bjoern_tantau

Today I got a DMCA notice from Github to take down code for a Chrome extension I forked. Only problem is that the code has always been under the GPL for years. Apparently the original dev now wants money for his extension. Guess he's now regretting his GPL decision.

The URL to the original repository now links to the company's website.

We all know the pattern by now. Something minor happens. One of the affected parties doesn't want people talking about it. So they go on a crusade against anyone tha makes a small mention about the thing which ends up making the thing super famous.

It is called the Streisand effect after Barbara Streisand who famously went through such a thing. But for all the fame the effect has, how many people actually still remember what it was originally about, without looking it up?

I certainly don't. I'm pretty sure I looked it up once but apparently it wasn't interesting enough to remember. This just proves once again that ignoring the thing is much more effective than trying to silence talk about the thing.

Kind of similar to the Watergate scandal and all subsequent -gates. I think it's about some spy drama revealing the president's crimes at the Watergate Hotel that led to Richard Nixon resigning but that's about it. And that's probably wrong.

Now that I think about it (I should really get out of this shower) there are probably tons of idioms that are even further removed from their origin. I bet some are so far removed that we don't even register them as being idioms. They're just words.

I felt the itch to play Diablo 2 again so I went and installed Battle.net in Heroic. It failed with Heroic's "Proton GE (latest) " (whatever that means) but it worked with Proton GE 10.25.

Anyways, it opened the game list already with a filter for "Handheld" applied to only offer me games that work well on a handheld.

The funny thing is that I'm not even running SteamOS but OpenSUSE. But still Wine apparently gave the launcher enough info that it knew I'm on a handheld.

Would anyone care to test this out on a desktop PC? Maybe they equate Wine or Proton with the Deck. But I doubt it, I guess it went by processor or GPU.

Anyways, looks like Blizzard's unofficial but working Linux support seems to still be a thing.

Edit: Running through Steam fixed it. I guess it pulled in some library that I had missed.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/4959667

I've got a strange problem that nobody else seems to have.

All the small ability and item icons are missing. They don't show up at all.

Now, I have an unusual software combination running so it's probably because of that, but it's still a strange symptom. I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Steam Deck. I have BG3 from GOG and got the Linux binaries from a friend.

Apart from this bug the Linux version runs superbly. The bug shows up whether I have mods on or not, I have tried complete reinstalls and running with completely empty config directory. I can see the bug already in character creation. Icons from mods that would add new icons like Mystra's Spells don't show up either.

Anyone ever seen something like this?

Edit: Running through Steam fixed it. I guess it pulled in some library that I had missed.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/4959667

I've got a strange problem that nobody else seems to have.

All the small ability and item icons are missing. They don't show up at all.

Now, I have an unusual software combination running so it's probably because of that, but it's still a strange symptom. I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Steam Deck. I have BG3 from GOG and got the Linux binaries from a friend.

Apart from this bug the Linux version runs superbly. The bug shows up whether I have mods on or not, I have tried complete reinstalls and running with completely empty config directory. I can see the bug already in character creation. Icons from mods that would add new icons like Mystra's Spells don't show up either.

Anyone ever seen something like this?

Edit: Running through Steam fixed it. I guess it pulled in some library that I had missed.

I've got a strange problem that nobody else seems to have.

All the small ability and item icons are missing. They don't show up at all.

Now, I have an unusual software combination running so it's probably because of that, but it's still a strange symptom. I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Steam Deck. I have BG3 from GOG and got the Linux binaries from a friend.

Apart from this bug the Linux version runs superbly. The bug shows up whether I have mods on or not, I have tried complete reinstalls and running with completely empty config directory. I can see the bug already in character creation. Icons from mods that would add new icons like Mystra's Spells don't show up either.

Anyone ever seen something like this?

I had finally found a workaround to get Star Wars: Rebellion working perfectly. And not even a day later Alistair Leslie-Hughes had posted some patches to fix the bug correctly.

So don't despair about your decades old bugs. With the right conditions it can and will be fixed.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/4845931

I've had multiple reads fail on a fairly new drive.

I did a smartctl -t long /dev/sdb but after checking back a few minutes later smartctl -a /dev/sdb showed that no tests were running and that the previous test had "the read element of the test failed".

I did smartctl -t offline /dev/sdb next and after that was done smartctl -x /dev/sdb showed about 1500 errors but it also reported SMART as PASSED.

Here is the output of smartctl -x /dev/sdb: https://pastebin.com/09rNZZfD

How should I interpret these results? Was my assumption that the long test was done wrong? Should I replace the drive? Or might something else be wrong, like the SATA connection?

Is it possible to get the scaled sort to consider all posts over the last month or other timescales?

When I haven't been online for a while I tend to miss most of the stuff going on in my subscribed communities. If I sort by top of the month it only shows posts from the busiest communities.

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/4511580

In my relentless pursuit of trying to coax more performance out of my Lemmy instance I read that PostgreSQL heavily relies on the OSs disk cache for read performance. I've got 16 GB of RAM and two hdds in RAID 1. I've PostgreSQL configured to use 12 GB of RAM and I've zram swap set up with 8 GB.

But according to htop PostgreSQL ia using only about 4 GB. My swap gets hardly touched. And read performance is awful. Opening my profile regularly times out. Only when it's worked ones does it load quickly until I don't touch it again for half an hour or so.

Now, my theory is that the zram actually takes available RAM away from the disk cache, thus slowing the whole system down. My googling couldn't bring me the answer because it only showed me how to set up zram in the first place.

Does anyone know if my theory is correct?