Huh. Neat feature. That’s in C# I assume?

The second one isn’t valid syntax in any programming language I’m familiar with. What does it do?

why would you call it anything other than the ternary operator

…either an empty string, a single character, or the same sequence of characters repeated more than once?

ohhh nooooo, who could possibly have seen this coming

not like that repo was getting constantly vandalized as people realized it contained copyrighted code that the winamp owners didn’t have the rights to which the project managers were halfheartedly playing whack-a-mole with

FFmpeg has FFV1 which is lossless

what kind of config file is short enough to fit on a single screen with line breaks?

Alright, the YAML spec is a dang mess, that I’ll grant you, but it seems pretty easy for my human eyes to read and write. As for JSON – seriously? That’s probably the easiest to parse human-readable structured data format there is!

Some data formats are easy for humans to read but difficult for computers to efficiently parse. Others, like packed binary data, are dead simple for computers to parse but borderline impossible for a human to read.

XML bucks this trend and bravely proves that data formats do not have to be one or the other by somehow managing to be bad at both.

Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It’s named after the comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

I searched “waydroid aurora store crashing” on DuckDuckGo a while back and found a thread that said it was a regression in Aurora Store v4.3 and that v4.2 works. I’m not sure how to download old versions of apps from F-Droid though.

What you showed in that video is AuroraDroid which is an alternative frontend for F-Droid and distinct from Aurora Store (which is a frontend for the Play Store). Do you have the actual Aurora Store also?

I think bundling it might be unique to the Waydroid FOSS image. I recently set up Waydroid with GAPPS rather than with FOSS (because AuroraStore still won’t run on Waydroid, grrrrrrr) and it didn’t come with it.

(Side note, if you figure out how to get Aurora to show a list of apps in Waydroid x64 without instantly crashing, I will love you)

Wait, since when does LineageOS include F-Droid? I remember having to download it myself using the built-in browser the last time I tried it.

I think they addressed that point pretty clearly. The author says that just because the user experience of sticking your hand into your kitchen and instantly receiving food is fantastic, doesn’t mean that letting someone you don’t know live in your kitchen and only eating what they decide to make you is a good solution, especially since it means you couldn’t use your kitchen (which I believe is a metaphor for your smartphone) for anything else even if you wanted to. Further, those who believe it’s a good solution because it is free and its user experience is good only believe this because they have never known anything else. The author also explicitly states

So that’s the dialectic here. I want people to not have to know about tech stuff. I’m not into the tech-for-tech’s-sake lifestyle. I want it to be easy to use. You just tell the computer what you want and it happens, no need to point and click, let alone configure and make. That’d be great. And hackers and modders could add features and share them and everyone would benefit.

But it’s got to be free, free for reals. Open source, and either decentralized or democratically governed.

The author, I think, is saying that while user experience is a nice goal to pursue, it means nothing if it isn’t open source, and you can’t go around the carefully-crafted VC-funded fancy-but-restrictive UX if you have the skills to do so. Perhaps it is a reach to say that the author prioritizes open source over good user experience, but I don’t think so, and even from the most pessimistic reading of those two paragraphs the author views them as at least equal.

you quoted but reworded (why?).

I quoted and reworded it because I was on mobile and couldn’t copy paste from your comment without a lot of hassle, and didn’t want to retype everything you had typed word for word. Didn’t mean anything by it.

…so you’re perfectly happy being prevented from eating anything other than what the guy renting your own kitchen out to you cooks, so long as most of the time, he makes something you like eating?

In this metaphor, if he decides to change his recipe and you don’t like the new food, you can’t just ask him to make something else. He owns your kitchen.

???

Tell me you are not arguing in favor of only being able to eat gruel for the rest of your life simply because it is convenient?

Even if you did want that, you’d have a MUCH better time setting up the gruel station yourself, so that you could bypass it if you wanted to.

I… these are all good points, but… did we read the same article?

Article seems to ignore that FOSS projects tend not to have the budget to create the UX that VC-funded projects can. … I find prioritizing UX over sharing of source code to be misguided.

The author specifically calls attention to this exact point:

If a weirdo guy moved into your kitchen and blocked you from grabbing a spoon whenever you wanted and instead rented them out to you provided you only ate the gruel he provided, the people who would be most able to see the absurdity in that would be be the people who remember what it was like before. Those who grew up with that system would be “whaddayamean? This is super convienient. I just stick my hand in the kitchen and a spoonful of gruel is shoved into it. Like it, love it, want more of it”. They’d be like “people who don’t have a spoon guy are so gross and so dumb. What the heck are they even? Doing rifling through their own cutlery drawer like some sorta eggheads”.

Cool, what’s it do that Aseprite doesn’t?

EDIT: Okay, using an entire image as a texture which an image references, allowing you to do pseudo-3D texturing on a 2D pixel sprite is pretty sick, I gotta admit

Ymal Markup Ain’t Language