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by rossy 1y ago
I checked my repo to see which Stalwart version I was running and if I could update, and I was surprised to find that the Arch package has been deleted due to FOSS licensing concerns[1], the most severe of which seems to be that Stalwart ca
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by rossy 1y ago
Looks like it includes the stuff for running OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan and VA-API on top of D3D12 as well. Microsoft made their own Mesa builds for this once, but they don't appear to be updating them? https://apps.microsoft.co
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by rossy 1y ago
If I'm already compromising by using non-free software, does it matter that much? How do I know what a native app is sending back in its telemetry?
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by rossy 1y ago
No, it's definitely a win for Linux. I get it. I've dabbled in software minimalism. I love native dev. I know the web "sucks." But the range of mainstream software available for Linux has exploded now that software is mo
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by rossy 1y ago
There are even games like Infinity Nikki with anti-cheat that allows the Steam Deck but specifically detects and blocks desktop Linux. You have to wonder if that gets them any real security since the method they use to detect the Deck is pr
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by rossy 1y ago
> Art is something that cannot be generated like synthetic text so it will have to be nearly forever powered by human artists or else you will continue to end up with artifacting. The rise of GPT slop is making it increasingly clear to
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by rossy 1y ago
In my opinion, the Win32 era only ended recently (and I don't think that's a good thing!) Back in Windows 10, you could use C and the Win32 API to make a lightweight dependency-free GUI app that looked exactly like the built-in ap
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by rossy 1y ago
Iceshrimp, or at least this JavaScript version of it, is a fork of Misskey, which has been mentioned on HN a few times. If you've heard of Mastodon, Misskey and its forks participate in the same decentralized social network - Mastodon
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by rossy 2y ago
Man, I'm really keen for this. The GBA Sonic games are often slept on but I think they were amazing at recreating the feel of the original Mega Drive games, with great music and sprite work too. I've long thought they deserved a m
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by rossy 2y ago
Running under MSVC is overrated and more trouble than its worth. Clang and mingw-w64 GCC work just fine for targeting Windows.
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by rossy 2y ago
Also, for those who aren't familiar with anime fansubbing, I can't emphasize enough how optimized it was. Shows would be released online within 1-2 days of the original airing on Japanese TV, with fan-translated, high-quality, Q
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by rossy 2y ago
For people using NSS modules like winbind, most of those scripts are already broken
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by rossy 2y ago
I'm not surprised at all. LLM responses are just probability. With 100s of millions of people using LLMs daily, 1-in-a-million responses are common, so even if you haven't experienced it personally, you should expect to hear stori
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by rossy 2y ago
They don't tell you you can put anything with an @ and a . in that field.
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by rossy 2y ago
Is there a reason why this isn't Nokia branded? It seems insane to me that HMD own the most respected phone brand in history and... just choose not to use it for some of their phones? I feel like I'm missing something about the HM
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by rossy 2y ago
It's not unfair. I have a different standard for proprietary payware and proprietary freeware. With the former, you know where you stand, but in my experience, the reasons for not releasing freeware under a FOSS licence are normally us
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by rossy 2y ago
Yes, I think SetWindowDisplayAffinity is the Windows API function.
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by rossy 2y ago
For me there's two obvious improvements: - Support for multiple monitors with different scale factors, eg. a high-DPI internal laptop screen and a low-DPI external screen. Dragging windows between each display is seamless with Wayland,
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by rossy 3y ago
If a game doesn't work in Wayland, you could always launch it in gamescope[1], which AFAIR doesn't expose WAYLAND_DISPLAY by default, so games should treat it the same as an X11 desktop. [1]: https://github.com/Val
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by rossy 3y ago
> In any case, it changed years later when a startup using Nodemailer was acquired for half a billion dollars. I was financially not in a good place back then, and when I saw the news, I started to wonder – what did I get out of this?
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by rossy 3y ago
Some do. If the current state of things is what happens when vendors are required to publish their source by law, imagine how much worse it would be if they weren't - there'd be nothing. What little we have of FOSS OSes on cheap c
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by rossy 3y ago
I don't think having a great liberally-licenced microkernel-based OS is as good for the world in a practical sense compared to forcing every Android and Chromebook vendor to publish the changes they made to a copyleft monolithic kernel
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by rossy 3y ago
That's... not really it. Do you really think there are backdoors hiding in firmware blobs from reputable vendors?
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by rossy 3y ago
Not Android but I think PinePhone and Librem 5 meet your standards. AFAIK they have proprietary WiFi/BT firmware, but they use virtualization (IOMMU) to protect themselves from it. I don't see how that's fundamentally differe
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by rossy 3y ago
There's a difference between avoiding the very-real tracking for targeted advertising that companies like Google do, and the paranoia that your camera blobs are tracking you just because they're proprietary. > proprietary [...
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by rossy 3y ago
This is just learned helplessness. If loss of control is a concern for you, there are FOSS privacy-focused operating systems you can install to your phone. You do control your phone.
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by rossy 3y ago
Something you omitted is that one of the ways you can break the terms of your subscriber agreement with Red Hat is to exercise one of the rights guaranteed to you by the GPL, which is the right to take the "specific code and build inst
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by rossy 3y ago
> I really don't understand the outrage from RH cracking down on clones. I think it's very straightforward. A core tenet of the free software moment is that someone who uses a program (a Red Hat subscriber) should be able to
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by rossy 3y ago
Vulkan Compute would be nice.
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by rossy 3y ago
I've always wondered why they can't just use custom ASICs for these. The common response to this question is that these mini consoles don't sell enough for the economy of scale to work out for designing and shipping custom si

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