Just that first thing

Oh for sure, and Organic Maps was a fork too. Open Source is awesome 🙂.

I reckon whoever that team member was introducing them all to CoMaps is probably familiar with the Fediverse, and may even be watching us now 👀

This is really cool! Amazing for such a new project too. I love reading about all the work they are doing. Also scary that it takes 35 hours to run the map update 😆

My favourite story of this is that ransomware virus that was taking out places like the NHS, and some security researcher noticed it kept pinging some domain that was a random bunch of characters.

He registered the domain, and suddenly the ransomware shut down, freeing all the places the ransomware had infected.

It turns out when researching a virus the environments commonly treat all domains as valid so they can capture the traffic and see what the virus is doing. To prevent this, the ransomware was designed to shut down if this clearly fake domain came back as valid (and I guess this was the release switch if the ransom was paid). That was it would shut down if in this kind of a sandboxed environment.

The story is here, written by the researcher so it’s a bit technical. There were lots of news stories about it at the time too.

Andre the Giant has been dead for over 30 years so I’m not sure he can throw as far as you’re expecting.

The rendering of pages seems fine, it’s the browser functions that seem missing. As an example, there is no “find in page”. If you press Ctrl+F, nothing happens. Many things work, including their strange tab grouping system that I guess will be their selling point. But I kept coming across the missing little things.

I’ve been playing with it since I guess towards the start of this year. The latest update still doesn’t make a browser I think is ready to call beta 🤷

I’m keeping an eye on it, but only loosely.

Yeah I tried KDE for a while, people talked about how customisable it is that you can do anything. But I never found a way to recreate that super key experience.

I’m a GNOME user and extensions are pretty easy to install. I use the wiggly extension for the mouse shake to grow thing, but unfortunately it has a maximum size of 256 which is plenty big enough to find it but you can’t shake it forever until it grows bigger than the screen. GNOME 0 KDE 1 🥲

You’ll likely be able to find if on whatever store your distro comes with. There’s also the third party launcher Lutris but I have found Heroic to be great. If you’re playing games without a linux version, Heroic will help you install WINE versions as well, so you can play almost anything.

It’s coming but I’ve used Heroic with GOG for years, it works great.

I have too (uBlock Origin)! On chrome as I’m not allowed Firefox. But when I flick through the chrome store, almost all extensions are blocked. It’s like it was a deliberate decision to let us have it, which is considering the maturity of the organisation in other ways.

However no one who uses adblock should be using Facebook either

If you ask me for help with your computer, whether you’re my mother, mother in law, or uncle, if I had to open your browser at some point then I’m gonna install uBlock Origin. It’s unfortunately the price you have to pay for my help.

What I’m getting at is I’ve installed it on many people’s computers even if they are regular Facebook users.

Oh I am sure there are differences. I also recently found that the fireworks rockets aren’t implemented in Mineclonia (I found a issue in the bug tracker and a PR that was never merged where they talk about how it’s hard to do in the Luanti engine), but for the most part I’ve just been able to look up the Minecraft wiki. I bought and played Minecraft when it was in Alpha, so my knowledge is a bit out of date 😆.

I play Mineclonia with my kids.They are reasonably young still, so we play in creative mode and build great things together. I’m running a local server so they can all join together and work together.

I didn’t find out about Asuna until we were well into our world, so while I also have an Asuna world set up we haven’t really used it. I will admit that it’s very helpful to just be able to search up the Minecraft wiki to see how things work for Mineclonia.

Yeah I feel like they have always been open about their results pulling from a range of other search engines.

That blog post is promising, and a little hilarious. “A search index is human knowledge, it belongs to everyone, that’s why ours is proprietary”.

I don’t get Firefox at work, and the other day Chrome popped open a new tab on it’s own telling me to try out Gemini. I asked Gemini why this new tab had opened pushing Gemini on me when I didn’t ask it to, and it told me the most likely reason was that my computer is infected with a virus.

Not wrong I guess?

What’s up? Not Grafana. I did docker compose pull on the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it’s fucked. Or maybe it’s not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.

Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what’s going wrong.

Most data centres are not the monstrosities that are being built for AI and are being protested.

But also most Lemmy users are using instances hosted in data centres.

The start menu was the beginning of the atrocious thing we have today, but right click on it, and you got a quick access menu to everything from a terminal shell to settings to actual shutdown options. It still exists in some form today.