qutebrowser is just Chromium under the hood (same goes for anything that uses QtWebEngine). https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html

weather monitor

I’m intrigued, are there any daemons for this out there that you can recommend? Would be neat.

Literally one of the first things OpenBSD does when you first boot it is automatically install firmware blobs via: https://man.openbsd.org/fw_update

I befriended this guy in an online game. Eventually we became friends on Steam and it turned out we both had a lot in common and we started playing a few other games together as well.
One day he told me that he got a girlfriend, who he later then married. After some time they got divorced and he hasn’t messaged me since.
I really miss staying up until 6 in the morning, playing long AoE2 and Stronghold Crusader matches with him.

Or, we discard all those hyper abstract APIs and go bare metal. Make the Manufacturers release reference manuals that detail the Hardware and full ISA. I want to see official Manuals that tell you what you need to do to initialize the thing and get it to execute some machine code. Once that happens anyone can write an Assembler, Compiler and Debugger for specific GPUs.

https://macoy.me/blog/programming/PiGPU

It boggles my mind how people still recommend Brave as a good browser for privacy.
The entire point of Brave from the beginning was their own Crypto currency that they wanted to shill.
In their early days they offered a bunch of Tech YouTubers some crypto (via affiliate links) in return for them shilling brave.

Brave is basically just yet another Chromium reskin with custom branding, extra tracking and crypto bullshit bolted to it.
No, the builtin AdBlocker does not make it “worth it”. Stop recommending this pile of crap.

There is no way that User isn’t just some Internet troll. Lol.

Hmm Good argument, but does Vim also have the ability to support a lemmy client?!?

https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el

Honestly a major reason I like emacs better is because most features/programs in it are written in lisp, and I rather write lisp than lua.

s/VIM/EMACS/

It’s so funny to me how they always word it as if they’re a corporate entity or some sort of “competitor” on “the market” when in reality it’s just an implementation of a common protocol. I have yet to see other ActivityPub Projects being acknowledged by journalists. Focusing only on Mastodon is like focusing only on Gmail while completely ignoring the existence of E-Mail.

Years ago I wrote a VN engine from scratch in C++ that never got finished, for a project that never came to be. It had some developer tools (some of which never got fully realized): One where you could manage your Assets in the Game’s Pack file and one where you could create and edit GUIs. I made my own basic scripting language for it which I used not only for scenes but also for all the UI. It was kind of powerful, but in my script I didn’t have any nodes only “functions” which were really just a set of instructions for the engine, and branching decisions would just call out to other “functions” (which could live in other files even).

Not sure what to think of the more data-oriented approach here, I feel like it could get a little messy with the “choices” array. I would make the “type” an Integer instead of a String, and the “character” and “speaker” seem a little redundant, unless one is supposed to be like an ID, in which case I would come up with a better naming convention (like “main_anna” or something like that).

I’ve been playing a lot of RCT1+2 (OpenRCT2) and some Nethack lately. I’m mostly indifferent about the Switch 2, but I don’t like how cartridges that only carry a download key exist.

What would you like to see from video games going forward?

I would love for game developers to experiment with neural nets to implement NPC/Enemy AI. Like a Real Time Strategy or a Turn-based Strategy game with a Computer opponent that can dynamically adapt to and learn from the Player’s actions and strategy could be very interesting.

I feel like the people who don’t look at PKGBUILDs and install hooks and just hit Y on everything are the same people who spam “Next” and “Accept” on Windows Installers from random websites.

I don’t use Gentoo but I still frequent the Gentoo Wiki and pick apart packages because it’s such a great resource for OpenRC.

But most importantly, it won’t work in the end. These scraping tech companies have much deeper pockets and can use specialized hardware that is much more efficient at solving these challenges than a normal web browser.

A lot of people don’t seem to be able to comprehend this. Even the most basic Server Hardware that these companies have access to is many times more powerful than the best Gaming PC you can get right now. And if things get too slow they can always just spin up more nodes, which is trivial to them. If anything, they could use this as an excuse to justify higher production costs, which would make resulting datasets and models more valuable.

If this PoW crap becomes widespread it will only make the Internet more shitty and less usable for the average person in the long term. I despise the idea of running completely arbitrary computations just so some Web Admin somewhere can be relieved to know that the CPU spikes they see coming from their shitty NodeJS/Python Framework that generates all the HTML+CSS on-the-fly, does a couple of roundtrips and adds tens of lines of log on every single request, are maybe, hopefully caused by a real human and not a sophisticated web crawler.

My theory is people like to glaze Anubis because it’s linked to the general “Anti-AI” sentiment now (thanks to tech journalism), and also probably because its mascot character is an anime girl and the Developer/CEO of Techaro is a streamer/vtuber.

What always gets me is that they can’t admit and accept that something is overpriced, low quality shit when it is just overpriced, low quality shit. Instead they huff the copium and call anyone who does offer genuine criticism a “toxic hater” or whatever. Another argument I also keep seeing is “It’s just not for you”.

NVK doesn’t support older cards though last time I checked. Pretty funny how I ended up with a stack of paperweights because NVidia dropped support and Nouveau/NVK can’t get their shit together and instead of focusing on existing hardware they rather keep chasing the “latest and greatest”.

AI? Look, I helped a friend fix a new install. It wasn’t Linux fault, it was a setting in the bios that needed to be changed. But the AI had them trying all sorts of things that were unrelated, and was never going to help. Use with a grain of salt.

I have the same experience but sometimes it was even worse; Sometimes the AI would confidently recommend doing things that might lead to breakage. Personally I recommend against using AI to learn Linux. It’s just not worth it and will only give new users a false impression of how things work on Linux. People are much better off reading documentation (actual documentation, not SEO slop on random websites) or asking for help in forums.

It has a green lock icon with the word “Private” next to it so it’s fine bro.