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  • Not sure if it was a kde issue or a wayland issue, but I tried it last year and had trouble with cursor locking.

    Virtualbox had issues with the input being intermittent, and my mouse would move off the screen while gaming.

    It might be fixed now, but I don’t plan on trying it again for another few years, because what I’m using works for me.




  • Using a GPL library will require you to re-license your entire project as GPL, regardless of whether you made a change or not.

    LGPL is a bit better, because it allows you to dynamically link the library. But you’re required to provide a copy of source for the library, and any users must be able to swap the built library with their own copy.

    Eg; you can use an AGPL-licensed .dll in your closed-source windows program, because users can swap that .dll easily.

    You can’t do the same for a ps5 game because users aren’t able to replace any files that the game uses.


  • If you’re developing software for a platform that doesn’t allow users to replace dynamic libraries (game consoles, iOS, many embedded/commercial systems), you won’t be able to legally use any GPL or AGPL libraries.

    While I strongly agree with the motives behind copyleft licenses, I personally never use them because I’ve had many occasions where I was unable to use any available library for a specific task because they all had incompatible licenses.

    I release code for the sole purpose of allowing others to use it. I don’t want to impose any restrictions on my fellow developers, because I understand the struggle it can bring.

    Even for desktop programs, I prefer MIT or BSD because it allows others to take snippets of code without needing to re-license anything.

    Yes I understand that means anyone can make a closed-source fork, but that doesn’t bother me.
    If I wanted to sell it I might care, but I would have used a different license for a commercial project anyway.





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    2 months ago

    Apple only allowed browsers on ios to use webkit, so they quite literally were holding back browser development.

    This has only recently been changed, and it appears you can only use an alternate browser engine in the EU, so they are still holding back mobile web browser development for people in most countries.


  • Because most reviewers will still have subjective biases, and what some people perceive as a 10 might be a 5 to others, and vice versa.

    I personally try to avoid looking at ‘raw’ ratings when I’m trying to find new media.
    Full reviews are better, because they’re able to express more nuance, and I’m able to decide if the parts they liked/disliked are things I care about.





  • I don’t think that’s guaranteed to be true.

    A very old email of mine which I haven’t used in many years was in the breach.
    None of my other email addresses were in there, so it’s highly unlikely that I was affected by this malware in the last decade.
    That email has been in many other breaches however, so I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody who had access to an old dump was infected.
    My money’s on some random skid who downloaded an old database dump and got infected when they downloaded some bad warez.

    Either that, or this includes credentials from people who had the malware 15+ years ago.