exocortex

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Idea / Question about tiling window managers (discuss.tchncs.de)

First of all: Please don’t tell me how impractically this might be or confusing or whatever. This is like a thought experiment and let’s be honest: We don’t JUST want efficiency when modding our desktops – we also want it to look sick and individual and have people watch in admiration – or something like that. So keep...

exocortex,

yeah very nice. I imagine it a little like that only more “cluttered” :-) I like it a little more chaotic with more variety of screen sizes and rations. Thanks!

exocortex,

now you can run a 4000x6000 screen on your 1200x1600 monitor 😉

but seriously thank you. if that existed this might still exist in wayland…

exocortex,

Could be. But I would want to have the option. As a middle-ground the second axis (e.g. up/down) could be reserved to special functions only.

  • I could imagine the typical search-field that pops up to quickly search for an application could instead be further up and activating it would simply move the screen up and focus the search field at once.
  • a status-bar that only appears when needed could just exist slightly over the current screen (it would move sideways with the screen) and viewing it would move the screen slightly up.
exocortex,

That would be possible of course, and I like it. But in my mind this would be reserved for special functions only as it can quickly become gimmicky. (Think these early 2000s rotating cube-workspaces and so on :-) )

A usecase could be that a lock-screen would be further away and locking out would move towards it. Or even turning the view in a different direction?

exocortex,

thank you!

exocortex,

In my mind there would still exist an Alt+Tab-Overlay that would enable me to switch between programs independent of their position.

exocortex,

i’ve seen “💩” a while ago. That was pretty funny - just a little inconvenient at times I guess.

recommendations for lightweight window managers for an old netbook

Hi, I’ve got an old netbook from Samsung that has an old Intel Atom CPU (Intel Atom N455 1.66 GHz). I installed Arch on it and am now thinking of a suitable window manager. I tried Hyprland (kinda expecting it to not work really) whick didn’t start at all. Before I had Debian with Gnome, which technically worked, but...

exocortex,

oof that was a let-down

exocortex,

Naja Günterstal ist jetzt vielleicht nicht das Beste Beispiel um Straßenbahn+dörflich zu demonstrieren. Das ist ja schon etwas ein gequetscht im Schwarzwald, also nicht so dicht besiedelt.

vielleicht hier: 2 Brandensteinstraße maps.app.goo.gl/aTXPPvo3fqSS3TfN6

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exocortex,

What is “dynamic caching”? The article mentions that iris new, but nothing more.

exocortex,

If you want to have some fun again, maybe program a little with artsy-fartsy shaders.

Make a little blog that showcases them and write a little animation everyday - or twice a week.

I’ve seen also “shadplay” which lets you easily write and run shaders using rust. There was also this other tool where people could live-code shaders, but I forgot the name

Which sequels/prequels/spinoffs made the originals somehow worse?

The Matrix is an often used example, but for me it’s the Alien Prequels - especially Alien: Covenant really makes the Original Alien much worse. When the original was released in 1979 it had the perfect Monster. A dangerous killing machine of unknown origin. The missing background of the alien is a big part of its scary mess....

exocortex,

I missed it. Will listen. His Common People cover was so perfect. I bought the CD recently. Gotta give this one also a try.

exocortex,

Maybe it is time that we start to write our favourite youtubers to start developing alternative means of distributing their videos. Patreon and so on.

I feel there will be a lot less people watching YouTube in the future and as a whole many youtubers will see their revenue drop significantly. Watching YouTube as a whole will become less and less bearable. I watch videos without ads on my pc, but on mobile i use the app and endure the videos (for now) as the app is just nicer to use compared to the browser.

But if I have to see ads all the time (also these unskippable 20s ads) I think I’ll simply stop using YouTube all together. about 90% ofy YouTube use isn’t neccessary at all. I’ll just watch it, because I’m too lazy to do anything else.

I could be should read a book instead. Maybe others will do that too in the future?

exocortex,

True. I just used it as a stand-in for other ways of making content + earning something while doing it.

If everytthing is on Patreon it might be slightly better, but not good

exocortex,

Don’t know how it is elsewhere, but in Germany there’s a lot of podcasts that are donation bashed. There are some that have their “basic”-content (their main podcast for example) free and additional stuff behind a paywall.

The most famous one that does it like this in the US would be Chapo Trap House.

exocortex,

i guess they report outside of twitter that there is no “report” function on Twitter itself.

exocortex,

oof

exocortex,

Why don’t we buy it?

Could this be a kickstarter?

exocortex, (edited )

Who in their right mind makes that decision as a producer?

Business-people obviously and sadly. I mean movies have always been a business first, but since there are now basically only 2 or three large companies left with a much larger share of the income they can much better predict the expected income. Everything becomes more efficient. Before with thousands of little studios competing each individual project was kind of hustling around in all kinds of directions. It was hit or miss at random basically. And a small studio doesn’t do focus-grouping in order to increase a movies financial success - that would be much too expensive for a small project. Those things only make sense financially if your movie is fairly large OR your company already has a well oiled marketing-department that focus-groups for basically every movie automatically. But with focus-groups you obviously always aim for what most people like. It’s like the lowest denominator. That’s why so many things feel so boring in marvel/disney-productions. There’s no too room for random happy accidents.

I still have hopes for cinema though, since the incredible rise of the A24 brand in recent years for me is a clear signal that people are fed up with this marvel/disney-monoculture-assembly-line that clogges up the cinemas. One major aspect of the disney-death-star is that Disney basically prevents other productions from materializing. They even prevent some of their own projects from materializing as their planning shows them that N large movies a year is about the most they can extract from the movie-going audience. So they will not produce more big budget blockbusters, because that would only waste money. (If that doesn’t make sense think about this: the more blockbuster you release each year the less it will be watched as you reach a saturation at a certain point. As a studio you try to release big-budget movies at times at which they don’t have to compete with similar movies. Disney being the biggest player - aka the “disney-death-star” that has gobbled up pixar/marvel/star-wars and the entire 20th century fox IP/franchises - is defining what is and isn’t possible to be released during a year (and making a profit with reasonable likelihood)).

Similar with competitors: They know that their big budget movie will have to compete with e.g. Marvels new this-and-that that weekend (or another Disney release at another time) and will not produce a movie. Disney is clogging up the cinemas with their grey goo.

A24 simply made movies that are different and not aimed at everyone. That simple idea was e extremely radical.

exocortex,

Es gibt auch Studien, dass Fahrradfahrer mit Helmen unbewusst riskanter fahren und von Autofahrern auch riskanter behandelt werden. So im Sinne von “hab / hat ja einen Helm, kann also nicht so viel passieren”.

Das andere ist: Wenn in einer Gesellschaft die Zahl der Radfahrer zunimmt, nimmt natürlich auch die Anzahl an Fahrradunfällen zu. Das ist dann natürlich eine Entwicklung, die auffällt und medial diskutiert wird. Am Ende ist immer jemand verantwortlich. Als Verkehrsminister/-senator willst du nicht da stehen müssen wenn Leute doch Beschuldigten durch Nichtstun Menschenleben zu gefährden.

Mehr Fahrradstreifen wären wirklich sinnvoll in Berlin. Aber die jetzige Regierung wälzt das Problem natürlich lieber auf die Fahrradfahrer ab. Ein schlechter Witz.

exocortex,

Im Artikel sind die Argumente gegen eine Helmpflicht beschrieben - sie kommen btw vom Deutschen Radfahrclub.

Ist halt so eine typische CDU-Massnahme: Statt mehr Radwege wälzen wir das Problem einfach auf die Radfahrer ab. Schön wird auch “zu schnelles fahren” als Argument eingestreut - als ob es im Berliner Straßenverkehr keine anderen Ursachen für Fahrradunfälle gibt.

Mehr 30er-Zonen oder Mehr Radwege lehnt die CDU ja aus klientelpolitischen bzw dogmatischen Gründen ab.

exocortex,

Typische CDU-scheisse. es ist erwiesen, dass Helmpflicht die Zahl der Radfahrer verringert, was gesellschaftlich mehr Schaden anrichtet. Je mehr Menschen einer Gesellschaft Rad fahren, desto besser für die Gesundheit aller.

Statt Radwege zu bauen oder ganz allgemein den Radfahrern mehr Raum gegenüber dem Auto zu geben sollen die Radfahrer jetzt also selbst für eine Unsichere Umgebung verantwortlich gemacht werden. Toll.

What to learn next, Swift or Rust

I’ve been programming for decades, though usually for myself, not as a profession. My current go-to language is Python, but I’m thinking of learning either Swift (I’m currently on the Apple ecosystem), or Rust. Which one do you think will be the best in terms of machine learning support in a couple of years and how easy is...

exocortex,

There’s a recent Rust ML framework called “burn”. So maybe there’s also a future for ML in Rust for you.

Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?

Buying from an alternative ecommerce site usually sucks: you have to register for every website, enter your address, payment information and other information, they may leak data or store it improperly, you may not know the reputation of the website or business, you can’t easily compare products with other vendors and more....

exocortex,

The Federation would provide a great tool of figuring out the best way to build trust. A reputable server will only let people join if they are in some way reputable. Servers that let scammers flourish will become defederated. If course servers have to be comparable in size. If there’s one server with 90% of users it doesn’t work that well.

exocortex,

Duo Kribo - Uang

exocortex,

“conservative”

Today people who self-identify as conservative are basically all assholes with a deep hatret towards dignity, humanity, society and nature. They’re proud to be assholes, they’re vice-signalling.

But the actual word - “conservative” - it has lost all meaning. What are they “conserving”? They’re against environmentalism. I’d like to “conserve” nature so that future generations may still live on it. Am I now conservative? They want to burn everything down even the things they claim to uphold. They yell about freedom of speech and ban books at the same time. They shit on rules and all long-standing conventions, norms and just basic human tactfulness. What things are they “conserving”? The word has lost all meaning and means just bigoted loud asshole today.

exocortex,

Generell hat die reddit-situatiin dazu geführt, dass ich einfach weniger Zeit damit (reddit+lemmy) verwende. Auch nicht unbedingt schlecht, denn ehrlich gesagt ist nur ein geringer Zeitanteil davon wirklich sinnvoll. Vielleicht ist das auch bei anderen so. Ist nicht unbedingt schlechter.

exocortex,

Dann bist du besser informiert, als ich. Dass so etwas passiert, war mir dunkel bekannt, aber wie das gerade los geht hat mich doch schockiert. Daher wollte ich es teilen.

exocortex,

I’m with you. I liked it too. It was essentially. war movie.

Just one thing: The last Terminator movie was actually OK.

exocortex,

It’s amazing! It’s funny, has a great cast, is visually stunning AND unique. it’s just that some people think movies have to be only about plot.

I happen to own an orange telephone like the one in the movie, an old “Telefon der deutschen Post”.

exocortex,

How does that work? Is threads using a protocol compatible to lemmy? (And I fully agree with the preemptive blocking of any facebook stuff).

Edit: thanks for all the detailled answers.

So Facebook tries the old EEE - Embrace Extend Extinguish. 1.A big company is Embracing an open source standard ("we’re friendly, see?) They get a lot of users that way - even the open source savvy types. 2.they start Extending that standard “to make it even better” - but not talking about these changes with the rest of the community first. They cannot react quickly enough and become incompatible with the new version of this standard. 3.Extinguish. When all the users are effectively using the big companies platform with something that isn’t the original standard anymore they change it so much that it isn’t compatible at all anymore or replace it completely.

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