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Vincent

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  • December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC

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  • Yeah, that's fair enough. It's not just working overtime though - endless toil on never-ending projects, especially when at a certain point, you're not really making visible progress but rather are just working on a seemingly endless list of bugs and papercuts, is also terrible for motivation. The good news, of course, is that the Pop!_OS GNOME extension also got delivered, which, though a lot smaller than COSMIC DE, I'm sure also wasn't a small undertaking.

  • Netherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal

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  • Yeah I mean, that's the thing with marijuana legislation in the Netherlands in general - it's not legal in the first place. It would, of course, be preferable if it was actually legal (and this might very well be a step on the road to get there), but yes, in practical terms, there's not too much impact - whereas this plan addresses an actual problem, i.e. criminality involved with the drug supply of coffee shops.

  • Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

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  • They actually did:

    The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.

    Unfortunately, that didn't help. So now they'll have to find out what's causing this, and then see if they can fix it.

  • Netherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal

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  • Home-grown was already possible. What do you see as the problem with this plan?

  • December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC

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  • I mean, I don't really mind - I'm pretty happy with GNOME. All I'm saying is that if I were the project manager, I'd worry about delivering something and not burning people out ("focus is choosing what not to do" and all that, and the last 20% of the work taking 80% of the time). But in the end I'm just a random person ranting on the internet, of course - I do actually hope that I'm wrong.

    But a diff viewer in the text editor... It just sounds like folks are eager to jump on shiny new things rather than finishing something, from the outside 🤷 Looking forward to be proven wrong!

  • New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android

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  • The ones that are available now should be less prone to slowing down your device, and can deal more gracefully with being terminated by Android to save battery.

  • December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC

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  • No one would want to build applications for a platform that lacks widgets capable of properly displaying, formatting, and editing text.

    Is the idea that people are only going to be running Iced applications in COSMIC? It feels to me like the realistic option would be that, if COSMIC ever becomes daily-drivable, people would still be using GTK applications with it, at least at first. Might as well use a GTK text editor then? Then System76 could focus on building a text editor after COSMIC is a thing, and COSMIC would hopefully arrive sooner (or even at all - this looks like the path to burnout).

  • "We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop."

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  • How to fully separate Firefox instances on MacOs

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  • Other options: Firefox Beta, Firefox Developer Edition, and Firefox Nightly. Beta and Developer are very stable, and honestly Nightly is pretty stable as well (but it updates a lot). Possibly you could replace it with Librewolf.

  • Austria still opposed to Schengen accession of Romania and Bulgaria

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  • ...but Austria is in the EU though?

  • How to fully separate Firefox instances on MacOs

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  • Also, you can manage your profiles at about:profiles.

  • Xenia wouldn't suggest that :c

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  • You mean the ones for a closed and unhealthy web? :P

    Maybe they could recommend Windows as well, while they're at it, haha.

  • Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

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  • I'd already be happy if we still have the ones we have today in ten years.

  • noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”

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  • How can a platform - in general, not just meta - provide a “free” service, without monetizing it with targeted advertising?

    One option would be contextual advertising, rather than advertising based on tracking the user.

    (Contextual, as in: if you're looking at a Formula 1 community, you might be interested in car-related products.)

  • Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option

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  • I don't know the relevant programming languages so I don't know what to search for, but generally, if you want to find something in the Firefox source code, supposedly https://searchfox.org is a great way to do that.

  • GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule

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  • So you're saying: don't release the GTK 3 port until colour spaces are also complete? Why not give people what's ready, and then when colour spaces are ready, cut another release? No need to make people wait who don't need colour spaces.

    (Additionally, it's easier to verify that bugs reported before the release of colour spaces are more likely to be related to the GTK3 port.)

  • In a shock for Europe, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders records a massive win in Dutch elections

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  • It doesn't matter if they do, as long as voters believe they do.

  • In a shock for Europe, anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders records a massive win in Dutch elections

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  • Almost nobody thinks this win is the result of fringe extreme elements within Islam. It has more to do with lack of housing, inflation, etc.

  • Pinned Tabs - keep favorite websites open and just a click away

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  • It works great in combination with the keyboard shortcuts for opening the first, second, ... eighth tab, which is Alt+1 (or +2, +3, etc.) for me, but I think is Ctrl or Cmd instead of Alt on other OS's.