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This Month in Redox – January 2025(redox-os.org)
2 points by popcar2 2y ago|0 comments
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by popcar2 2y ago
You may enjoy sites like Minifeed[1], Kagi's SmallWeb[2] and Wiby[3]. These are some neat sites that let you discover random blogs and personal sites and are very fun to sift through and read something interesting. Since we're sel
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by popcar2 2y ago
Cool stuff, I like how clean the app looks. Since it's on Electron, is there any chance it can run as a web app? I think there would be a lot of excitement for a web-based video editor that's actually decent to use, even if it doe
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by popcar2 2y ago
If you'd like to search for how to fix a technical problem and want the first page of results to be articles saying "download/buy our product to fix it now!", then the list probably isn't for you. There are quite a
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by popcar2 2y ago
They aren't, that's why they're blocked. You can see more detail in the issues but the blocked corporate blogs often make clickbait to advertise their product, like https://www.ccleaner.com/knowledge/wind
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by popcar2 2y ago
Hi! I'm mostly going through them manually. Not all of the domains in the list are literally spam - most of the list also includes misleading sites like corporate blogs that trick people into downloading their software. You might be in
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by popcar2 2y ago
This doesn't block you from visiting MSN, but it does stop their articles from appearing in search. The reason is that MSN just re-hosts articles from other sites rather than provide anything of value. MSN posts often outrank their ori
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by popcar2 2y ago
Yep. If all else fails, the list is CC0 so anyone can fork it and carry the torch hopefully!
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by popcar2 2y ago
I'll manually review all the block/unblock requests, and you can open a discussion in the issues page. There's a template and tag for discussion posts.
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by popcar2 2y ago
I think this would block you from visiting the websites, but they'd still show up on search results. uBlacklist doesn't block them, but rather just hides them for search engines which IMO is a better approach.
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by popcar2 2y ago
Even Google is plagued by spam, I've tried all sorts of search techniques and alternative engines but I feel like the only solution seems to be doing things manually. I was already starting to block things by myself but I thought it&
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by popcar2 2y ago
I don't think AI search engines are a proper replacement for regular ones. The summaries are almost always worse than finding a proper article, which gives better context and editing (and doesn't make many subtle mistakes).
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Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results(github.com)
225 points by popcar2 2y ago|84 comments
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by popcar2 2y ago
OpenGameArt has a section for music[0], itch.io also has a bunch of free music assets[1], but do check the license before using them. I use these often and there's some surprisingly great tracks there. [0]: https://opengamea
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by popcar2 2y ago
My friend, you just rediscovered Crazy Eights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eights
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by popcar2 2y ago
If you're playing with a friend group that has zero experience with card/board games, you need to ease them into the hobby with a game that's quick to explain and get into. If anything takes more than 10 minutes to explain th
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by popcar2 2y ago
Winlator will still be the best option in the near future but the community has been really wanting alternatives since Winlator isn't fully open source. The lead dev develops outside of the repo and appears every few months with an upd
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by popcar2 2y ago
I've only read like 20 pages but this is already hitting the nail on the head for me. I've tried many times to play specific games with friends on Tabletop Simulator, but more often than not we bounce off because it's too ted
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by popcar2 2y ago
I thought this post would recommend Batocera, which I think is probably the better option: https://batocera.org/ It's a Linux distro that turns any ancient machine into a retro emulation box that's heavily optimiz
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Blogs Are More Important Than Ever Now(popcar.bearblog.dev)
2 points by popcar2 2y ago|0 comments
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by popcar2 2y ago
This is a really neat article because the Godot engine is adding Ubershaders as well to fix shader compilation stuttering: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/90400
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by popcar2 2y ago
Not nearly as impressive as Sora. Sora was impressive because the clips were long and had lots of rapid movement since video models tend to fall apart when the movement isn't easy to predict. By comparison, the shots here are only a fe
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File Compression Is Awesome: A Practical Guide to File Compression(popcar.bearblog.dev)
3 points by popcar2 2y ago|1 comments
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by popcar2 2y ago
Just finished this blog post as a beginners guide to compressing everything, with the most recent tools and a quick summary of the best file formats & settings I've found.
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by popcar2 2y ago
Fun concept, really makes me want to play Legend of Grimrock 2 again. I don't know if the devs are here, but here's my feedback: * The wand's cooldown is way too low. It has infinite charge so there's no consequence to s
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by popcar2 2y ago
> Rust gamedev ecosystem lives on hype I've been saying this for years. I've tried to get into Rust multiple times the past few years and one of the things I've tried was gamedev with Rust (specifically the library ggez wh
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by popcar2 3y ago
Quite fun. I find it a lot simpler and more intuitive than other UI frameworks I've worked with (especially front-end webdev), but I understand it's very opinionated. Once you get accustomed to using Control nodes in Godot (that&#
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by popcar2 3y ago
> Is there any reason you haven't tried to turn it into a real desktop environment given that Godot provides the mechanisms to do so? It's just too complicated to embed third party applications into a Godot game. I suppose it i
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by popcar2 3y ago
Trust me, you aren't the first to recommend the name. I love the idea of saying godos, but then I'd have to constantly explain that it has no relation to God or TempleOS haha
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by popcar2 3y ago
Completely agreed! I've been meaning to write a blog post on using Godot to professionally create cross-platform applications (and probably will soon). The short of it is that Godot is fantastic as a UI builder, and I think a lot of pe

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