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open_world , 10 months ago to science in Upcycled plastic can be turned into soap, researchers find

Microsoap

open_world , 10 months ago to linux in GNOME Plans to Add a New, Unconventional Window Management

This might be what I was looking for all along in a window manager. For the longest time, I’ve been dissatisfied with the drawbacks of both floating and tiling WMs, but hopefully this can deliver the best of both worlds.

open_world , 10 months ago to android in Ice Universe: Guessing from the 79mm width and some other information, the S24 Ultra is likely to be a flat screen.

Good. I can’t think of the curved screen as anything other than a nuisance.

open_world , 10 months ago to news in Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account

Actually, it’s just “The X-Files” now.

open_world , 1 year ago to linux in What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?

And the GNOME project doesn’t just use C/C++ right? It uses Javascript for developing all sorts of components and Python for scripting/misc utilties. That’s what I meant by more memory-efficient.

open_world , 1 year ago to programmerhumor in Inheritance

You know, I’ve always read that COBOL projects still get maintained to this day because the costs of rewriting these projects just are too high. I wonder if there’s a cutoff point where maintaining them starts costing more than the rewrite. I just don’t see how organizations can justify maintaining these projects without these kind of changes forever.

open_world , 1 year ago to linux in What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?

I’m incredibly interested in COSMIC DE! For multiple different reasons, actually.

1. Rust - I’m very interested to see how performant/memory-efficient this DE will be compared with other DEs. Also, I wonder how the Iced toolkit will evolve and be adopted in other projects.
2. Benefits over GNOME - I’m looking forward to seeing how much out-of-box customizability and features come with COSMIC over GNOME (which I’m currently using).
3. Maintainability going forward - Since the DE basically started from scratch and is using a much better language for robust software, I wonder how much easier and faster it would be to maintain the desktop environment. This potential improved maintainability could be huge in overtaking other DEs sometime soon.

open_world , 1 year ago to technology in It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too (from The Verge)

Does anyone know if Infinity for Reddit is shutting down too?

open_world , 1 year ago to fediverse in I like this significantly better than Mastodon

Yeah in general, I like forums better than the format Twitter is in. I like topic-based discussions more than discussions spawned from short, potentially out-of-context messages.