antisol

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by antisol 9mo ago
you misspelled "asterisk"
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by antisol 9mo ago
> you can’t complain the code isn’t open source (unless, of course, the code isn't licensed under an OSI-approved license. Parent didn't actually specify which license the hypothetical not-windows-11 was being "ope
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by antisol 9mo ago
well said!
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by antisol 9mo ago
> - Make sure it looks the exact same across all browsers > How doable is it with vanilla css? It's not doable with your fancy frontend framework and your 20 imports and your ten thousand lines of typescript. "Mak
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by antisol 9mo ago
and we have a winner for the coveted "best comment I'm going to read all week" award!
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by antisol 9mo ago
If all of the enforcement bodies and normal legal peaceful channels available to you don’t agree with your assessment there is probably a “why” Yeah, like maybe you didn't have $50,000 to appeal a bad decision made because a ma
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by antisol 9mo ago
> if you are disabling all signals from your mobile device, what’s the point of even carrying it? 1. Solitaire when I'm bored 2. Being able to switch it back on if I need to access a network for some reason. (not that you&#x
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by antisol 9mo ago
Your options include: https://brave.com/download/ https://blokada.org/ :)
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by antisol 9mo ago
> You know that moment when you’re chatting with a friend about needing new sneakers and then like magic, every app you open is suddenly plastered with shoe ads? Sure don't.
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by antisol 9mo ago
It’s like having a guest room in your house. The app can visit, but it doesn’t get to rearrange your furniture or go through your mail. Yep. I came here to say "Well hi there chatgpt, I recognise your writing style anywher
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by antisol 9mo ago
https://youtu.be/CPRvc2UMeMI It's really really not a new sentiment. From the description on this 14-year-old video: An older song, from back in the days of XP and OS X.3.
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by antisol 9mo ago
yeah, fair. There is a big learning curve for an entire desktop environment. And that's before you start getting into trying to do super-custom things and replicate exactly what you had on windows. I've always held that switchin
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by antisol 9mo ago
> I'll also create a feature request for resizing/stacking of rows. That's the spirit! Please do file feature requests with the docks that you think might be close to what you want. A lot of foss projects are prett
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by antisol 9mo ago
I think that this is probably the most realistic / sensible suggestion here if you want to preserve digital data for as long as possible. (and assuming you don't have millions of dollars handy to put towards this goal - I could pr
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by antisol 9mo ago
I can't resist bragging: I'm in the top 5% of all seti@home contributors. I'm in the top 2000 overall and I'm in the top 50 in Australia. According to boincstats I Accumulated more credit than 99.90166% of all SETI@Home
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by antisol 9mo ago
Who said anything about redhat maintaining anything?
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by antisol 9mo ago
Right. So in other words you're now saying that I do have to use red hat's products, even if I don't want to, if that's what my customers want. (and just to head off your next comment, no, it's not my choice, beca
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by antisol 9mo ago
Oh, I don't? This is news. So to be clear, you're saying that you've spoken to the management at my company and convinced them to switch away from redhat? If you could post a link to a copy of the email from the higher-ups, j
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by antisol 9mo ago
Impossible, huh? May I suggest Xephyr, which will give you the X11 sandboxing that wayland people like to claim is impossible under X, using tech that's been around for about 20 years. And you won't even need to replace your entir
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by antisol 9mo ago
> The original developers judged Xorg is really not saveable. No, the orignal developers judged that they couldn't be bothered saving it . This has no relationship with whether it can be saved. > Any extra effort on X11 might he
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by antisol 9mo ago
There are a bunch of legitimate issues with X. For example there's tons of legacy cruft in there intended for working with hardware that hasn't been in use since circa 1992. Things like monochrome 3D displays with weird resoluti
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by antisol 9mo ago
Oh good! This is great news! So you've managed to get redhat to commit to continue to package an X server, then? I'm impressed by this achievement and send my thanks for your efforts - they've been trying to drop it for a whi
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by antisol 9mo ago
I just thought I'd summarise this article for anybody who doesn't have the time to read the whole thing: No. Wayland still has hilariously terrible bugs and can't adequately do very basic things we have been doing for ~30 yea
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by antisol 9mo ago
I just wanted to say thanks - I read the unix-hater's handbook about 15 years ago and it taught me a LOT, maybe even changed my life. The chapter on X was particularly memorable and entertaining. Thanks!
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by antisol 9mo ago
Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.
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by antisol 10mo ago
1. fair enough 2. "How would you do in this situation, to have the video stream in the browser, with as low CPU usage as possible?" Since it's being consumed on (only) the local machine you've got an excellent situatio
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by antisol 10mo ago
> How would you do this ? It depends. I have many questions. > My goal is to minimize CPU usage on the computer. Would h264 compression be a good thing here given source and destination are the same machine? No. > Other ideas? 1. W
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by antisol 10mo ago
> God knows what process led them to do video streaming for showing their AI agent work in the first place. This was my first thought, too.
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by antisol 10mo ago
From TFA: Implementation complexity: h264 Stream: 3 months of rust JPEG Spam: fetch() in a loop I don't see how it could have taken 3 months to read up on existing technologies. And that "3 month" number i
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by antisol 10mo ago
Just wait till the next version. Mozilla love re-enabling stuff you've explicitly turned off a hundred times. Terrible hamburger menus, threaded messages in thunderbird. I've seen it so many times.

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