Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Which, of course, is lucky for me, as I wouldn't class myself as a code wizard - I know many far more clever devs.

I've come to realise that #FOSS projects don't need to be run by brilliant code wizards. Great FOSS can be written by workaday developers - if what they write works and fills a need others have. And, FOSS highlights that there're many valuable skills beyond technical wizardry. Community management, maintaining ancillary systems (e.g. community collab tools, code control, issue tracking, etc.), thoughtful communication, detail focus, and expectation setting are all at least as important.

Ok - looks like that hasn't fixed it... so reverting the setting.

Ok, some more searching has turned up this: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/nr2806/help_ff89_not_rendering_properly/ - I've set gfx.webrender.force-disabled to 'true'... will see if that has any effect.

I'm wondering if it's some obscure setting I changed in FF ages ago for some unrelated issue (e.g. to try to get hardware acceleration) that's now got this as a side-effect. I've been through the config settings, but nothing obvious...

I'm not seeing reports from other of the problem. Also, the issue is fixed (temporarily) with a FF restart - it gets worse over time, and starts to show up sometimes within minutes of the restart.

Quick question: is anyone else out there with a Radeon 5500 XT graphics card seeing font rendering corruption (e.g. missing and corrupted characters) *only affecting Firefox versions from 85ish-90* and no other apps? I'm trying to figure out what's happening. Fwiw, I'm running Linux Mint 20.2 and a 5.12.x kernel (due to the amdgpu support).

Wow, that's somewhat weird but cool. Just finished edits on a peer reviewed paper (that's been accepted for publication with these edits) I co-authored for a journal in a field in which I have no formal training...

I'm not a fan of the platform - the *only* thing they have going for them is the Network Effect... Aand despite being one of the richest (most exploitative and generally risible) corporations in history, their software is still pretty unusable.

Wow, I gotta say Facebook's comment threading is incredibly poorly implemented. It's impossible to see who's said what if you get a notification of a reply to a comment - you have to do a serial search through every nested conversation despite some of one's own comments being preferentially shown (ostensibly to compel one's friends to join the convo).