DrinkyBird

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by DrinkyBird 5mo ago
KDE has the newer QML-based Kirigami and older Qt Widgets frameworks that are not consistent. Widgets apps absolutely look like actual desktop apps (menus, toolbars, dialogs), Kirigami apps look like mobile apps (nav bars, hamburger menus,
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by DrinkyBird 6mo ago
1. The UK and EU are rather large markets that they don’t want to miss out on. 2. There are software engineers in the UK and EU. 3. This specific implementation by Apple is not actually required by any UK or EU law, to my knowledge. 4. This
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by DrinkyBird 6mo ago
Because some of us actually enjoy programming. For some people those side projects aren't about the destination, but the journey of learning how something works by making it with your bare hands.
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by DrinkyBird 6mo ago
It’s funny because the first AI scraper I remember blocking was from OpenAI’s, as it got stuck in a loop somehow and was impacting the performance of a wiki I run. All to violate every clause of the CC BY-NC-SA license of the content it was
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by DrinkyBird 6mo ago
Go play the original Quake (not QuakeWorld) online and you will soon realise why games realised that concept was flawed as soon as it was implemented. It works fine for LAN but as soon as the connection is further than inside your house, it
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by DrinkyBird 11mo ago
Mercurial has no distinction between a bare repo and a non-bare repo: any repo can have a working copy or not. You can check out a working copy with `hg update somerevision`, or get rid of it with `hg update null`. You can push to a repo wi
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by DrinkyBird 1y ago
Perhaps they could ask Copilot to help them get IPv6 working.
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by DrinkyBird 1y ago
It's the lack of subpixel anti-aliasing (aka ClearType). For some reason it's being erased from a lot of modern software. It's why Windows >= 8 UWP apps and GNOME look so blurry.
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by DrinkyBird 1y ago
> It just works without any faffing around as Windows, MacOS, etc has done since the mid 1990's. Unless you like your applications to save your window positions. I like Firefox to be on my left monitor, and if I use Wayland I have t
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by DrinkyBird 2y ago
The topics[0] feature in the evolution extension is probably even closer to Git branches, since they are completely mutable and needn't be a permanent part of your repo. Bookmarks are just pointers to changesets, and although that&#x27
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by DrinkyBird 2y ago
Modern Mercurial with evolution is extremely pleasant, and the more I use it the more I abhor git whenever I have to go back to it. That plus Heptapod (fork of GitLab with Mercurial support) — it’s very nice indeed. I count myself lucky to
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by DrinkyBird 2y ago
You jest, but… https://mercurial-scm.org/help/topics/rust#rhg
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by DrinkyBird 2y ago
I decided to just stay with Firefox and disable any rubbish that Mozilla adds as it comes. I tried Librewolf, but the unstable RPM repository was very annoying, because zypper disallows system updates if even one repository fails to refresh
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by DrinkyBird 2y ago
The Met Office has WOW: https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/support