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Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes by secondcoming on Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:01PM (#35405047)
Crappy font rendering is a Linux problem. The appearance of the same font in different applications can vary wildly. It’s really shit.
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Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes by tadfisher on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:45PM (#35406633)
The appearance varies widely because everything has incompatible layers on top of freetype, some of which respect your Freetype configuration and others which take... _ahem_... liberties.

It also doesn't help when Mozilla and Google statically-link ancient font libraries in the name of security.

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Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes by flangola7 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:47PM (#35406647)
Isn't linking to outdated libraries a security threat?
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