mid-kid

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by mid-kid 2y ago
Nah, the idea is that if anyone wants to continue it, they can fork it and create their own infrastructure and management, instead of trying to preserve the existing way things are ran.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
While it sounds great that it's finally getting some much-needed love, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of "we need to have everything systemd has". It's good to be opinionated and come up with solutions of your own
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I used funtoo a bit back in the day, and have seen a few of the development videos that drobbins posted. While some funtoo features have been backported to portage and gentoo (git support in portage, distribution kernels), I wish more would
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Barcelona is surprisingly competitive in the tech sector. Primarily foreign companies though.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Kitty's standard is described for other people to implement both emulators and clients for. Since this relationship already exists, there's enough friction between emulators implementing new features, and clients actually using th
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I kind of lament that a format that was invented for dot matrix printers, where switching heads is a costly operation, transfer speeds don't matter since moving the head is a bottleneck, and color accuracy doesn't matter as the te
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I think Blender applies - it's risen from the ashes and is used in commercial productions a lot in recent memory.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
If there's any language where that ramp-up time might not even be a problem, it's Lua.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I would disagree. While I was a bit of an outlier and would use my phone primarily for tinkering, I would also use it to go down rabbit holes on wikipedia, play video games, read books and watch shows. Phones are glorified consumption devic
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Recent (like 5+ years) versions of "ldd" will not invoke the target binary either. See: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/manpages/ldd.1.en.html#...
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Are you sure you would've preferred the xz author to not have to jump through all the hoops they had to, and instead just press upload and boom everyone has it, like it has happened countless times in the node ecosystem? Maintainers ar
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Last I checked meson supports unit testing shared libraries just fine, as well as building both static and shared libraries "both_libraries()". This integrates fine with testing, though it modifies the binaries' rpath for lib
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by mid-kid 2y ago
While I'd love to see good tooling for AppImages appear, it's just not made for it. The fundamental problem is that AppImages are literally just an archive with a bunch of files in them, including libraries and other expected syst
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I use librera reader and I have no ads, are you sure you're using the F-Droid version of the app? If you're not, I suggest installing it through F-Droid, as the play store version may have proprietary code in it. Many apps have di
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by mid-kid 2y ago
"insecure" is a strong word that shouldn't be used willy-nilly like that. F-Droid recompiles all of its applications to ensure that everything in them is free software, and that the source code provided by the upstream is act
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by mid-kid 2y ago
You're right, but I don't think there's any incentive to do it. They pride themselves on having no tracking or otherwise user information (not even app popularity statistics), and adding any form of payment would require mana
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Adware is marked as an Anti-Feature in the details of an app in F-Droid[1]. Since non-free software is not allowed on F-Droid, and most Ad platforms aren't free software, you're unlikely to find any, though. There's currently
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by mid-kid 2y ago
This sounds like a great way to cause Denial-of-Service attacks.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I mean, f-droid allows adding custom repositories that don't follow the main one's rules. There's a decent amount of apps that do this for one reason or another. Other apps, like for example OSMAnd, have a special f-droid bui
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I'm not entirely sure why this is a problem. Nothing's stopping you from using f-droid as an app source as well as some other store - it doesn't need to cover every use case. It's already a viable alternative for apps wh
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by mid-kid 2y ago
> a ninja compatible format can be generated but is not the default The suggested flag was not for a "ninja compatible format", but to exclude things from the makefile snippet that ninja doesn't understand (yet). It would
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by mid-kid 2y ago
So, in short, all of this was user error (they double-saved pictures both in files and in the potos app), and we spent a week fear-mongering about privacy because too few people understand how filesystems work anymore?
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by mid-kid 2y ago
This is really annoying when trying to share gifs across platforms. I can't export a "gif" (.mp4) from telegram and upload it to Discord and display it like a gif instead of a click-to-play video, even though discord uses .mp
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by mid-kid 2y ago
My primary concern with "anti-theft" features is that in a lot of cases they cause e-waste due to people forgetting their accounts/passwords, or giving away their devices without "properly" resetting it, often both
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by mid-kid 2y ago
I'd say the job of an operating system is to host applications, provide interfaces for communication and I/O, and provide access to the hardware. Sound familiar? (Operating system is a very vaguely defined term)
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Nah, you can override the flags and still will remain working, but you have to be aware of it and figure out how to change the flags of a project properly.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
You're right, but it's also significantly more inconvenient.
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by mid-kid 2y ago
The new flags apply regardless of -std value, as does -fno-common
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Plenty of software broke as a result of these flags, gentoo has a tracker here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=870412&hid... As per my own experiences so far, we maintain an older version of GCC for m
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by mid-kid 2y ago
Well, yeah, for maintained upstreams. I sometimes need to build older versions of software and simply use unmaintained software, for which these changes are a bit of a pain, along with -fno-common before it.

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