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by foul 3y ago
>Flutter works by throwing away the native UI toolkits provided by the platform and rendering everything from scratch using OpenGL et al. Flutter leverages GTK3 heavily on Linux. Isn't that the case for other desktop OSes, like, it
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by foul 3y ago
Why don't you host an instance of snac and read posts from there? https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
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by foul 3y ago
If someone wishes for a thriving Fediverse, Mastodon HAS to die. And Misskey and Pleroma (and Akkoma, and Takahe) too. The way these apps are shaped requires a subscription model or a big thankless spender to keep them afloat, they will soo
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by foul 4y ago
Some of his employees may as well accept the challenge, quit his firm and take 3 WFH jobs at once, aha!
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by foul 4y ago
I think Italy's leaders and cultural champions' aim is to regard Italy as "The cultural backbone of the world", because to be a superpower you have to lead others... They mostly try to market Italian landmarks and folklo
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by foul 4y ago
The web is strictly textual too. The web browser isn't. So that boils to Xanadu having nothing to prove in practice. Obviously atm it's doomed and you're right.
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by foul 4y ago
Gravatar, "Login with X", Oauth, OpenID, W3c Solid, Metamask. The idea started with having an identity source-of-truth across websites but it's used to pass personal data around webapps, for e-commerce too.
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by foul 4y ago
Meta tolerates them because content is reproduced verbatim and because they view Tiktok as Musical.ly. Thus they probably steal revenue to Instagram but generates it nonetheless by allowing Meta users to consume that same (mostly dull) cont
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by foul 4y ago
In the best case it will speak ActivityPub as to embrace, extend and extinguish. Because all this effort is, imho obviously, an EEE tactic.
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by foul 4y ago
Didn't know that the SumatraPDF author had a blog, loved the read
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by foul 4y ago
"Skill Issue"
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by foul 4y ago
People in developed world (and most of all males) not getting laid, marrying, having sons, is a big problem. But I see as much bad as a problem the abundance of fearmongering news like that on root, which creates big awe for paranoia, which
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by foul 4y ago
Plus, you have to fight a lot with canvas and resource usage, compared to spitting markup with events around in the DOM
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by foul 4y ago
Strangely enough, even in this video, everyone notice how you're taken to make tradeoffs between coherence and cleanliness vs performance-oriented code in langs like C++, while the Clean Code book was exemplified in Java (so most of pe
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by foul 4y ago
Since some months, it's more a users' bad sec practice: Telegram offers on sale virtual numbers[1] with a crypto dumbery, you can buy a virtual number for 40-something $ and then log in with their wallet. Should be safer than havi
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by foul 4y ago
They are!
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by foul 4y ago
"Mostly" is there exactly because they trade risk for power (and a virtually endless profit, in the best case scenario). Edit: With that power they may notice a gap in capital during a financial crisis, and they may force the firm
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by foul 4y ago
> The function of the CEO of a publicly traded company is to execute on major objectives of the firm. Amongst the major objectives of a firm there is honoring debts and shareholders are mostly creditors.
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by foul 4y ago
Software is still easier and cheaper to change than what you'd spend for changing hardware, data and users. It's every time a multi-year project for big programs because of data and accustoming users for their habits and needs.
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by foul 4y ago
Until you try to either cram it into Excel, work with different encodings or pass it around different software platforms (even your lang vs JS), no difference. CSV has been abused a lot to make it work on conflicting use-cases, JSON handles
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by foul 4y ago
I LOVE that disclaimer thumbnail.
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by foul 4y ago
I can't do anything but reject his claims when he presents Instagram as proof. It's crazy to think seriously that the value was created by the 13 employees + founder of an electronic glossy billboard. Influencers and advertisers i
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by foul 4y ago
Yeah, they installed mediawiki or something similar IIRC in the first years, but did they ever enabled public contributions through it? I recall the Assange committee have always tried to get the leaks through other means, the anonymous&#x2
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by foul 4y ago
Like Wikileaks' name. There was not really much "wiki" in wikileaks.
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by foul 4y ago
Eternal september is a problem if you depend from someone else for your fediverse instance. If you rely on your own server, you have an atom button for blocking traffic from selected instances at least at firewall level. It is not usenet or
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by foul 4y ago
It may happen. It would kill both projects, because Rust is arguably future-proof in its syntax.
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by foul 4y ago
Ah, that. Wayland by itself doesn't prevent nothing from keylogging, you can only be sure that (in GNOME or KDE cinematic universe) keylogging by listening on X-things or the socket can be achieved only tampering with LD_PRELOAD or the
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by foul 4y ago
You are not aware about Xenocara. X11 is an awareless argument.
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by foul 4y ago
I'm seeing Thomas Dickey (xterm mantainer) and some other new people, along with Coopersmith who is a old-timer in Xorg development, slowly taking over Xorg. I find myopic that GNOME and KDE are working towards a cohesive user computin
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by foul 4y ago
The "classic" elements of Mac OS X were out in 2001 and then Apple made the UX more and more convergent to iPhones and iPads. Enterprise programming, including FOSS, from the '00s to our days got more and more hooked to Apple

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