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- Comment on YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex 21 hours ago:
Depends how you view priorities. $10/y or one time $250. I’ve owned several domains for longer than 25 years. $250 is a pretty sweet deal.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 2 days ago:
There’s no place like
/home - Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 2 days ago:
It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.
This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.
Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).
Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 6 days ago:
If Epic spent half as much money as they are suing organisations and instead funded developing their shop into a gaming community platform like Steam, they’d probably have caught up by now.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 1 week ago:
I agree with you as I’m an old FOSS beard - we wouldn’t have gotten here without GPL/MIT/BSD etc.
But things aren’t working for a huge number of projects. And is it right that so many critical dependencies are maintained by so few with so little resources, if any? Just look at the xz fiasco we narrowly avoided catastrophe over.
The Linux Foundation is a good model for core infrastructure and projects that underpin the ecosystem like the kernel - LF are turning over $300M or something a year.
But for smaller projects that aren’t critical or aren’t looking to be a core dependency like xz, dual licensing seems the only obvious way forward.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 1 week ago:
Most corporate owned devices are managed with some kind of tool (for restricting what users can do, pushing out software and updates, etc). These tools are called Mobile Device Management (MDM).
The developer is detecting the presence of MDM tools and using that to present a splash page to the user about the licensing requirements etc.
Some educational institutes use MDM to manage students, even so far as to require it be installed on personal owned devices. The developer has been working with edu users to except them.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 1 week ago:
I’m a huge FOSS advocate but I understand where this developer is coming from. It sucks to have huge orgs take your work and monetize it heavily without contributing back. The number of maintainers I know suffering from huge volumes of bug reports from corporations using AI tools yet not financially supporting the project is pretty heartbreaking.
I wonder if it’s time FOSS projects started taking the view that liberty is for individuals and not corporate use, and license accordingly.
- Comment on Opera GX Gaming Browser Confirms Native Linux Version 2 weeks ago:
I miss when Opera was Norwegian.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 weeks ago:
Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).
You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.
It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while you’re agency is taken away from you.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 3 weeks ago:
Bad for Meta. They wasted a lot of time, money, manpower etc.
- Comment on Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026 3 weeks ago:
Valve has been publishing them publicly for years, it’s just in the developer documentation rather than on Steam.
- Comment on GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Beating them up for being late has more risk of them dropping plans altogether. Celebrate their plans, they’ll want to execute on them.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s My Name Is All En.
Dr En En En.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 weeks ago:
It’s genital mutilation. It’s been done for religious reasons, cultural reasons, social reasons, for slavery reasons, and more.
But cutting up babies’ genitals for any reason except medical intervention for relevant pathologies is genital mutilation.
- Comment on CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT 5 weeks ago:
Makes a lot of sense. GOG would have been an easy thing to sell off if financials weren’t going well. This way, GOG can be protected (100% owned by the founder with no shareholders) should the worst happen.
Hopefully this could mean GOG has a daring plan ahead (I’ve long thought they might take a gamble on a Linux client that packages Proton/DOSbox like Steam.
Here’s hoping GOG continues on strong into the new year and beyond!
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 month ago:
Apple’s entire history as an org has been as a fast follower, not a first mover.
The Apple Newton is a fast example of why they avoid being a first mover.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
I’m always confused why the energy isn’t just put on pressuring Firefox publicly rather than just sitting in comments being negative and suggesting forks that critically depend on Firefox and can no way continue development without upstream.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 1 month ago:
I’m glad my LG TV hasn’t been connected to WiFi for years. Great display, shit software. Thankfully nothing a minipc can’t solve!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t know
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
Like wooden knife with a wooden wood
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
We’ve got four different sized ones in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 1 month ago:
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 1 month ago:
It was in some video interview with the project leads after the Steam hardware announcement.
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 1 month ago:
Not exactly. Proton is a Wine fork which Valve have stated they intend to merge back into Wine in the future (since they’re working on it with CodeWeavers). If you look at the code in GitHub, they’ve made a lot of changes to Wine and they’re not fully tracking Wine main (looks like they’re porting instead).
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 1 month ago:
Pretty sure it’s the other around now - Proton is a future release of Wine and at some point Proton will merge back into Wine.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 2 months ago:
Not entirely true. They’ll have black and white cameras at launch and have an expansion port on the front of the device for potential color cameras in the future.
They just said AR isn’t their focus for this device, not that it isn’t possible.
And I get it - everyone I know that already has XR headsets doesn’t bother with AR as the experiences are limited (and I imagine the union between AR gamers and tidy environments with clear surfaces is pretty small).
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 months ago:
Netscape Navigator -> Firefox Netscape Communicator -> Seamonkey
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 months ago:
Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.
The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.
Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).
Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.
Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
CVEs don’t get issued “resolved” statuses… They are either reserved, published, or rejected (technically NVD have a few extra for published). That’s just junk data in that tool you’re using. Use authoritative sources like cve.org or nvd.nist.gov.
You can see the CPEs on NVD and they’re old versions of Plex.