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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:20PM (#49947421)
Can we please have it decentralised and without any single entity having control over the lifecycle of a product ? Lessons learnt.
Fear not; they _will_ be used to secretly record them.
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:23PM (#49526766)
>Author here.

Not author. LLM manager, technical producer (if we're borrowing game development language), advanced AI user; not author. Authors are those whose code was used to train LLM(s) you were using while producing this fine piece of software. I'm saying this having neither positive nor negative emotions. Just clarifying.

Re:Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:51AM (#49370489)
Well. I, for one, picked up Moto Z Fold, as soon as it has been out, and can't get enough of it. Won't be moving back to candybar phones. Content consumption feels so much more natural, and context window I'm able to see while reading is dramatically larger. And I'm not talking about Youtube etc; regular work or family chats, browsing sites, reading books with Kindle , that kind of stuff. When I was deciding to pick this formfactor, I wanted to read more books. I can't read on a regular phone, too small of a page being displayed is somehow a blocker for me. Not anymore; I'm unfolding my MoFo every now and then.
Re:Norway Salmon on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:24PM (#49147959)
>seeing raw salmon as parasite-ridden and unpleasant to the palette.

Painting with salmon is a .. novel take on the art of food.

Re:Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:09AM (#48979965)
I'd settle for something to just hand me required wrenches/bits/heads/etc while I'm under the car. This actually shouldn't require much.
Oh come on. Not even driving anywhere in Europe; higher difficulty levels would be Turkey , India, Russia, Egypt. Add countryside for extra points. Add harvest season in countryside for unique achievement. Add rainy/snowy season in countryside to master this game.
Human breast cancer, in mice.
Re:Ape Coding on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:57AM (#47207841)
Every joke has a bit of a joke, as they say. I'm proudly ape-coding two of my current projects.
Re:Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:53AM (#47207813)
So, we have a chance to reduce our usage of volatile hydrocarbons. Silicon-based chemicals should not burn as easily as CH-based ones.
Re:I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:15AM (#47176835)
Just got a loaf out of the oven. The smell, the crust, the whole feel of something very much tangible and enjoyable . I'm very much considering opening a small bakery.
Re:OpenAI Should Build Slack on Sunday February 15, 2026 @12:12AM (#47021249)
Orthogonal: OpenAI should build decent mobile and desktop Jabber/XMPP clients.
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:55PM (#46964976)
> Because Starlink was so cheap and easy (and stable for the last 4 years of the war), a lot of people in Russia stopped using any other form of internet access.

What are you smoking ..err.. any source to your claim ? (Which is between bizarre and just plain wrong).

Re:Software Engineering Is Back on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:54PM (#46925893)
This line shows either he does not get how wrong he is, or I do not understand the deepness of his enlightenment. "A simple Makefile covers 100% of my needs for 99% of my use cases". We've come a long way to replace simple Makefile with autotools (incredible monstrocity), cmake, ninja etc. I hope he does not propose to ditch *libc.
Re:Gentoo Linux 2025 Review on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:22PM (#46577595)
Reading this while doing emerge @world on my personal workstation, and preparing a fresh annual portage cut for our IT infrastructure (some 600+ VMs, 400+ bare metal servers), running Gentoo.
s/emancipated/emaciated/ ?
Re:Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:19PM (#44516039)
Tell that to my gardener I'm communicating with over WhatsApp regarding lawn. Or to general contractors ; we're discussing some remodeling there too. Or to a hair stylist, doing her business (managing appointments, collecting feedback etc) over the same WhatsApp for the last three years. Sometimes I wonder if privacy crowd is living in some kind of an impenetrable bubble, separating them from the real life and real people. Sometimes I'm very much convinced they are .
Re:Burrito Now, Pay Later on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:57AM (#43961298)
And what would increasing the income do for changing the state of mind, or for better time management ?
Re:Bring Back Shortwave on Sunday March 09, 2025 @07:20PM (#43314974)
Yes , please, yes ! Having the world on your fingertips under the dial knob (ok, I'll settle for synthesized frequency receiver) is a feeling of discovering something not polluted by a countless hordes of opinionated ..persons of no interest. Many teenage nights spent catching voices from the other side of the planet.
Re:Push Notifications for Decentralized Services on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:48PM (#42938377)
They are doing that by polling private servers, which is sometimes less efficient power-wise, and sometimes notifications are being delivered slower than in case of using Google-provided mechanism (FCM). We've been using ntfy for alerting, using our private server and running ntfy client in polling mode, and I do not see significantly increased battery usage by the ntfy client; Android 15.
Re:XFCE 4.20 Aims to Bring Preliminary Wayland Support on Sunday October 06, 2024 @05:35PM (#41760534)
What monitor do you use ? 24" 4K is such a rare thing these days ; I'm using cheapo LG , but I always look out if there's something better
Biggest advancements ? Give me a break. Voyagers, Hubble, ISS, James Webb, upcoming Europa mission - SpaceX has nothing on that level of sophistication and cooperation between dozens of countries. I'm very much fond of SpaceX, but giving Elon too much credit does not feel right .
Or using Russian Soyuz craft. Not politically viable, but a choice nonetheless
Perfect line spacing, other fonts have it way too wide between lines, screen feels half-empty. Great font, switching to it . Medium weight would be lovely, though
Re:Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries on Sunday April 14, 2024 @02:22PM (#40033179)
Just wait until Lennart pushes his idea of doing linking entirely via dlopen() in systemd (see the story from a few days ago). Last bits of sane and efficient means to track dependencies will be gone forever after that. Good luck creating any lean Docker/k8s images without pulling in systemd-based stack after that.
Re:Wayland breaks your bad software on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:49AM (#39872437)
Bunch of bu... rather unsubstantial claims. Just installed fresh KDE 5 + Plasma , running Wayland session, with two displays having different DPIs (96 and 185), and Plasma menus on HiDPI display are blurry until I'm moving a mouse over them, then they magically are getting refreshed with proper resolution. Tell me about how Wayland is great and works out of the box, sure
Re:Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @03:11PM (#38931364)
>the future of human-machine interface

No. I could go deep into "rare language, weird slang, local dialect" hole, but simple "No" would be enough. Their website is exceedingly non user-friendly, too

Re:Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:06AM (#37887026)
IDK if ability to drag a window between screens is something more important than properly supporting different DPIs; but that might be a decent level of ignorance on my part
Re:Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session on Sunday October 15, 2023 @12:35AM (#37886915)
>Xft.dpi and its global, not per monitor.

It's per screen, though ; you can have different Xresources on different screens bound to different monitors, I'm running such configuration just fine. Actually, since most of the software I'm using is GTK-based, my per-monitor DPI configuration tool(s) are a pair of xsettingsd running with different DISPLAY variables, and having different Xft/DPI values (and a few other tweaks, like different font rendering options). I'm running two openbox instances , xfce4-panel and tint2 , and two picom instances to properly support client side decorations. And I'm trying to scrape some time to patch xfwm4 and xfce4-panel to support per-screen processes for both . This way I'm driving 24" 4K as my primary display, for coding/browsing/etc, and 24" 2K as a sidekick for monitoring/documentation/spotify/etc

My .xsession:

  xrdb -screen -display :0.0 -merge .Xresources-0.0
  xrdb -screen -display :0.1 -merge .Xresources-0.1
  nohup /usr/lib64/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd &
  export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0 cff:darkening-parameters=500,500,2000,450,3300,450,4600,200" 
  export DISPLAY=:0.0
  export GDK_SCALE=2
  export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5
  export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
  export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2

  nohup xsettingsd -c ~/.xsettingsd-0.0 -s 0 &
  nohup openbox --config-file ~/.config/openbox/rc-0.0.xml &
  ~/Apps/Picom/picom --vsync  --use-ewmh-active-win  --no-frame-pacing --backend glx -b
  nohup xfce4-panel --display=:0.0 &
  nohup /usr/lib64/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd &

  export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0" 
  export DISPLAY=:0.1
  unset GDK_SCALE
  unset GDK_DPI_SCALE
  unset QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS
  nohup xsettingsd -c ~/.xsettingsd-0.1 -s 1 &
  nohup openbox --config-file ~/.config/openbox/rc-0.1.xml &
  ~/Apps/Picom/picom --vsync  --use-ewmh-active-win  --no-frame-pacing --backend glx -b
  nohup tint2 &
  wait
Re: on Thursday August 31, 2023 @06:53PM (#37344661)
So, basically: performance accessing files on the host from the VM over NFS is not great, and this is bad. performance accessing files in the VM from the host over NFS is not great, and this is ok . Kind of self-contradictory

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