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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Because voting has very limited choice and a winner takes all mechanism. Ob-fucking-viously the candidates should be better, but not voting won’t make that change. Trump elected will just make this worse.

    Voting is harm reduction.

    If you want to make things better and promote your own idealised society, get involved, donate to causes you consider to be up to your standards. But even then getting involved and convincing future candidates will be much harder if Trump is elected than if it’s Harris.








  • What we have today masquerading as Star Trek is cheap, low effort garbage that tries to make up for it by wasting its budget on as much off the shelf CGI sparkles that can be thrown at

    Strange new worlds is good though. And it’s “true trek”. You know, with more than 1 character doing all the things. A full diverse crew with diverse skills working together to solve issues and having fun.

    After Discovery and Picard, it’s really refreshing. And even though it’s reusing old characters, it’s not in your face constantly the nostalgia.












  • They dix not build the compositor from scratch, they built it on top of smithay, a library similar to wlroots but written in Rust.

    I don’t know if you’ve actually tried to use GTK or QT, but it’s insanely painful. There is a reason almost all apps are written in Electron. Native GUI toolkits suck. If they had used GTK they would have still had an outdated and hard to maintain toolkit, and to deal with Gnome politics. Using GTK was actually the initial idea.

    If we want Linux Desktop to succeed, at some point we have to build tools that people want to use. I’m glad they’re doing it.