Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modde

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Netflix is like the only one on Android I have that ISN'T opt-ed out.

I mean his phrasing could have been better but he is right that privacy and anonymity are different.

I'm not sure if you do given the account being disassociated from the search... Your bank could know you pay for Kagi, but that doesn't mean anyone knows what you search.

Well it sounds like this is the thing for you! Haha

The extension itself is open source and per them (I haven't verified on my own) actually takes steps to combat the browser fingerprint problem; so I think it's really just the VPN side of things that most people need to worry about (at least from the perspective of disassociating their search history and the sites they visit).

I have it; it works (even in private browsing windows so long as you visit the site logged in, in a non-private browsing window first).

I installed it, but I'm probably just going to use it periodically. I really appreciate the website prioritization feature of Kagi ... so it's unfortunate that isn't compatible.

You had me in the first half lol

I've mostly just tweaked the configuration and built my own comment formatter/reflow command based on the comment style at work.

It's almost more about what it doesn't have for me, because what I've run into a lot with trying newer editors is they try and manage the code too much and the code base at work has its own style guide that doesn't match what the editor tries to do. So the editor might make me slightly more productive ... until I find myself fighting with it every 3 lines because of auto formatting or some language server quirk.

I think it's human nature to "look for a reason" but ... these engineered virus narratives have never set well with me. It implies that the only way a pandemic could happen is if some person created it; that's incredibly self indulgent, "the only way man could die to nature is if man invented nature."

Viruses just happen; we've had a reprieve from major plagues and things and have been unusually healthy because vaccines and other advances in medicine allowed us to save many that would have otherwise died.

The only parts humans are playing in our current health crises are: A) Increasing the number of unvaccinated people giving viruses once nearly killed off room to play again B) Increasing the temperature of the planet which has been demonstrated to increase mutation rates and may release lost viruses trapped in ice and permafrost C) Cutting down large swaths of the Amazon rainforests which may also harbor lost viruses

In all cases, we're not creating the problem directly, we're just giving the advantage back to nature that research from recent centuries gave to us.

Market share and yes, Proton/WINE ultimately lessens the need for a native Linux port.

In a fair number of cases, even when there is a native Linux port, Proton/WINE has worked better than the native game.

If Linux gets to 5-10% of the market, we'll probably see them come back for platform specific optimization reasons. However, without a larger market share and with the translation being so good these days, there's not a lot of need.

There is more value in understanding how to extend and customize your editor than in searching for a new one. Use whatever your workplace provides the best support for, and then customize it from there.

I think there's something to be said for shaking up your environment periodically as well and trying new things. Sure, there's a week where you edit at a snails pace, followed by a month where you edit a bit slower than normal, but different tools really do have different pros and cons.

For the code bases I've worked in, this evolved from necessity as the code files were so large many editors were struggling, the rules for the style so custom that editors can't be properly configured to match, or the editor performance in general was questionable.

I went through a journey of sorts from IDEs to Electron based editors to Emacs and currently am working with Kakoune (and I've passed over a bunch of other editors like Sublime, Helix, and Zed that couldn't meet my requirements or didn't match my sensibilities -- even though a thing or two here or there really was excellent). Pretty much every change has been the result of the editor pain points that couldn't be addressed without actually working on the editor itself.

I've recently taken to kakoune which was one of the inspirations for Helix.

It's not as fancy (in terms of built-in features) out of the box, but it's very performant, integrates with tmux well, and for the C++ and Python I'm writing I haven't felt the need for much beyond token based word completion and grep.

The client server model it uses has really let me improve my tmux skills because I'm working inside of it more and using it for editor splits.

I don't know if Helix does this, but I've also come to love the pipe operator (where you just pipe a selection into some external program and the selection gets replaced with the output, so you can use the e.g. the sort command to sort text). You can also pretty easily add in custom extensions via command line programs.

Trademark isn't supposed to be enforceable on such generic words.

Like, Bethesda tried to sue Mojang away from launching "Scrolls" because of their Elder Scrolls games. That got settled and eventually Mojang renamed the game before scrapping it anyways, but yeah.

It's also pretty wild once you realize that laws in general are these things where "whatever side argues best, sets the interpretation." Anti-slap laws are also worth having and reading up on to stop bogus lawsuits, but now I'm just rambling.

Yes, Trump trying to take Palestine for the US, possibly with US troops was preventable.

Was all loss of human life preventable? No, because the US Govt does not control Isreal but considers its relationship with Israel critical.

People need to get off their high horses and vote on the spectrum, not on single issues.

I didn't like everything about Kamala but acting like not voting in protest was "the right thing to do" is not a good answer. I hate that our bombs were used on Palestinians, but people need to accept their protest vote moved things one step backwards.

You're doing a lot of talking about "not driving a wedge", but I didn't drive a wedge. I voted for the clearly more qualified candidate, some others decided "I don't like what that candidate has done for Israel, so even though I agree with her on so many other things, I'm not voting for her."

The wedge is these idiotic purity tests the left keeps applying where "if you don't agree on this particular issue, you're not one of us, and you don't get my vote."

It's obnoxious that these folks had the audacity to tell people "if you vote for Kamala you're a horrible person because Palestinians will die." You know who's going to die because of their vote? Lots of people. Climate change and pollution kills. The destruction of the US AID office kills. Disease kills. Between the three, we may see many many more deaths than we can even fathom.

I admit I may misunderstand the situation; I hear there's a compatibility layer or something named xwayland -- will that allow older apps linked against x11 to run on a wayland desktop?

Yeah though older apps on Linux are always a bit sketchy. "We don't do that here" is kind of a thing... Most stuff is at least regularly rebuilt.

It's also kind of a weird comparability layer... Like it works really well, but basically they run an X server in the background, and then just paint the windows on the X server to your Wayland desktop and map all the clicks back.

So... X apps get a real X server to run on and then rest of your apps run natively in Wayland which provides a lot of benefits.

In any case, Wayland fixes some stuff it provides more than feature parity. A big one for me is KDE has a composited and non-composited mode on X and they actually have different behaviors. If you launch a game it automatically goes to non-composited mode because how compositors work on X is kind of a mess and it introduces latency that people don't want in their games. On Wayland it's always composited mode but it's designed for that, so you don't have the drawbacks in terms of performance. So... You can play a game without your desktop suddenly functioning differently and without sacrificing performance in the game.

There's no gloating here. This was a preventable escalation, but people played a moronic game and now we all have to live with the consequences.

I really want to know what all those folks on Lemmy that didn't vote for Kamala because Biden wasn't doing enough for Gaza think of this. We warned you.

Yeah... Just looked over stuff and it's pretty cringe...

Yeah ... Brighter Shores is the true RuneScape successor, though the end game activities aren't implemented yet (i.e. procedurally generated dungeons and bossing and tons of other content).

This game seems nothing like RuneScape.