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  • JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

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  • Another continual irritation:

    The widespread tendency for JavaScript developers to intercept built-in browser functionality and replace it with their own poor implementation, effectively breaking the user's browser while on that site.

    And then there's the vastly increased privacy & security attack surface exposed by JavaScript.

    It's so bad that I am now very selective about which sites are allowed to run scripts. With few exceptions, a site that fails to work without JavaScript (and can't be read in Firefox Reader View) gets quickly closed and forgotten.

  • Linux continues its rise in Steam Survey

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  • All of the major distros run games with comparable performance. Some make setup a little more convenient than others in certain cases, like if you need a bleeding-edge kernel for just-released hardware.

    Pick a desktop distro that you like working with. Chances are it can run games just fine even if it needs a few tweaks.

  • Linux continues its rise in Steam Survey

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  • Way out of date mesa and kernel packages.

    Only if you refuse to enable Debian Backports, which would be a silly choice.

  • Zed Editor Introduces Built-In Debugger

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  • To me, the most interesting thing about Zed is the GUI framework they're building along with it, called GPUI. Its approach to text rendering seems like it would do a much better job than any other newish GUI framework that I've seen at preserving the look of a windowing system's native glyphs.

    AFAIK, they don't plan to generalize it for use by other projects, at least for now. But if their approach to this stuff ends up working as well as it seems on paper, I could see it leading to a new cross-platform GUI toolkit capable of rivaling Qt in certain areas where there are vanishingly few good options.

    https://zed.dev/blog/videogame#text-rendering

    https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui

    https://www.gpui.rs/

  • End of Windows 10: Don’t Worry Be Happy

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  • It was more than a few years ago when I switched my desktop systems from Windows XP to Linux. I was already familiar with the new environment (having already used various unixes for years) so the transition was mostly a matter of replacing my favorite apps and wrangling Wine into running my games. Both those tasks are pretty easy these days.

    More importantly, Microsoft's adware, spyware, and hardware demands at that time were nothing compared to now. If I were to make the switch today, I imagine it would be not just a breath of fresh air, but more like being instantly cured of debilitating asthma. What a relief.

    To people planning to switch with no prior experience: Please be patient. Like moving to a foreign country with different language and culture, it will be awkward and possibly frustrating at first. You will master it over time, though, and end up with control of your computer and data again. Well worth the investment, IMHO.

  • ICE Protests Pop Up on Roblox as Kids Organize Virtual Demonstrations: 'FRICK ICE'

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  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Syncplay for watching movies with remote groups of friends, by synchronizing everyone's playback time, speed, and pause buttons. Rather than depending on a streaming service, it expects everyone to have a copy of the movie. I use it with Mumble voice chat so we can all converse while watching.

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Streamlink (with mpv) for watching Twitch streams with all the benefits of a real media player (like hardware video decoding) and without all the extra junk that occupies the Twitch web interface. It can also stream from YouTube and various other sites, record, and probably do a few more things that I haven't discovered yet.

  • In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options?

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  • Sorry, but I don't know how Geany does with folding markdown, since I don't use that feature.

  • Why don't most distros support listing packages and system settings in text file(s)?

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  • Debian's installer accepts a preseed file that will automate answering the questions it normally asks.

    You can also ask Debian's package manager for a list of packages marked as manually installed (apt-mark showmanual) and then use it to install those same packages on a fresh system. I think there's a more formal way to do this as well, but I haven't needed it in so long that I forgot the details. :P

    As for why most distros don't consolidate all the configs for all system components in a master text file, I expect the main reason is the Unix heritage: A great many of those components have been around for longer than Linux has existed, or derive from those that have, and their configurations evolved separately. (Almost all of them are configured with text files, though.)

  • In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options?

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  • Ubuntu Devs Debate Splitting Linux Firmware to Reduce Size

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  • On Debian Bookworm with the non-free-firmware repo enabled...

     
        
firmware-amd-graphics
firmware-ath9k-htc
firmware-atheros
firmware-b43-installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer
firmware-bnx2
firmware-bnx2x
firmware-brcm80211
firmware-cavium
firmware-cirrus
firmware-intel-graphics
firmware-intel-misc
firmware-intel-sound
firmware-ipw2x00
firmware-ivtv
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-libertas
firmware-linux
firmware-linux-free
firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-marvell-prestera
firmware-mediatek
firmware-microbit-micropython
firmware-microbit-micropython-doc
firmware-misc-nonfree
firmware-myricom
firmware-netronome
firmware-netxen
firmware-nvidia-graphics
firmware-nvidia-gsp
firmware-qcom-media
firmware-qcom-soc
firmware-qlogic
firmware-realtek
firmware-samsung
firmware-siano
firmware-ti-connectivity
firmware-tomu

  • Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback

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  • The use of "self-hosting" is a little confusing here. To be clear, he wasn't self-hosting his video. It was published on YouTube, and the guidelines and procedures in question are Google's.

    Edit: I'm not defending Google's actions. It's just that the title gave the impression that a video he had self-hosted was somehow subject to "community guidelines", which didn't make sense.

    Edit 2: Ten downvotes in less than an hour, on a clarification comment? Wow. I'm disappointed to see that level of targeted negativity here. What rotten behavior. :(

  • Liberux Nexx GNU/Linux smartphone adds cheaper entry model

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  • It packs an octa-core Rockchip RK3588S CPU (4×Cortex-A76 + 4×Cortex-A55 up to 2.4 GHz) with 32 GB LPDDR4x RAM and a 6.34″ 2400×1080 OLED display. Storage is plentiful – 512 GB of replaceable and expandable eMMC plus expandable microSD (up to 2 TB) – and connectivity includes dual USB-C ports, 5G, Wi-Fi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, and even a headphone jack.

    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/

    Rockchip (Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Fuzhou, Fujian province. It has offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Hong Kong.[4] It designs system on a chip (SoC) products, using the ARM architecture licensed from ARM Holdings for the majority of its projects.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip

    LTE · 128 GB eMMC · 16 GB RAMPrice: €890

  • Why Decentralized Social Media Matters

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  • As Lemmy is federated but not fully decentralised, continuation of communities hosted on a dead instance is not currently possible. (Compare this to Matrix, where a room can carry on even if its original homeserver dies, so long as at least one other homeserver participates in it.)

    So that is indeed still a problem here, although not as severe, because I think the posts in those communities will still be available on instances that participated in them. Such communities would be forever frozen, though; carrying on from where they left off would require migrating to (or creating) communities on still-running instances.

    Lemmy does allow you to export your own data and import it into another instance. That includes settings, subscriptions, and links to saved posts/comments. So I guess maybe you could save your own posts, export your data, and import it elsewhere to keep links to what you wrote on the dying instance. I have not tested this to be sure.

  • top 5 unsolved problems in computer science

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  • human brains are weirdos.

    Truer words were never said. :)

  • top 5 unsolved problems in computer science

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  • the reason people post pictures of text is to give proper attribution, but also to distance themselves from the content,

    If only we had some way to reference an original source. Something like a figurative link, if you will.

  • lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month

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  • I haven't been following Reddit events since I left a couple years ago, but if there have been recent ban waves for bad behaviour, it wouldn't surprise me to see corresponding upticks in it here.

    I wish more of us spoke up against rudeness, confidently incorrect ignorance, combativeness, tribalism, brigading, and other such stuff when it rears its head here. If all of us participated in moderation, I suspect it would be more effective and make our mods' lives easier.

  • top 5 unsolved problems in computer science

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  • If only there was a way to copy text, and then paste it someplace else. Sigh... unsolved problems.