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by toastal 3y ago
https://arewewaylandyet.com/ We are still not Wayland yet. And my setup is personally blocked by both Xs.
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by toastal 3y ago
Nice to see open source hardware token usage in the wild.
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by toastal 3y ago
That would be nice. Android has a wealth of phones with features, but the Pixel line is missing some I would consider “required”— not mention they aren’t available in my country.
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by toastal 3y ago
Luckily they’re both WIP at this time. That said, the color management, just the spec, has been in the works for what feels like ever —to the point that some of the window managers are going around them in implement their own spec.
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by toastal 3y ago
The march to Wayland hopefully doesn’t complete until color management & DisplayLink are merged. I had to go back to X11 because of missing features.
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by toastal 3y ago
I have a goal to move my Neovim config to LunarML one of these days. I too would love better ergonomics over Lua.
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by toastal 3y ago
We should stop indoctrinating school children into proprietary software.
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by toastal 3y ago
So every website would ship with its own codecs? There aren’t shared caches across domains. Why would anyone choose that much latency+badwidth+compute (which new require JS enabled) to use a new codec over the native ones? Certainly not the
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by toastal 3y ago
Except no one will want to ship an encoder/decoder for performance (network & CPU) as well as requiring JS. It would take of images to break even on the cost of shipping the WASM—so these things would never get adopted.
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by toastal 3y ago
…Which you should be using the picture element or image() to fall all the way back to PNG or JPEG in most scenarios anyhow. New & improved formats like JPEG-XL should be considered ‘enhancements’ rather than relied on.
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by toastal 3y ago
Edge is still Blink+V8. Just test Chromium or Brave & forget about Edge.
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by toastal 3y ago
> 2. Opening New Browser Windows Note that this very much includes new tabs as well. Do not add target=_blank without a very good reason since this breaks the user agent defaults. One very bad reason: internal links stay in my tab, b
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by toastal 3y ago
Not everyone lives in the West & has access to the fastest hardware or fastest networks. Some folks are living mostly off-grid using solar power & each heavy application is chewing thru their limited batteries.
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by toastal 3y ago
Conversations & blabber.im offer free XMPP accounts. I self-host so I haven’t tested whether or not its users can create MUCs on those servers. Libera.Chat & OFTC offer free IRC for open source—& can depending on the community b
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by toastal 3y ago
I usually message support anyhow. Icon fonts helped webdevs support Internet Explorer with *.eot but after IE finally got SVG support, there was no reason to continue with icon fonts. The biggest general offenders are Font Awesome users (ev
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by toastal 3y ago
I’ve been there. I told the project manager to buy me a burner phone+SIM or I wasn’t using it. The admin disabled the SMS requirement as a result & for a brief project I used it in locked down container not tied to any of my personal in
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by toastal 3y ago
Privacy-friendly ∨ GitHub+Discord … pick one? This is just another way to get fonts, no? It could be convenient to some, but doesn’t do much more than let you preview the a font & download it. Is a Node package manager the right tool to
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by toastal 3y ago
Folks interested in reading more about this assertion: Public CDNs Are Useless and Dangerous < https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/public-cdn-risks/ >
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by toastal 3y ago
Most of them are available thru Nixpkgs too. You can make a small derivation to turn any font into WOFF2 with GNU Parallel + `fontforge --lang=ff -c 'Open($1); Generate($2);' {} $out/{/.}.woff2`.
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by toastal 3y ago
CDN+Web font-related PSAs: Users: it’s a good idea to block all third-party fonts so you’re not leaking data (filter rule: *$font,third-party). Unlike scripts/styles, fonts generally don’t hurt the UX (unless a developer is using icon
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by toastal 3y ago
Yeah, the lock-in will come with CI & and the pull-request model that requires an account in this case. The former Microsoft GitHub largely ate all the competition with its own ‘free’ (gratis) offering in Actions, but you could seek out
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by toastal 3y ago
Largely this isn’t possible for e-commerce. Some might say it’s just convenience, bun there are a lot of goods only reasonably available online.
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by toastal 3y ago
Matt Lee’s quote comes from an article about why you would want to leave the walls of Microsoft GitHub. I would agree that would be ideal too, but developers are even more reluctant with that one—if you think suggesting libre coms gets you
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by toastal 3y ago
And I want to be a citizen of that country. The Indian custom ROM hackers can be the ruling class with the amount of CPU it takes to build Android & their good will to release it for us.
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by toastal 3y ago
Accessibility also refers to the hardware & network speeds of the users machine. Discord is a heavy web app (that also pings back a lot of analytics) with users actively using ‘heavy’ features like sending videos. It’s also subject to U
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by toastal 3y ago
They really should let folks skip the ‘school’ charade if the athlete wishes like the NBA’s G League (or go straight pro). Some use it for the education, & that scholarship can be great for those without the means otherwise, but a lot o
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by toastal 3y ago
Yet we should still continue to press against proprietary chat. Developers are the kind of folks wise enough about technology to know better than to support this. There are very good reasons to at a minimum support a bridge. If we have to
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by toastal 3y ago
Good to know that extra 1.9999% was worth a comment. It’s pretty similar to the number of desktop Linux users even (edit: which seem to be over 3% now actually, great).
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by toastal 3y ago
In my country, bank transfers with vendor is usually done via QR code scanning which isn’t supported on the site. The flow for the site would required adding the vendor (even for a one-time transaction) to your bank contact list, manually i
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by toastal 3y ago
Modern XEPs have brought XMPP to today. ActivityPub is fairly new too.

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