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  • Cantarell is indeed nice. Gnome switched to Inter recently, but I could only stomach it for a few minutes before switching back to ol' Cant.

  • I skipped through a chinese screen recording bootleg version just to put a dot at the end of that chapter. Was almost a waste of time, but at least it let me for sure know I didn't miss anything.

  • And a subscription fee

    To be fair, they made it free to play 13 years ago, less than a year after release.

  • I doubt anyone at that studio is willing to put in the effort after being cheated out of their bonus

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of those 250 million were going to the three people that were fired, not the actual workers. I stopped caring about this issue when I learned that, seems like just rich people bickering to me.

  • I recently needed to build newer versions of some packages for Debian. Now, they're go based so the official packaging is super complicated and eventually I decided to try and make my own from scratch. After a few more hours of messing with the official tooling I start thinking "there must be a better way."

    And sure enough, after a bit of searching I found makedeb which allows you to make debs from (almost) regular PKGFILEs. Made the task a million times simpler.

  • Ironically, everyone hated it because they thought it would cause fragmentation.

  • it's all bespoke

    Unfortunately, that's by design. Mir was the display server that tried to combat that exact problem, and we burned it at the stake.

  • As if the original comic wasn't reductive and unnecessarily dismissive enough, you've somehow made it worse. Let people make things if they think they have a shot at it, please.

  • Their slogan for the election was "Alice für Deutschland", meaning Alice for Germany with Alice being Alice Weidel, the party co-chairman and chancellor candidate. Seems like a predictable sounding nationalist slogan that also aligns well with their party name, until you realise it's actually a serendipitous pun on the Nazi slogan "alles für Deutschland", a phrase which is banned in Germany. The pronunciation of the two phrases in German is virtually identical. There's dog whistles, and then there's foghorns.

  • The brown is bad, but to be fair to the right side, it's the left one that has bad reflections and is blurry - it was released when bloom effects were new and it used them way too much.

  • APT 3.0 is powered by Solver3, a new, more efficient package dependency resolver that significantly improves how package installations and upgrades are handled. As a backtracking algorithm, it allows for more efficient dependency resolution and better handling of complex package conflicts.

    That's nice, hope it leads to fewer kernel removals, apt is always so eager to remove the kernel.

  • Unfortunately, almost all of them are mediatek based, so while that makes rooting easier, there's very little chance of getting a custom ROM running on them.

  • But they weren't just "typing it on a computer", they were typesetting it in latex, and trying to make it look grandiose. But they just showed to everyone in the know that they don't know what they're doing.

  • Oh wow, I loved that. Thank you for sharing.

  • Here's a better example: the use of GPL software (primarily Linux and busybox) by Linksys when they made their wrt54g router was used to compel them into releasing the source code of the firmware for that router. Subsequent GPL enforcement by the SFC made Cisco release full firmware sources for a whole series of Linksys routers. Thanks to those sources openwrt, ddwrt and several other open source router firmwares developed.

    I can now run three openwrt routers in my home purely thanks to the GPL. If those projects had been MIT licensed, Linksys and Cisco could have just politely told everyone to go suck a lemon because they would have had no obligation to release anything.

  • The success of FOSS can in large part be attributed to copyleft licenses like the GPL. Without the protections of copyleft clauses, software just gets exploited by large corporations and end users are locked out. For just one example, if GNU software had used MIT, the entire free router movement (i.e ddwrt, openwrt and co.) would probably not exist today.

    See: Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc..

    Edit: actually, I think by the time of this specific lawsuit, the sources for wrt54g were already released after community pressure, this article details the history a bit better.

  • Well the rust project is MIT licensed, so definitely not.

  • Classic Rythian.