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fishgoesblub··on I switched to Brave
Not agreeing with Eich, but it's interesting that he is the one who gets so much hate for Prop 8, being kicked out of Mozilla for it, even though it passed in California with 7 million votes.
fishgoesblub··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Regarding the part part: https://www.process-one.net/blog/stop-telling-us-xmpp-should...
fishgoesblub··on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Running a Tor exit node is a manual process. Running a hidden service like a website, or chat server doesn't involve anything like that.
fishgoesblub··on Valve has open-sourced Lepton, its tool to bring Android games to Steam
IMO this should be the URL. Current one is barely an article, more of a message than anything.
fishgoesblub··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
There's no gatekeeping here.
fishgoesblub··on Rune is now open source
Lovely to see, this was my main gripe the last I saw it. Also great to see it under the GPLv3, and not some crap like MIT.
fishgoesblub··on Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire
> Unused RAM is wasted RAM

A terrible phrase constantly used in defense of bloated, wasteful programs using gobs of memory to achieve nothing.

fishgoesblub··on Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan
Sadly posts from one of their employees, Lucas, are auto-dead and don't get seen which is sad given their effort and quality.
fishgoesblub··on Fastpotify
Spotify used to use Qt for its desktop client. Good times.
fishgoesblub··on Nebula Sans
It's always interesting to see companies spend time, money, and make a big deal (websites even, apparently) solely for a Sans Serif font. One that, at least on my system, is blocked by uBlock Origin and gets converted into Noto Sans (which should be default, screw your fonts, respect my browser's font please!)
fishgoesblub··on Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
What makes you think that? I haven't experienced, or heard of people having frequent crashes. Me and my family also use it to communicate to each other with no issues regarding the UI.
fishgoesblub··on Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
I love XMPP and am hopeful for its future with what the teams behind Movim[0], and Fluux[1] are doing. It was a tremendous shame that Matrix didn't improve upon XMPP and instead did their own thing. I continuously wonder what would the XMPP ecosystem look like, if the millions of dollars of funding Matrix initially had (what a waste) went to XMPP instead?

[0]: https://movim.eu/

[1]: https://github.com/processone/fluux-messenger

fishgoesblub··on Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency
Every time an individual blanket labels the entirety of Cryptocurrency as a "Ponzi Scheme" just reveals their lack of knowledge. Plenty of them are, and plenty of them aren't in the fact that they aren't scams, or don't even fit the definition of a Ponzi. He can try to pry my Monero from my cold, dead hands.
fishgoesblub··on Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat
It does if you actually want to understand what the slop-bot is doing.
fishgoesblub··on Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
With those two names it makes more since that I haven't seen anything regarding their use. Not exactly Joe Schmoe LLC as customers.
fishgoesblub··on Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
I've seen posts about Oxide for years now, but do they actually ship hardware? I've never seen images, or posts about companies with their new Oxide Thingamajig™
fishgoesblub··on Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
> Shitty is moving from the imported GPL baseline to an MIT-only codebase. It does not intend to retain the GPL as the final project license.

An interesting, and disappointing choice. Shitty, one may say.

fishgoesblub··on Ask HN: Do Something about Bots
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps people didn't appreciate such a dismissive, and aggressive attitude?
fishgoesblub··on Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
I'm not seeing any mention of this being FOSS, is this closed-sourced? If so, that should be mentioned in every single comparison page between editors.

edit: It is mentioned in the Neovim, and Emacs pages. Not the VSCode, or Zed pages.

fishgoesblub··on Uv 0.12.0
Interesting, a better way of doing versioning would be nice. The tool I use requires a git repo setup with at least 1 commit, annoying for brand new projects. I'll be eagerly waiting to see it eventually.
fishgoesblub··on Uv 0.12.0
Bit surprised, and disappointed to not see dynamic field support for the uv build backend in this update. Need it for dynamically getting the version from Git. Is there anything blocking it, or is it just not important enough?
fishgoesblub··on A Discord Alternative – Echoed
Yet another Discord alternative whose effort could've been put into an XMPP client.
fishgoesblub··on Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition
Mine wasn't. I lost my main account as I couldn't verify I owned it given it was bought on a whim years ago through a giftcard, and they didn't have many recovery methods for those users. Then they permanently deleted the account after the transfer window was over. Luckily I had a second account I could transfer, but even if I could transfer the other account, you cannot have multiple Minecraft accounts tied to a single Microsoft account and having multiple Microsoft accounts is against TOS.
fishgoesblub··on Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
Valkey is going strong still. So is Jellyfin, and Gitea/Forgejo.
fishgoesblub··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
> Cryptocurrency doesn’t have a lot of use cases outside of money laundering, avoiding sanctions and stealing money through rug pulls.

Very similar things can be said about VPNs. Seeing only the bad to justify banning an entire category is terrible.

fishgoesblub··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Makes me wonder if all non memory safe code will be on the chopping block in the next 5 years. Will they find it morally justifiable to "protect" people from evil unsafe languages?
fishgoesblub··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Let this be a reminder to never trust any service be it one ran by a billion dollar company, to one ran by volunteers. You will be eventually screwed over. Make backup plans, and self-host whatever you can so nothing can be taken from you. For Git forges, I personally recommend Gitea[1], or Forgejo[2] (a Gitea fork by Codeberg)

[1]: https://about.gitea.com/ [2]: https://forgejo.org/

fishgoesblub··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
Most were powerlimited to a degree to get the most hash/watt out of them.
fishgoesblub··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
Why this instead of the opensource, well used, and trusted BTCPay that you can self-host and has 0% fees?
fishgoesblub··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
OpenComputers II is even crazier as it uses a RISC-V emulator to run a real Linux image.
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