TCB13

TCB13, 1 day ago

With great power…

TCB13, 2 days ago

This is a very cool project, but it would be cool to see it all in JS / client side instead of depending on a server-side Java powered component.

TCB13, 3 days ago

You will never get the same font rendering on Linux as on Windows as Windows font rendering (ClearType) is very strange, complicated and covered by patents.

Font rendering is also kind of a subjective thing. To anyone who is used macOS, windows font rendering looks wrong as well. Apple’s font rendering renders fonts much closer to how they would look printed out. Windows tries to increase readability by reducing blurriness and aligning everything perfectly with pixels, but it does this at the expense of accuracy.

Linux’s font rendering tends to be a bit behind, but is likely to be more similar to macOS than to Windows rendering as time goes forward. The fonts themselves are often made available by Microsoft for using on different systems, it’s just the rendering that is different.

For me, on my screens just by installing Segoe UI and tweaking the hinting / antialiasing under GNOME settings makes it really close to what Windows delivers. The default Ubuntu font, Cantarell and Sans don’t seem to be very good fonts for a great rendering experience.

The following links may be of interest to you:

• gist.github.com/…/fa6c5341403bf306e23034a1a1a9111…
• joelonsoftware.com/…/font-smoothing-anti-aliasing…
• github.com/mrbvrz/segoe-ui-linux

TCB13, 4 days ago

but never really thought to use it in my home network

Because you don’t need it. OPNsense and pfSense may make sense in some cases however you’re running a small network and you most likely don’t require those. OpenWRT will provide you with a much cleaner open-source experience and also allow for all the customization you would like. Another great advantage of OpenWRT you’ve the ability to install 3rd party stuff in your router, you may even use qemu to virtualize stuff like your Pi-Hole on it or simply run docker containers.

TCB13, 5 days ago

Yes, it is very good. It’s great to use perpetually half made software.

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TCB13, 5 days ago

The point is that every single feature they try to add to it ends up as yet another buggy thing that never gets fixed. They should focus on making the core things works decently instead of adding new features. After all this time they didn’t get the sync to be as reliable as Syncthing, why would they venture into webmail’s and whatnot ?

TCB13, 4 days ago

They improved it? You can’t even add a bullet list. No way to have a full screen typing experience. It’s slow like no other and basic formatting tools are already hidden. Is that what you call improvements?

TCB13, 8 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Well… Poettering will eventually work his way up to browser engines and then we’ll get something efficient… Here’s the announcement:

"There’s a new component in systemd, called “engined”. Or actually, it’s not a new component, it’s actually the long existing “WebKit” engine now done properly. The engine is also a lot more fun to use than “WebKit” or “Blink” because you can finally have hundreds of tabs open in your browser without running out of RAM.

Coming soon in Coming for systemd 981.

TCB13, 10 days ago

It seems that the motherboard is dead, and that it’s a common issue with the 5a

Where did you get it? Can you ask for warranty and get it replaced?

Frankly speaking if you’re looking to de-google and have a secure experience (including re-locking the bootloader and having everything signed and encrypted) then your only option is GrapheneOS + Pixel phones.

TCB13, 9 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Not interested in GrapheneOS.

Okay, then it will be easier. But be aware of the security implications of running the other alternatives, if someone gets your phone they can mess with your bootloader / turn it into a tracking device / add spyware / extract data.

TCB13, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Besides the fact that you can re-lock in CalyxOS in some specific cases… or end up with a totally broken phone is isn’t just as good as GrapheneOS. They don’t even like to point out this situation, they try to navigate around with with less than ideal information on their documentation or complete omission.

They also do a lot of snitching on you (including to Google and Mozilla) and they overlook critical details such as this one allowing the OS to contact 3rd parties such as Qualcomm. This Qualcomm situation clearly shows how unable to actually research things properly and work around them they are. Those kinds of issues don’t happen in Graphene because they’re actually better at covering all grounds.

TCB13, 10 days ago

To bad the “open up” isn’t even a real “open up” under the iPhone. Until we can run unsigned code from any source without bullshit nothing really changed.

TCB13, 9 days ago

Apple could add a few warnings, make users use a computer to enable some kind of “developer mode” and accept the risks. Only apply the relaxed rules to binaries the user specifically whitelists etc. There are a lot of ways to make it secure and for what’s worth we had recent leaks of Chinese intelligence where they were able to infect iOS devices as it is right now.

TCB13, 8 days ago

This goes beyond what “voting with your wallet” can accomplish. What Apple is doing is making everyone’s phones hostage of their central control and software. Android does this as well to a lesser and more manageable extent but it’s still wrong. Think about it, any of those devices running 100% offline / no access to their servers how long will they keep working , be able to open/install apps etc? This is a threat to democracies and the majority of people aren’t aware / don’t care about the long terms effects of their choices.

How different would be our world if IBM, Microsoft and Apple pulled this kind of frap on computers back then? Probably not as good as it is today, no Linux ever made (because the signed bootloader wouldn’t allow it) and with it half of the software innovation accomplished.

This is why governments should act and push those companies into behaving.

TCB13, 10 days ago

Hard drive stocks are currently a mess. I don’t get it, even Amazon has low stocks on everything be it small or large drives.

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Local supplier increased prices to ridiculous values and still doesn’t have the numbers. Anyone knows what’s going on?

TCB13, 10 days ago

With Amazon if you have prime shipping or next day delivery (whatever they call it) enabled

I don’t have those…

TCB13, 10 days ago

Yes, it looks a lot like artificial stock limitations to drive prices up.

TCB13, 11 days ago

Yes, they’re friends if the open-source projects are designed / made in a way that makes the “hyper-cloud” profit more. What BS of an article.

Those “hyper-cloud” providers (and SaaS providers in general) keep increasing profits by reconfiguring the entire development industry in a way that favors the sell of their services and takes away all the required knowledge developers used to have when it came to developing and deploying solutions. Companies such as Microsoft and GitHub are all about re-creating and reconfiguring the way people make software so everyone will be hostage of their platforms. We now have a generation of developers that doesn’t understand the basic of their tech stack, about networking, about DNS, about how to deploy a simple thing into a server that doesn’t use some orchestration with service x or isn’t a 3rd party cloud xyz deploy-from-github service.

Consulting companies who make software for others also benefit from this “reconfiguration” as they are able to hire more junior or less competent developers and transfer the complexities to those cloud services. The “experts” who work in consulting companies are part of this as they usually don’t even know how to do things without the property solutions. Let me give you an example, once I had to work with E&Y, one of those big consulting companies, and I realized some awkward things while having conversations with both low level employees and partners / middle management, they weren’t aware that there are alternatives most of the time. A manager of a digital transformation and cloud solutions team that started his career E&Y, wasn’t aware that there was open-source alternatives to Google Workplace and Microsoft 365 for e-mail. I probed a TON around that and the guy, a software engineer with an university degree, didn’t even know that was Postfix was and the history of email.

All those new technologies keep pushing this “develop and deploy” quickly and commoditizing development - it’s a negative feedback loop that never ends. Yes I say commoditizing development because if you look at it those techs only make it easier for the entry level developer and companies instead of hiring developers for their knowledge and ability to develop they’re just hiring “cheap monkeys” that are able to configure those technologies and cloud platforms to deliver something. At the end of the they the business of those cloud companies is transforming developer knowledge into products/services that companies can buy with a click.

TCB13, 10 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

I’ve a very bad experience with GNOME boxes, both VMware and VirtualBox seem to outperform the thing and work better (drag and drop and resolution scaling, actual GPU acceleration).

TCB13, 10 days ago

+1 here, intel on laptop.

TCB13, 11 days ago

You clearly never used those extensions.

TCB13, 11 days ago

– commented a couple of laughing faces in all good spirits // post removed “rule 2”.

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lol

TCB13, 11 days ago

The funny thing is that you can’t prove me wrong there, apparently not even provide valid arguments, just add a pile of ramblings and insults.

TCB13, 11 days ago

And right now millions of people do and I don’t see widespread issues.

It’s not a widespread issue, it’s something with the desktop icon extensions and the original implementation. In both cases the drag and drop from/to apps never worked fine.

TCB13, 9 days ago

You’ve to set BOTH things (-B and -S) with reasonable values in order for it to work.