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  • How about GNU M4 + Make (output)?

    (to be clear this is a joke suggestion. but yes it is what I legitimately use)

  • Distro or Desktop like "classic" macOS
  • It’s a free reimplementation of the NeXTSTEP API (and now the successor Cocoa in macOS). So kind of what Linux is to real UNIX.

  • Distro or Desktop like "classic" macOS
  • Look into GNUstep and related projects maybe? I’m not sure how close it is to pre-NS Mac (that was OS X iirc?) but it might be close enough.

  • Does leaving a single board computer caseless can be a problem or not?
  • I killed 3 Raspberry Pis by putting them onto a metal surface while turned on (first two times I didn’t know what was happening and the third time was accidental). Do not recommend.

  • It’s no longer glorious to get rich in China — it’s dangerous
  • I generally don’t like the CCP because they’re ultra authoritarian but this is unfathomably based.

    Also the comments are certainly something:

    It's also become dangerous to be rich in the U.S., unless you donate to Democrats. Just look at the abuse of power by the Biden-Harris administration against Elon Musk. They have unleashed the entire Federal government against him.

  • U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles
  • I’d trust a chinese vehicle over a Tesla any day.

  • The iPhones 16
  • my right index finger expects a shutter button to be located near the top right corner. But the center of Camera Control is 2 inches (5 cm) from the corner.

    Oooh, I just know that’s going to massively bother me too. 5cm is a lot. I’d have to try it myself but it already sounds uncomfortable.

  • What are the best video games full of references to other media?
  • Oh damn, I didn’t think I wouldn’t be the first to post about Evoland 2 of all games in this thread, it’s pretty obscure, isn’t it. Great game though.

  • What are the best video games full of references to other media?
  • Evoland 2 has a lot of references.

  • [PSA] If you use Instagram/Facebook/Messenger, check the "off Meta technologies" section. Your other apps may be sending data without you knowing
  • Here's a demo one that works on rooted Android: https://github.com/Hirohumi/RustyRcs/

    (Also iOS 18+ Messages lol)

    It's not RCS's fault Google locks down the API on their OS.

  • How can I keep my forwarded port secure?
  • Don't use passwords for public SSH in the first place. Disable password authentication and use pubkeys.

  • Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?
  • “Frūctūs super populō” (edit: or “hūmānīs” given that this is “people” (plural) instead of “the people” (singular))

    (no idea if this correct, I just used Wiktionary and have very little knowledge of Latin)

  • We are not the same
  • I have an automated setup that can torrent the same game 100000 times so I can make corporations go broke at the click of a button. Fear me

  • My wife has an iPhone. I have a Samsung S23. Why do videos she texts me look like super low res shit?? Can iPhones not text videos?
  • It’s very funny you say MOV and HEIC are proprietary and then list MP4 considering

    • HEIC is just H.265, the video codec, used to encode images
    • H.264, the codec used for most mp4 files has the same license as H.265 with patent bullshit license fees going on
    • MP4 container is pretty similar to MOV, and is also not an open standard
    • this also means MOV and MP4 can be losslessly converted
    • Apple provides documentation for MOV format free of charge while ISO really wants you to pay to get official standard PDF
    • All this doesn’t matter anyway because ffmpeg can decode everything (though I guess it might matter in bizarro land where software patents are a thing)

    Also Android can totally read at least HEIC images. Not sure about MOV. Any of this is also not related to the problem the OP has.

  • GTK 4.16.0 released, now defaults to Vulkan renderer on Wayland
  • QtWidgets uses software rendering. It's completely fine on my 4K display except for a single application, KOrganizer, where it actually takes a while to redraw the UI. You can implement hardware rendering badly too (see QtQuick which is noticeably less responsive than QtWidgets)

  • You can use Freeform as a basic image editor on iOS

    I wanted something like GIMP for iOS with which I can stitch together/overlay/crop images, add text, blank out parts, draw on the image, and so on. Nothing in the app store looked appealing, most of what I could find seems to be geared towards photo post processing, so I had the idea of trying Freeform for this, because well, it lets you place various objects on a canvas. And it works pretty well!

    Create a new board with the image inside, set it to no rounded corners and no shadow, and then do whatever you want to it with Freeform’s tools.

    Then, when you’re done, select Export to PDF and convert it to an image. You can use this share sheet shortcut which I made which makes an image out of it and also cuts away the white frame it generates around the PDF: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fa5e2386588742b2a1f5d41401f2238e

    There you go, straight forward basic image editing with a free stock app.

    It unfortunately doesn’t preserve the original resolution of the image but it’s definitely good enough for me.

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    Is there a Git repository activity aggregator, like GitHub's user activity but platform independent?

    I'm looking for something like GitHub's user activity indicator that gathers information from a list of git repositories regardless of where they are hosted (as long as they are public), that I can put on my webpage, kind of as a thing to show what I'm working on at the moment.

    Is this a thing that already exists? I'd started writing one a while ago but instead of reviving that it would be great if there's something that already exists and I can just use :\^)

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    Introducing the DreamBerd Vision Pro
    github.com Introducing the DreamBerd Vision Pro · TodePond DreamBerd · Discussion #580

    Today we're proud to announce the DreamBerd Vision Pro. It's not AR or VR. It's spatial computing. And Lu Wilson has done a FULL COMPREHENSIVE VIDEO REVIEW that's completely unbiased and unsponsore...

    Introducing the DreamBerd Vision Pro · TodePond DreamBerd · Discussion #580
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    Linux doesn't serve birth time attribute over NFS

    According to this Phoronix article, Linux should support the birth time attribute in the NFS server since 5.18. However, it doesn't show up in the stat output when looking at the file through the NFS mount, or elsewhere (at least, the Dolphin file browser and also a macOS client):

    % stat file File: file Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 1048576 regular empty file Device: 0,70 Inode: 103416894 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 1000/ saiko) Gid: ( 100/ users) Access: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100 Modify: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100 Change: 2023-12-17 03:22:45.368950609 +0100 Birth: -

    What gives? Running stat on the server directly, it shows the attribute. The backing file system is ext4, kernel 6.5.12. The client is using kernel 6.1.63.

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