I love this instance in principle, but it has had recurring technical problems since before I joined, and I don’t have any reason to think that will change. I suppose they just don’t have the resources to keep up with lemmy issues. I’m using a different instance now.

I’m partial to a prickle of porcupines.

More here

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.

Servo is a web rendering engine, not a browser.

Also, Ladybird is newer, and therefore news to more people. That, along with the fact that it only recently became a stand-alone project, could explain why you see more talk about it lately.

Assuming it works as advertised, I would use this one, in part because it’s not a bloated Electron app like Heroic. (This one is written in Python, and presumably not so wasteful of system resources.)

You might also appreciate the ABC musical notation format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

Most counterproductive bug tracker feature ever.

I read it as needing a Microsoft account, and having to accept Microsft’s terms and conditions, in order to contribute to an unrelated (and probably open-source) project. That’s a valid complaint.

One of the appealing things about the Steam Deck is its repairability. Valve even made the analog sticks modular, published a teardown video, and partnered with iFixit to make replacement parts available, IIRC.

It would be hard to convince me that a device that doesn’t beat the Deck in this area is “today’s best”. It’s important.

My approach with companies that do this: Contact them, explain that I will not be giving them any money due to this aggressive anti-privacy practice, and take my business elsewhere.

Why create e-waste and spend money you don’t have to when your existing retro hardware not only works fine but gives customers something to talk about?

I wish more people thought this way.

In case anyone else is wondering, or simply doesn’t like reading screen shots of text, this is apparently a real report:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405

https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/steam-purchase-license-california-law/

https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab2426

ISO 8601 date format. Not because it’s from a standards body, but because it’s simple, sensible, clearly defined, easy to recognize, and very effective.

Date field placement in any order other than most-significant-digits-first is not only counterintuitive, but needlessly complicated to work with. Omitting critical information like the century is ambiguous and confusing.

We don’t live in isolated villages any more. Mixing and matching those problems by accepting all the world’s various regional and personal date styles, especially with no reliable indication of which ones apply in any given case, leads to the hodgepodge of error-prone date madness that we have today.

The 2024-09-02 format should be taught in schools and required in official documents. Let the antiquated date styles fall into disuse outside of art and personal correspondence, like cursive writing.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

Wouldn’t “upvote if you have never heard of it” accomplish the same thing?

I guess it would depend on people reading and following the instructions, instead of just upvoting games they like. Maybe that’s a bit much to ask. :P

Libcurl is at the foundation of almost all networking.

That’s not remotely true, but it is nevertheless outstanding work and very much deserving of recognition and support.

I nominate Paul Eggert and Arthur Olson before him, for the tz database, which we all depend upon whenever the time at which something happens (or did or will happen) matters.

Edit: Tom Scott touches on the subject here.

And FOSS is an umbrella term encompassing both Free software and Open-Source software.

I’m glad to see people taking interest in the meanings behind these terms. We all benefit from understanding them better.

doesn’t look like FOSS, just open source.

Open-source software is FOSS by definition. Did you mean source-available?