Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

A reminder this holiday season … “If you do not shop local there will be no local shops”

@eniko yes unfortunately people do in fact live under these conditions, just wait till you have to write launcher dot json files lmao

@slyecho i am on windows. as for cmake, one thing i want out of an ide is not having to use fucking cmake >_>

@eniko and they like it

god vscode sucks. people live like this?

#emacsconf day 1 wasn't 100% smooth, but it was 100% fun, and people rerouted around all of the tech hiccups. I think we've figured out the color issue (needed to update mpv from 0.35 to 0.38), I updated my scripts to take the video files from the cache directory instead of other directories that I forgot to update, updated the checklist to have the right URLs, enabled case-fold-search on the other Emacs, and added random package mentions to the countdown screen. I forgot to let zaeph know I edited one of the videos, so next time I should flag that somehow. I'm not 100% sure about our BBB setup; a couple of people's computers crashed. On the plus side, this year, sooo many people helped out with captions and quality checks. Improving little by little! :D The important stuff got done: people got to see things and chat with other people!

My currently pending changes for Haiku:

- custom baudrates support in serial port drivers (I need it for high speed communication over usb serial with my Amstrad CPC)
- improvement to ps/2 mouse-touchpad multiplexing detection (my laptop keyboard controller advertises support for it, but doesn't implement it correctly)
- automatic enabling of VESA BIOS live patching to inject custom video modes in video cards BIOS

1990s technologies don't want to disappear from modern hardware!

#HaikuOS

Good software is good software.

Firefox is open source, but it includes adware, spyware, and artificial intelligence (AI), while being owned by an ad company. Brave is open source, but it too includes adware, spyware, AI, plus cryptocurrency, while being owned by an ad company. Both of them call out like a lost child or puppy. There are viruses that are also free open source, but they too do not make the world a better place.

Free open-source does not guarantee nor mean something is automaticly better.

Vivaldi, is based on the free open source Chromium project, and while it is true that the GUI is closed source, it does not include AI or cryptocurrency, nor owned by an ad company, and only calls out to 1) check for updates and 2) report bugs.

Good software does not need to be free open source to be good. Nor does close software automatically make something bad.

#Firefox #Mozilla #MozillaFirefox #Brave #BraveBrowser #WebBrowser

@brennen @alex like getting a dog to guard your house, starting off with one (1) Jack Russell but end up having to get more and larger doggos to deal with multiple threats, you have to feed and look after all of them and *still* have to bark and awoo yourself 🐶

emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies

The other day I was at an overstock/cheap discount stuff store... and I figured, hey, this is a good time to grab some nearly-worthless earbuds to replace the ones I got for free on an airplane flight ten years ago that finally just straight up broke. I prefer the ones I use at work to be as dumb as possible for hardware supply chain reasons.

All of the ones they had on sale were Bluetooth wireless AirPod knock-offs. All of them. It's that hard to get a dang headphone plug set now.

I'm making big progress on the #tauri version of #deltachat_desktop

So far it only takes 38 mb 📦 (78mb installed) in package size instead of the 150mb 📦(323mb installed) of the Delta Chat Desktop #electron version.

I'll keep you updated in this thread.

Thanks to #nlnet & #ngi0_entrust for funding this project: https://nlnet.nl/project/DeltaTauri/.

#deltachat #deltatauri