brisk

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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

For what it's worth, I regularly switch depending on what I'm doing (AwesomeWM for X11 and Hyprland for Wayland)

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

If you're fine with Wayland, go with Wayland. There are lots of reasons still that people might prefer X11 but the list has been getting shorter.

  • The security model of Wayland is more restrictive than necessary for many users and means things like screen sharing and desktop toys are harder and not universally implemented or doable.
  • Wayland effectively requires many things to be handled by the same process, preventing traditional modular environments (e.g. separating window manager from compositor no longer possible)
  • Explicit compositor support required for more features, meaning having a feature complete environment in small projects is much harder, and the design of Wayland tends to promote a few large desktop environments rather than many small window managers.
  • NVidia's support for Wayland is still improving
  • Wayland can't rotate your screen to be on an angle to maximise the length of a line
  • Several programs I rely on don't support Wayland well yet
    • Steam doesn't stream from Wayland
    • Transparent bits of FreeCAD show the background instead of what's behind them
    • Code-OSS required a very silly workaround for decent font rendering, although I think this might have been fixed in electron
[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't tell if paywalled, or just one paragraph long

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

This is explicitly described as avoiding entrapment. I don't see it as reasonable to take any political or theological teaching from this. Especially since Jesus left the Pharisees to make the connection and avoided telling anybody to pay taxes.

Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar (NIV)15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”

18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.

Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can also do that in Tubular, if you prefer a FOSS option

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It might help if the media didn't continuously frame this like a two horse race

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Mobile phone radiation is non-ionising. There is no known mechanism for it giving you cancer. Regardless of mechanism there's ample research on the topic, and no sign of a link

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How about Usenet (1980)?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Despite the headline, this is being done by Thunderbird, not Mozilla

Thunderbird is completely independent of the Mozilla Corporation, the makers of Firefox. But the Mozilla Coperation[sic] supports Thunderbird by hosting many of the Thunderbird infrastructure and resources.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-faq#w_who-makes-thunderbird

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Harvesting personal information while impersonating official electoral comms.

While they technically have the right authorisations on them, the envelope and postal vote form I received could easily be mistaken as official from anyone not paying 100% attention.

According to the article the websites both take all your information then redirect you to the actual postal voting registration, potentially leading voters to think they've already submitted for a postal vote when they haven't.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

We import all sorts of fringe political positions from the US.

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