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• Post #4347252

  ""Starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (#RHEL) 10.2, #Firefox and #Thunderbird are delivered as Flatpaks by default. If you install RHEL with a graphical desktop, your browser and email client will now come from the #RedHat #Flatpak registry instead of traditional #RPM Package Managers (RPMs). Here's what that means in practice and […]" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/firefox-and-thunderbird-rhel-flatpaks-what-it-means-you #Linux

• Post #3928379

  ""Several times in my life I’ve tried to break in with a new social group. […] Pretty quickly I learned that the best and fastest way to join a group is to organize events where we do the group’s core activity. […] there is far more demand for social events and things to do than there is supply. […] I’ve found this true everywhere from niche online fanfiction discussion groups to vanguard intellectual movements directing hundreds of millions of dollars annually."" https://ww...

• Post #1628708

  This is so refreshing and hilarious, I watched it twice – and at the same time makes me feel kinda sad, as it feels like a lot of openness, humour, and quick wit was lost in the last forty years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6w6MzMDhk

• Post #1520751

  How to make me hate your website? Move the page scroll bar slightly to the left, as that breaks "move mouse cursor to the right of the screen blindly, hit button, move mouse downwards". Looking at you, #gitlab[1] (where I need the scroll bar often, as the pages for issues are really long, so using the scroll wheel is not really a option. [1] see for example https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/4663

• Post #1257492

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/116419397363442579 Here is another reason why I found this upsetting: That we all indirectly pay for this deliberate lack of security, as the money to reimburse customers in the end comes from our fees.

• Post #759188

  @n8@mastodon.social yeah, I was trying to answer that, but then felt unsure and threw too much away, sorry. Everybody who had a TV back then had public broadcasting (ARD, ZDF, ...). But Max Headroom was shown on commercial/private broadcasting (SAT1 iirc; or was it RTL); and those only really came up during the mid/late 80s; I think that's when we (I come from a rural area) started to have those (first via antenna/later via satellite), so in the citys it might have been more popular. But ac...

• Post #635037

  PNG is back! https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume) A new PNG spec was just released! […] […] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor! What's new? * Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!) * Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!) * Officially supports Exif data * General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc. #png

• Post #395922

  Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin. […] And there are even more challenges waiting for us Firefox Linux hackers: Wayland session restore […] Utilize the fractional-scale-v...

• Post #372387

  @pauldoo@mastodon.scot @adamw@fosstodon.org @doti@pl.catboyindustries.co ohh, wasn't aware of that, interesting, thx! But I guess in the end that and the "sometimes" in your sentence contribute to the "neither fish nor fowl" aspect I mentioned initially that makes it hard for outsiders to understand what to expect.

• Post #371481

  @adamw@fosstodon.org yeah, granted, thx for mentioning it and sorry for omitting that. But well mesa, thunderbird and a lot of smaller packages have no such exception but are kinda rolling. That and the exceptions itself lead to a "neither fish nor fowl" picture from the outside. And to me it feels a bit like this is becoming a problem worth addressing sooner or later. CC @doti@pl.catboyindustries.co

• Post #371133

  @doti@pl.catboyindustries.co I don't think using "they" is helpful here. Fedora has a policy, that says: "As a result, we should avoid major updates of packages within a stable release. Updates should aim to fix bugs, and not introduce features, particularly when those features would materially affect the user or developer experience." – https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/ But the maintainers for some packages do not follow it – often for good rea...

• Post #324051

  @matttbe@fosstodon.org yeah, this isn't really something new. And while reading the post I like many times before actually wondered how much my go-to supermarket is actually using this or some other technique[1] to track me. [1] I guess these days video surveillance + AI might be or slowly become the preferred method; they could use wifi, too.