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IYasha commented on US to rewrite its past national climate reports   france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/mdhb
ChrisRR · 20 days ago
And scientists who need the actual data will ignore the revised versions and just read the originals with the data they need
IYasha · 20 days ago
While "rewrite" usually means source deletion, let us hope in material world originals will remain. )
IYasha commented on Falkon: A KDE Web Browser   falkon.org... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
IYasha · 6 months ago
Can't install it due to outdated glibc now. How's the download manager today? Can it at least pause and resume (+from different source)?
IYasha commented on Falkon: A KDE Web Browser   falkon.org... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
miohtama · 6 months ago
There is no Linux desktop.

There are competing, incompatible and incomplete solutions across distributions and software ecosystems.

IYasha · 6 months ago
if only just desktop... :_(
IYasha commented on Falkon: A KDE Web Browser   falkon.org... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
rollcat · 6 months ago
Wow, I'm not keeping up with all the new developments in the Linux desktop land, but that surely sounds like a step back.

So let's say I'm building an app like Blender or Reaper - I'm sidestepping the need for most of the OS-specific/native-widget components, because I already need to do a whole lot of very complex and custom rendering, and that is the saner choice when going for portability. But I would still like to maintain a certain level of basic OS integration, for example a native menu bar on macOS, matching the light/dark theme with the OS, or perhaps... a native file picker?

What are my choices on Linux? Link with Gtk, and make the app look out of place on KDE? Link with KDE, and pull in half of it with me when installed on Gnome? Link both? Summon Cthulhu?...

Sounds like we've had a solution for a moment, and now we want to remove it, because think of the yaks?

IYasha · 6 months ago
wxWidgets might be of help. As long as they polish the wxQt back-end.
IYasha commented on Falkon: A KDE Web Browser   falkon.org... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
kflgkans · 6 months ago
What does integrated with KDE mean? I use Firefox, but cannot imagine any type of integration that I really need.
IYasha · 6 months ago
Firefox is GTK-based. With all its UI garbage like disappearing menus, CANCEL-OK dialogs (normal for Mac users), disrespect for system themes/styles/fonts, etc.

I also started using Falkon, but it still lacks too much for me, unfortuantely. And I wish it could import all history too. (

IYasha commented on Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/el_duderino
IYasha · 6 months ago
So, what's next? Declare having "sudo" or "runas" a vulnerability?

Oh, wait, it's been already do... NO CARRIER

IYasha commented on Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/el_duderino
raydiak · 6 months ago
So everyone's fine installing opaque binary blob drivers which run in kernel space on their desktops and laptops and not even having root access to their own cloud-controlled phones, but some undocumented low-level ESP32 commands which require the device to already be compromised are a news-worthy threat vector.

Really wonder if something got lost in translation, here. In the past we would have just thought that was cool and looked for a way to turn it into a SDR.

IYasha · 6 months ago
Someone's just living off the hype again. Scaring the uneducated masses and hurting the reverse-engineer community.
IYasha commented on Brian Krebs: This Administration Is Completely Compromised   infosec.exchange/@briankr... · Posted by u/breadwinner
dwaltrip · 6 months ago
Indeed, now's a great time to sing kumbaya while Putin does whatever the fuck he wants -- not including invading multiple soverign nations -- and the Kremlin laughs their asses at our stupidity and crumbling institutions.
IYasha · 6 months ago
I might get a job at Kremlin as I can't stop laughing MAO for some reason. :_D
IYasha commented on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox   blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
ho_schi · 6 months ago
They are only three viable web-engines left over from the second browser-war:

  * Blink (Google): Used in everything, from Chrome, Edge, Opera, Qt-Toolkit, Electron.
  * Gecko (Mozilla): Firefox. And Waterfox? I assume Gecko is still hard to integrate.
  * WebKit and WebKitGtk (Apple and Gtk): Safari, Epiphany and Gtk-Toolkit. Easy to integrate. And the only engine where I’m aware that actually two side actively cooperate in development.
Epiphany is small and nice, but they need a lot more developers. And I think they should use ffmpeg, gstreamer seems to be a source of issues for many years. But again, they need us, every helper capable of C++ is welcome.

Ladybird an another new engine, implemented in C++. But it is in alpha-state, only for developers. Everyone else who tries to show us a new browser means “use that Google thing with another name on it”.

IYasha · 6 months ago
Some more:

* Librewolf, Palemoon, Falkon.

IYasha commented on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox   blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
the_other · 6 months ago
How do they decide which sponsored ad to show you?
IYasha · 6 months ago
Usually it's the sponsor who decides. Because, for example, it's pointless to show Walmart ads in North Korea. (I'm not a mz insider)

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