Threads for drakevr
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As a workaround in Firefox < 52, go to about:config and set dom.battery.enabled to false.
I’m not sure if this can be worked around in Chrome. Does anyone know?
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Is there some collection of Firefox configuration options that can/should be set to protect privacy and security?
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There are a couple people who actually maintain a few lists like this one: https://github.com/amq/firefox-debloat
but there is no consolidated thread out there (to my knowledge)
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Given we see a lot of languages popping up, we could maybe have a general “plt” tag for everything related to programming language theory. I see no reason to add a specific tag for some brony language that hasn’t had any traction lately anyway.
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I also agree that we are remiss in not having a tag specifically for PLT stuff.
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Another reason to use Mumble. I’ve had to host a Teamspeak 3 server in the past and did not enjoy it.
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Did (reliably) standard IDLs with multiple language bindings exist at this time? There was ASN.1 but that had compatibility issues and was very low-level; I don’t know enough about CORBA to comment.
I ask because my first thought for this kind of problem today would be something like Protocol Buffers, potentially using a typed language with a REPL (e.g. Scala/OCaml/Haskell). That would quite possibly have slowed development initially, but potentially improved compatibility as time went on and ensured that old data remained available and old code remained usable.
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I am by no means an expert on the subject but from what i know/remember there weren’t really any “real/production ready” apart from ASN.1 which is also mentioned in the story.
I don’t know enough about CORBA either, so i don’t know what status it had/was (if it had any) at that point in time.
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I recently found out about this and the whole write up is pretty interesting, i don’t know if i should add a programming tag since it’s not an exactly/strictly programming article. A history tag might have been good for such articles too, anyway i know we have quite a few perl enthusiasts on the site ,so even if old, thought i should share.
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Is this an issue? None of the threads on (my) front page have more than 20 comments, and only two have more than 10.
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I think they’re missing an important piece of this, which is that most of those “99.875% of […] users [that] download[ed] without paying” have never tried Elementary OS before, so they’re not going to pay for something that they’re not even sure will work on their computer. This isn’t downloading a game in the App Store, it’s an entire operating system.
I think they would be much better off leaving all the money questions out of it to download the software, but then pop up something a few days after the user has installed the OS and say “hey, I see you’re still using our OS, and since you like it, how about donating a few dollars?”
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I’m one of those people: I pulled down a copy, tried to run it in VirtualBox, then shrugged and wiped it all because it was too slow and pretty for me. I inflated their stats for being under-paid (under-donated?) in this rather contentious blog post, but I also now know what it is and can refer other users to it in the future.
I’m sure there are also folks who did pay some amount, and downloaded again later while filling out $0.
If I were a user, I’d definitely chip in. I think a one-time note would be a nice way to handle it too.
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I think @jcs means something like how distributions like openSUSE KDE show you a “getting started with your openSUSE KDE Desktop” plasmoid with news and guides and stuff to use the system. That plasmoid appears only once after installation and you never see it again, they could do something similar instead of going the sublime way of nagging you every n'th file save.
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As one of the developers for elementary OS, the “Cheating the system” line hurt me the most, yes i get paid through the bounty program but if a user does not want to pay (or in most cases, can not pay) we shouldn’t hold it against them. The aim of the OS is to get out of the users way as soon as possible so they can do what ever they want to do instead of fighting the system itself.
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Has anyone had much luck installing OpenBSD on an x220 with Intel HD graphics? Last time I tried (probably with OpenBSD 5.4) I couldn’t seem to get video acceleration working.
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Perl Weekly is a rather good weekly fix of Perl related resources:
I haven’t tried a BSD in many years. I went just now to look for some OpenBSD packages (ports) for software that I often use. As expected, there are ports for the super-popular things like Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird. I regularly work with audio, video and graphics/images. There are ports for kdenlive and audacity, and that’s nice, but notably absent are ardour and GIMP, and that’s pretty much showstopping for me.
GIMP is there…
That’s a release from 2017.
Mostly due to the fact it doesn’t have a maintainer.
Is it available in the ports tree to build from source, though? Or is that implied? I’m a BSD noob, so I wouldn’t know.
Yes, binary packages are just builds of ports.
Ardour might indeed be something missing but might not be too hard to package or port over.
GIMP is packaged, stable and regularly updated on OpenBSD, I use it often :)
Having said that I am not entirely sure how workable Ardour would be or how well can OpenBSD perform in the low-latency/realtime needs music/sound editing has. But I also don’t have active knowledge on this dept so might be wrong.
To be fair, the current port is gimp-2.8.22, which is over two years old by now (May 2017). Current stable GIMP is 2.10.12.
huh… you are right… might have been confused with another Graphic suit package or seen a dept update and not realize it wasn’t the base package as well. 2.8 has been very workable and stable for me, now I am wondering why 2.10 ain’t there… might either be orphaned or there might be a blocker 🤔