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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux developmentEnglish
2·3 days agoIf all you care about is installing and launching your games, then an GTK client already exists:
https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/
Doesn’t have galaxy’s social features though
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World News@lemmy.world•Zionists Quietly Back New Gaza Militias Fighting HamasEnglish
2·4 days agoNo it’s not. The title of the article is “Israel Quietly Backs New Gaza Militias Fighting Hamas” (emphasis by me). You might say that that’s a distinction without difference, but I think it matters on multiple counts:
- The term “Zionist” refers to people holding a certain set of beliefs. The group therefore contains more members than the government. Which Zionists are backing the group? The original headline answered the question, the new one does not.
- Using the term “Zionist” instead of “Israel” implies a motivation for the actions of the government not present in the original title. The new headline misrepresents the reporting it links to. We are talking about the Wall Street Journal here. Do you really think the would argue that the Israeli government funds Arab militias because of Zionism?
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World News@lemmy.world•Zionists Quietly Back New Gaza Militias Fighting HamasEnglish
3·4 days agoThat’s not the headline of the article.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•DeGoogled phones, made in Europe: Fairphone, Volla, SHIFTphone, Punkt – a full review.English
4·26 days agoThe Jolla and the Volla phone both don’t run Android. Or more precisely, Volla sells an version of their phones that uses Ubuntu Touch instead of Android.
SailfishOS has been around since 2013. It’s based on an even older Nokia project (from before they got bought and sold by Microsoft). Since then there has been a number of devices running it. In recent years that’s mostly been the Jolla C2, a rebranded low spec device by Turkish manufacturer Reeder, and certain Sony phones, such as the Xperia V III. The latter doesn’t ship with SFOS but you can purchase a €50 license and install it yourself.
There are also community ports that are unofficial and don’t have all the features (Android app support is missing for example) but run on some other devices. The problem in ARM world is that OS’s need to be tailored to the device (for the most part). It’s not like on intel or amd PCs. So if you want to run it on your Samsung or whatever, then you can do that. It’s just a lot of work.
It’s somewhere inbetween. For the most part you have a standard Linux userland. The packaging format for example is just RPM. But the shells compositor can currently only properly display Android and qt apps. There has been some discussion at the last community meeting (where the devs answer questions) about improved Wayland support to change that, but that’s where we are.
Furtermore, for drivers and the like some Android blobs are used. There are therefore some Sailfish specific apis that you need to target for some of the functionality.
It’s not mentioned on the store page, but according to the accompanying form thread, the whole thing is based on a unspecified but “powerful” MediaTek SOC
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•TFW you get the old gang back together
2·2 months agoSomething something, republicans are spineless cowards, something something, the supremecourt has been captured?
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser 🇧🇪English
12·2 months agoPartially. Servo is the engine that was to replace the one in Firefox. But then mozilla abandoned the project. Since both projects where developed under the same roof, some features where backported into gecko (the engine Firefox actually uses)
But most of the code in Servo doesn’t show up in FF
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Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Elon Musk changed the algorithm of his AI. Grok is calling for the BBC to be defunded. He is calling GBNews (hard-right channel) a truly impartial source of information.
3·2 months agoEasy: Populism. You just argue that truth is a democracy and therefore the thing most people believe is the truth because most people believe it. And voilà: Suddenly, confirming the biases of your audience passes for good journalism.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Passkeys Explained: The End of PasswordsEnglish
21·3 months agoYou could also use dedicated hardware to store your keys. Any FIDO USB key will do. I have a Yubikey that cost me less than 30 bucks.
It’s really handy, because I frequently use someone else’s device for work. All I have to do is plug it in, press the button on the key and enter the master password for the passkey storage. It’s like having a password manager on a USB stick.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Passkeys Explained: The End of PasswordsEnglish
2·3 months agoAnd they can be hardware based as well. I have a cheap Yubikey USB dongle, which works as a passkey vault as well. Completely OS independent.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunchEnglish
3·4 months agoOr if you live in the EU you can just install the “PAL” version which works without a PC connection.
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Buy European@feddit.uk•Introducing the new Proton Mail apps for iOS and AndroidEnglish
4·4 months ago/e is Android. So the App is also for /e, the blogpost just didn’t mention it
This is what I use: https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
Creates a wireguard connection from your home server to a vps, which then exposes it to the public using a traefik reverse proxy.
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World News@lemmy.world•The Netherlands will withdraw from 2026 Eurovision if Israel is allowed to competeEnglish
2·5 months agoYes, but is there any evidence that Moroccan Oil is an activist company? They were founded by an Israeli, but in Montreal, Canada and are headquartered in New York, USA. They don’t seem to have any direct ties to the Israeli military or government, because they are a haircare company. Companies usually care more about their bottom line than about their government’s agenda (as long as the two don’t collide)
I don’t see how this one’s involvement stops the EBU from kicking out Israel.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the testEnglish
1·5 months agoThey will if tHiNkInG oF the ChiLdReN threatens to meaningfully affect their bottom line
























Qobuz at least has adopted a clear stance on AI use this month: https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter
So maybe give them a couple of months to roll out their promised tech. If this charter turns out to be all talk then fuck’em but right now it’s (in my opinion) to early to tell