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| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-05, 12:04 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
 Post: #61 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Might as well ask all countries in the world to stop their stupid wars. Ain't gonna happen, and I also disagree that consensus is necessary - Publishers are free to support RedHat or Ubuntu, or both. Supporting anything else is pretty much not necessary. Choice is good. Excess of choice is not. But hey, Linux is made by nerds for nerds, and the last thing nerds want is uniformity, because that infringes their human rights or something. Let's make things as incompatible as possible because who cares about proprietary software? We must get ALL THE SOURCECODEZZZZ!!!! Ugh. And no, containers are not exactly the best solution. Sure, it's the easy way out, and for very specialized applications it's the only reasonable solution. But for general purpose software? Fuck that shit, yo. Recently I downloaded a "containerized" Avidemux. Surprise, it crashed on a fully up to date Debian Stable! I had no option but to build my own .debs from source. At least Valve tries to find a middle ground with their Steam Runtime solution, so you have to target THAT instead of over 9000 distros made by all kinds of people, from conservative enterprisey to deranged nerds. Too bad the Steam Runtime can't do nothing with regards to core stuff like Mesa :/ Windows is also a mess, but at least there is only ONE distribution of Windows, made by a single entity, upgraded in a somewhat predictable fashion. Or at least it was until Microsoft got infected by the phoneworms and tried to embrace an "it compiles, ship it!" mindset. Also last time I checked, there was no entry for DirectX on Add/Remove programs, and I'm running the latest redistributables available for my platform. > systemd Let's not go there, PLEASE. ... Anyway, back to topic. Apparently Edge is doomed, nobody wants to use it, and Microsoft is well aware of this. Their solution? Yet Another Chromium Fork™, of course! https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/04/043213/microsoft-is-building-a-chromium-powered-web-browser-that-will-replace-edge-on-windows-10-report It's official, the Trident monoculture is dead. All hail your new Browser Engine Fuhrer, Blink/Webkit! Ugh, with Mozilla neverending quest to fade into irrelevance and Microsoft throwing the towel with Trident, the future for web browsers is beyond terrible now that all involved actors have effectively given total control to Google as the one and only entity in charge of web technologies. This is a very sad day for the Internet. MS, you're still in time to opensource EdgeHTML, let people port it to earlier Windows versions and non-Windows platforms. Or maybe not, nobody would even want to touch it because "ewwww IE". In the meanwhile, MS is working on yet another Windows version, this time targetting https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/04/194256/microsoft-is-working-on-a-new-iteration-of-windows-to-take-on-chromeos-report-says ...why?! And to keep with the pointless fads, apparently "modern drivers" are now a thing in MS-speak: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/11/30/1511226/intel-publishes-its-first-modern-windows-driver-for-pcs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/develop/getting-started-with-universal-drivers But what the hell is a modern driver!? A Universal Windows driver package contains an INF file and binaries that install and run on Universal Windows Platform (UWP) based editions of Windows 10 as well as other Windows 10 editions that share a common set of interfaces. ...well, more of the same (you still have .INF scripts that tell Windows what files to copy and what registry keys to write according to what specific piece of hardware you're installing), with a bit of "modularity" sprinkled in, and of course with UWP junk in mind (because you can't run ol' fashioned Win32-based installers on those special devices), and for whatever reason, the Windows Store is where you would look for device drivers. And of course, Windows Insiders will get to experience the joy of early betatesting of broken drivers, rather than dedicated QA staff which no longer works at MS. ...once again, fuck this shit :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-06, 00:49 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #62 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I don't use Linux because it's UNIX-like (in fact I didn't even knew what the hell was "UNIX" the first time I heard about Linux, almost 20 years ago, and certainly my opinion hasn't changed that much since then now that I'm aware of the meaning of UNIX and the existence of other derivatives like Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-06, 10:44 in What...?
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Dinosaur
Post: #63 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
It's a message board. It does not require a cellphone or a proprietary "instant messaging" "app" that only works with cellphones or high-end computers only available in Silly Valley. It's the Internet as it should be. And yes, it works on your machine too! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-06, 10:50 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #64 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
I'll never use a *BSD, that's for sure. And last time I've heard, the SJWs sucessfully neutered the Torvalds, because we can't have F-bombs on sourcecode anymore. Also: Linux is not cool anyway, since it's not made on the JavaScript framework of the week, importing seventy zillon libraries (half of those with buttcoin miners). THAT'S what hipsters care about nowadays, not even about cellphones anymore. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-06, 18:34 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #65 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
In other moronic Windows-related news: Microsoft's Designers Are Now Working Together on the Future of Windows, Office and Surface Translation: the hipsterism in Microsoft is out of the scale. Now they brought the Highly Paid Art School Dropouts (AKA "UX specialists") onboard. The buzzword bingo is at full blast mode, with "open source team" and "get the best from everyone". Oh, and Office and Windows will get new icons. Horrible icons, because everybody does it that way nowadays. Because the focus is now how to make your PC more unusable than it already was, of course! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-07, 03:00 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console...
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Dinosaur
Post: #66 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Wasn't this that pseudo-rapper guy that years ago ripped off Death Note's name for one of his albums? Also, what are the specs on that thing? Sounds like yet another ARM toy built from some crap Chinese SoC where it's hard to run anything beyond the stock Linux build due to several of the drivers not being available in source form (hi Allwinner!), or whatever. Oh, and "Linux 3.0" is quite old, we're already at 4.20! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-07, 03:04 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #67 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by KoiMaxx Whenever someone here says that "everything in 'murica is wonderful because they have laws preventing anarchy and protecting your rights" and the like (wise words from someone that has never step a foot outside their country), I refer them to posts like this. (Sadly some will still insist that I'm in the wrong/Internet is full of radicals/whatever...) Why the hell USA is so ass-backwards with stuff like utility/service providers? Oh, I guess the answer involves politics :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-07, 03:54 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #68 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
So much for Not only Trident is now dead, the Chakra JavaScript engine is now orphan too since MS is moving to V8. At least they DID opensource that one. And of course this change leads the way to a even bigger irony: using a Chrome-powered browser to download... Chrome. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-08, 00:48 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #69 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
So basically these have been the responses from the involved players in the modern "browser wars": - Google: Welcome onboard, comrade! Your check is in the mail... alongside our next patent infringement lawsuit! - Mozilla: Listen! We're still here! Please use us! We respect your privacy so hard we stopped listening to your complaints! We don't even read your bug reports anymore, because that's how we respect your privacy! Don't pay attention to those little privacy-invading "features" (Pocket, select use of Google Analytics here and there). We're the last man standing on earth!!!! LISTEN!!! - Opera: One of us! One of us! Once again, having choices is good. Excess of choice is not. But lack of choice is even worse than an excess! With Trident/EdgeHTML effectively confined to legacy status, it means that website developers only have to target a single platform... which is now free to impose whatever new features they want, while deprecating other widely used ones because "ewww old!". At this stage I don't even consider Mozilla a serious competitor anymore, and the blame is solely on themselves. These are great times to be a web developer... and very dark ones for being a user. And before you say: yes, Linux has a de facto monopoly on Linux-esque kernels (since there is only one), but if you're sticking to the "UNIX-like" banner, you still have plenty of choices, most of them actively maintained: macOS, *BSDs (in several flavors, no less!), Solaris (as much as that One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison is trying to kill it), AIX (yes, that's still a thing if you ever have to deal with IBM big irons), among others. Not so much on the web browser arena: we're down to Webkit derivatives and Gecko. And if Mozilla sticks to being Mozilla, we won't even have that one for much longer. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-08, 19:05 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console...
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Dinosaur
Post: #70 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
The only rapper I've ever listened to is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. ...wait, that wasn't even a rap group, but one of the greatest sitcoms from the '90s. I'm not even into rap/hiphop at all - those genres were never a thing at this side of the Americas. Instead, we got the bastard degeneration known as reggaeton, but even then that was a kinda recent happening (early '00s at best) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-08, 21:39 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #71 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
JWZ's reaction to Mozilla's reaction to Microsoft announcement As usual: - the guy has some good points (including a rather touchy one, the Live Nation thing) - the guy is still a complete asshole (seriously, "MICROS~1"!? Dude, please...) But hey, selling beer is a more respectable job than fighting against the browser monoculture, right????!!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-09, 19:24 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #72 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities In other news, Aston Martin just found a factory-sanctioned option for their car owners to heavily devaluate their expensive sport cars. Really, why in the hell would I want to electrify a car made for the tracks? The fact those things are street legal and can be driven every day don't really imply that every single Aston Martin owner is buying one for commuting to work, doing your grocery shopping, or -God forbid- working as a taxicab. You buy those for enjoying weekends at the track, full stop. The fact some cities are giving way to the tree huggers don't really impact those cars, which are unlikely to be driven on public roads anyway. Reminds me of that Wheeler Dealers episode where they bought that '80s Maserati Biturbo someone (poorly) electrified. Instead of restoring it, they went for the "cool" factor and upgraded the electric motor and batteries (I'm actually surprised of the fact that they were able to sell THAT at a profit!). Nice car, but not my first choice for the electro treatment, with oh so many cheap cars out there that would be better targets. Like a Beetle. Or a VW bus. Fuck Tesla, I want a electric Beetle! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-10, 19:03 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10") (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #73 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by jjndig This explains why my brief testing attempts with Discord led to all sorts of weirdass failures with Seamonkey. Yes, I'm sadomasochist, but also have to be pragmatic: I must know why it sucks before complaining that it sucks, and oh boy... it really sucks. HARD.. Even on a 2nd-generation i5 it performs like ass. And it's a goddamned INSTANT MESSAGING "APP"!!!!! (The so-called native version is Electron, AKA the same shit but with a pretty Chrome-in-a-can installer) Oh, GitHub is also bitching that my browser is obsolete because they can't read beyond the "Firefox/x.xx" version token. (If you must know, the current SM version is 2.49.4, which is built from FF52 ESR, and 2.49.5 is still "on track" for an eventual release... someday) When desktop applications and the Internet eventually converged in the post-iPhone era, we got a nice trainwreck as a result. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-11, 01:42 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #74 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Butbutbut electric cars are the one and only true solution! Muh batteries! Nevermind that you still need dead dinosaur juice (often coming from communist shitholes like mine!) for all those plastic parts (which on modern cars means pretty much everything except for tires, powertrain, and frame), also lubricants (cars have wheels, and by extension, moving parts), and mining all that lithium involves dealing with all class of nasty poisons (but who cares about those poor Australian/Chilean/Argentinean miners anyway?). And of course all those electrons that you have to squirt back into your batteries have to come from somewhere else, yet nobody wants cheap nukes because MUH CHERNOKUSHIMA ISLANDS, and you can't put hydro dams in most of the world, so let's keep burning dirty coal on Someone Else Backyard while we pretend that solar/wind are the definitive silver bullet (hint: they aren't). But hey, banning internal combustion engines is so much easier, and as a bonus, it attracts voters and enlarges Musk ePeen... Too bad fuel cell vehicles are so impractical and expensive as hell, otherwise we would all be driving awesome cars like the Toyota Mirai while drinking fresh water from our exhaust pipes. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-11, 13:34 in Your daily dose of processor unit vulnerabilities
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Dinosaur
Post: #75 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Screw it, I've disabled the Spectre/Meltdown workarounds across ALL of my computers. They're old, and having an artificial limiter doesn't help me to win the battle against software bloat. On Windows, run the GRC tool (InSpectre) as admin, click the button, reboot, done. On Linux, add the magic enchants to your GRUB cmdline, update-grub, reboot, done. I run adblockers, avoid Javascript shitpiles like the plague, and don't even bother with VMs at home anymore, and NONE of my systems are cherished production servers plugged directly to The Clown, so why bother? I'm adult enough to assume the risk. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-11, 20:10 in Your daily dose of processor unit vulnerabilities
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Dinosaur
Post: #76 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by tomman On Mac, well, Macs have no flaws, Apple knows what's best for you, and you're due for a new port-less MacBook anyway. Yes, you can't disable the patches on macOS. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-11, 23:29 in Soulja Boy Launches Game Console...
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Dinosaur
Post: #77 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Butbutbut the tricked-out Hummers with TVs on the TVs! And the nearly naked bikini bimbos on the champagne-filled pools! And all those coke parties! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-12, 21:14 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #78 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Posted by Kawa Don't steal ideas from other message boards! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-13, 00:23 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #79 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
(AKA "the thread where tomman complains about web browsers being garbage") In today's episode of Mozilla's Neverending Quest For Irrelevance: Mozilla Corporation reinvents Clippy while causing paranoid nerds to get their panties in a bunch: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/11/latest-firefox-release-available-today/ https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/12/11/1756217/new-firefox-suggests-ways-to-get-more-out-of-the-web Basically, the next Firefox update will "check" how you use your browser, and try to suggest useful addons that would be a good match for your usage patterns. Also, for whatever reason the feature is only available for users in the United States of America, despite claims that no personal information is sent out to Mozilla, and that everything happens clientside: Contextual Feature Recommender (CFR) ... how about going back to making a program that only renders web pages without getting in your way, eh Mozilla? Nah, only dinosaurs would want such an outrageous thing! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-13, 00:58 in How the Dreamcast copy protection was defeated
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Dinosaur
Post: #80 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 9 days Last view: 3 hours |
Why the hell Sega even wasted time bothering with the whole MIL-CD fiasco? Not only it costed them millions when hackers devised how to take advantage of that backdoor wide as a 747 for game piracy, nobody really bothered using it for actual music discs (aside of the eight lone titles ever released for the format) All this debacle for yet another Japan-only feature that somehow got baked into almost every Dreamcast ever sold. How Sega did actually removed the support on late DCs? Updated firmware? (and if it's firmware-only, would it be feasible to either use older firmware from previous consoles, or patched firmware for restoring the support?) Just wondering: what was so special about DiscJuggler that it was the only software suitable for burning Dreamcast rips to CD-Rs? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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