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  • TIL Kitty terminal can show a dock panel on Linux desktops!

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  • Any time I read the Kitty docs I’m just in awe of everything its maker, Kovid Goyal, has built for it. Like, not just individual features but entire protocols, which other terminals then adopt.

    I just wish remote session persistence was more of a priority. Goyal dislikes tmux (to put it mildly) but doesn’t suggest an alternative to those who do their work on remote servers. If I’m already organizing my work in tmux over ssh, I might as well do the same locally as well – which unfortunately means missing out on some of Kitty’s best parts.

  • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • Gotta say, it’s kind of a bummer to be downvoted for sharing my own experience. Are those ‘disagree’ or ‘doesn’t contribute to discussion’ votes?

  • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • AdGuard does more than DNS blocking. It strips ads from the response content.

    Haven’t seen a single YT ad

  • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • I’ve really been enjoying Vivaldi. It’s also Chromium-based. It’s easy to customize and it has really good tab management. You can group tabs into workspaces, open split panes, and – this one I really appreciate – you can stack tabs by domain. Added bonus is that the company behind it, Vivaldi Technologies, is Norwegian, which ticks the ‘shop European’ box for me.

    As for ad blocking, the shittiness of manifest v3 made me look at options outside the browser rather than rely on extensions. These days I pass all my traffic through adguard, which filters out ads from the request responses. All in all this has been a positive step, because now I can play around with any browser without ever seeing ads.

  • Folks are pressuring the Organic Maps team to move the codebase to Codeberg

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  • Wonder how easy it is to migrate issues, pipelines, wikis, etc. to a different remote repo provider. Because that’s what comes with what these users are calling for.

    GitHub is a blessing and a curse. Open-source has over-centralized on a MSFT-owned platform that has no qualms with vacuuming up code for its AI.

    But since most developers like myself are already there, it lowers the barrier to opening issues, starting discussions, and contributing code. I don’t want to have to check notifications on 4+ platforms. I don’t want to have to join some Discord or figure out how to search for messages on Element. (I realize I’m part of the problem.)

  • Major Anime Streamer Amazon Prime Video Begins A.I. Dubbing Pilot Program

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  • Haha, true. But I’m fine with that tbh, so long as – and this is important – it gets post-edited.

  • Major Anime Streamer Amazon Prime Video Begins A.I. Dubbing Pilot Program

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  • Bringing a swift and conclusive end to the dub vs sub debate

  • TIL Mirror's Edge (2008) was written by Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Sir Terry Pratchett

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  • Wait… WHAT?!

    Honestly, what an amazing person.

  • the perfect browser

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  • Thanks for teaching me something new!

    So Chromium is based on Blink, which is LGPL – a less viral GPL. Hence, it can serve as a dependency in closed-source software.

    As to the shared heritage of these well-established projects – I don’t know how else to interpret it other than a testament to the complexity of building a decent browser engine.

    Btw, quick shout out to Orion, a rare WebKit browser by the makers of Kagi that’s apparently coming to Linux as well. I’m a monthly supporter. Even though I still mostly use Vivaldi, it’s been coming along really nicely. Proprietary software but idc. I appreciate their unspoken mission statement: pay or be the product. (No-one should be a product, obviously, but that’s capitalism.)

  • the perfect browser

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  • Don’t have time to factcheck so going to take your word for it. Interesting bit of knowledge! Honestly wouldn’t have thought that. How else are Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and co getting away with building proprietary layers on top of a copyleft dependency?

    I’m no legal expert. All I know is that when I’m picking dependencies at work, if it’s copyleft, I leave it on the table. I love the spirit of GPL, but I don’t love the idea of failing an audit by potential investors because of avoidable liabilities.

  • the perfect browser

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  • I’m OOTL. Are these actual issues people have with the project?

    C++ might not be as memory-safe as Rust, but let’s not pretend a Rust code base wouldn’t be riddled with raw pointers.

    BSD tells me the team probably wants Ladybird to become not just a standalone browser but also a new competing base for others to build a browser on top of – a Chromium competitor. Even though BSD wouldn’t force downstream projects to contribute back upstream, they probably would, since that’s far less resource-intensive than maintaining a fork. (Source: me, who works on proprietary software, can’t use GPL stuff, but contributes back to my open-source dependencies.)

  • My diorama entry for the local Diorama-Rama event.

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  • Having the moon 🌝 in there is a nice extra touch

  • My diorama entry for the local Diorama-Rama event.

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  • The Mighty Boosh. Simply put, one of the best pieces of British television ever made

  • What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained.

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  • Hope the offering includes

    • Every task being reframed in terms of the PhD’s specific niche
    • Crippling imposter syndrome
    • Bonus academic tier: replace Extended Thinking with Grant Proposal Writing

  • Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of 3 former organizers of Tiananmen vigils

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  • I sometimes wonder what I would do or who I would be if I had a fraction of these individuals’ courage.

    Having regained my freedom, I would leave. Hong Kong, it seems, is a lost cause – which saddens me to no end because I spent 6 years there as a kid. It was completely different than mainland China, which I moved to after. It was a beautiful mix of western and Chinese culture. It was its own thing.

  • Drinks from Albert Heijn (NL)

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  • That sanpellegrino clementina is the superior person’s fanta. It’s the sweetness of fanta with the tartness of orangina. Absolutely love it.

    +1 for Fritz cola for not jumping on the cost-cutting bandwagon of substituting sugar with artificial sweeteners. (Others claim they don’t taste the difference, but I can immediately tell if there’s stevia or aspartame in a drink. It’s in the aftertaste, which becomes bitter and sticky.)

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  • Well-deserved win! Watched this in the cinema a few weeks back. What immediately struck me about the beautiful art style is that it felt more like what you’d expect from a labor-of-love indie game than from a dreamworks/pixar studio – and it was incredibly refreshing! Also, for a movie where water plays a big role, the fluid rendering was absolutely breathtaking. I could almost smell the warm plastic air of a GPU giving its all.

  • Japan ‘on verge of no longer functioning’ after birth rate plummets to record new low

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  • I’ll have you know I intend to keep using Covid as an excuse for bad decisions well into 2040

  • what’s your favorite constructed language? any of you created your own?

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  • https://minilanguage.com/ is an interesting one to look at. There are exactly 1000 words in the total vocabulary. That’s Mini Mundo though. A second, smaller variant also exists: Mini Kore, with 100 words.

    I started learning it too soon after learning Toki Pona and lost steam. But I agree with the design principles. They stem from the observation that Toki Pona, as fun as it is, is just too damn ambiguous for anything non-superficial. All too often speakers need to clarify what they said by switching to a natural language. Even my own Toki notes become indecipherable after a few days.

    Toki Pona: fun, therapeutic mental exercise, made even better with sitelen pona. Feels like writing poetry. Never meant to be a useful language. Easy to learn, hard to use.

    Mini: useful as a language for general purpose communication. Small, primarily latinate vocabulary. Harder to learn, easier to use.