Checking out Brave Origin, and so far it is exactly what I expected. No AI features, no ads, and it still has all the features I love from Brave.
Users being their source of revenue makes so much sense.
A huge thanks to the Brave team for making this free for Linux.
Age verification, and age identification are the same thing. All these laws do is make it easier to identify children.
Data breaches will magnify this problem, and the dark net will now trade information about your children.
None of this is good. None of this protects children.
Plank Reloaded 0.11.160: Optimized rendering by eliminating unnecessary surface copies, fixed crashes during package installs, and cleaned up a ton of legacy code. 🚀
github.com/zquestz/plan...
Dream Prompter 1.2.0 is here. Nine AI models for image generation and editing, right inside GIMP.
thoughts.greyh.at/posts/dream-...
Friends don't let friends use GNOME. Love the section where the author says it was fixed 12 years ago, just use Cinnamon. Or use KDE, it has gotten a lot better over the years.
woltman.com/gnome-bad/
Just added Kvantum themes to Celestial to make sure Qt apps look fantastic.
github.com/zquestz/cele...
Also put together a few wallpapers.
There are lots of people in this world that want to cut other people down. I am interested in a better world where we work together in community and keep an open mind.
It is time to get back to the basics.
I think you use that term far too lightly, and are using it for some kind of odd social clout. I find it disgusting.
People can use whatever technology is useful for them. I have used Rails for decades, that does not mean I agree with his views.
To be honest the people I see as negative and vindictive are the ones attacking Omarchy and doing their best to attack anyone that considers the technology interesting.
I was referring to the price of Framework hardware. Just to be clear.
Omarchy breathes new life into lots of old Mac hardware and aligns super well with sustainability and that mindset. The price is absolutely worth it and I am glad they are supporting as many open source projects as they are. They have given back in a huge way and people seem to forget that
It is an endorsement of the technology not his politics. I have yet to see any politics go into the Omarchy product or marketing. They are completely different things. People and companies, in this case Framework, should not have to appease a crowd making mountains out of molehills.
They shouldn't have to say that at all. They were just talking about a popular new open source project, and trying to support cool new tech. At no time did they try to endorse the ideologies of the creators.
This makes a lot of sense.
Seems like an unpopular opinion here, but I am a fan of @frame.work and the work they have been doing in the space. They have excellent, repairable, upgradable hardware, and are trying to support open source in every way imaginable.
Some people want to create political controversies from nothing.
They make great laptops. All they did was try to donate to open source projects. Don't give into the mob trying to lynch them for nothing.
Decided to write another GIMP Plugin.
Dream Background Remover leverages the Replicate AI model 851-labs/background-remover to easily remove image backgrounds.
github.com/zquestz/drea...
So I built a GIMP plugin for Nano Banana, Gemini's latest image generation model.
thoughts.greyh.at/posts/dream-...
Just launched my first game, Perfect Shot, on Farcaster.
Its a space-themed, roguelike arcade shooter where you pilot a ship through procedurally generated space environments. Every run is different. Every shot counts.
farcaster.xyz/quest/0x0fab...
Plank Reloaded 0.11.142 has been released with a new Notifications docklet! Let me know what you think. =)
github.com/zquestz/plan...
This is going to break a lot of gems... the performance benefits are there, but it is a huge change for the ecosystem.
www.prateekcodes.dev/ruby-34-froz...
Apple's new Liquid Glass UI is terrible. Not only is it ugly, but also a usability nightmare. Then on top of that they destroyed the beautiful Finder icon we all loved. It truly is a sad day. Apple designs used to be so solid, what happened?
Had a lot of fun working on Perfect Shot, can't wait for it to finally be released to the public!
Been working on improving the Matcha GTK theme. They did some great work, and it has been fun tweaking it.
Even extended the Plank theme to support the new theming options in Plank Reloaded.
github.com/zquestz/Matc...
Depends on the scope. I would argue adding more style options is dramatically simpler than offering programming features inside of CSS.
Humans always want to extend their creations. So stopping new standards is not feasible. Trying to limit the scope of tools I believe is.
Depends on who you are. I doubt the simplicity is there for devs writing renderers.
For normal developers, they now will have to hunt for hidden logic within CSS, where before it was easier to grep/sift for what they were looking for.
I don't argue its neat, but there are infinite neat features...
But like I said, I am in the minority.
People want a bigger, more complex set of web tools. This is obvious by the explosion of JavaScript frameworks and protocol expansion.
After building on the web for 30 years, I really wish it had developed differently.
Sass/SCSS didn't require everyone developing a browser to support them... in fact NO browsers supported them because they transpiled into regular CSS.
This kept the burden of complexity within the app that required it, not the entire web ecosystem.
