Even to this day I still use Foobar2000. Even with Linux through WINE.

No, it’s not open source, but it’s trim and does the job better than other players.

libs defending this the same way they defend sweatshops in 3…2…

It’s really quite something that these alternative front-ends (nitter, redlib and teddit before it, et al.) offer a vastly superior UX to the actual official software.

Ublock origin has a similar script disabling feature. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

Best time to get a job is when you have a job.

Wish I had this sentence imbued into my soul when I quit my last job.

the worst people: “Linux is free for those don’t value their time” and the somehow worse corollary “macos is like linux but functional”

i call foul on that. this has to be because your employer installed crowdstrike or some shit on it. The apple silicon chips are best-in-class and deliver the best performance per watt.

It ain’t THAT bad. Ever since they normalized on installing into /opt/homebrew/ it got a lot better.

1. Wayland doesn’t allow windows to set their own “top-ness” for the lack of a better term, so Firefox PIP doesn’t just automatically keep its window on top unless you go manually set it to be. Every time.

2. IBus causes extremely stuck/laggy input in some WINE games. I just disable it manually for now, but I am thinking of deleting it. But I can’t delete it, because it is dependency-tied to gnome. So I guess I just have to rename the binary, or something. Just an all-round siilly situation.

3. I sometimes just miss the simplicity from Windows of being able to download and run something trivially. On Linux it’s on a spectrum from trivial, to annoying as hell.

This is what came to mind, at least. The pain points aren’t that bad. I guess Linux is the best OS for people.

Wales doesn’t have editorial control over Wikipedia as far as I know. Regardless of his ayn rant objectivist beliefs, he’s a bit too removed from those levers of power to just force the edit back.

Remember: when the usa accuses you of something it’s actually confessing to that very thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix

They prefer this “immutable” model; it is a different thing

This is only true in Fedora Silverblue (Gnome) or Kinoite (KDE). There is no immutability component to a normal installation of Fedora.

Joke’s on me! I have a pre-Turing Nvidia GPU which doesn’t have open source module support. What I know for sure is that I’m not buying Nvidia again.

For file synchronization (not backup, at least not without a bunch more steps) I use SyncThing. It’s local, and can be configured to not connect or communicate with any remote service. It keeps a directory on my laptop and desktop in sync whenever they come into the same network.

In an ideal state the more flatpaks you use the more efficient it is per flatpak. If you download one flatpak you also need the runtimes for it. If you download 10 flatpaks and they all share the runtime then the cost of having the runtime isn’t so high, comparatively.

But as it turns out, some flatpaks don’t update in sync with others and now you have multiple runtime flatpaks. If you use Nvidia drivers now you have the Nvidia driver installed twice on your system: the main install and the flatpak version of it. Ditto for Mesa. Stupid things like that.

I still use Flatpaks, though.

I find this to be a very compelling argument, actually.

I used to sit and monitor my server access logs. You can tell by the access patterns. Many of the well-behaved bots announce themselves in their user agents, so you can see when they’re on. I could see them crawl the main body of my website, but not go to a subdomain, which is clearly linked from the homepage but is disallowed from my robots.txt.

On the other hand, spammy bots that are trying to attack you will often instead have access patterns that try to probe your website for common configurations for common CMSes like WordPress. They don’t tend to crawl.

Google also provides a tool to test robots.txt, for example.

I agree with your points 2-4 but I have observed on my own website that the crawlers who don’t respect won’t, and the crawlers who do respect will.

Of course it’s voluntary, but if entities like OpenAI say they will respect it then presumably they really will.

it is kind of amusing how zuckerberg is having meta release their models for free for no other reason than to seemingly fuck with microsoft/openai