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I really worry about what happens to Valve as a company after he steps down.

Unless enterprise customers are screaming for MV2 compatibility I would expect Microsoft to make no effort at all to maintain a working MV2 implementation in Edge.

Yeah, once Google has ripped all the MV2 code out of chromium it'll be very interesting to see how long the chromium reskins are able to maintain their private forks. I also expect…

I turned sample submission off permanently via group policy after catching defender uploading places.sqlite out of my Firefox profile.

I'm not denying that X11 has known security issues. However, I don't tend to run untrusted random gui applications on my system so that factors into the risks I'm willing to accept…

I stick with LTS releases so last honest attempt would have been on a Kubuntu 24.04 LTS system. What is a compositor - thing that actually draws window content on the screen? Whate…

I empathize but every time I try a Wayland based desktop I always end up encountering weird bugs and corner cases with basic usability that drive me back to X11. I'll be sad if tha…

That and systemd having actually useful man pages.

I'm pretty much neutral on the whole LLM thing as it has positives and negatives just like most other technologies. If their declaration had been scoped to "don't use LLMs and auto…

Same here but I'm using a ssh based proxy to avoid having my local ISP data mine my web traffic. Definitely not going to turn it off either to read a blog. I really wish admins ban…

Old versions of Netscape Navigator had settings where you could tweak that kind of stuff - I don't recall if IE3/4 did or not. Given the web of the 90s didn't include tons of overl…

Back in the ancient days of the web, browsers allowed you to set resource limits (ram, cache, etc) to prevent websites from hogging the limited resources of your desktop system. It…

It seems that AI-scraping hysteria/paranoia has reached a point that more and more resource sites completely block me without any recourse (e.g. having an account) if my traffic is…

Since I've dealt with "EE" Java in a previous life, that's actually pretty tame as far as parodies go. I hate the fact I can say that. :-/

As long as there is a financial benefit to lying, there will always be people willing to do so. I personally believe that many of these "influencers" do not believe any of the stuf…

It instead is a chat where a thousand group chats are open, and no once wants to read any of them. I really wanted to like Zulip and use it as a personal chat service for a small g…

It does seem like a lot of doctors prescribe GLP-1s without any corresponding education on the dietary changes one should make while on them. A friend of mine's mother was hospital…

Another N=1, I've noticed zero impact on my desire to engage in my normal obsessions while on GLP-1. What GLP-1 did (initially) was give me horrible insomnia that peaked a couple o…

Same here too. Ironically, the blog is accessible over TOR for me.

Exactly - the FTDI drivers refusing to work would have been reasonable and emitting a log or error message that my device was counterfeit would have actually been helpful. Instead,…

KDE doesn't need 4 GB of ram - that's just what my laptop happens to have which is more than ample to run the OS + KDE + native applications.

I'm on an older LTS kernel so no support for lru_gen but I will definitely check out zramswap - thanks.

It's the web browser and electron based apps that are the primary consumers of ram on my desktops with the DE and OS ram usage being minimal by comparison. I have an ancient laptop…

https://antonz.org/go-1-26/#httptest-example > To fix this issue, the HTTP client returned by httptest.Server.Client now redirects requests for example.com and its subdomains to th…

Yeah, it's one of the reasons I use a Microsoft account to collect the PC entitlements and then create a local user account that has a sane profile name and never touch the online …