Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?
A lot of people don't know this though. They think it is the "won't fall over" type. They hear "use debian over ubuntu, because it's more stable" or "use debian for servers, because it's more stable" and think it means "You want uptime, so you dont want something crashing". So when they see a bug, it is concerning to them. A distro focused on not falling over must super care about reducing crashes, and don't realize the exact opposite is actually true. The bug was fixed a long time ago, but you don't get it because "don't change" is more important than "don't crash".
If the bug is in a popular package (ie, a super common screensaver) in a very popular distro (and a lot of people have chosen the distro because they think it has less bugs than others), I can imagine the maintainer getting fed up with the bug reports for a bug that was already fixed.
Most people I've seen on Lemmy understands that "stable" means "unchanging"... But every person I've talked to outside of lemmy, thinks it means "less bugs". So clearly it's a very big misunderstanding (Which is basically confirmed by the fact that xscreensaver gets so many invalid bug reports that they felt necessary to do this.)
Oh look. Debian changed the keepassxc package and now the keepassxc repo is getting all the bug reports for it. Their stance is "it will go away in a year or so"
Regardless of whether or not it is a good idea, it's undeniable that Debian makes a lot of decisions that negatively impact their upstream. And since it's someone else's problem, oh well.
There is a reason upstream repo maintainers wind up angry about problems that someone else caused.
nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout:
We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series [...] this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications.
From your server and mastodon-like places in general I guess you'd follow @baduk or address things to that user if you want to post so that lemmy users can see it.
But it seems to be quite inactive, the intersection of fediverse users and baduk players must be quite small.
Sarcasm blindness is an epidemic. If you're thinking about adding /s to something just go ahead and do it. Please. It's only two keystrokes but for some people it means all the difference. With your help, the irony deficient can lead normal and productive lives.
Tip for web designers: Converting a time you're displaying into my local time zone does not obviate the need to tell me which time zone it's in if I have no way to know whether or not you've done that.
Also, if you’re going to convert the datetime to something “pretty” like “1 hour ago” or “Yesterday”, you have to let me see the actual timestamp when I hover or something.
you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock
I loaded a page on reddit due to a search result and found out that I'm among the chosen few. Message sent yesterday. They must've gotten fewer takers than expected on the first round of invites if they're now offering shares to people who haven't posted, commented, voted, or done anything else on the site for the past 8 months.
There's that and the fact that almost every time Reddit is mentioned in the news now it's about them actively trying to drive away users with idiotic new "features" lol
one time I was trying to see how good I am at gaming the system, and scored 25k in two days with a throwaway account and a bunch of strategically placed comments, and I know there are people even better at it than I am. looks like they're getting desperate.
That I have now heard about the "dwarf" tag on Steam from two unrelated sources reassures me that my social media feeds are keeping me well-informed about the important news stories of the day.
I've just done a kernel build for the first time in years. Don't know why I ever hesitated, it was about as easy as doing a load of laundry. Push a few buttons to start the machine working on it, come back in an hour and it's done. The build scripts even made a .deb for me.
I seem to remember it being more complicated 20 years ago.
Viability is subjective. You can take public transit but you chose not to because of the extra time it takes, not because it’s not possible.
Driving less doesn’t mean not driving at all. If you have to drive some portion and transit the rest, that’s still less driving.
If you chose to live far from work, then you’ve placed yourself in a difficult position so don’t expect the city to conjure up a bus route just for you. Living closer to work or working closer to home are options but you’d likely find a reason to not do either.
At what point would the city add more buses? Before you decide to take more transit? That’s nonsensical. Demand comes first, not supply.
I think the carbon tax is an important part of our climate strategy, but we shouldn’t let it dominate the election like PP wants it to. Keep the focus on how the parties would actually run the government, because so far the cons can’t seem to come up with an answer for that.
Repeatedly click 'show more episodes' until all are shown
Select all, view selection source, save as html
Extract the episode page urls with grep and sed
yt-dlp to download the mp3s
figure out how to identify beginning and end of ad breaks
write some python code to load up the audio and strip the ads
shell script to call the python and then re-encode as mp3
copy to local web server
listen and enjoy
Even if the podcast doesn't turn out to be any good, it already kept me entertained for a couple of hours. If there existed a convenient, safe, and anonymous way to pay $5 for the ad-free version, and if I had $5, then I'd have saved some time and the creators would've made more money out of it.
