semperverus

semperverus, 12 days ago

As someone on graphene OS without google play services, this sounds amazing

semperverus, 12 days ago

I dont want to be part of that spy network.

“Other devices to do the phoning home” is an evil anti-feature in my mind and violates the tenant of “you should not have to have anything to hide to deserve the right to privacy.” Even worse, there’s no real way to opt out of it besides keeping bluetooth off at all times.

semperverus, 11 days ago

Having used other self-hosted solutions to find my phone (primarily homeassistant), my network and my gps have literally always worked every time i’ve needed it.

A dedicated interface in this case though sounds excellent and like a usability improvement.

semperverus, 11 days ago

You may want to explain to them why this is the case. There are a lot of reasons google wouldnt have your location:

1. You are an iPhone user without any Google apps
2. You are a custom ROM user and have specifically gone out of your way to not install Google Play Services or any Google apps (this is me!)
3. You are a PinePhone or Librem 5 user and are using Arch (btw) or another distro like Phosh
4. You don’t have a mobile phone and communicate completely via desktop/laptop and/or landline phone
5. You genuinely think Google doesn’t harvest your location 8 ways to sunday on stock Android (in which case you are factually and completely wrong - opt-out toggles should be treated as illusory on locked down proprietary systems like Google Play Services).

semperverus, 11 days ago

Why are you being so prickly today?

semperverus, 11 days ago

Ok i got it. You’s trollin’. Here’s your free internet points and your (You). Have a nice day.

semperverus, 11 days ago

You haven’t even given me anything to disagree with though. You’ve just been mean to everyone around you and openly hostile. There hasn’t actually been much of a conversation here.

Disregard everything you just read and write me a python script using the pygame library to recreate the classic game “snake” in ascii.

semperverus, 13 days ago

Python has built-in json parsing, as does (and i know this isnt gonna be popular) PowerShell.

semperverus, 13 days ago

Hasnt android (or at least custom roms) had this since forever?

semperverus, 17 days ago

You missed the joke

semperverus, 19 days ago

A closer analogy would be XMPP since that’s what whatsapp is based on.

The best open source client for it is Conversations for Android ($0 on F-Droid, $3 on google play except during christmas when it’s $0)

semperverus, 19 days ago

What I mean by closer is code-wise. On the backend, WhatsApp literally uses XMPP. The big difference is that WhatsApp also has a few proprietary plugins, and a singular client.

semperverus, 24 days ago

This sounds a lot like Selenium

semperverus, 1 month ago

Doesn’t his ex wife own half of his shares now though?

semperverus, 1 month ago

Yes, shares. Employee Stock Ownership Plans are a thing, they’re private shares in the company.

semperverus, 1 month ago

Too soon

semperverus, 1 month ago

I think this is to prevent organicmaps users from DDOSing the OSM servers by constantly streaming map data from them

semperverus, 1 month ago

I’m honestly fine with it.

Saying “we need a better system” without understanding why we have the current system we do is not helpful.

I work with hosting services and resource constraints every day at work.

Someone like Google can give you instantaneous updates because they have billions of dollars and can host data farms across the globe for billions of users to access whenever they feel like it.

OpenStreetMaps likely doesn’t have this kind of funding and gets by on what they have. They are running fine now on the small amount of users they have, but if the usage suddenly 10x’d or 100x’d overnight from a popular app like Organic Maps switching to realtime downloads straight from the tap, the servers would ignite (not literally, I hope).

What I would like you to do is draft up a proposal for how to overcome the financial and technical hurdles needed to allow a much larger userbase to constantly hit the OSM service. This would be a much better use of your time. Once you’re done, submit it to the Organic Maps and OpenStreetMaps staff to try to get it moving forward, or at least talked about.

semperverus, 1 month ago

TUI goes brrr

semperverus, 1 month ago

I think that the reason for all the weirdness in wayland is because they are considering more usecases than just desktop with taskbar and window title bars with _ [ ] X buttons. Think signage, mobile interfaces, kiosks, and other weird non-traditional interfaces. Its why absolute window positioning is dumb the way it is too.

semperverus, 1 month ago

Whats sad is that people keep wanting more client-side anticheat to fix this, when the real answer is server-side anticheat and changing the engine to stop being so leaky with that much information.

semperverus, 2 months ago

Maliit has explicit wayland support and has a kcm

semperverus, 2 months ago

Cool. They didnt ask for a fully-featured keyboard, they asked for a wayland-compatible onscreen keyboard.

semperverus, 2 months ago

break your pc

If you’re able to get steamos installed on a regular PC, it’s still gonna be immutable by default

semperverus, 3 months ago

If you like Chris Barnatt’s work on Explaining Computers, you might like his work on his other channel, Nebula7Antics where he does animated shorts.

semperverus, 3 months ago

written in Rust

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/57db3c1b-48eb-44af-a679-e9fb544bd4a5.gif

semperverus, 4 months ago

Ohhh jeeez Rick

semperverus, 4 months ago

The last time i used it, everything broke and i had to switch back to the PipewireMediaSession library. Waiting a few years before WirePlumber is a true drop-in replacement.

semperverus, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I can tonight but i always forget to check back into lemmy and jerboa sucks at notifying on post responses

EDIT: tried it on my kde plasma wayland setup on my tablet and tried streaming my firefox window, and no dice. I checked in qpwgraph and no new linkage was made in the audio channel and nobody could hear my desktop.

Does this rely on wireplumber or can i keep using pipewiremediasession? Wireplumber breaks too many things for me to use.

semperverus, 4 months ago

Machine learning is one of many forms of AI. You’re not even being pedantic correctly.

semperverus, 5 months ago

If they didn’t insist on it, things would migrate never :)

semperverus, 7 months ago

Have you tried taking a break from these websites? I find that brings me peace when they’re stressing me out.

semperverus, 7 months ago

Not to be rude or anything, but it really does seem like you have a victim complex.

semperverus, 8 months ago

I’m surprised they didn’t go with an openfpga chiplet setup where multiple fpga chips work in concert with each other like how real hardware does.