I worry that using mouse pointer analysis as part of CAPTCHA might pose issues to those using assistive technologies. I completely understand the desire to block intrusive scrapers, but worry about it costing accessibility.
Genuinely, the wiki, and the AUR are the two killer features that keep me on Arch (not that I have any reasons to change). Arch is an incredibly polished distro, and is a real pleasure to use.
Interesting, I always heard that x11 was not getting dropped until Plasma 7. While I am now fully on wayland myself, still not sure how to feel about this, feels a bit soon.
I’ve been using Lit to develop my Minecraft skin editor and it has been really nice to work with. Having initially tried working with vanilla web components, then creating my own wrapper class to make them easier to work with, I can say that Lit makes web components really nice to work with.
In my experience, with KDE Plasma, Nvidia is quite awful. Animations are laggy, and the desktop slows down when a new window opens. As well, there are a bunch of small issues I’ve only seen when using Nvidia.
The websites are welcome
to expect payment if they so desire. They chose to host the content for free, and we get to choose which of that content we consume, and which of it we block. They have as much of a right to advertise as we have to block advertisements.
I have spent the last year or so restoring a Minecraft skin editor site, that had gone offline for good. I had used that site for years to make my own skins as a child, and while I hadn’t used it in a couple years, I still had friends that relied on it to make their own skins, and were greatly disappointed losing the site.
Starting from a wayback machine archive, I hacked some much needed improvements in to the minimised jquery-based, javascript (a right pain but an excellent learning experience). I implemented a Rails backend for the gallery, and have since been slowly improving it, replacing assets, and growing a community around it.
We recently hit 10k skins on the site!
I am working on rewriting the actual editor from scratch, and releasing the code as open source once all original assets/code have been swapped out.
If anyone wants to check it out:
https://needcoolershoes.com/
(The editor doesnt work on mobile, but the gallery does)