The gold standard should never have been abandoned.
Nixon untethered us by doing so,
now the inflation balloon will keep on rising as a result.
Rikj000
joined 1 year ago
WASM projects can be open source,
just like Android apps can be.
However in both instances the compiled versions of it are not easily readable.
Also you can validate binaries against a shasum to ensure no tampering has happened with them.
WASM = WebAssembly,
this has nothing to do with Java,
but with JS (JavaScript).
JS works with JIT (Just In Time) compilation, meaning every user that requests a web page, will request the JS and your browser will compile that JS on the fly as you request it.
WASM on the other hand is pre-compiled once, by the developer, when he/she is making the code. So when a user requests a WASM binary, they don't have to wait for JIT compilation, since it was already pre-compiled by the developer.
They only have to wait for a tiny piece of JS,
which is still JIT compiled,
a tiny piece of JS to load in the WASM binary.
This saves the user from waiting on JIT compilation and thus speeds up requesting web pages.
WASM also increases security,
since binaries are harder to reverse engineer then plain text JS.
Due to those reasons,
I believe WASM will be the future for Web development.
No clue why people are hating on WASM,
but I guess they just don't grasp all of the above yet.
Geometric Weather is no longer being developed + started to have issues with fetching data.
Breezy Weather is the actively developed fork / continuation of Geometric Weather:
- https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather
- https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.breezyweather
Figured it out by looking at a few issues on the Geometric Weather Github repo:
Hopefully it will inspire the game industry to finally start releasing some new good triple A games again, instead of milking existing franchises with half baked content, subscriptions and micro payments..
We vote with our wallet,
and currently we're voting well with not buying into the crap they often pump out lately, and the statistics reflect that.
Not saying all new games are bad though, I'm thoroughly enjoying Horizon Forbidden West on PC lately.
But to me it does feel like the game industry has been dwindeling the past few years.
I assume due to venture capitalists who are not really passionate about creating good content, but more about turning a quick profit.
Instead of making bedrock edition,
they could have focused on supporting JVM, and thus Minecraft Java Edition, for more consoles.
But since Java is a C# (also from M$) competitor, they likely did not want to go that route.
Anyways, you can play Java Edition on Linux, Mac, Windows and also Android.
Multiple consoles (E.g. PS4 / Nintendo Switch) unofficially support dual booting to Linux and/or Android.
For Android you can use PojavLauncher,
it even supports modpacks:
https://github.com/PojavLauncherTeam/PojavLauncher
I will not touch Bedrock edition,
especially not since it requires you to sign in on your Windows with a M$ account, while my Windows KVM is Ameliorated, which strips the ability to do so, nor would I want to if I could.
Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.
Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.
Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.
Java > Bedrock
F*ck M$ for even making Bedrock...
It's an inferior version of Minecraft and it fractures the modding community.
Root on Android is a necessity for me.
I've been rooting all droids I use for the past 10 years or so.
Imagine using Linux as a power user,
without being able to use sudo/su.
Also, Magisk does not just allow any application to access root, you have to manually allow apps to make use of it.
Just like administrator rights on any other OS,
things only go wrong if you don't know what you're doing, and then grant rights to something malicious.
Gotta admit, it was very hard to setup initially.
However it's been working perfectly ever since I did.
Been using it for about a year or 2 now.
Also when I linked the Arch wiki,
I noticed in it's article that there's now a gpu-passthrough-manager,
which will likely make the process of setting up a little bit easier.
RedLib, the continuation of LibReddit,
still works:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
I use it in combination with this GreaseMonkey script,
to redirect me to a random RedLib instance:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirect
Due to instances often going down and/or stop working.
Wen AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA games?