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  • The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

    The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.

    So many people forget that the Ukrainian Russian conflict never really ended, the idea that it was an unprovoked invasion is absurd, (and no, before someone decides to make a braindead comment, provoked does not mean justified.) There have been many leaked videos pre-invasion of violence towards both sides, and neither side made a proper effort to actually quell it, only surface level bullshit inorder to take the "moral ground:

  • Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
  • Nazi germany came into being a thing because post great war was massively hard on germans in large part to the treaty of versailles completely crippling germany's economy.

    ofc there were other factors like the massive propaganda machine, Germany was effectively reduced to a slave state dealt a massive blow to the pride of the german populace which was fairly easy to turn young men militant alone, even disregarding the disastrous effects to the German economy.

  • A new browser engine may be on the horizon...
  • webkit and blink are two massively different beasts, webkit and blink is just an engine in the end, the stuff on top matters too. If it was as simple as engines, it would be like comparing gnome web to chromium.

  • A new browser engine may be on the horizon...
  • I don't think it would be that bad. Users have proven willing to eat whatever trash chrome shoves down their throat. Firefox has also proven that they don't really do a great job at preventing chrome from controlling the web market as shown with JXL. They completely dropped the ball here and only recently after safari has proven to successfully adopt it, choosen to follow suite.

    Apple has turned out to "prevent the chrome monopoly" far more effectively then firefox has.

  • A new browser engine may be on the horizon...
  • Personally I hope firefox dies as fast as possible so we see some focus on good alternatives.

    Gecko is not a good platform, there is a reason why people who use geckoview eventually all migrate away from it, the most recent example I can think of is wolvic, which hasn't replaced geckoview yet, but does have the version 1.0 of a chromium release now.

    The sooner we get real alternatives to chromium and stop pretending that gecko is one the better. Currently servo is progressing really fast, has good APIs and usability for both a full desktop browser and embedded usecases (but still very immature).

  • A word about systemd
  • can't say I have experienced that. I use a myriad of modern but lower end systems and stuff like dinit still uses less resources and is in turn better for the speed and responsiveness of my systems

  • A word about systemd
  • I'm pretty sure everyone has settled by now, Personally I hate systemd. It's slow, relatively resource intensive, poorly designed in many aspects.

    but as an init and service manager it's the best. Though I do have to say dinit does get pretty close for me now.

    I personally use Arch on my desktop and artix on my laptop. I want Systemd to die just as much as the next Systemd hater, but unfortunately I don't believe we have anything better yet.

  • Announcing: frog-protocols for wayland
  • that's just the thing, This is again, more fragmentation, Some compositors support always on top, some don't, you choose x protocol for your app, and now your app works great on sway, but not on KDE or gnome, or it works great on gnome and not kde or sway etc. As an app developer the situation is a bloody joke. My current stance is "just use xwayland because wayland will never be suitable" and thankfully with cosmic and kde both supporting "don't scale xwayland" this seems to work well.

    EDIT: they also make enough deviances from the upstream protocols that this can't really be considered a "experimental branch"

    EX: https://github.com/misyltoad/frog-protocols/blob/main/frog-protocols/frog-color-management-v1.xml vs https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14/diffs

  • Announcing: frog-protocols for wayland
  • Yay, another set of protocols that will just lead to more and more fragmentation.

    You do acknowledge one issue with Wayland, probably the biggest issue with Wayland, but then fail to acknowledge the second biggest issue with Wayland being fragmentation.

    Solve one issue by making another issue worse.

  • `chown` on a sdcard directory impossible...
  • Nine times out of ten, running chown on Android is an astronomically bad idea. 10 times of 10, what you're trying to do right now, is an astronomically bad idea.

    What is it you are trying to do? Or rather, why?

  • TV-friendly YouTube frontend
  • The best YouTube TV app for desktops is YouTube TV.

    Look up PS4 Pro Leanback UserAgent and I recommend using that with Chrome because Firefox has a little bit of bugs. If you use it as a web app it works pretty well. The one caveat is you cannot exit out of it without enabling a developer flying in Chrome, without that flag you need to use alt + f4.

    You want to use a web app or kiosk mode, specifically because resolution that you get in video is determined by the window size at startup, so if you have a 4K display, it needs to be full screen at start or else you will not get 4K video. Playback, you'll only get 1440p.

    Otherwise, just full screen it, then refresh.

    I personally have found that the kodi plugin is quite frankly not very good.

  • Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help)
  • this has been a bit of a meme, but if you wanted to look at XL as extra large, then that could refer to the max resolution which is far great. I've seen people refere to it as "extra long-term" but I think the real reason is they just wanted to fuck with us

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