walthervonstolzing

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Smaller browsers built on webkit do exist; see 'Epiphany', 'surf', 'luakit', and 'Nyxt'. Qt's web component used to be based on webkit as well, though they've switched to Blink (Chromium).

Unfortunately, none of the browsers listed above are 100% sufficient to replace Firefox. They all rely on GTK bindings on webkit, which has its own quirks; and none have support for webextensions.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Who's "we", though? Here's the list of Linux Foundation members: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members It's a foundation by, and for, commercial interests; not the users. If the same interests made up a foundation to develop a browser, it wouldn't be different from Chrome; because in the realm where browsers are supposed to work, those 'commercial interests' would demand doing what Chrome does.

It's a 'happy accident' that with respect to a unix-like OS kernel, the interests of the industry ended up being compatible with the interests of the user.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I've got these articles saved, about the history of brushed metal on Apple software: https://512pixels.net/2013/03/brushed-metal-intro/ https://512pixels.net/2016/11/the-brushed-metal-diaries-beyond-software/

To be honest I loved it ... though maybe it has to do with the fact that I have a soft spot for 10.4 Tiger, due to personal (?!) reasons. After Tiger they started progressively tearing down the brushed metal components.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

You wanna get tivoized? Ha? Because that's how you get tivoized.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

With Proxmox on AMD gpus, it can be as simple as picking a pci device from a dropdown.

-- but then again, you'll need to learn how to properly use proxmox, esp. with respect to storage configuration. Also, the performance can still suffer, depending on various factors.

If it's not too big of an inconvenience, dual boot is the way to go, IMHO.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

It's either this fairy tale, or its flip side, the myth that 'private vices' somehow add up to 'public virtues'.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A pedantic thing to say, surely, but the title really should've been: "Linux Directory Structure" -- 'Linux filesystems' (the title in the graphic) refers to a different topic entirely; the title of this post mitigates the confusion a bit, though still, 'directory structure' is the better term.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago

That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.

'Oxford Scholarship Online' would license different sets of books to different departments; so someone from the philosophy department couldn't get access to books classified under sociology or history.

Imagine doing something similar at the checkout table in a 'physical' library.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There's a less capable Mv3 port of uBlock Origin by the original developer, called 'uBlock Origin Lite': https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

I use Chromium only very rarely, so I don't know how effective it is, though.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Here's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo (including an interview with the great Alexandra Elbakyan).

Cory Doctorow recently wrote about this in some detail (incl. helpful links): https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

The name of the pdf file inside the torrent is its md5 hashsum without the .pdf extension.

On libgen.rs you can see the md5 hashsum on the download page; on libgen.li you need to look at the JSON file provided at the link on the search result , as they don't render it on the ui.

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The torrents are alive; as long as you can get the torrent links from libgen, you have access to the files. (No need to share whole archives either, you can pick & choose).

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