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- Comment on The 'No ICE in Minnesota' charity bundle is live on itch.io 1 week ago:
Jeez, that’s a lot of stuff. I tried to copy it into a spoiler tag (so the post wouldn’t display too long), but it won’t even all fit in the Lemmy comment length limit. Apparently it’s 1439 items.
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 1 week ago:
The phrase “XY problem” was not in and of itself, but the paragraph below it where you explained what you wanted in more detail definitely helped.
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 1 week ago:
What I want is to set the default filter to “All Files” for every application that uses the file picker. I don’t want to do it per application. If there’s a setting for the file picker itself, I want to use that.
It’s not just the save dialog, I mentioned the file selection dialog (for uploading) in the post. The Librewolf “save page as” is just one singular example, not the entire problem!
Oh! In that case, KFileDialog might actually be (roughly) the part you want to patch.
(That was just what I found in a couple of minutes of looking, BTW. I’ve never programmed anything related to KDE – not even applications, let alone the library itself – so do your own research. I’m just going by generic software engineering principles, not anything specific to how KDE works, either technically or administratively.)
What would the effects be?
Depends on exactly which bits you change. The “save” dialog probably inherits from an abstract dialog or something. If you change the base class everything will be affected; if you change the derived class only the derived class will be affected. The trick is to find the right layer in the hierarchy that changes everything you want while leaving everything else alone.
How would I go about this? Would I need to alter the source code and recompile? What would happen when I update the software?
Yes, you’d have to alter the source and recompile. At that point, you’re basically maintaining your own small private fork of the software, so you’d have to merge your changes back in on each update.
Alternatively, you could try to get the KDE project to accept the changes, but I have no idea how receptive they would be.
“Saving HTML files with their file extension” can still be accomplished if I can see all the files at once. I’m not changing the extension, I just want to see where I’m putting them. There is no reason why viewing all files would prevent me from saving the same file types together.
If you’re saying that you’d like to decouple the filter of what file types you can see from the filter of what file types you can save as, that’s interesting. It might have merit in terms of user experience, but I suspect it might be a slightly more invasive change to code – and an even more invasive change to the public-facing API, which developers of applications that use KDE might have something to say about.
- Comment on Dutch authorities seized one of Windscribe VPN's servers – here's everything we know 2 weeks ago:
Just encrypt the drive and store the key somewhere easier to destroy.
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 2 weeks ago:
There are no Chinese search engines?
- Comment on How do I disable the file type filter in KDE's file picker? 2 weeks ago:
You’re going to have to find the line in the Librewolf source code where it sets a file extension and/or MIME type filter on the “Save Page” dialog, edit it to remove the filter, recompile, and optionally create a bugzilla issue and patch to try to get your change adopted for everybody instead of just you.
This isn’t a KDE thing, BTW; it’s a Librewolf (or upstream Firefox) thing. The web browser knows it’s trying to save a web page, so the devs programmed it to force the standard, “correct” extension. (You could try to patch it at the KFileDialog level instead of the Librewolf level as described above, but then you’d lose filtering systemwide.)
More realistically, your best bet is to save it with the
.htmlat the end, and then just rename the file to what you actually want afterwards. - Comment on Valve stress again that there'll be more Steam Machine Verified games than Steam Deck ones, with "fewer constraints" in their testing programme 5 weeks ago:
As more variety of hardware gets released, sooner or later Valve is going to need a “compatible with SteamOS” test that has little or nothing to do with hardware specs and will basically be equivalent to a generic “this game works in [at least one distro of] Linux” statement. I look forward to that.
- Comment on Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes 1 month ago:
Temporarily? Boooooo.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Contrary to my limerick, your phrase wasn’t incomprehensible, just odd.
Is your native language French? My Duolingo lessons lead me to believe that’s likely.
Rest assured, your English is way better than my skills in whatever your other language is!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sanctions against the user were sought Because he was mistook for a bot His posts would be removed Unless his humanity could be proved But never mind that— what the fuck is a “margerine pot?”
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
Sure, so does organized crime. What’s your point?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
Copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret laws are all entirely different and have almost nothing to do with each other (don’t be fooled by the property-rights-hating shysters who try to gaslight you into lumping them all as “intellectual property[sic]”).
Trademarks and patents don’t have the same kinds of interoperability exceptions that copyright does, and you can’t claim to “support HDMI™” without licensing rights to those in addition to whatever copyrighted code you might need for the software side of the implementation.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
I’m a little disappointed, but not surprised. This thing is designed to be used in the living room hooked up to the TV, after all.
The fact of A/V consumer electronics standardizing on HDMI instead of DisplayPort is kinda not Valve’s problem to solve, as much as I’d like it to try.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months ago:
Valve tells Ars its “trying to unblock” limits caused by
open source driverclosed source corporate megalomania issues.FTFthem. Open Source is not the problem here.
- Comment on Grab a free copy of Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for a limited time 2 months ago:
Heh, I didn’t even get as far as typing anything. I clicked on the search box and it was at the top of the “popular searches” list.
- Comment on I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great 2 months ago:
Framework Desktop 64gb
I wonder how that compares to my mini-ITX Ryzen 5700x3D/9070XT/64GB system. I guess yours is even smaller and better at running LLMs due to the unified memory, but mine is probably cheaper and better at gaming.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 4 months ago:
Progressive Web Apps
Modern Tab Management
Isn’t that already an extension?
Improved History Search
Could also be an extension, I bet.
Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”)
Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting)
Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)That’s the sort of thing I meant by “under-the-hood stuff normies won’t notice.”
I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.
No, that’s a good thing. Fuck JavaScript; it has way too much access to stuff it shouldn’t already. If anything, APIs need to be removed.
I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.
But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.
I think Google still deserves to be hated a lot more, but otherwise I agree. IMO there’s no good reason for Mozilla Corporation to exist; it should only be Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) and all board and management should be replaced with non-overpaid people who actually believe in the mission.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 4 months ago:
Features like what? Other than under-the-hood privacy/security improvements that normies would never notice, I can’t think of any new feature I want.
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 4 months ago:
It used to be Mozilla would try to engineer their own open source and privacy-respecting alternative for web infrastructure stuff like this.
- Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 5 months ago:
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 5 months ago:
The fascist US obviously won’t do shit, but Europe ought to outlaw this blatant anti-trust violation.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
That’s a future CEO’s problem.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 5 months ago:
But see, that’s what I’m saying: the court was wrong to consider that 25th box a thing that needed ticking to begin with. There was nothing that needed re-opening because if the computer owner’s property rights were as secure as they’re supposed to be the reason given for sending the case back to the lower court should’ve been considered irrelevant!
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 5 months ago:
No, it’s even worse than people realize.
This isn’t just about ad-blocking; it’s about computer owners’ fundamental property rights (or lack thereof). It shouldn’t fucking matter if the ad-blocker modifies the website’s code, because both pieces of software are running on the owner’s machine and he has the right to modify his property in any way he sees fit.
It is no different than a book owner crossing out printed text and writing in the margins: that copy of the book is his modify as he wants, and copyright doesn’t fucking enter into it as all because there’s no copying or distribution happening to begin with.
What the German court gas done here is opened the door to copyright holders trying to colonize shit they don’t own, stealing control from the actual owners.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 6 months ago:
When mainstream media starts asking if something is a bubble, it’s not only already been one for quite a while already, but it’s about to pop.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 6 months ago:
WDYM, “still?” That implies they’re trying to make it something else, but they’re not.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 6 months ago:
No, I think the ones persecuting women for murder for seeking an abortion would be a different agency. ICE will be the ones using this data as a way to target pregnant brown women for deportation.
- Comment on DuckStation dev dropping support for Linux 6 months ago:
Crypto laws aren’t copyright. Protesting an unjust law via civil disobedience is entirely different from hypocritically breaking a law you yourself rely on just because you wanna.
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants Gamers To Destroy All Copies of A Game Once It Goes Offline 7 months ago:
Fuckwads who thinks like that shouldn’t be granted copyrights.
- Comment on PNG is back! 7 months ago:
Wasn’t JPEG XL sabotaged by patents or something?
