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@heliumbrowser Huge, it's just missing tab trees now

long time no posting, here's some of the stuff we released in helium recently: - customizable keyboard shortcuts on all platforms - automatic updates on windows - frameless mode (previously zen mode), with floating sidebar, is now out of beta and included in settings by default - improved fingerprint noising: fixed the canvas noising algorithm and added protections against analysis attacks (thank you @cyyynthia_ for your report, research, and assistance) - tab URL copying, one or multiple, formatted as a list with line breaks - manual tab hibernation, with an option to hibernate all tabs except for selected/active ones - an option to close tabs to the left (or above, in vertical layout) - redesigned toast notifications, now anchored to the active web page, and no longer blinding in dark mode - toast notification about newly opened background tabs in frameless mode (can be disabled in settings) - redesigned the infobar, it no longer looks out of place - improved QR code generation, now it's actually useful - downloads bubble is now shown instead of the full page whenever applicable - kagi search now supports reverse image search from image context menu - frameless mode animations are now smoother - better color contrast in light and dark modes - a lot of bug fixes and other minor improvements all of these changes are present in the latest version of helium. if you're using helium on windows, please update to the latest version, so your browser can be updated automatically from now on!

@_Be4_ Yup exactly, ik it's very subtle but it's pissing me off so much, the rest is amazing. Keep it up !

@Lokussa this?

𝙈𝙮 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙠𝙩𝙤𝙥...

@ProtonDrive Yeah exactly, move to Linux and stop using Proton Drive as there's no client ig ?

We don't want it

@glunkinator Lifetime licenses are endangered species now, I can't think of any big soft not on monthly/yearly billing. Go open-source, it'll be free forever

Subscription based software

@ShimazuSystems Nobody cares about international conventions sadly nowadays, don't bother

Vibecoding: oh OSM tags are great for targets Not Vibecoding: actually no, maybe don't put business names in the target entry, and we need to read international conventions so we are ensuring only legitimate targets are logged in the database, exclude medical facilities

@ShimazuSystems Lol next step is dumynamic weather ig. Or is it already there ? This is looking like a serious MFS alternative bc you can load your own maps

Flight through the Swiss Alps! So, terrain is mapped from Copernicus data, and everything else from OSM - OpenStreetMap features layer in to a splat map (in this case, 30km x 30km. This is then tiled & cached in to <100mb GPU payloads, and streams, so this is trivial. This contains hundreds of OSM features, and my custom algorithms that cover other things like mapping peaks to snow (etc), and also airports (including navigation lights, accurate red/white PAPI) Buildings are all also polys, and resemble as close as possible to what they should be in real life, mapping provided. You can, by all means, work from a planet file. Only issue remaining is some frame pacing, but I've left that for when I refine the camera (that is the stuttering).

@ShimazuSystems Oh come on is this still an app on your OS or are you building an OS around this app ? Also what is there to shoot

yes, the thumbnail does show volumetric fog, clouds, lighting, & weather Also, working basically everything else, including frontline generation (procedural) guidance on munitions is accurate, along with sensing (no object occlusion yet). 3D terrain, topography, also works now

@ShimazuSystems Is this gpu-accelerated ?

so i ported this engine to just normal Linux so I can release it standalone it looks nice

@ShimazuSystems I love that the colors of the plane are the same as the colors of the OS, great stuff

So, im gunna call it there for building this out (in the OS, anyway) - I shall continue otherwise tomorrow and ship this ISO with the 'in progress' bloat removed. It's a purely software based rasteriser, so in blunt honesty hits a wall here - it works as is now, but adding things like textures is... oh boy. Let's say I burned a good 4-5 hours trying to get it to work, which I did, but it just ran so poorly even when made to be as efficient as possible. If you know these things, when I tell you Cairo rendered this, you will realise how insane this is. Cairo is a vector renderer. Each frame is being drawn by it and composited. I think this is as much as can possibly be got out of this before it consumes the whole system. What I have gained: > 3d renderer that isnt really a 3d renderer, this is key for this working in VMs or over a network > 2d FX and billboard renderer > a missile guidance system (i have ported a sidewinder) > a compute and plotting system that is ridiculously overtooled (like the aforementioned tracking & guidance) > drone navigation, PID and flight control libraries > full soft body vehicle physics > a language that can use everything above its not the final thing, its everything else. And it is all reusable.

@Not_Prasar That's the distro's work, not Linux's; and that's just taste, I personally heavily prefer the terminal to gui. But yes, user-friendly distros should evolve in that direction.

See this is what Linux needs. As much more control through gui as possible. This is awesome

@ShimazuSystems Why are you so invested is this type of sidequest ? Tbh that's crazy and I'm def here for it, but i wonder where you find the motivation

So, my mapping software has some more stuff Full physics engine, aerodynamic lift simulation, drag, stalling etc Cars, with gearing, RPM, differentials (abs, assists) and traction control Walking

@ShimazuSystems Should just install this on my car already

I am incredibly good at what I do.

@ShimazuSystems Where do you find those files ? Quick search only give out .xml or .PBF but maybe I'm dumb

@Lokussa it can be done from osm planet files, its far easier and I binned my proprietary format so that getting maps in was as simple as downloading them, it supports OSM, & osm gz (compressed)

Every. Single. Building. I did not cut corners here.

@ShimazuSystems Which architectures are supported rn ?

Important note: Use VirtualBox or VMWare Do not use qemu, I personally do not use it so can't provide support/feedback on how to set it up - I have always used one of (or both of) the above. The three supported methods to test or use this are VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation, or actual live hardware - if it subsequently fails on either of those 3 things, I can reasonably give you feedback and work out a fix!

@ShimazuSystems I'll check it out soon, great stuff

If I post a link, it will throttle it So, i ask you to blindly trust this QR code, extract the zip file you cant scan and then load the iso file onto a USB or CD and live boot your pc with it It's extremely dev-y, and very much not release spec, but enjoy! bugs I know below 👇

@ShimazuSystems Srry if i sounded harsh or condescending, wasn't my goal; Im genuienly trying to provide constructive criticism. And Ik chaining replies is annoying but dont have much choice...

@ShimazuSystems and publishing things other accounts can relay would help a lot. Your take is prolly better than mine, I never post on here but the way I mainly discover "niche" projects is through reposts, quotes etc of far bigger accounts.

who wants the test iso