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Re:Osmapp – A Universal OpenStreetMap App on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:57PM (#38801625)
OrganicMaps is incredibly snappy compared to OsmAnd~.
If you extend your love to all who live on earth then you'd take care not to contribute to the climate breakdown which ruins their lives.
Yes, rush by train. Climate catastrophe makes families die.
Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era on Monday September 18, 2023 @06:33AM (#37554404)
They did some neat game mechanic tweaks, especially of the previously useless units: mechanics and thieves being able to revive and capture vehicles. Keeps the spirit of the old game but makes it more fun.
> Every ad blocker gets full and complete access to all your data.

Except uBlock Origin Lite¹ which is permission-less.

¹) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:25AM (#37219341)
> why don't we block ads at the operating system level instead at the browser level?

sure, we do that, too: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Re:Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:53AM (#36998660)
Hackernews was released as free / open source some years back. There's a community managed fork: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/
We can try to abolish police.
"This place is not a place of honor"
Re:RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:27PM (#32513824)
Oh, so ravynOS would kind of be for macOS what ReactOS is for Windows?
Re:Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship on Saturday July 30, 2022 @02:54PM (#32289302)
i can confirm this
Re:Teams is killing my Mac every day on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @06:37PM (#32089601)
Yea, or just use a Firefox add-on[0] to change the user-agent to Edge for the Teams web app

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/teams-phone-f...

(or even better, don't use Teams at all, obviously)

> Even on a pretty powerful system, having a project timeline longer than an hour made the entire interface run at ~5fps for me when adjusting cuts.

Did you use proxy clips? It's not on by default[0].

[0]: https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/...

> We further believe that local learning can offer benefits that outweigh the risk of additional fingerprinting,

Nice. I thought the local learning (which was kinda the main appeal of PB) was dead after reading that post. Glad that isn't the case.

For me, Shotcut, Openshot, Flowblade, Olive and Pitivi have been crashing to often to be worth using. Openshot used to be less flaky when I used it a few years ago when it was in GTK but the Qt version has not been stable to me.

Kdenlive is amazing though, especially the timegraphs for applying effects, and the clip proxying which makes it amazingly smooth for large projects on old laptops. I don't think any of the other free video editors come anywhere close.

Wasn't the local learning disabled because it enabled fingerprinting?[0] Has that been fixed since you're recommending it?

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/privacy-badger-changin...

Re:User friendly web games on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:05PM (#31196816)
> A hybrid of Mastermind and the Android pattern lock.

Neat idea, great implementation.

Re:Tails 5.0~beta1: Call for testing on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:29PM (#31046693)
> Another important thing is that heads uses only free software, while Tails continues using non-free software. Non-free software can not be audited and as such cannot guarantee you security or anonymity.

Latest version of heads is 4 years old so not sure how much security those developers can guarantee.

This is animal abuse!
You could use a simple client-side JS OCR library, like GOCR.js[0]. It may only work on good photos of relatively new tires with clearly printed text, and that's not always what bicycle tires look like when you're looking to replace it, so not sure how useful it'd be.

[0]: https://antimatter15.com/gocr.js/demo.html

Re:XSuspender Auto-suspend inactive X11 applications on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:08PM (#30061446)
I wish this was available for Sway. Could be great for old laptops.
Re:Mouseable: Replace a mouse or trackpad with the keyboard on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:37PM (#29854664)
> Limitations

> Windows Only

Re:Man to sue parents for giving birth to him on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:46PM (#29618200)
There's a string holding his beard.
Re:Gaming on Wayland on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:45PM (#29559776)
> redshift,

This was also a showstopper for me. Now, however, in Debian Sid `redshift -m wayland` works fine (although Gnome also has its own

> my global hotkeys,

They can be configured in your compositor. For those used to using i3, Sway makes this easy by being mostly compatible.

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