[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

This depends entirely of what you mean by "of Windows" and what you mean by "for Linux". This terminology is ambiguous.

Are you a Lemmy user for lemmy.world, or are you a lemmy.world user for Lemmy?

It's also inconsistent because when they say, for example, "Microsoft Azure Linux Container Host for AKS", they are talking about running a Microsoft Azure Linux Container inside of AKS, not a container that is meant to be used for running AKS within it...

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

interoperability == API standardization == API homogeneity

standardization != monopolization

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

Thunar is a much better alternative, in my opinion.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think that's the point, he's saying he'd rather use USA-linked FOSS than non-USA proprietary software.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's ironic that GTK actually used to stand for GIMP ToolKit.

They were the first ones to use Gtk ever.. and it's looking like they will be the last ones to migrate to the newer major versions :P

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 months ago

From what I gather, I don't think it's about any stance from Codeberg in general, it seems they are attacking "several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights" in particular. They just happen to be hosted in Codeberg.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think the point the article was trying to make is that "sucking in with lots of force" does not really happen any differently outside the event horizon of a black hole than it would in the proximity of any other star (or object) with the same mass.

So it's addressing the "myth" that being in the proximity of a black hole would inevitably suck you in.. however, odds are that if you are not directly aiming for the black hole, even if you did not resist, you would just end up entering an orbit around it, the same way we are currently orbiting the Sun. Or maybe even be catapulted out of it, instead of sucked in.

The difference would be that past the event horizon you would be torn apart by the space distortion (instead of being cooked alive if it were a star). But theoretically if you can avoid crashing into a star, then you can avoid entering a black hole.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel UI trends have gone in the direction of making things worse, not better.

I remember when it was pretty much unanimous that "mplayer" was beautiful in all its square corners glory, while "Windows Live Media Player" was seen as a horrible abomination.

Now it feels like everyone is on board with inefficient UI designs like the latter for some reason.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't understand the posh stylistic decisions around padding, rounded borders, etc. How do those things make the UI better exactly?

As someone who used low resolutions for most of my University years (I did my thesis in a tiny ultralaptop), I relied heavily on a custom gtk2 theme I had to write to remove most of that padding that made the UI feel so unnecessary and my screen so cramped.

Gnome now pushing for removing theming completely and relying on just color scheme customization feels totally backwards to me. I don't have an answer for OP sadly... other than just using terminal / tui apps more whenever possible.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

True. Though I don't think we would be in a hurry for this one, both Mindustry and Shapez have similar concepts and are already open source and quite good.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

espeak default voice backend is synthesized without using actually real voice samples. So it doesn't require downloading a huge package for each language, which is convenient in some cases, but the outcome is extremely robotic.

You can use MBROLA as backend for espeak so that it uses some voice samples and the result should be less jarring (it'd still be easy to tell it's not natural voice, but at least you'd be able to understand it better). There's a tutorial on this here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/mbrola.md

Or you can try piper (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper) it's one of the most natural-sounding TTS (here are some samples).

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In fact, it’s not unlikely that the behavioural data of people who pay to opt out of being spammed with ads will be more valuable to data brokers.

True. This is why the AdNauseam extension doesn't simply "hide" ads, but it goes out of its way to actually simulate clicks for ALL ads, causing algorithms to be unable to more accurately profile you and making the pay-per-click model fall on its face. If everyone did that, advertisers would have to pay for completely meaningless clicks making it no longer worth it to advertise this way.

Though it's still not a solution to privacy, since it still gives some insight on your tastes by allowing them to know what websites do you frequently visit.

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