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frazorth

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  • Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First

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  • Interesting back story.

    Lord Buckethead has been three different people in different elections.

    Count Binface is the second Lord Buckethead, the one who made the character famous when he stood against May in Maidenhead.

  • STOP DOING DEPENDENCY INJECTION

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  • Gradle, with it's transitive dependency modifications is a huge pain in this area.

    It used to be that if a library ended up having a flaw then it would be flagged and we would get the dependency updated. These days security block the "security risk" and you have to replace your dependencies dependency. Fingers crossed you can get it to actually test all the code paths.

    If an second level project gets a flaw, and it's used indirectly then we should really look at getting the import updated so that we know it works. If that import is abandoned then we should not be updating that second level dependency, either adopt and fix the first level dependency or look at an alternative.

  • LinkedIn is the latest company to get in on gaming

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  • I can understand event announcements, my job applications are for foo widget builders, so let me know if Foo Widget Con is happening with hiring companies or Foo Widget User Group so we can all get together and share in our pain.

    Outside of that, most posts are meaningless.

  • Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso (==Goodbye NixOS)

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  • My point is not that you can't

    I'd just like to remind the passing reader that creating an open source project does not entitle you to do whatever you want and tell people to "make their own thing" if they don't like it.

    It was literally what you said, even if you didn't mean it to be. And I don't think that being a dictator for your project is necessarily "toxic", I have projects that take contributions and I work on others that do not. Bikeshedding, and horrible politics, are both real things and sometimes for your own sanity, not engaging is the only option because community is not the reason I work on some tasks.

    Some projects are just natural candles to moths who will talk to the projects like this:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to_github_and_i_have_lots_to_say/

    Fuck that.

  • Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso (==Goodbye NixOS)

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  • Of course I'm not entitled to community contributions. Just as a user, you are not entitled to me fixing your big reports.

    That doesn't stop it being an open source project, and a lot of developers don't want to deal with a needy community for their own mental health. It was an itch that they scratched.

  • Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.

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  • But are they all moving back to California?

    Last I heard was most are going to Nashville which has absolutely terrible traffic and infrastructure, soaring land costs and pushing 100 degrees, arming teachers, arresting folks for DUI even if you've not had a drink. Weather has absolutely nothing to do with any of the decisions because the CEOs don't go to the office. It's all about the latest city tax break.

    It's weird that people are talking this up like anything Texas has done would cause this. The people in charge don't give a shit about you, they don't give a shit about you living in 110 degrees weather, and they certainly don't give a shit if you die because of a pregnancy complication.

  • Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso (==Goodbye NixOS)

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  • Hopefully this is satire.

    If I create an open source project I can run it however I want. I do not have to create a board to manage it, there are plenty that have a single developer doing all the work, like VLC, and like Sqlite they may or may not even accept PRs. It doesn't stop it being open source.

    If I do create a foundation, I can fill it with whoever I see fit. If there is a board, then generally they have the last say but there are plenty of projects, like Python used to be, where there might be a board but the founder remains the benevolent dictator for life and will stop them doing stupid things that distracts from the core project. Look at Linux, the project is mostly self maintained but Linus will gatekeep anything that doesn't meet his definition of success.

    If my rules for my project is that all board members have to be a furry, then that's my right, and maybe the board of furries will vote to overturn that. Or maybe they won't. But you can't tell me how to run my project, this isn't a democracy.

  • Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

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  • the only thing they built for the Palestinian people has been tunnels to commit terrorism from.

    I wasn't the one who said that tunnels were the only thing they have done, that was literally you. But it's also irrelevant because I wouldn't expect any infrastructure works to be prioritised when a small country is under attack.

    When the IRA demanded their land back, we were allowed to agree with their cause of no occupation without saying that their tactics of bombing trains was a good thing.

    When the LTTE violently attacked Sri Lanka, people were allowed to feel for the ongoing Tamil persecution, without agreeing to the murdering.

    Why can't I say that Hamas is a product of its environment, caused by the pain that Israel creates while also saying that the actions of Hamas are terrible.

  • Are we Wayland yet or Whats missing?

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  • However since no one tests it I've found them to be really buggy. Hence why I suggested just using the web app.

  • Are we Wayland yet or Whats missing?

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  • What were you trying to screen share with?

    Most of the apps people are using are Electron, which has supported Wayland and the pipewire screensharing for nearly 4 years. However since Chrome/Chromium doesn't enable Wayland by default, Electron won't. Which also means that no one tests it in their apps.

    I've had such success just ignoring the apps and using the web client since that's up to date and doesn't require the app builders to enable features.

    At least under Fedora.

  • Are we Wayland yet or Whats missing?

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  • Nvidia didn't want to play nicely and give standard APIs.

    Their work around was other extensions that don't actually do what's needed, but sort of works in some scenarios.

    All the GPUs I've used work fine, it's a Nvidia throwing it's toys out the pram situation which should hopefully get resolved as they open source the high level drivers and so the correct APIs can be implemented.

  • Are we Wayland yet or Whats missing?

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  • Like?

    If there is something missing, add it either as an issue or a PR in the project.

    https://github.com/mpsq/arewewaylandyet

    It would help your case when saying that it's not ready. It might also inspire people to fix it if they see something that is missing.

  • Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

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  • All you said was complete stupidity. 19 years of rule under Hamas only produced terrorist tunnels?

    All of that is a direct response to 30+ years of Israeli genocide.

  • Smooth brained tick taster

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  • Hang on, the description was about possums, but the title is in an opossum group, and your comment is about an opossum.

    I'm going to have actually look up whether it's opossums or possums that have a smooth brain.

  • Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps

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  • I wasn't referring to the privatisation, you said

    What an unnecessary division of labour.

    The labour overlap of a parcel network and a storefront are completely different.

    It didnt need to be privatised, but separating the two isnt a bad thing.

  • Royal Mail insists it will keep fining innocent victims of counterfeit stamps

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  • I'm not sure I agree with this statement.

    Our post office allows you to post packages with several different postal networks, including Royal Mail and Evri.

    By decoupling the shop from the network, they can now do more without the conflict of interest from Royal Mail.

  • Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop

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  • mobile website exists if you really need mobile access to your bank.

    This isn't actually always true.

  • Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

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  • How? It can't even handle copy/pasting text without fucking up the formatting.

    Creating new SharePoint sites whenever you start a chat so that you have a whole new way to lose your documents?

    Better alternative? Pretty much any other chat app.

  • Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers

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  • Besides, the badly-behaved students in my year generally only nasty to staff

    Yes it fucking was.