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Re:Libyear on Thursday May 09, 2024 @07:10AM (#40306968)
I think it only counts direct dependencies.
Re:Nitter.net Has Disappeared on Monday January 15, 2024 @08:54PM (#39008448)
That's basically what a HTTP client does. It connects to the server (, does some TLS stuff) and sends a request like

  GET / HTTP/2
  Host: nitter.net
  […other headers]
This would just need to be exposed in a browser.
The PCGH article references the golem article which references the heise article.
Re:Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages on Friday October 20, 2023 @04:25AM (#37953580)
> The above invocation will automatically download the latest version of pixi, extract it, and move the pixi binary to ~/.pixi/bin. If this directory does not already exist, the script will create it.

Please don't pollute my home directory. Follow the XDG base directory specification [1].

[1]: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

Re:XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap on Thursday September 14, 2023 @06:39AM (#37507198)
On Wayland, GTK3/4 windows work well with fractional scaling (on GNOME). They are rendered at 200% and then downscaled by the compositor, which looks mostly fine.

Blurryness is often caused by GTK2/old Qt5/Electron applications that don't support Wayland and are rendered using XWayland at 100% and then upscaled by the compositor.

Re:Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web on Saturday September 02, 2023 @03:56AM (#37359388)
I think the largest of those forks is tenacity [1]. Some of the other forks were incorporated into it.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/

Re:Modern CSV version 2 is now available on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:18AM (#37144151)
I think you should release the Linux version as a Flatpak [1] to Flathub [2]. That way it could be install using a (graphical) software manager on many distros and it would increase the discoveribility of your program. It shouldn't be too complicated to create a package from the provided tarball.

[1]: https://flatpak.org/ [2]: https://flathub.org/

Re:Python consumes 38x more energy than Java on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:33AM (#36708174)
Startup time in Python depends on the program because Python compiles all modules to bytecode before executing them.