Yep, the copyrighted Socket code legal issue has stalled the BSD world for a considerable time. It's reasonable to conclude many users thought it was a deadend for BSD distros, and when Linux emerged as the most promising thing from all (free as in freedom, open to any contribution, not plagued by a closed governance like GNU hurd) they all emigrated en masses to the effort.
bcantrill has opined that, had Linus gone off to pursue ice sculpture instead, at least one of the BSDs would have figured out a way forward. (Though others suggest that Windows would just have won.) I tend to agree with Bryan though.
> The root cause: Google’s new aapt2 binary in AGP 8.12.0 started requiring CPU instructions (SSE4.1, SSSE3) that F-Droid’s build farm hardware doesn’t support. This is similar to a 2021 AGP 4.1.0 issue, but it has returned, and now affects hundreds of apps.
I don't know why they have enabled modern CPU flags for a simple intermediary tool that compiles the apk resources files, it was so unneccesary
Welp there goes my plans on savaging an old laptop to build my android apps.
> Brazilian Supreme Court that is basically making up laws and judgments as they go to suppress speech and political opposition despite constitutional guarantees of speech?
What evidence do you have that everything he did until now isn't prescribed by the Brazilian Constitution? He is just enforcing the Constituition
The brazilian constitution contains the following words:
> Any and all censorship of political and artistic nature is prohibited
Before the 2022 election, these judges went out of their way to censor pretty much everything Bolsonaro and his supporters said. They just decided everything was "fake news" and ordered it all taken down. Unconstitutional political censorship.
I watched them censor a documentary that had not even been released. A priori censorship, something not seen in these lands since the military dictatorship of the 20th century.
Making a mockery out of our nation's highest laws wasn't enough for them, they went on to brag about it in public. "We defeated Bolsonarism", proclaimed one of the supposedly impartial judges. "Lula is president today due to the decisions of the supreme court", claims another judge. "I wouldn't have won the elections were it not for... [cut off]", muttered absent mindedly into a hot mike by none other than current president Lula himself the day he took office.
These are not the only abuses perpetrated by the court. As far as I know, it started in 2019 when a magazine ran a damning article on one of them. In response to that, they started a "fake news" inquisition that lasts to this day. They're basically the victims, investigators, prosecutors, judges and executioners of wildcard crimes against thenselves covering the entire brazilian territory. Details here:
Suffice it to say that the magazine was censored, proper due process was not observed, conflicts of interest were not resolved, and so on and so forth. But the "fake news" inquisition kept going. It was under its umbrella that they engaged in their censorship efforts against Bolsonaro and his supporters. I witnessed journalists and even youtubers seek political asylum in the US.
Things kept escalating further and further until they blocked Twitter nationwide and essentially stole millions of dollars out of the US economy via fines for failures to comply with illegal censorship orders. Then they declared social media companies liable for user content which in effect gets them to preemptively censor content, thereby privatizing their censorship. Trump is finally striking back against them with much awaited sanctions.
Yep, stenzek is a really talented emulator dev, he made big contribuitions to household emulators such as Dolphin (esp. Ubershaders) and Pcsx2.
He also made AetherSx2 under his alias Talreth, the first android ps2 emulator that was practically runnable on android devices, before he abandoned due to getting fed up with complaints and "death threats" (Yes, Talreth and Stenzek were the same person, it has already been debunked multiple times)
Unfortunately on the social side he fails very shortly being over sensitive to user complaints and having a big inflated ego so much that you couldn't criticise the emulator or you'd get banned from the discord server.
I concur, I think the successor flat design trend has nailed on reducing the styling visual clutter and keeping the user just focused on the "substance" from the app UI whilst keeping the UI itself minimal with no distractions.
The problem is that minimalism and maximalism in UI design exist on a kind of horseshoe curve. Extremely maximalist UI is indeed distracting, but past a certain point of pruning so is minimalism, just in a different way. Instead of having your eyes drawn away from the content by flashy widgets, you’re poking and swiping to find the function you’re looking for, like someone feeling around trying to find the exit in a pitch dark room.
I want to know whether I will be senile enough to continue contributing to project when I reach that age
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