this project to the point it replaces current gnome/xfce/kde setups. There are some demos in the page linked by ansible-rs, but there may even be too much (textual) information.
Ouch, I’ll save that quote.
Is there something informative in there? I waded through screenfuls of clever ranting and gave up.
I really wish I could learn about Arcan in something other than riddles.
It was born, and pays homage, to an era of riddles (see also: search lores) and is deliberately disseminated backwards from drawing the outline ‘and then the rest of the damn owl’. Ted Nelson brushes on the dissemination problem in this series (and he had it easy.) “I have had a hard time explaining what the web isn’t because most people can only imagine what they have already seen.”. The entire series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4 is worth revisiting periodically.
About page for Arcan - because I don’t recall hearing much about it before now.
Looking forward to the critique of other models and the explanation of why UI toolkits need to die.
This doesn’t feel like a concrete proposal. Compare and contrast with this 2006 presentation, particularly the demos starting at 40min. They showed that security and accessibility can be retrofitted onto arbitrary windowing environments, if we’re willing to commit to using capability-oriented designs.
It is a concrete one but not a complete one - I only brought in enough overlap with accessibility as scaffolding / foreshadowing. The full writeup on the security aspects, examples on threat models and mitigation itself is a very long read and a complicated write; my day job is in malware reversing, not system graphics.
The argument here would be that active capability set and capability granularity is dynamic. As an example, Working while at a security conference or airport to/from one is very different from the comforts of your home, as are the state transitions. Which model should be the default? well neither.
I have very little faith in hardware enforced virtualisation for protection or the softer ‘stitched together from barely working OS primitives’ like docker or the windows one in the linked presentation (heck toy malware has used the latter to hide). One of my test benches is thus cluster of devices that are preimaged with one piece of common software, say a browser, lying in wait.
When I open a new tab on whatever machine I am on with access to this setup, that browser instance gets cast via the tools in the article, I do my thing and when it I “close” it the device reboots and reimages. If some monitor trigger happens (memory allocation patterns, disk use, …) it also compresses a diff to the reference and adds it to the triage pile.
This is not for everyone, but the underlying mechanisms scale from ‘running client natively’ to ‘inside a VM, passing descriptor tokens’ to this networked form and can transition between these states. The combined ‘interaction, presentation and threat’- model is the set of scripts that is your WM.