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631.
by toastal 4y ago
I won't trust these proprietary Electron-based apps outside the browser sandbox either.
632.
by toastal 4y ago
I decided to switch back to analog headphones that don’t require firmware updates from proprietary apps only available on Android/iOS with tracking built in. You can’t get much simpler than inserting a wire into a jack—and as a bonus w
633.
by toastal 4y ago
It’s trivial to use a different default browser like Bromite or Fennec instead of the adware default you were given
634.
by toastal 4y ago
Most of the games now are always online and some of them opt for home-grown, Microsoft Windows-only kernel anti-cheat detection rather than working with the bigger engines that Valve worked with to get said anti-cheat systems running on Lin
635.
by toastal 4y ago
This part sucks. I would rather save my $100 and not give a dime of that money to Microsoft, but in this country I was not allowed to order a laptop without it despite wasting more than $100 in folks’ time trying to reach someone who would
636.
by toastal 4y ago
This is why you should do more CSS with rems and respecting the user agent's size so it's easier for folks to get the size they want (this article's author used ems and defaults though)
637.
by toastal 4y ago
I'm a bit concerned about this as previously we'd build communities in chat but now the chat is just with the bot. Not wasting folks' time is great, but you'll miss out on the social parts by not asking around the IRC,
638.
by toastal 4y ago
Luckily here in SEA, folks still prefer cash.
639.
by toastal 4y ago
I resolved by distributed build issues. This works as intended.
640.
by toastal 4y ago
Include phones to this list of general compute devices. The 2–3 year support of Android phones is a joke, but increasing it to 5 years is just a kick of the can rather than a solution. When an OEM’s support ends, firmware should be required
641.
by toastal 4y ago
It’s a shame to see cash going away in some places. The alternatives are too traceable & used to sell your purchasing behaviors, & I’m not keen on that. We’re talking about the security of our phone’s data, but then giving up on our
642.
by toastal 4y ago
You also have to deal with proprietary drivers. This can be mostly alright until it's not. Look at the hidden costs of dealing with Nvidia for Wayland for instance. CUDA lock-in is like DirectX lock-in. It should be preferable to h
643.
by toastal 4y ago
If the first two can be a result of tax-funded research, we need tax-funded porn too!
644.
by toastal 4y ago
That should be the default for security/privacy. It's better to have a CSP with just first-party trust too.
645.
by toastal 4y ago
Are there alternatives that don't require an Nvidia GPU and works with AMD? And more on-brand being hosted on a different code forge?
646.
by toastal 4y ago
The Adobe model of letting students and schools train on it and then demand employers buy the subscription when the graduate.
647.
by toastal 4y ago
> at least we have Discord Poe's Law?
648.
by toastal 4y ago
Third-party CDN usage like this isn’t a best parctice generally if it can be avoided because it involves users need to trust more parties and leaks user data to those sources. With the advent of assets being isolated a couple of years ago,
649.
by toastal 4y ago
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking OpenWrt has Ad blocking capabilities built-in.
650.
by toastal 4y ago
A lot of folks seem to forget to question the bigger picture, instead of questioning "how do I get less spam?" you can ask "do I need this service?". If a service is giving you garbage and little value, just throw it in
651.
by toastal 4y ago
Everything on LinkedIn has all been dead-ends with recruiters not understanding the tech. I got 2 free coffees trying to talk to some guys and then I realized that the privacy concerns far outweighed any 'value' the Microsoft-owne
652.
by toastal 4y ago
Easier tip: delete your LinkedIn account. I did it years ago and it hasn't mattered one bit.
653.
by toastal 4y ago
Considering <picture> and image() exists and should be seen as a best practice, adding and removing image formats/codecs should have a few less problems than some other libraries, no?
654.
by toastal 4y ago
Maybe our code forges don't need to be social media platforms. These 'stars' have pretty dubious value and rarely correlate with code quality or importance (core libraries generally have less attention than apps or tools). Th
655.
by toastal 4y ago
It feels so painful to go back to ‘regular’ Linux now. I'm so concerned about config file entropy and version incompatibility that Nix has solved for me. I'm happy I took the Nix Pill though and completely skipped over Docker and
656.
by toastal 4y ago
Bold of you to assume I’d want Arial or Ubuntu before the one I set as my user agent default in any stack
657.
by toastal 4y ago
It's pretty bad. I didn't renew my VPN subscription last year and this was one of the major flaws—especially with so many websites centralizing behind Cloudflare as a proxy without thinking about it.
658.
by toastal 4y ago
Can you move to GitLab? GitHub is purely proprietary which doesn't match the spirit of FOSS. At least GitLab is open core.
659.
by toastal 4y ago
Cachix is adding a free tier for FOSS projects. Drop Docker; move to Nix.
660.
by toastal 4y ago
Please do this at build time instead of shipping to clients. You'll slow down page rendering, introduce a repaint, and now require a script. Considering all browsers will be doing the exact same execution, it's needlessly wasteful

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