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Rusty

@Rusty@cubhub.social

Heya! I'm a little bratty red corgi :babybread: but sometimes I'm also a silly rubber piggy, both named Rusty! My account might bounce between the two characters, fair warning. :pupper_wag:

I periodically do programming, gaming, boating, and lots of Linux tinkering (btw I use Arch :archlinux:) I'm also a big fan of #Transformation, #ABDL, #Paws, #PupPlay, and other silly nonsense.

I maayyy be the Boss Baby behind the curtain, but don't tell anybody.

⚠️NSFW Ahead 🔞 Do not follow if you are a minor or would prefer not to see NSFW (with a CW, of course). There will be plenty of NSFW on this account. :blobfoxfloofhappy:​⚠️

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arstechnica, to random
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Rusty,
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@arstechnica Didn't they already try this with the Task View years ago and nobody used it?

Rusty,
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@pavled @arstechnica Man I love the AI revolution. All the same stuff we already didn't want, made much worse, with 100% less privacy. It's the best. :meowmeltthumbsup:​

Rusty, to linux
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"GNOME Wayland sucks because I have to decorate my own windows which is out of the scope for my project."

Just... Don't? :confused_dog: If GNOME doesn't want to have a fallback for server-side decorations, then the intended functionality of the desktop is to just not have window decorations for your app. If people open bug reports about it, close them and direct them to the GNOME issue tracker. I don't get why this is considered a stopper for so many developers targeting Wayland. Just don't have them, I don't get it. :neocat_what:

#Linux #Wayland #GNOME #CSD #SSD

Rusty,
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@charlotte I'd argue that, if GNOME's desktop experience is to not have a fallback to SSDs, that's GNOME's problem to figure out, not a developer's problem. If every developer refused to adopt libdecor, it'd force GNOME to deal with the problem in one way or another, either by adapting the shell to make it easier to interact with undecorated windows or finally adopting xdg-decoration. At no step of this equation should it be on the developer to deal with.

Rusty,
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@charlotte Just close the ticket though. Upstream doing stupid shit is basically a mainstay of Linux at this point. Tell GNOME users to stuff it and go talk to the GNOME devs about it instead. :blobfoxdab:

Rusty,
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@charlotte I don't think you need to help anybody here though. If the experience of the desktop is to allow for undecorated windows, then that's just the experience of the desktop. It's like opening a bug report because the window tiles in Hyprland. It's just what the desktop is meant to do. If GNOME doesn't like that behavior, they can change it. If the user doesn't like that behavior, use a different desktop.

Rusty,
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@lhp I mean, they're definitely real complaints if you're using a toolkit that doesn't have a CSD fallback, since then you're stuck writing your own. It's a bigger problem on older applications that should likely be ported to a more modern version of their toolkit anyway, or it's a problem with video games since SDL doesn't have a CSD fallback.

It's an issue, it's just not nearly that huge of one. :meowshrug:​ GNOME should support xdg-decoration in my mind because the desktop relies on the presence of window decorations, so having it where windows can appear without them is super disjointed and just bad UX, but I don't think it's the Wayland stopper developers try to pass it off as.

Rusty,
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@lhp Clutter is just the compositing toolkit within Mutter (Mutter = Meta + Clutter, hence Mutter). I'm confused what you mean by GTK not running inside a Wayland server, because GTK is chiefly a Wayland toolkit and a Wayland server isn't really a thing that exists, it's just a compositor (in this case Mutter). :confused_dog: Unless I'm misunderstanding something. I'm sure Mutter is absolutely not designed to tack GTK titlebars onto windows, but I'm sure it could and I'm sure Cinnamon is going to have Muffin do it on Cinnamon for Wayland.

GNOME not adapting GTK titlebars for Mutter on Wayland is, as far as I understand it, 100% a choice, even if it'd undoubtedly require some retooling within Mutter to actually get it to work. GNOME views Wayland as a CSD-only protocol. You can see the developers on the Wayland issue tracker saying the same thing constantly. They're fundamentally opposed to server-side decorations. You can see their outright dismissal of SSDs on their issue tracker.

Rusty,
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@lhp GTK is used in X for server-side decorations. :meowshrug:​ It absolutely can be adapted to work in Mutter to present titlebars in accordance with the xdg-decoration spec, they just don't want to.

lupomancer, to random
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Double reminder about this!

One of the cool things about the bridge is that I can go in and view interactions that aren’t making it past the bridge using this link:

https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/sig.dog/notifications

Unfortunately, because of the way the bridge operates due to fedi users requests, a lot of fedi interactions don’t make it to BSKY unless you do the opt-in.

I’m definitely seeing a lot of replies that are bouncing off the bridge due to this

https://furries.club/@lupomancer/112418304203116391

Rusty,
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@lupomancer I thought the plan was to DM people to prompt them to opt in. :confused_dog:​ Maybe that's not implemented yet because the bridge is still super beta.

Also the demand for users to even have an opt-in mechanism in the first place was super dumb, but oh well. :neofox_what:​ Fedi gonna Fedi.

anthropy, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-hzue8KIS9M clever way to make thermite with two metal balls and some alufoil, by letting one of the balls get rusty and wrapping the other one in the alufoil

Rusty,
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@anthropy I'm Rusty!! :corgi_wink:​

Rusty, to Matrix
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I have a lot of Matrix questions :otter_peek:​

Anyone here have any experience spinning up a Matrix instance?

Rusty,
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@anthropy My current curiosity is just social media links. Open Graph previews don't work in encrypted chats, right? Since obviously the server can't read the URL to pull a preview into the media cache. I assume there's no way to flip on Open Graph previews client-side in Element then, right? :confused_dog:​

Rusty,
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@anthropy @charlotte AHHH thank you :pupper_wag:​ That setting is exactly what I was looking for. I only want them enabled in a handful of chats so I don't completely overwhelm my media cache from all the Telegram group chats I'm in. :blobfoxmeltsob:​ Glad it's an opt-in thing.

I really should read up on how CORS works exactly :blobfoxthinkgoogly:​

Rusty,
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@charlotte @anthropy Reading the docs it looks like expired media cache is yeeted after 1 hour by default, so yeah :drgn_sigh:​ Well now I wouldn't mind an account-wide patch.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what to do with group chat media. What's even considered a group chat and what's considered a "People" chat is still incredibly opaque to me. :neofox_what:​

Rusty, to random
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getting a Matrix server going did not go well <w> seriously about to just yeet it and get a Signal

Rusty,
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@anthropy It's probably something stupid I have misconfigured. I'm too sleepy and burnt out to figure it out :corgi_roll: Might take you up on some help after I get some sleep!!

Rusty,
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@anthropy I forgot to change the A record on my domain provider :neofox_what:​

Rusty, to ubuntu
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Wait, there's no built-in UI to install .deb files on Ubuntu? Really??? :neocat_shocked:

I know Canonical really wants to push their stupid walled garden with Snaps, but c'mon. That's just insane. :blobfoxlaughsweat: Snaps are the reason I'll generally not recommend Ubuntu anymore. It's too much to explain to a Linux newbie why Firefox boots slowly and Steam crashes.

Rusty,
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@paspro yeah but that's not built-in :blobfoxthinkgoogly:

Rusty,
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@udittlamba I just don't have much interest in using Ubuntu in general on the desktop. :meowshrug: Also, has Canonical talked about being an immutable distro? It doesn't seem like a thing that's part of their road map.

Rusty,
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@popey @udittlamba Yeah but I didn't think they were planning on making it immutable

Rusty, to chicago
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Huh, the new Bears proposal for a stadium is... wildly different than I expected :otter_peek:​ I really like what the renders did with the old Soldier Field columns (and frankly, the UFO they landed inside of it was always a massively ugly waste of money). I feel mostly ambivalent on the proposal I think, provided taxpayers aren't on the hook for it.

If this proposal actually happens, civic leaders from the south side really should lobby hard for the CTA to revisit the Gold Line proposal to take part of the existing Metra electric right-of-way and turn it into a rapid transit corridor. If the city really wants to revitalize the lakefront and drive tourism, they should focus on increasing access between the lakefront parks (the stupid bean/Millennium Park, Grant Park, etc), the Museum Campus (the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Planetarium, Soldier Field), McCormick Place, and Jackson Park (the Museum of Science and Industry and the new Barack Obama Presidential Library). Plus the Gold Line could be used to bring a valuable link for south lake shore communities between the Loop all the way down to South Chicago. :vg_puro_shrug:​ Seems like a win/win to me.

Side note: Also, boost the Green Line back to Jackson Park like it used to be :neofox_what:​ It'd make for a great transfer point for people between the Gold Line and the Green Line.

Links below if you're curious what the hell I'm talking about:
Axios: Chicago Bears dream big with lakefront stadium proposal
Axios: First look: Renderings of the Chicago Bears' proposed lakefront stadium
Active Transportation Alliance: More rail service needed along south lakefront

Rusty,
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@Malleus The CTA is also facing a fiscal cliff which is... not great. Not sure why we can't do congestion pricing in the city center to help cover the CTA shortfall, but hey, this is America and fuck everyone who doesn't have a car I guess.

So far their proposal doesn't actually involve taxpayer funding beyond the existing 2% hotel tax that they project will grow over time. They want to use bond funding from the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which, to me, reads as a big "we're not actually sure lol, let's go beg J.B., who is notably not enthusiastic about the project, for more funding."

My best guess is that they do what they did for the Soldier Field and Comiskey Park (no I'm not calling it Guaranteed Rate) renovations where they predicate their funding based on future projected tax revenue, then the taxpayers are going to be on the hook when those projections prove to be a joke.

And yeah, the Bears are a fucking joke.

BUT, if we're stuck with this proposal, my standpoint is the south side milks it for better transit. :blobfoxevil:​

lupomancer, to random
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I need a suggestion for a distro to throw on my old X220. Windows 10 and 11 run…fine, I guess. Neither is just well optimized for a low res screen and I think I could run something a little lighter on system resources.

Something rolling release would be nice, ideally with the Mac/gnome style task bar instead of trying to to mimic the windows style one

Rusty,
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@lupomancer You could go with Arch or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed if you want rolling release, and just plunk GNOME on it. :otter_peek:

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