Did you know most coyotes are illiterate?
I’m used to LanguageTool, and at a glance it seems like Harper covers way fewer rules than LanguageTool does. Not sure if this is actually noticeable in practice, but I run my own LanguageTool server and am not too picky about the performance, so I’m not in a rush to move until someone figures out a good way to compare them. LanguageTool’s rules are all open source at least, so it’s only a matter of time before Harper gets anything it might be missing.
As a commenter on that post says, this sort of talk is also common in the comments of Phoronix articles. The commenter says they’ve completely stopped supporting Phoronix since it’s clear that Michael enables this behavior by not moderating it (the least he could do is disable commenting; the type of people that are in the Phoronix comments are the absolute worst). It’s been festering for a very long time, unfortunately. Click any Phoronix article that’s older than a day and check the negativity. Worse, click an article about a controversial topic like X11/Wayland/Systemd/bcachefs/KDE/GNOME/etc. and it’s just a shitshow.
I’ve been seeing it to a lesser degree here as well. I don’t know what it is about X11 that really riles up the conspiracy theorists.
I’m a big fan of btop, and probably a big chunk of that is that the default configuration is useful and very easy to understand. I can’t be bothered to spend hours configuring a monitoring app and learning obscure keyboard shortcuts to navigate it; if I’m opening a system monitor it’s because I want info, not because I want to live in it.
Okay, but I did just find this game, and it’s a free game that I’m pretty sure already hit mega-popularity back a year ago, so I don’t know what advantage astroturfing on the tiny threadiverse would serve. I’ve just been having fun with it today and wanted to post about it somewhere.
I’ve been using this a lot lately, and it’s been great after a bit of a learning curve. It even incorporates some of the functionality from the addons and userscripts that I needed for YouTube, like getting rid of clickbait titles/thumbnails and blocking specific channels. Since you never really have a tracking profile when using YouTube this way, it’s very obvious when YouTube is trying to shoe-horn in political channels and clickbait, and you can just continually keep blocking those channels in the recommended section until you get all of them. I’m still missing a way to boost the volume on certain videos that are too quiet for me, though. I use LibRedirect to auto-open YouTube links in FreeTube. FreeTube has occasionally broken because of YouTube API updates, which requires them to figure out the problem and push a new FreeTube release (which could take a day or more), but other than that I’m fairly happy with it.
They could be you! They could be me! Admittedly, there’s a higher chance that it’s me.
This might be the funniest possible direction for this to go. Purported savior of X11 and anti-DEI dogwhistling developer writes X11 code so bad, asked to leave commit history.
It’s important to use services with a workflow that works for you; not every popular service is going to be a good fit for everyone. Find your balance between exhaustive categorization and meaningless pile of data, and make sure you’re getting more out than you’re putting in. If you do decide that an extensive amount of effort is worth it, make sure that the service in question is able to export your data in a data-rich format so that you won’t have to do it all again if you decide to move to a different tool.
I like DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection a lot, and I switched from my paid SimpleLogin account to it. DDG is free and unlimited, the aliases are human-readable, and sites rarely block them. The downside is that they’re sort of hard to manage in multiple respects, but Qwacky helps a lot with the generation of them. The only way(?) to disable an alias is to receive an email through the address and then click the link at the top. There’s also no dashboard to see all your aliases, but I store each DDG email alias in Bitwarden next to the relevant account; that way if I start getting spam from an address I can figure out which account is doing it by searching my vault for it. Creation of an account also requires downloading their extension or their browser I think? You can uninstall it immediately after and manage with Qwacky instead though.
It definitely feels too good to be free considering the competition, but I’d honestly be happy to start paying for it again if they start asking, and I trust DuckDuckGo to not disappear overnight and leave all my accounts fucked. I’m also guessing DDG will eventually implement a better dashboard and management tools, so I’m okay with limping along on an okay UX experience for now given the end results.
Isn’t one of the problems with X that applications can log your keystrokes in other applications and record your screen? Obviously you shouldn’t be installing compromised software, but who knows if Borderlands 2 now includes some malicious code in its DRM or something.
I’ve found that using RedLib instances through LibRedirect is very slick for accessing Reddit results from search engines.
I feel like it’s 50/50 if that means that Bcachefs will be ejected from the kernel or if Linus is going to stop dealing with Kent somehow. I’m just not sure if Linus would leave Bcachefs people stranded on mainline? Hopefully this is for the best in any case; I’m very interested in seeing Bcachefs succeed, but the way Kent interacts with Linus is clearly getting in the way of productivity for everyone. If Bcachefs needs to go against the kernel schedule so often then it’s probably not a good fit for mainline. Also, the way Kent continues to refuse humility even after this message really shows that this will never be resolved politely.