Avid Amoeba
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Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.ml•UN rapporteur on sexual violence against women and girls claims no 'independent investigation' found rape committed on Oct. 7
0·3 days agoThat’s Qatari propaganda.
/s
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS With COSMIC Desktop
0·4 days agoThat’s pretty interesting. No GObject and GPLv3.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Wages in China have increased by 500% from 1994 to 2024, by far the highest rate of increase of any country
0·5 days agoGoddamn, Taiwan is the second last with 17% increase in the same 30-year period. 😵
Meanwhile GDP per capita PPP has gone up 370%.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Geohot: Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
0·8 days agoGeohot has always struck me as a bit of a blowhard.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.dev•Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port
0·9 days agoChromium was created by the KDE community which needed HTML rendering in… the 90s? Then it was taken up by MS competitors who wanted to make a rival of Internet Explorer and they “created” WebKit. Nokia, Apple, BlackBerry, later Google and many others contributed to WebKit which became Safari and eventually Chrome. At one point Google broke off from that codebase to create Blink.
I’ll give you that you’ve got a decent narrative and I wouldn’t have objected much if Google was the “Don’t be evil” company it used to be in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Which is also when they acquired Danger and released their src as Android. We’re not in that world anymore. I don’t give a flying fuck where the innovation is because I can rely on GCC being here 50 years from now, when the current corporate players be long gone.
Again, I really wish we lived in 2015 when people (and I) trusted Google enough to make it trivial for me to advocate for their projects and products.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoScience@lemmy.ml•Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole
0·10 days agoSo one of them can be always fucking blocked.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.dev•Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone
0·10 days agoKinda. But also kinda not. The cost of getting a phone made has decreased and there are many, many manufacturers who can make one for you these days. From that perspective, if you have small niche where people are alright with paying a bit of a premium, it may in fact be easier to make a phone for them than say in 2012.
The total device cost will be 499 EUR or 599~699 EUR as the “normal” price with the voucher deducting from the phone’s cost if/when available.
This price for a low volume device would have been completely unachievable in 2012.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.dev•Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port
0·11 days agoIndeed. The hard lesson that I learned over my 20 years of experience with FOSS is that the social infrastructure around a piece of software is more important than the exact details of the technology itself such as programming languages, frameworks, patterns, etc. And the license is a part of that social infrastructure.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.dev•Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port
0·11 days agoOn a technical level, that’s cool.
On a practical level MIT-licensed OS better not get much mindshare. Cue everything that happened with important projects under permissive licenses over the last decade. E.g. Android, Chromium. I used to dgaf and was even quite excited about stuff like Fuscia OS. Boy did we dodge a bullet there with Google abandoning it.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.dev•Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton
0·12 days agoHas been for a long time with Waydroid. This is probably gonna make it easier to use.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@programming.dev•Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream
0·17 days agoFun fact, Igalia is a worker co-op that does open source development for hire.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.ml•IDF deploys new AI system to track soldiers’ social media leaks: 'We are aware its intrusive'
0·17 days agoThe Israelis have no idea what’s coming for them. They’ve gotten themselves into this right wing stasis and they seem to have become oblivious to the domestic dangers posed by the tools and tactics they’ve developed for “external use.” This shit is coming home and I’m guessing any dissent over expansionist policy will be the first to get repressed.
Pinokio is a 1-click launcher for any open-source project. Think of it as a terminal application with a user-friendly interface that can programmatically interact with scripts.
A web UI that runs scripts. Cool I guess. If you’re into that kind of thing. There’s no way I’d use this instead of docker compose and Ansible/SaltStack. And yes I realize you probably could use compose from a Pinokio script.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•RIP Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite (Gamers Nexus)
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Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
0·19 days agoIn September, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities reported that at least 21,000 Palestinian children had been disabled in Gaza since October 2023. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Health announced that over 6,000 amputation cases had been registered, with children comprising 25% of the total, making Gaza home to the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world.
Can confirm it’s the truth.




Beautiful.