Screaming at my single-threaded, synchronous web scraper “Why are you so slow, I have a 4090!”

Why would an RTX 4090 make Python faster?

.ml is running the beta branch that actually started to apply image size limits to thumbnails, your app is probably using the thumbnail URL instead of the main URL and thus getting the compressed image.

This has been fixed https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4937

What do you mean by handwriting features? I’ve played around with Write a bit and it has some cool features (I really like the ability to make a series of stokes a link) but I wouldn’t call them handwriting features.

handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications

To be fair, we have it quite good in this regard between Xournalpp and Rnote. Certainly areas where we only have worse options.

Which would also be a weird claim given the state of Linux YouTube.

But we already have a carpet museum.

Lollypop, it’s a bit dated in terms of design for a GNOME app but it has all the features you could want. Can’t comment on playlists though, I have never used playlists and honestly don’t get the point of them.

Zoxide, lets you quickly jump to places in your filesystem. E.g. z pic will put you in ~/Pictures.

Lemmy’s upvotes are same thing as likes, and downvotes are dislikes. This is kinda hard to tell because Mastodon doesn’t federate likes, so Lemmy posts will always show up as having no favourites.

No, the devs have explicitly stated they don’t want to add following users to Lemmy.

Damn, what are the odds?

Chrome, and browsers based on it, currently account for more than three quarters of web traffic. This gives Google a huge amount of power over the web and how people are able to interact with it. Google is also a company who’s primary business is advertising and surveillance; this means they have every incentive to curtail your ability to stop websites from spying on you and force you to use the web on their terms. They’re currently exercising this power with the rollout of Manifest V3, where they’re severely limiting the functionality of content blocking extensions like uBlock Origin.

Checking if the user is using Firefox is pretty easy:

CSS.supports('(-moz-user-input: none)') // only returns true in FF

GTK currently has a CSS extension that lets you define named colours with @define-color.

Why wouldn’t you use Afghanistan, the county America actually occupied for 20 years, here?

Interesting project, I hope it takes off. Definitely a problem I’ve run into.

website may be grammatically incorrect

I only noticed three small mistakes.

Communities in Lemmy are only federated if a user is subscribes to them from external instance.

This should be ‘subscribed’ and ‘an external instance’.

I think mods (including me) wouldn’t to put effort into a new community

Should be ‘wouldn’t want to’.

What’s the flag south of the Confederate one? I can’t find it on here.

Edit: Never mind, it’s Rhodesia

I’m from the UK and I was definitely taught to use the genderless he in formal writing, I remember my teacher commenting on how sexist it was.

Also, no idea where you got the idea that the singular they is only a hundred years old, Oxford puts the earliest use of it to the fifteenth century.