Kajika

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FOSS JS extension? (blocking by default non-FOSS JS) (lemmy.ml)
 

I am a long-time NoScript extension (https://noscript.net/) user. For those who don't know this automatically blocks any javascript and let you accept them (temporarily or permanently) based on the scripts' origin domain.

NoScript as some quality-of-life option like 'accepting script from current page's domain by default' so only 3rd parties would be blocked (usefull in mobile where it is tedious to go to the menu).

When I saw LibreJS (https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/) I though that would be a better version of NoScript but it is quiet different in usage and cares about license and not open-source code (maybe it can't).

Am I the only one who thought about checking for open-source JS scripts filtering (at least by default)? This would require reproducibility of 'compilation'/packaging. I think with lock files (npm, yarn, etc) this could be doable and we could have some automatic checks for code.

Maybe the trust system for who checks could be a problem. I wanted to discuss this matter for a while.

Explicit GPU Synchronization for Xwayland now merged in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought this also would need the next Nvidia driver version 555. Am I missing something?

Finally switched to Wayland with KDE+NVIDIA in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Wine is fine so I guess proton would be.

Finally switched to Wayland with KDE+NVIDIA in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Damned, this is so frustrating when you cannot switch yet. Not like Wayland is perfect anyway but I felt the same with pipewire where the new system as some needed improvement but the switch is harsh.

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Finally switched to Wayland with KDE+NVIDIA (lemmy.ml)
 

Just wanted to share for the 10 people like me who has with an Nvidia + dual screen setup on ArchLinux (btw) with KDE Plasma desktop that since the new plasma 6 update I can finally use the Wayland session option!

The wayland should work has been around for the last 5 years and 5 years ago it was not even close, then 1 or 2 years ago it started not crashing but multi-screen was not OK (I tried all the kernel and driver parameters).

Now for me and my 5+ years-old setup (probably a lot of legacy plasma settings in my .config) it was finally seamless.

From previous tries I already knew that the desktop feels WAY smoother (true 60 fps everywhere, specially for the video players in web browser).

Feels great so far, discord screen-sharing is not there but can be done from Firefox if needed so OK for me.

I hope this post will be informative for some like me who tried several time over the years and didn't had much hope.

PS : the cursor has a weirdly strong outline (too shiny to my taste) feels like unintended but not a big problem. I spent 30 mins in the options but couldn't find anything about that.

Boeing whistleblower who filed a claim alleging the company retaliated against him for repeatedly reporting defects found dead in US after apparent suicide in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

He was subsequently found dead in his truck in the hotel car park.

-> https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703 . This is in the "business" category...

Show HN: A directory of open source alternatives to proprietary software in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They list gitea but not forgejo. That's not really advocating for FOSS. "all" (the ones I looked at) are startup products coined as open-source.

I really don't like this website and this list, to me this is replacing bad solutions by other bad solutions (I am sorry for the people that like firebase and co).

I am sorry for the negativity but I really don't enjoy this link and all it represents and all the people enjoying such content. I guess I/we should explicitly separate FOSS from open-source.

I may be out of touch and should be educated on why/how this is good.

Why did Hyperbola remove Vulkan? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the link, I knew hyperbola for many years from afar. Reading this gave me a lot more insight on the project. I find it very cool and pushing toward better software like GNU, openBSD and suckless.

Nothing is perfect but for server this distribution could be a nice option . I'd love to see an arm version of it. I guess RISC-V would also be a perfect match for them

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Floating-point arithmetic (lemmy.ml)
 
Safest way to run pirated games? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes for the pointing to a wall.

You can go with your firewall I don't mind. I don't get why you think this had anything to do with security. This is just to get any software to go offline by default.

Safest way to run pirated games? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yes indeed. For now you can just use wine registry option (from the up arrow next to the wine glass) to open the windows registry.

The you go in CURRENT_USER (don't remember the full name, on my phone right now) and something like software/windows/current_version/internet_settings . There you should have a "ProxyEnable" you can switch the value from 0 to 1 (just double click). Then right click to add a "string value" and name it "ProxyServer". Once created double click on it to change its value to something wrong like "http://bla.local:80".

You can check internet by running exe from the wine environment (up arrow next to play) and start internet explorer from c_drive/Program Data

Academia is BROKEN! Nobel-Prize Winner with Fake Results (Medicine) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

I'm losing faith of this community. It's like far right people deniing reality and pushing weird agenda like: red eye in thumbnail so it must be wrong.

All the points that have read here aren't addressing the content but weird stuff.

Maybe https://retractionwatch.com/2023/10/02/nobel-prize-winner-gregg-semenza-tallies-tenth-retraction/ is also wrong for you and all the rest of the world. I'm not gonna take time to answer toxic people like you who are not even trying...

It was my mistake to post this here. I take full responsibility and will not interact any more as I can see how reddit-like lemmy has become since the rise of lemmy.world. You can just ignore me or keep spitting your venom with 0 argument.

Academia is BROKEN! Nobel-Prize Winner with Fake Results (Medicine) in c/[email protected]
Academia is BROKEN! Nobel-Prize Winner with Fake Results (Medicine) in c/[email protected]
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Academia is BROKEN! Nobel-Prize Winner with Fake Results (Medicine) (www.youtube.com)
 

The whole channel should have way more views. Science fraud is a topic that scientists knows and talk about but it is always vague and it's hard to point at precises cases due to lack of documentation (and journalists in general).

Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He is right. In Japan there are 2 form of health insurance: from your company 社会保険 (shakai houken) or directly from the government 国民健康保険 (kokumin kenko houken). If you quit your job you loose your health insurance the very day you're unemployed and must go to your prefecture to ask the national one (you'll pay for it, around 200$-300$ a month).

Also in France your health insurance is also tied to your job. The french administration is a nightmare to me so I have no idea how to get anything if you're unemployed.

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I don't find any value in Red-Hat but I see their corporate thinking. Who really need them and why? (lemmy.ml)
 

I see all the drama around Red-hat and I still don't get why companies would use RHEL (or centos when it existed). I was in many companies and CentOS being years behind was awful for any recent application (GPU acceleration, even new CPU had problems with old Linux kernels shipped in CentOS).

Long story short the only time one of the company I worked in considered CentOS it was ditched out due to many problems and not even being devs/researchers friendly.

I hear a lot of Youtube influencers "talking" (or reading the Red-Hat statements) about all the work Red-Hat is doing but I don't see any. I know I dislike gnome so I don't care they contribute to that.

What I see though is a philosophy against FOSS. They even did a Microsoft move with CentOS (Embrace, extend, and extinguish). I see corporate not liking sharing and collaborating together but aiming at feeding of technology built as a collective. I am convinced they would love to patent science discovery too. I am pretty sure there is a deep gap in philosophy between people wanting "business-grade" Linux and FOSS community.

If you have concrete examples of Red-Hat added value that cannot be fulfilled by independent experts or FOSS community, I'd really like to hear that.

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