Games and Proprietary Stuff
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Project: Leaf
About a decade ago I launched my first site responsible for obtaining stats from the then-current Halo game. When Halo Infinite launched Leaf was reborn as another site with a new stack of technology.
Laravel with Livewire and Bulma joined together to build a quick responsive template to take a more clean minimal approach to Halo stat design. I was just getting upset with the other sites in this ecosystem that either had ads everywhere or some heavy interface.
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Best Steam Deck Games Released in the Past Week with SpiritFall, Crab Champions and Super Dungeon Maker – 2023-04-16 Edition
Between 2023-04-09 and 2023-04-16 there were 93 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use many criteria to come up with this Best Steam Games list every single week, such as popularity, ratings across several platforms, and more…
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EU privacy regulators to create task force to investigate ChatGPT
Europe's national privacy regulators said on Thursday that the decision came following discussions about recent enforcement action undertaken by the Italian data protection authority against OpenAI regarding its ChatGPT service.
In a statement posted on its website, the EDPB said the task force was intended to “foster cooperation and to exchange information on possible enforcement actions conducted by data protection authorities.”
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AMD Working Towards ROCm Support On Windows - Support For Consumer-Tier Radeon GPUs [Psydruid: making it work on Windows is more important than improving support on GNU/Linux]
The AMD ROCm library was introduced in 2016 to compete with NVIDIA's CUDA software, with full support for Linux.
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Biggest Linux Company of Them All Still Pushing To Become Cloud Power [Ed: "Cloud" has become almost a dogwhistle for proprietary lock-in, proprietary cages that are difficult to exit]
For Red Hat, which turned 30 on March 27, it was a cause for celebration. From a business that got started in one of its co-founder's wife's sewing room, it became the first billion-dollar pure-play open-source company and then the engine driving IBM. It has been a long strange trip. Sure, today, the tech world is dominated by Linux and open source software, but in 1993, Linux was merely an obscure operating system known only to enthusiasts. Red Hat played a significant role in transforming the "just a hobby" operating system into today's major IT powerhouse. Red Hat co-founder Bob Young, who previously ran a rental typewriter business, was one of those who became intrigued by Linux. In 1993, he established ACC Corporation, a catalog company that distributed Slackware Linux CDs and open-source software.
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Jussi Pakkanen: PDF forms, the standard that seemingly isn't
Having gotten the basic graphical output or A4PDF working I wanted to see if I could make PDF form generation work.
This was of course a terrible idea but sadly I lacked foresight.
After a lot of plumbing code it was time to start defining form widgets. I chose to start simple and create a form with a single togglable check button. This does not seem like an impossibly difficult problem and the official PDF specification even has a nice code sample for this...
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No matter how much I tried I could not make form generation actually work. The output was always broken in weird ways I could not explain. Unfortunately this part of the PDF spec is not very helpful, because it does not give out full examples, only snippets, and search engines are worthless at finding any technical content when using "PDF" as a search term. It may even be that information about this is not available in public web sites. Who knows?