Notices by Pixel Doge (aperezdc@oldbytes.space)

@xerz @1ace @whitequark indeed, the AUR packages reuse the contents of the Debian ones, but somehow they manage to make things work more reliably. Anyhoo, the software coming from the public administration sure is a tire fire and that is the main problem with it.

@xerz @1ace @whitequark FTR, the user contributed packages in the AUR for the Spanish DNIe have always worked more reliably for me than anything I tried back when I was a Debian user. That's all I'll say, and now I'll see myself out :blobcatpeek:

The good thing about old good arcade-style shoot 'em up #games is that it's easy to pick any spare fifteen minutes to practice a bit. Having the #MSX on my desk is handy to use it for casual gaming like this :blobcatcoffee:

@stevelord I'm so disconnected from the M$Windows world that I didn't even imagine drivers would collect user behavior data 🤯 — and according to the article Nvidia does the same. Like, seriously, drivers have no business doing this :blobangery:

@thankfulmachine it's one of those useful little things that makes one realize that the #68k ISA was designed to make C compilers happy :blobcatcoffee:

@Seirdy @Sandra @nekohayo @WeavingWithAI these days isolation is per-origin, each site gets its own WebKitWebProcess... Almost. The main missing bit is iframe isolation, which is being worked on at the moment. It will come at some point, but right now I cannot give any ETA.

@nekohayo @Sandra @WeavingWithAI @WebKitGTK @gnome thanks for all the bug reporting and testing effort! We may not say it often but ut's super appreciated, and has already helped to ship performance improvements 🤩

Of course there is still work to do, and usually the main complication is figuring out where exactly the problems are—web engines are huge and complex! :blobsweat:

@piggo some day I'll tell you about 'muricans asking how to get to Rialto while in Venice, trying to explain to a local what's bridge and a canal is.

@polpo let me guess... and it belongs in a museum :thounking:

I keep thinking of silly ideas to do some tinkering with electronics, just for the sake of having fun. Today's idea: an adapter to use #Amiga mice on #MSX computers. That way one could use one of those newfangled USB “tank” mice in one more retro architecture, while looking period correct. I imagine somebody could have done such an adaptor back in the late 80s of early 90s, possibly using some i8051 microcontroller... Betcha @foone would have liked that, given how their “it's always an i8051” is their equivalent of Dr. House's “it's never lupus” :blobeyes:

People talk about how search engine results have gotten worse lately. Here's a clear example: trying to search how an #Amiga mouse works (protocol, pinouts, etc.) these days results in a few pages of links to sites trying to sell you adaptors, and links to actual documentation are a few pages deep (if at all). It used not to be like this, the #enshittification is real.

I know the information is in the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, which can be read at a few places, e.g. https://archive.org/details/amiga-hardware-reference-manual-3rd-edition/page/327/mode/1up — but what if I didn't know?

@hisham_hm while there are other sites for specific things (like Bitsavers) you make a good point about archive.org — I do trust their ability to keep infrastructure running, though. I would be more worrier about it being headquartered in a country with values and legislation often opposed to the Archive's goals. Also, mixing this with Google's recent Web Environment Integrity proposal makes me think we may see a day where two parallel Internets exist: the corporate one, and the “archived” one. And, oh boy!, do I want to be proven wrong about this thought!

Curious to know what the standards position coming from the @webkit folks will be about the Web Environment Integrity proposal: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/234

If only the fruit company cared enough to reject it, then it would be another browser vendor alongside Mozilla:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#issuecomment-1648820747

Although it's definitely not looking rosy: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

@lanodan @ch0ccyra1n @tusooa weren't aware that there are rough edges when trying to use WPE as an engine for a “full” browser on desktop style environments, and while we would like to improve in that regard, embedded usage has more priority because that's what sponsors the overall work on the engine and also a non trivial amount of work on the GTK port. The latter is partly because of the shared architecture of both ports, and in part because the GTK port is often used as test mule for WPE work (it is more convenient like that sometimes).

Here's a #68k CPU family portrait: one of the oldest (68000) and one of the youngest (68060). I'm always surprised at how big the “Texas Cockroach” actually feels on one's hand!

@hacks4pancakes it may have not sparked joy on them (see what I did there?), but I giggled hard :fingerguns: