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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • tree++ - The tree command with icons made with Modern C++

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  • To be clear, the command is made with modern C++, not the icons (which come from nerd fonts or the dev's equivalent).

  • 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1)

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  • Twenty years ago, I had an epiphany: Linux was ready for the desktop.

    Please read articles before posting; this is literally the first sentence. The article is about the author's 20 years of Linux desktop usage.

  • It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux

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  • metux is Enrico Weigelt, the dev behind Xlibre, the new fork of X11. He's quite controversial, partly due to claiming to want to keep politics out of development by filling his posts with alt-right dog whistles, as well as being an antivaxer and having some... er... revisionist views of history.

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    WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen

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  • Network effect, same as for most social things. Perhaps the EU will force interoperability, but they seem more focused on "save the children" style control and monitoring.

  • White House releases health report written by LLM, with hallucinated citations

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  • Me attempting to hide my imposter syndrome at a tech conference I just attended

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  • Dickbutt? Getting /r/HighQualityGifs/ vibes

  • Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made

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  • Are you saying you think it's ridiculous to end support "already"?

    I think it's likely that anyone still using 486s isn't updating software anyway, so it's unlikely to matter aside from niches like retro devices. Luckily, open source means that if there's a genuine desire there'll probably be a fork to provide it.

  • Debugging images

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  • Then the UK's equally dumb: it was 10:04 pm BST (GMT+1) cos daylight savings is a thing in most of Europe too. At least it's synchronised across Europe[The EU is planning on killing daylight savings but I have no idea if the UK will do the sensible thing and go along when/if this happens] so you just need to remember that most[thanks for making it more confusing, Mexico] of North America changes a few weeks earlier.

    Also, the UK says GMT/BST which is nice and clear - calling both EST and EDT "Eastern Time" makes even more of a mess!

    And yes, I've just rediscovered you can use footnotes, why do you ask?

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • But you're misrepresenting my argument.

    Hardly, I'm directly addressing your statement that case insensitive is intuitive to users, grandmas or otherwise - I give examples where it's not initiative or obvious which filenames match. I didn't mention ease of implementation at all.

    The principle of least surprise is an important UX consideration, and your idea of effectively introducing collation and localising which files conflict is just trading one problem for another set of problems and suprises (e.g. copying directories between drives with different settings).

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • Case insensitive is more intuitive

    Are these the same filename?

    • ΑΓΑΘΉ.txt
    • αγαθή.txt

    What about these?

    • MY-NOTES-ON-Δ.txt
    • μυ-notes-on-δ.txt

    Databases have different case-insensitive collations - these control what letters are equivalent to each other. The fact that there's multiple options should tell you that there's no one-size-fits-all solution to case insensitivity.

    This issue is only simple and obvious if you don't know enough about it.

  • Getting Forked by Microsoft

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  • [MIT] does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else.

    Sounds like it wouldn't matter which licence he used. Shitty behaviour from Microsoft.

  • UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100%

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  • I love how short this article is; it's really respectful of the reader's time.

  • Forgejo v11.0 is available

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  • Forgejo v11.0 is availablet ?

  • Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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  • Still interesting, though. I looked for any more up-to-date news and didn't find any articles, although the ISP's site says they're expanding in 2025.

  • How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone?

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  • I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google's version I think I'm covered already!

  • Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions

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  • Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.

    The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it's now a Netflix series or something).

  • Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions

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  • I guess I've just been lucky then! I've stripped DRM off everything else, so I expect theirs would come off using the same tools.

  • Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions

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  • The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you'll need to stop updates. You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

    I'm planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it's currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.

    So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

    Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they're not going into series properly.

  • Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions

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  • None of the books I've bought from kobo.com have DRM.