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explodingcamera··on Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
Some setup is required, but KVM passing the system audio to pipewire-pulse worked first try for me actually. I'm normally using a virtual desktop to stream everything to my Oculus Quest 2, including audio, and it works surprisingly well.
explodingcamera··on Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
While it is definitely not streamlined and very expensive, I've had a wonderful experience running a Windows VM and passing one of my GPUs through to it. Even VR works flawlessly, which is otherwise unusable on a linux desktop. Proton definitely still has major issues. A lot of the well-rated games on protondb are barely playable. Still, I've played a lot of games using it I otherwise wouldn't be able to experience.
explodingcamera··on The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement
Most Countries don't care about where your server are, as long as you're registered as a company somewhere, you need to stick to those laws.
explodingcamera··on Soup.io Will Be Discontinued
It's YouTube premium only
explodingcamera··on How to write good Git commit messages
This seems like a really bad idea. Even a 2 word commit message would be better for someone who is trying to review your code, all git hosting websites include files changed anyways and it's trival to use the cli to check for that.
explodingcamera··on CapRover: Build your own PaaS
Does Caprover support multiple "ingresses"? In that I can have an external load balancer balancing between my clusters servers? I can't seem to find any info on that in their docs.
explodingcamera··on Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
At least in i3 and bspwm this is possible by fullscreening in firefox and then hitting your windowmanagers fullscreen shortcut.
explodingcamera··on ECMAScript proposal: String.prototype.replaceAll
*V0, this has always been explicitly unstable
explodingcamera··on The importance of decentralisation
Missed a really cool vanity url opportunity :)
explodingcamera··on GitHub Archive Program
1000 years from now, someone will find the python 3 source code and the whole world will finally upgrade their python 2 programs...
explodingcamera··on New 'unremovable' xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices
Stories of bad viruses actually help them
explodingcamera··on Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
This seems kind of counterproductive for the (I think) vinyl target group. If I listen to vinyl, I want the kinda retro feeling "real" analog audio signal, else I'd just get a CD or online download. A mid-range stylus is completly sufficient for a great experience without any noticable noise and next to no real wear on the records.
explodingcamera··on Investigating the impact removing password masking has on consumer trust (2014)
What low level measures? Afaik if you have untrusted software running that can globally listen to your keyboard you're f'ed.
explodingcamera··on On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
Wow elastic seems salty. I don't think this blog post was a great idea. While I understand that they need to monetize their project, I have been put off by them putting their security features behind a paywall. They literally advertised "Security" as non-existent on their XPack pricing page for their basic free plan. Furthermore, I am still laughing about how the author litteraly wrote that Amazon "bluntly copied" them, "sadly, painfully, with critical bugs".
explodingcamera··on Stephen Hawking commemorated on new 50p coin
Wow the illustration looks really cool! Hopefully I can pick up a couple of these on my next trip to the UK (If the Brexit doesn't go through completely :) )
explodingcamera··on Show HN: I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize
The css puzzle was definitiv fun but definitively frustrating due to inaccuracy and bugs of the html2canvas library.

However I have to say the second puzzle is pretty uninteresting. It just seems so arbitrary and just kills all possible fun by giving you exact instructions how you are supposed to complete it.

explodingcamera··on Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration
It's funny that when you go to select your country, depending on the privacy laws in said country you have to agree to their terms of service using a checkmark/no checkmark.
explodingcamera··on Gophish: An open source phishing toolkit
Its pretty hard time find a good name for a project and go is a really good prefix for projects i guess, it can even add meaning like in this project.
explodingcamera··on Google is discontinuing Inbox
I'm actually thinking of switching to a different email service because of this. Gmail is just way to cluttered for my taste, inbox's model where you can just check off emails and they're gone was such a time-saver and a fresh breath of air.

I hope I can find something as simplistic and at the same time feature rich somewhere else :(

explodingcamera··on Show HN: Bitbox.co – Cloud Storage for Developers
What's the benefit over using something like s3 or Blob Storage directly? It seems like they all support your features in some way
explodingcamera··on Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms
These algorithems don't destroy our taste, they shape it. If it woundnt be for IMDb recommendations, I'd be wasting a lot more time watching bad movies.
explodingcamera··on Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need
It's really discouraging that not even your own started page doesn't support SSL...
explodingcamera··on Do not use NPM 5.7
Github paths can change way more easily than npm packages, users can rewrite git history + break your stuff and versioning when using it with npm is horrible. NPM also now protects projects from namesquatting and prevents you from deleting them when multiple projects depend on them.
explodingcamera··on Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant
Be careful, Gif browser performance can often be way worse than webm's, webp's or even mp4s. Sites like for example imgur switched to other formats by default...
explodingcamera··on Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
Well, it blocks adds and collects money on the behalf of others without having permission to do so...
explodingcamera··on Chrome breaks the Web
There's a lot of confusion about autofill. Specifically for these user management interfaces etc. autocomplete="new-password" was introduced and as far as I know is supported in widely used browsers.
explodingcamera··on HolyJit: A New Hope
Kinda reminds me of holyC ;)
explodingcamera··on How to Set Up a Company in Germany for English-Speaking People
You can start a UG which is essentially the same as a GmbH for as few as 1€
explodingcamera··on Building multiplayer games with Socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
For that money you might as well get a beefy dedicated server that's multiple times as powerful and not have to worry about all these small servers.
explodingcamera··on Windows for Linux Nerds
Weird I've been cloning git repos to an external NTFS drive mounted in /mnt and never had any issues.
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