Daniel Ludwig

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Coding cowboy @ Robotality. Demoscene lurker & cross-platform hacker at night.

May toot about non-technical stuff in German now and then.

Bloghttps://code-disaster.com
GitHubhttps://github.com/code-disaster
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Daniel Ludwig3h ago
Eric Lengyel9h ago
New blog post: A Decade of Slug
This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain.
https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
Daniel Ludwig3h ago
Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)6h ago

My Dinner With AI

https://www.grumpygamer.com/my_dinner_with_ai/

My Dinner With AI

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

Grumpy Gamer
Daniel Ludwig2d ago

Continued to dabble in Nobara Linux. Installed a bunch of things. Tried to not break everything after only a few hours.

Then noticed: KDE desktop reports a crash each time I press ALT+TAB. Great.

At least it doesn't bury information in some ominous "core dump" or something. Nice dialog box with enough info to see what useless package (maliit-keyboard) to get rid off.

Daniel Ludwig2d ago

I dropped CachyOS and tried Nobara, and hey, my laptop can make noises again!

So seems like I'll now be running Fedora, btw.

Daniel Ludwig2d ago

I installed CachyOS on my laptop, to try out KDE/Plasma and Mango (both on Wayland). Wiped the Kubuntu/KDE/X11 partition for this.

Good: WLAN still works
Bad: audio is now utterly broken

I used the live USB before installation to test networking. I didn't test audio. Lesson learned, I guess.

Daniel Ludwig3d ago

Ich würde ja eher darüber nachdenken, wie es ein 15-jähriger schafft, offenbar unfallfrei 150 km durch Hessen und BW zu gondeln.

Mit einem Linienbus.

Was lernen eure Kids eigentlich in der Schule, @loeff ?

Ich würde jedenfalls dem Bengel neben der Anzeige gleich noch 'nen Ausbildungsvertrag aushändigen...

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/hessen/hr-linienbus-in-wiesbaden-geklaut-teenie-faehrt-bis-karlsruhe-100.html

Linienbus in Wiesbaden geklaut: Teenie fährt bis Karlsruhe

In Wiesbaden hat ein 15-Jähriger einen Linienbus geklaut – mithilfe eines Generalschlüssels. Er brauste rund 150 Kilometer bis zu seiner Herzensdame nach Karlsruhe.

tagesschau.de
Show threadDaniel Ludwig3d ago
It's a bummer really, because both Niri and MangoWM look very intriguing to me. But I kind of lean on tools like Barrier or Deskflow in my daily use right now, and I don't want to juggle mice and keyboards when the convenient alternative is to just stay on Kubuntu/X11.
Show threadDaniel Ludwig3d ago
I gave a bunch of keyboard/mouse sharing tools another look on CachyOS and after many "well.. this ain't working" and some more browsing of various GH issues that are open and unresolved for years, my understanding is now that... Wayland people don't seem to give a lot of shit. Apparently there *are* protocols, but nobody dares to implement them.
Daniel Ludwig3d ago
It's not always a good idea to have your software auto restart on error...
Daniel Ludwig4d ago

I just used PayPal, to pay an order (doh!), the first time in a freshly installed instance of LibreWolf.

- The number of extra hurdles Win11 likes to add to the mix is mind-blowing. No, I don't want to "ease" the process by typing my PIN twice, "Hello Windows". I don't want you to be involved at all!

- LibreWolf asked, like 3 times, if I want to allow PayPal to create a WebGL context (browser anti-fingerprinting measure). I don't even want to know what they like to use WebGL for...