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The past, present and future of image formats(dither8.xyz)
80 points by flatlanderwoman 5y ago|55 comments
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Arx Fatalis is a pretty obscure game from 2002, which can be bought from GOG or Steam. Here is a review for those interested in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Valmsq_Ku90 If you want to try this, use a developmen
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Arx Libertatis – source port of Arx Fatalis(arx-libertatis.org)
1 points by flatlanderwoman 6y ago|1 comments
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I'm handing over maintenance of wlroots and sway to Simon Ser(drewdevault.com)
6 points by flatlanderwoman 6y ago|0 comments
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Biggest problem I had with Void, was that the musl libc support wasn't as good as Alpine. This is because Void gives you the choice between glibc and musl. Therefore the team spreads themselves thin trying to support both. So some pack
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
I use it and it works quite fine! Just a few differences you need to learn, all of which are noted on their concise wiki. It's best to think of Arch as the fallback distro, therefore all other information is obtained from the Arch wiki
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
I am using Artix right now. Arch with no systemd. It has it own repos with -s6 -runit and -openrc packages, and uses the Arch repos for fallback. It's been pretty smooth sailing just a few slight quirks you need to keep in mind.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Good link thanks! Added to article.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Even Markdown hasn't sorted this out yet though. CommonMark currently has no tables, it's up to other markdown dialects to add it. Related discussion: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/tables-in-pure-markdown&#x2F
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Emoji's are part of Unicode. Not bloat.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
The intention isn't to replace HTTP entirely. By using an incompatible protocol, a hard line is drawn.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
> meaning the net effect is just to make browsers more complicated. Maybe it would, slightly. But would it make the browser anymore complicated then the unessential features that Firefox has in its default build right now? Pocket integra
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
> Building separate protocols for all the various use-cases of the web would be interesting, but would still need some interconnection. Whilst using Castor, www urls would auto-open in Firefox, and the other way around.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
A Gemini implementation in JS: https://github.com/derhuerst/gemini
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
I don't think this would be any better then a static site generator, or even something like Mastodon (assuming it has markdown support).
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
If one were after a minimalist browser they would be better of with something like NetSurf. But that puts it at odds with 90% of the current web. Everything I find on Gemini will be compatible with my browser.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
So did I. But I'm not going to let one drawback distract me from something otherwise very good, nothing is perfect after all. I can even understand why they did it. To keep the doc format very simple. I hope that more clients will add
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Quote from project FAQ: > Gemini has no support for caching, compression, or resumption of interrupted downloads. As such, it's not very well suited to distributing large files, for values of "large" which depend upon the
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
> How is a network protocol proof against being used to transport CSS files? Does the network stack inspect what you're shipping and ensure you're only sending 100% Pure Plain Text? It's just like the web, the transport pr
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A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web(toffelblog.xyz)
415 points by flatlanderwoman 6y ago|347 comments
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
I probably won't run anything besides Firefox for my web browser. But I see the web as broken beyond repair in regards to the way it is. So I am more interested in moving away from the web. Things like using terminal programs (youtube-
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OpenMW Spotlight: Turning the Pages(openmw.org)
1 points by flatlanderwoman 6y ago|0 comments
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
Linux has a "fix the source and recompile" mentality to backwards compatibility.
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by flatlanderwoman 6y ago
I've been playing Deus Ex from GOG.com on Linux (under Wine) myself and it has worked great. But I think that an open-source release of Unreal Engine 1 that could potentially give us the power to fix these issues, would be great. The f
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RSS: Firefox add-on that reveals RSS feeds while browsing(addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by flatlanderwoman 6y ago|0 comments