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by coffeeling 22d ago
Not close to just dotfiles of Arch. It used to be that, sure. That was a year ago. Now they have their own packaging infrastructure going on, both different stages of Arch mirrors (stable is a ~month behind Arch to catch buggy packages and
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by coffeeling 1mo ago
Lobste.rs deliberately blocks Brave due to the maintainers having ingested all the FUD.
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by coffeeling 4mo ago
You haven't heard about it because it is a lie. Brave has a tipping service that lets users tip creators with Brave's crypto coin, BAT. When they launched the tipping service, they put out a pool of their own BAT and let users tip
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by coffeeling 4mo ago
Chromium has better security than Firefox, especially on mobile, where Firefox's site isolation is either nonexistent or rudimentary.
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by coffeeling 4mo ago
Mozilla wants to do quite a lot more than just make a browser - for years, under Mitchell Baker, they weren't really primarily browser makers even. After she's left, Firefox has gained a new degree of focus and we've actually
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by coffeeling 4mo ago
Brave's an easy slot-in - fiddle with settings or buy Brave Origin, and you get what's basically Chrome, except it has a built-in ad blocker that can do stuff extension-based ad blockers (even MV2 ones) can't do on Chromium,
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by coffeeling 4mo ago
Brave has an end to end encrypted sync service as well.
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by coffeeling 4mo ago
Both. Brave is FOSS.
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by coffeeling 5mo ago
Chat control was shot down, and will be proposed again. And again. And again. Until the people/governments vote correctly, and then dismantling it won't be up for a constant vote.
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by coffeeling 5mo ago
Cyan isn't between green and blue, at least not completely. If you take green and blue, you won't be able to represent a good chunk of cyan hues. It feels greenish and blueish, but is neither, and is broader than any combination o
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by coffeeling 5mo ago
The funny part about color spaces being that you can't make (pure) cyan out of green and blue, which is exactly why CMYK is used over RYB in inks. (I mostly think about colours in Hue-Saturation-Value terms, and a hue wheel of blue-cya
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by coffeeling 6mo ago
The fucked up thing is Windows is the most stable Linux environment to build against. Linux overall relies far too much on the idea that the software is either actively maintained, or open source and can be recompiled for new systems.
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by coffeeling 8mo ago
A lot of Apple's services revenue is Apple Store mobile games, AIUI.
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by coffeeling 8mo ago
Chromium is still markedly ahead of Firefox on security, especially on mobile.
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by coffeeling 8mo ago
Yes. They are weaker, but Manifest v3 has been tweaked a good bit since the very initial announcements, and people have figured out ways to compress old-format blocklists into Manifest v3 compatible rulesets that can remain surprisingly ext
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by coffeeling 8mo ago
They're not rebranding Office, the app suite. They had Office.com, a hub website, and a desktop app called Office that was basically just a wrapper for said hub website. They also had a mobile all-in-one app called Office. As far as I
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by coffeeling 11mo ago
It's also weird because Microsoft has some excuse for wasting screen real estate - Windows is used on touchscreen devices and has to at least adapt to them. But Apple stubbornly refuses to put touchscreens on laptops, at which point wh
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by coffeeling 11mo ago
One thing I dislike is that Synaptic style proper package managers are being phased out in favour of app stores.
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by coffeeling 11mo ago
That's uncharitable: Stability matters, and Linux just doesn't give a fuck about breaking the environment since software is of course FOSS and can just be recompiled from sauce, right? Meanwhile try to launch a proprietary app and
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by coffeeling 1y ago
I've tried their Arc Search mobile browser, and the UX is just absolute trash unless you're specifically using it via search only workflows. It's not really a browser in the normal sense.
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by coffeeling 1y ago
皮 kawa 彼 kare 波 nami
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by coffeeling 1y ago
> And how did Vietnam and Korea manage to understand their historical texts after they stopped using Chinese characters? And how do they create new words nowadays? I guess they just borrow words and pronunciations directly from Engl
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by coffeeling 1y ago
Korean faces the exact same problems as Japanese, though - the language structure is similar, they have a ton of Chinese loans, and have in general gone through a largely identical history of writing development. They have somewhat fewer ho
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by coffeeling 1y ago
皮彼波
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by coffeeling 1y ago
It's not pedantic in that the characters themselves really are sound-based and provide a pretty decent clue. That said, it's still just a clue, and there are multiple similar pronunciations associated with any phonetic component,
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by coffeeling 1y ago
Okay. The point is, the typewriter writes 핸-style ㅎ always. Even if it could be a bit taller, but tends to leave the vowel lines bigger.
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by coffeeling 1y ago
Japan has had pro-romanization societies since the 1920's, and even during the last attempt at large-scale script reform after the war, it wasn't just the Americans pushing it: Many Japanese were enthusiastic about moving to a pho
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by coffeeling 1y ago
> If that's true, I don't see how hangul could have had any typewriter-based advantage over hanja. From the typewriter's perspective, there's no difference. There are mechanical hangeul typewriters that, while more co
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by coffeeling 1y ago
J. Marshall Unger's Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan goes into details on this. There were kanji abolitionists and pro-kanji people in both the American and Japanese administrations, and it definitely wasn't just a
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by coffeeling 1y ago
In the real world nobody is masochistic enough to not adopt spaces if writing without kanji. Old Japanese videogames couldn't use kanji due to technical limitations. They wrote in all kana but used spaces to make the text easier to rea

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