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smileyhead ,

If you like Christopher Nolan and playing with time, you must watch Memento.
This awesome movie is played backwards, so like the main character who lost short-term memory we don’t know what just happened.

smileyhead ,

Personal opinion. VoxeLibre should be the name of MineTest, because MineTest seems like it was a temporary name for experimental ‘learn a programming language’ project. And MineClone is exaclly what this is so maybe not best for advertisement but it fits.

smileyhead ,

You mean Android or Linux mobile, because rewrite of Element for Android is looking very good.

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...

smileyhead ,

Wrong question, distro doesn’t matter ;). Just go with Debian or Arch or something else that don’t preinstall crap.

What matters is what programs you use, including the graphical environment.

smileyhead ,

F-Droid supports adding third-party repos, no need to create another app, right? Right?

smileyhead ,

This is a game, not something interacting with the desktop much, it can be totally self-contained binary. So they just need to publish a Flatpak or .deb, no need to support bunch of distros that community decided to create and support, because who create a new packaging format should be responsible to promote it.

smileyhead ,

You have stderr to throw errors into. And the constants are just error codes, like HTTP error codes. Without it how computer would know if the program executed correctly.

smileyhead ,

Maybe not exaclly Linux, sorry for that, but it was first thing that get to my mind.
Web browsers really should be rewritten, be more modular and easier to modify. Web was supposed to be bulletproof and work even if some features are not present, but all websites are now based on assumptions all browsers have 99% of Chromium features implemented and won’t work in any browser written from scratch now.

smileyhead ,

https://secushare.org/broken-internethings to be fixed too (secushare.org/broken-internet), but is not as doomed as the web.

smileyhead ,

What I need on Lemmy is more articles about how Windows bad, if I already haven’t know that…

smileyhead ,

From the latest news, my grandma is now a Linux neckbeard.

smileyhead ,

Having much greater lawyer force than a couple of developers. Nintendo would win even if they are not right. Or even if not win, those developers would go completely bancrupt for the rest of their lifes because of lawyers costs.

smileyhead ,

The fact GitHub is not open source on their servers is not really a problem for me, there are many open source platforms to host code. And for centralized platform I won’t be able to change anything myself anyway.
My rant would be about having to run their proprietary code on my machine to use GitHub.

smileyhead ,

Turn off executing JavaScript code in your browser and you’ll see.

smileyhead ,

I know the Git part of the GitHub pretty well, trust me. But you still need to create an account and API keys somehow.

However, GitHub is not as bad as some services, I use it anyway. Just wanted to laugh at the fact half of open source in on that platform.

smileyhead ,

Don’t know where this idea come from. You need to run GitHub’s proprietary app in order to create an account and do nessesary things. Meanwhile services like Codeberg have both server and client side open source and there are hosts like SourceHut that does not require running any additional code at all.

smileyhead ,

What a nice language for constructive discussion…

And yes. Because it’s not just a simple HTML+CSS website, your browser must pull full-featured, Turing complete compiled to JavaScript code and execute it in order for GitHub website to work.
There is no much philosophical difference between running JavaScript on V8 engine in Chrome and running Kotlin code on ART in Android.

Just becasue you don’t see app icon being added to homescreen doesn’t mean there isn’t downloading and running an app.

smileyhead ,

VPN to what? A country that haven’t yet applied such law? This shrinks the internet very much.

smileyhead ,

They are working on on-device bridging but currently all bridging is happening on their servers with reencrypting all messages. So you have to trust them handing all your messages.

Even services using same protocol for encrypting like Signal protocol or MLS can have incompatible implementations, so just passing messages with reencrypting or on-device bridge is not possible currently.

smileyhead ,

How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?

JUST TODAY I was going to buy WinRar. I've used the software forever, for free, and I just thought... I appreciate this, they've never given me grief, and I'm going to pay them.

And I went on their page to subscribe for a lifetime membership, and they wanted 20 bucks, which I was okay with, but it does not include Major Updates! I guess I’ll buy it and just click the do not check for updates button but that seemed kind of, I don’t know....

smileyhead ,

I would just donate that money to 7zip or PeaZip creators that would benefit everybody.
WinRar works good with .rar files because they created them just to sell buissness licences for something that can be as easly done with tar and gzip.

smileyhead ,

Buds can be used without an app, but they really should open source it if they really care about long term sustainability.

smileyhead ,

This is what i’ve been doing as a kid.

smileyhead ,

How to anger someone yhay happen to have Neuralink:

How many years of software updates do your mindchip has?

smileyhead ,

What’s the point of the regional locks, password sharing blocking, disallowing of third-party clients and especially DRM when at the end of the day I can just type any movie into my torrent client and hours later it would be on my disk shared with everyone in family with access to my Jellyfin instance?
I really want to legally watch, but if their will is to disengurage me so much then okey.

Is rsync.net a good service for backups?

I’ve been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I’m happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I’m using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I’ve been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to...

smileyhead ,

My favourite aspect of their service is the super lightweight website that works with almost no scripts.

smileyhead ,

Like, a law to enforce adoption of encrypted and privacy respecting communication protocols? Restoring end to end principle on the Internet?

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

smileyhead ,

Please don’t tell the idea to HP or they might get inspired.

smileyhead ,

Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!

smileyhead ,

Retransmission of a podcast from your own server - no.

Cutting sponsored fragments on the end device - yes.

At least in most countries.

smileyhead ,

This is true. But honestly even if most of media I watch is from “sharing” sources, without seeing nice covers on my Jellyfin instance and Kodi app I would not buy so many movies and music eather.

Not speaking for everyone, this is just how I am but once every a couple of months I order some movies even if already watched because I… like this. Having separated bought and downloaded media is nice and seeing bought directory is satisfying, even if media companies seems to not let me easly buy things nowadays…

smileyhead ,

We really need a Internet native anonymous payment protocol yesterday.

smileyhead , (edited )

Man… My personal list of banned companies not to buy from is getting scary long.

smileyhead ,

That’s a hypothetical list in my head :P

As for alternarives, I use so many “alternative”/FOSS things daily that compiling one list would just be a waste of time at this point.

smileyhead ,

But let’s be honest, most seats at the government does not use anything much advanced anyway.

There are places where nested formulas in pivot tables are needed to work, but most places are using just simple documents.

smileyhead ,

Who else to start the trend than the government that was created for the public good in the first place.

smileyhead ,

Banks when you use browser 3 years of updates behind on Windows XP with multiple unpatched CPU vulnerabilities:

smileyhead ,

Me on Linux changing the look of notification area with CSS stylesheet after installing an icon pack that works not only on app launcher but in most of the system.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/e3c51c0e-35b4-4606-90ca-6f9941e30633.png

PS Don’t forget to install this Magisk module that hacks Google checks so you can still log-in to your bank after you changed animations style via that other Magisk module.

smileyhead ,

Join different server to well distribute the network and left matrix.org for newcommers.

smileyhead ,

In Poland we say that it’s show or it’s snowing.

smileyhead ,

Might surprise you, but with RCS you have to have an account - but one that your phone operator manages. You have to use a server - just one that your operator choose and usually they lent them from Google. And you have to use an app - just one baked in the modem that you cannot update or change yourself.

There is no peer-to-peer in RCS like with SMS, there is a remote account you create and connect to when launching Google Messages app. It’s just a chat app with additional steps.

smileyhead ,

Better yet - Android refuse to support RCS natively in the operaring system itself like it does with SMS since Android ~10.

smileyhead , (edited )

Then:
Being left behind because you don’t use Apple approved device, operating system and proprietary app.

Now:
Being left behind because you don’t use Apple or Google approved device, operating system and proprietary app.

smileyhead ,

There is no need for carrier based messaging anyway. It’s like with fax machines, sure there can be new Internet based protocol for fax machines that phone/fax carriers would start to support and new printers being forced to adopt, but if it’s Internet based why not just use email.

At least SMS is using voice PSTN network and is purely device-to-device, so it can stay for emergencies. But RCS is purelt Internet based messenging that was abandoned because of no benefit over what we already have like XMPP, until Google started forcing it. Right now Google Messages are the only RCS app on the market and the only one available to support it, because carriers just delegate servers to Google for hosting.

smileyhead , (edited )

RCS should not really be a proprietary app in the sense of a 3rd part installable app.

But it is. SMS works via operating system exposing an API for developers for the phone modem interface. Google Messages is just an internet messaging app, just instead of using Internet standards like XMPP (from creators of Email and IP) it uses carrier’s standards which are mainly made with carriers being required in mind.

If you don’t believe me get a blocklist for all Google’s IP addresses and you’ll see Google Messages would stop working, because the app is connecting to Google Jibe servers (most carriers rent servers from them).

smileyhead ,

Both Samsung and Apple are doing it with tight cooperation with Google. Most carriers are using Google Jibe service for their RCS servers.

It is in fact carrier based at the fundamentals, it’s true. But it still is passed trough regular IP network and in practice there is nothing special in RCS compared to internet standards like XMPP other than connection with phone number being required instead of optional.

smileyhead , (edited )

No…

Just read the story…

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