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New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver"

teddyfrozevelt — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:09:26 +0000

you can't even say "cis" on twitter without the tweet getting hidden

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB"

teddyfrozevelt — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 01:51:43 +0000

Tesla does not label it as beta anymore.

https://insideevs.com/news/714524/tesla-fsd-beta-supervised-...

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 10 May 2023 16:58:56 +0000

Not to derail this thread, but is there any way of seeing whether I'm actually on the waitlist? I remember signing up late last year, but there was never any confirmation and I never got the survey which I've heard people talking about. I'm super interested to try out Bluesky, but haven't been able to find anyone with an invite.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky"

teddyfrozevelt — Sat, 06 May 2023 22:59:17 +0000

Did you sign an invite code using the key in their bio? That's so neat! I'm not sure if you have more, but I'm also on the waitlist (bluesky@owen.sh) and would love to check it out.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "The Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction (2017)"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:57:06 +0000

Where are my Virtue's Last Reward fans at?

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:03:25 +0000

I honestly think this is malicious on Microsoft's part. Ignoring the fact that this is being portrayed as a Linux flaw when it's really a flaw in a project called networkd-dispatcher, the original article seems to suggest that this project is part of systemd-networkd, when it's really just a third party project with no relation. I'm clearly not the only one who thought this, as most commenters seem to have come to the conclusion that this is a systemd project. It's not even packaged by that many distros (just Debian and derivatives) [1]. The developer even said that no one contacted them [2]. This on top of having typical "exploit marketing" (like a catchy name, a big ASCII art banner, and a long blog post with graphics) really can't lead me to a charitable conclusion.

[1] https://repology.org/project/networkd-dispatcher/packages [2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/04/micro...

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Single binary executable packages"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:45:10 +0000

In practice, the deduplication is pretty good. I have 78 Flatpaks installed (apps and runtimes), and here's my dedup stats (calculated from https://gist.github.com/powpingdone/001a46aa7db190b9c935f71c...):

  ===========================================
  no dedupe: 16.0 GB (17228518418 B)
  dedupe:    11.7 GB (12594871766 B)
  singlelet: 8.1 GB (8677649129 B)
  orphan:    1.8 GB (1889889290 B)

  ===========================================
  deduplicated size ratio: 73.10
  singlelet space usage:   68.90
  singlelet file ratio:    63.56
  orphan space usage:      15.01
  orphan file ratio:       2.63

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "A new wave of Linux applications"

teddyfrozevelt — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:22:31 +0000

But libadwaita hasn't taken away the ability to try? You can still load custom themes through GTK_THEME and specific CSS through ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Let's Settle This"

teddyfrozevelt — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:21:00 +0000

We should pronounce it `yif` just to be different.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Flatpak Is Not the Future"

teddyfrozevelt — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:51:58 +0000

It's not really that bad. You are told the permissions requested by an app on installation:

  $ flatpak install flathub com.microsoft.Teams

  com.microsoft.Teams permissions:
      ipc     network     pcsc     pulseaudio     x11     devices     file access [1]     dbus access [2]     tags [3]
  
      [1] xdg-download
      [2] org.freedesktop.Notifications, org.freedesktop.secrets, org.gnome.SessionManager, org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
      [3] proprietary


          ID                           Branch          Op         Remote          Download
   1.     com.microsoft.Teams          stable          i          flathub         < 86.0 MB

  Proceed with these changes to the system installation? [Y/n]:

and you can query an apps permissions at any time:

  $ flatpak info --show-permissions com.discordapp.Discord

  [Context]
  shared=network;ipc;
  sockets=x11;pulseaudio;
  devices=all;
  filesystems=xdg-download;xdg-pictures:ro;xdg-videos:ro;home;

  [Session Bus Policy]
  org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher=talk
  org.freedesktop.Notifications=talk
  com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar=talk
  com.canonical.indicator.application=talk
  com.canonical.Unity.LauncherEntry=talk

GNOME Software in GNOME 41 also has a much better list of permissions than the version shown in this article.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/09/09/software-41-cont...

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:58:12 +0000

And on GNOME 40 I can search mouse, and go directly to gnome-control-center with a nice slider for mouse speed. It also even lets me swap the primary mouse button to the left or right button.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Android Apps on Windows 11"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:56:52 +0000

They're already doing it with WSL specific features such as the DirectX driver.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score"

teddyfrozevelt — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:49:43 +0000

Valve didn't have to include a KDE desktop on the Steam Deck, but they still did, so it sure seems like they wanted it it.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop"

teddyfrozevelt — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 05:14:13 +0000

This isn't a problem on Fedora Workstation. .flatpak, .flatpak-ref, .flatpak-repo, and .rpm files can all be opened directly and installed in GNOME Software. And if an app isn't showing up, then the dev either isn't shipping a .desktop file or isn't installing it correctly.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix"

teddyfrozevelt — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 01:16:02 +0000

Flatpak doesn't hurt performance any worse than something like Docker. It's Snap that's slower since they keep the entire app compressed on disk. Permissions are also up to the app developer in the case of Flatpak so if they don't use portals like they're supposed to then they can just allow the app to access the whole host filesystem. You can change this easily too through your terminal or an app like Flatseal.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix"

teddyfrozevelt — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:54:43 +0000

Valve are basically doing Flatpak on their own. They're using Bubblewrap (made for Flatpak) with their Linux runtimes. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbWbBYAolo

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI"

teddyfrozevelt — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:01:13 +0000

I guess it would be this: https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app"

teddyfrozevelt — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:15:22 +0000

They recently added playlists (they show up as yellow text with a gray highlight in the description) but the ability to make them may not have rolled out to everyone. They have notoriously slow roll outs (like with new TTS voices and the captions).

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Firefox 91 introduces enhanced cookie clearing"

teddyfrozevelt — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:02:10 +0000

You can mostly do this through the lock icon with the "Clear cookies and site data" button.

New comment by teddyfrozevelt in "Firefox 91"

teddyfrozevelt — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:24:13 +0000

Does "Restore previous session", literally the first setting not work? Firefox will reopen my tabs only if my computer doesn't cleanly shut down or I don't close it before shutting my computer down.