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901.
by rollcat 3y ago
True, and it's so ironic when the situation reverses... Of the ads that recently slipped through my adblockers, one was a xenophobic piece of Hungarian propaganda against illegal immigrants. It was shown in the middle of a Minecraft vi
902.
by rollcat 3y ago
Objective-C? Plus everything that needs to directly interface with the above languages. So many Python libraries that are one "funny integer" away from a nightmare debugging session.
903.
by rollcat 3y ago
> I decided to work on this project out of frustration, probably shared with more people here, and that's why I'm submitting it. Frustration is great to initiate action, but usually doesn't work well as a sustained source
904.
by rollcat 3y ago
I'm yet to tackle actually testing any of my software on a real Windows machine; I usually just smoke-test things through Wine. (That's already more effort than what Linux devs do towards BSD so I award myself a point for that.)
905.
by rollcat 3y ago
I have my eyes on AppImage - it looks the most sane, vs Flatpak or Snap. For CLI apps, Go is great at making static binaries that Just Work. Most of my past interactions with LD_PRELOAD caused some trouble down the line. It likes to leak in
906.
by rollcat 3y ago
> I would guess that rss doesn’t show up in their JavaScript-driven web analytics so they mistakenly think no one uses it. All it would take is ?utm_source=rss, but betcha readers would start stripping that, because once you've star
907.
by rollcat 3y ago
The "can I link Mesa statically" journey was futile, I had much less understanding how things worked back then (not that I'm any kind of an expert now, but you shouldn't be one to ship a f.in game). See, a pretty big chu
908.
by rollcat 3y ago
I mean Facebook can do it, a random blog can't. Google killed Plus, so it's not like when they killed Reader. They just like killing things I guess?
909.
by rollcat 3y ago
Since this is now the "my Reader replacement" thread: NetNewsWire, with Miniflux as the sync backend/web reader. TheOldReader.com is also very good (UI is very heavily Google Reader inspired).
910.
by rollcat 3y ago
I wonder what's going on in the head of a person that decides to axe RSS support. "Surely my user base will continue coming to the landing page of my website to check for updates every day."
911.
by rollcat 3y ago
What's funny is we've tried so many different, "better" solutions to build once, run anywhere. I truly love Inferno - learned SO much reading the dis VM bytecode spec; JVM was and still is a thing; there's even .NET
912.
by rollcat 3y ago
The love2d static build story was a tangent to my 2016 challenge to ship one game every month of the year. The tangent ended up delaying the March game indefinitely, and thus ending the challenge... My memory is a bit hazy, so apologies for
913.
by rollcat 3y ago
Notice how Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and (removed in 6.0) OpenBSD all have Linux emulation/compat layers. This is in fact incredibly sad, for multiple reasons: - This is what POSIX was meant to address; there aren't all that many
914.
by rollcat 3y ago
Hot tip: YouTube channels do expose an RSS feed; you can subscribe to a channel by just pasting its URL in your news reader. You might find RSS feeds in other unexpected places! Use an extension to put the "subscribe via RSS" butt
915.
by rollcat 3y ago
Context: I'm an Emacs user for 20 years... > There was a change committed which made using registers more friendly to use for newbies. ...and didn't realize this feature existed. > Maybe let's keep the drama down a bit?
916.
by rollcat 3y ago
> These days, Gooey itself speaks in JSON and is decoupled from argparse itself. This sounds cool. I saw the headline and before clicking anything, my first thought was "bet this heavily depends on argparse", so this is surpris
917.
by rollcat 3y ago
Which is the entire point. Having working software beats having a standard. (Naturally having working software that adheres to a standard is even better, but at least they got their priorities right.)
918.
by rollcat 3y ago
WebP produces visible artifacts at compression levels comparable to JPEG: https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/2021/10/webp-is-so-great-exce... As Aurélien points out, if you fixate on a bunch of metrics without actuall
919.
by rollcat 3y ago
Because such a protocol has to be designed with battery efficiency and mobile data usage in mind. Typical message should be no more than 1 byte. I like Pushover's protocol design: < https://pushover.net/api/clien
920.
by rollcat 3y ago
> I like Tailscale, but I'd much rather use real wireguard and eliminate a dependency on tailscale, but I can't find guides/tutorials/etc. You could use Headscale, which is an open-source/self-hosted reimplementa
921.
by rollcat 3y ago
You're much more likely to be already using 10/8 as a part of your setup, whereas 100.64/10 has only really been a thing for residential/mobile ISPs. (I have no idea what happens to Tailscale when your carrier gives you
922.
by rollcat 3y ago
elinks
923.
by rollcat 3y ago
There's entire communities of DIY energy storage hackers (like r/DIYPowerWall). You'd usually house these contraptions in a freestanding shed in your backyard, far enough from anything flammable, and monitor the thing very cl
924.
by rollcat 3y ago
> You don't want to lockin yourself when you have all those other choices. I already have this nice, powerful, and expensive hardware sitting on my desk. Why not make the most optimal use of it? I can worry about lock-in once it bec
925.
by rollcat 3y ago
Not yet, it's still very much an R&D project in an R&D field. Also don't worry, you wouldn't miss it - the very moment we have net positive fusion at industrial scale, it will be the news of the century.
926.
by rollcat 3y ago
On macOS, it's say "enter text here" To pick a different voice: say -v Fred "enter text here" To list voices: say -v "?" (The quoting is necessary to prevent ZSH from interpretin
927.
by rollcat 3y ago
Even being evil requires a certain level of competence. It's how we actually catch any of them.
928.
by rollcat 3y ago
> You can’t exactly stop someone from putting an open source OS on their hardware [...] Of course you can. It's a train, not a PC. Its primary function is to *safely* get me from point A to point B. No safety certification for the
929.
by rollcat 3y ago
It's hard to estimate the impact of an idea in the same way that you can estimate the impact of an investment (stock is a number that goes up or down). You're right that the current incentive system might be to blame, but a simpli
930.
by rollcat 3y ago
Maybe I'll expand a little bit on the context... Both "CMS" and "CRUD framework" were unfortunate choices of words, and don't quite represent the actual problem. The Django Admin implements the MVVM pattern; yo

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