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biugbkifcjk··on Not dropping RISC-V support after all, maybe
OK, this one confused me. There is Chimera Linux, and also ChimeraOS - I believe they're unrelated but I had never heard of Chinera Linux and ChimeraOS is a gaming focusses distro.

Odd that there are two with Chimera in the name:

https://chimeraos.org/ https://chimera-linux.org/

biugbkifcjk··on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
I've been looking at Floorp and Zen, maybe add those to your list to check out
biugbkifcjk··on Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine
Maybe they get some royalties by having it as an option?
biugbkifcjk··on Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
I think the idea is they don't want people to use bookmarks at all and just search every time
biugbkifcjk··on Cicada – Open-source cross-platform version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI
There is a bit of a learning curve, but there is for any new platform. The devs are very responsive and looks like they're doing an enterprise version for funding. It uses Agents which run the tasks in the CI/CD jobs.
biugbkifcjk··on Cicada – Open-source cross-platform version of GitHub Actions and Gitlab CI
I'm going to plug https://onedev.io/ its awesome. Its self hosted and has its own tooling for CI/CD. I feel it doesn't get enough love, but I've been using it for years for my own stuff.
biugbkifcjk··on Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
As someone that works with a lot of different languages - vscode has been amazing. I feel its inevitable that a majority of the plugins I rely on start requiring some sort of subscription - which I'm not looking forward too.
biugbkifcjk··on I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars
I'm only just realizing now why I was treated so strangely after discovering a pretty severe security issue that had been in our software for about 7 years. I had only been in the team for about 12 months when I discovered it.
biugbkifcjk··on Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
Whoops! I missed that somehow - thanks.
biugbkifcjk··on Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript
Should add the browser for SerenityOS to the examples of new browser engines.
biugbkifcjk··on Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk [video]
Cathode Ray Dude recently put out a new video on YouTube and mentions "stiffys" in that too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lUhDo7euPs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffy_disk

biugbkifcjk··on Just paying Figma because nothing else works
I understand the sentiment. I have the same feeling regarding the use of LibreOffice. Full of features, most of which work "OK". But its absolutely infuriating to use for anything more than just a casual document/presentation etc.. Its severely lacking a level of polish, and the focus on getting real work done seems to be absent. I'm not talking about the UI, though that's certainly part of it, its the actual functionality that is overall a bad experience. Stuff like pressing undo which then breaks formatting of another component, then pressing redo to try and fix the other component which doesn't work, only to lose that work forever and needing to manually fix it again.
biugbkifcjk··on Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative
Since we're all talking alternatives, I thought I'd point out KDE Connect. Available on all platforms and allows transferring files locally. I often use it between my laptop and android. Great software.
biugbkifcjk··on FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation
Wow, I didn't know about this. I often need remote desktop and its been a real pain in the past to get it running and to get it running well.
biugbkifcjk··on My Books Were Used to Train Meta’s Generative AI. Good
This doesn't seem to want to let me past the captcha. Bit odd.
biugbkifcjk··on Toyota gigacasting prototype cuts production from hours to minutes
Maybe this allows for a factory to create on demand, rather than always running to keep up with demand?
biugbkifcjk··on Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit
You've made a lot of good points. I've stepped into a team that is supporting a large product that has been going for years. There are so many error logs and alerts that nobody notices them any more - its so frustrating.
biugbkifcjk··on Pay no attention to the USB port behind the “no USB” sticker
I bought one of these because it was like $30 and needed it to print off some stuff with color. I had immediately taken the sticker off even realizing until after the fact that they try and limit it to WiFi only. It worked immediately plugging it in to USB on my Linux laptop, so yea.. I guess its only there for people that don't know better?
biugbkifcjk··on Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres
It's just there to make it easier for mobile users to click it..
biugbkifcjk··on Caffeine Half-Life Calculator
I'm the same, 1pm is an absolute cut off otherwise it'll be a restless night
biugbkifcjk··on AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
I'm with you here, I say "its leet time" in my head. Pretty sure no one says leet anymore
biugbkifcjk··on NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP
When they said native, they actually just meant local.
biugbkifcjk··on Google Messages signs onto cross-platform encrypted group chat standard
Excuse my ignorance, but is this actually implemented anywhere else? I could find that maybe WhatsApp uses it, and that Signal has their own version of it.

This doesn't seem very wide spread if thats the case.

biugbkifcjk··on Libxo: Easy way to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML
Yea, I guess I could create that integration, but the key would be getting it included as the default on Linux installs. I like to use what is generally available, so that I'm not completely lost when I remote into an unfamiliar server.
biugbkifcjk··on Libxo: Easy way to generate text, XML, JSON, and HTML
I'd take powershell with proper system integration over bash any day.
biugbkifcjk··on Show HN: Resumine, a smart way to generate custom cover letters
I'll never trust these services, you already collect enough information by visiting the site and then want people to upload their entire employment history.

Unless I can run it entirely locally, with no internet, that'll always be a hard pass from me.