Notices by Canageek (canageek@wandering.shop)

@celesteh Yeah, @WizardOfDocs commented on that, though being a linguist I think his phrasing was something like "yet another reason to dislike him"

(apparently he's been kind of a professional douchebag in the linguistics community for years)

@gamingonlinux I just saw your post about OpenXcom Extended: There is a linux build for it, as an AppImage.

There is a bug where you need to create a XCOM and TFTD folder in the same folder as the AppImage file, but once you do that it works perfectly, no need for Proton or Steam.

@inthehands Oh, that makes sense. I figured it was because they were worried that their employees would wind up deported and they'd have trouble getting new ones, and was surprised that a large corporation would have that much foresight

@mcc That and Google+'s is circles are ideas a lot more sites should be ripping off

(in case you never used Google+, circles let you organize people into groups, so you could put all of your role-playing people into one circle, then just click that to see all the posts from those people. You could also use them to send messages to only certain groups, so you wouldn't spam your family with posting about dungeons and dragons, rather than having to maintain multiple accounts)

thinking of switching from Firefox to Librewolf, any warnings people have would be very welcome

Edit: Same questions about Waterfox (and other Firefox spinoffs) and Vivaldi (It's Chrome but has built-in Adblock)

This very specifically includes odious political opinions

please boost

#firefox #NoAI #librewolf

@Fragglemuppet Fraggle Rock! maybe something that Traveling Matt sings?

@mcc @hellomiakoda This matches the impression I've gotten in general, but I don't want one of those weird distributions that has a fixed base that you can't change. and all of your packages are installed as flatpacks, because I've had a few headaches with Steam and flatpak sandboxing permissions already, so I want it at least as a distribution package

@hellomiakoda @mcc (I don't know if it's gone all in on snaps and command line ads and all of that weird stuff, The last time I used it was in like 2006)

@hellomiakoda @mcc according to Wikipedia canonical stomped sponsoring it in 2012 and Blue Systems, a German IT company picked it up, apparently it's since left them but no one's updated the Wikipedia page

@hellomiakoda @mcc Yeah what? I haven't figured out if that affects kubuntu, since it apparently left canonical and went its own way a very long time ago, so Ubuntu has its own internal KDE distribution now which I'm staying far away from

@mcc Yeah, I need to switch away, do you have any recommendations for a KDE focus distribution without similar policies? Right now I'm thinking kubuntu...

@Fragglemuppet Useful thing to know: Twitch chat is just IRC in fancy clothes, so if you have a client set up, you can connect that way.

@cwebber okay that's simultaneously very cool and would absolutely make me want to stab whoever implemented it after like the sixth time I accidentally moused off what I was trying to type into

@Polychrome honestly from what I can tell people just want to do as little setup and configuration as possible, and the people who make decent web hosting don't offer that...

This does not make me want to throw things through the window less when I play an indie game and the link to their mods repository is a discord link that opens me to a specific channel....

@whitequark @tubetime This is VERY incorrect. The only Trump appointment left a while ago. Biden appointed enough people to bring them up to normal members and gave them funding to help clear their backlog.

I can look up the Chemical and Engineering News articles on it if you'd like.

@whitequark @tubetime https://cen.acs.org/safety/industrial-safety/Chemical-Safety-Board-plots-new/102/web/2024/01

This has links to the whole saga. They put out an article everytime someone joins or leaves as it is of interest to the chemical industry

@xgranade @SRLevine Thought you two would enjoy this April Fools

https://nmrlab.ku.edu/issues-600

Am I allowed to feel good for fixing SO MANY bugs today if I'm also the one who MADE the bugs?

#RealTimeChem #Programming

I am outside for the first time since Thursday, getting some sushi for lunch

@foone Do you often get games checking for this and introducing errors? I know CRPG Addict has had issues with cracked games where they would introduce problems if you bypassed the copy protection in the most obvious way