Something built with Hyphanet, maybe?

The signal to noise ratio on Stack Overflow has been low for a long time now, even before LLMs showed up. I was once a high-rep contributor there. Nowadays, I usually won't even bother clicking web search results that lead there, let alone share my knowledge with them. (And with Cloudflare, which is now a man-in-the-middle between the site and its users.)

IMHO, the community could use a distributed Q&A network, with no instance able to interfere with anyone's access to our accumulated knowledge.

I would be interested in a project like this if it were a distributed network.

It's important to ensure that accumulated community knowledge will survive, and conversations can continue, when an instance dies or becomes intolerable. (Reddit and Stack Exchange have recently brought this into sharp focus.) It's so important that I no longer contribute to sites like this unless they provide those assurances.

So I hope this one develops into something that meets that need.

I salute you for the informative responses here, and for bringing some variety to the community by talking about a topic that isn't carried by sensationalism.

Do you have a mason's mark?

Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?

I have run many Windows games outside of Steam.

I prefer to set up each one manually: Create a Wine prefix, install the game (or copy it from an existing installation), install a few key libraries like DXVK and a Visual C++ runtime, make a launch script with game-specific environment settings or launch options. Tools like Lutris and Bottles can automate much of this, in case you need a little help or just find a GUI more convenient.

This is my usual approach to non-Steam games (especially GOG), but even Steam games can be convinced to work offline with the help of a Steam emulator. It wouldn't work with a game encumbered by DRM (e.g. Denuvo) unless a cracked version could be located, but in my experience, that's a minority of Steam games that I categorically avoid in the first place.

So, I'm not worried about my game library vanishing if I ever lose access to Steam for whatever reason. Most (if not all) of it could be recovered with a bit of effort.

SimonSays make me a sandwich

I wonder if a personalized reputation system based on your votes of other people's comments, and influenced by votes from folks who have earned enough upvotes from you, could be developed without turning your feed into an echo chamber like Facebook.

Sort of like PageRank, but for fediverse users instead of web pages, and with each user keeping (and seeing) their own rankings of everyone else.

Mitigation for TSA requires a combination of new microcode patches for affected systems as well as updates to OS and hypervisors.

So watch for OS and microcode updates addressing these:

• CVE-2024-36350
• CVE-2024-36357

https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/resources/bulletin/technical-guidance-for-mitigating-transient-scheduler-attacks.pdf

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7029.html

I just checked that 32GiB system that runs zramswap at PERCENT=50, and free -h is reporting 27GiB available. I think that confirms my suspicion.

So, I don't think there's any significant down side to running zramswap even if your system never needs to swap. :)

Geany is excellent. It's a lightweight programmer's editor with enough features and configurable hooks to provide the important parts of a full-blown IDE. It renders text clearly, never feels laggy, and doesn't get greedy with your RAM. I recommend it to people who can't stand the bloat that's often seen elsewhere these days, but would rather have a GUI than resort to vim.

A couple minor annoyances to me:

• It doesn't yet support the Language Server Protocol, so any language that it doesn't understand will be left without syntax and context-sensitive features. (On the other hand, it does support a lot of languages.)
• It inherits Scintilla's use of Gtk for its GUI, so it's an alien app on Qt-based desktops.

I use it anyway, because I find it easier / more comfortable to use than Kate.

Sorry; I shouldn't have written Cloudflare specifically. Their CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.

How do you know this?

Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won't enable, so I can't read the archived articles.

What about https://ghostarchive.org/?

I haven't used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it's doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall when trying to submit an article, but not when searching for an archived article. I'll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.

She told me she’s [...] also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.

As someone who is keenly aware of the privacy and security problems that come with allowing web scripts, I hope she prioritizes this soon. It's really disappointing to find sites that were formerly readable without javascript suddenly inaccessible since adopting Anubis. The more sites that do this, the more people are pushed toward enabling scripts by default, exposing them to a great many trackers and web exploits that would otherwise be blocked.