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by themerone 8mo ago
Here's the referenced YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM4CD64xDE
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by themerone 8mo ago
It's been 3 years, I might have people mixed up, but that was the justification at the time.
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by themerone 8mo ago
If you look at the issue tracker, the creator of Webp killed it because of untrue claims there was no interest or advantages over existing formats. Concerns about the implementation only came up after years of pushback forced google ton rec
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by themerone 9mo ago
With that logic, the Django orm should only support one database.
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by themerone 10mo ago
HBO owns Westworld and stopped streaming it to avoid paying residuals.
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by themerone 10mo ago
Gracefully handling hardware faults is a software problem. The Air France Flight 447 crash was the result of bad software and bad hardware.
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by themerone 10mo ago
I'm very surprised that you find this surprising. Do you mostly stay at Airbnb? I expect this at any traditional hotel in the US.
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by themerone 10mo ago
How is this relevant to just Mac users?
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by themerone 11mo ago
That project is a pipe dream. They don't have what it takes to continue X11 alive once X.Org pulls the plug.
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by themerone 11mo ago
Why go through the trouble of exploring such a bug, when you have the ability to just replace the binary with something with a backdoor?
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by themerone 11mo ago
AI Slop.
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by themerone 11mo ago
It would be easier to ask google than post here. It's the first google result for "blocking website scaling" Changing your user agent won't help. No half decent web developer has cared about since the 2000s.
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by themerone 11mo ago
Most Kobo books have DRM. There are a few publishers (TOR) and authors that are DRM free, but most of books I've wanted have it. This is why I have a Boox Android eInk tablet, although I only use it with burner accounts. They run Anc
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by themerone 11mo ago
Did I just wake up from a time loop?
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by themerone 11mo ago
Launching under AGPL was the kiss of death. They eventually went MIT, but the developers it steered away, probably never gave it a second chance
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by themerone 1y ago
Wasm can be sandboxed. Its a safe as visiting a website with javascript.
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by themerone 1y ago
Google blocking jpegxl from Chrome is tragic. AVIF is only better when quality is less important than saving bandwidth. AVIF is also significantly less capable.
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by themerone 1y ago
What's the legitimate use case for a 1U rack with 32 cell modems (Assuming 1 modem for every antenna in the photos)?
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by themerone 1y ago
Wasm is one of the best solutions for running untrusted code. Alternative are more complicated or have limited language choices.
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by themerone 1y ago
It's as complex as it needs to be to losslessly convert old binary office files. A better format would have made us geeks a lot happier, but the average user just wants things to work the way they always have.
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by themerone 1y ago
I've had both and am much happier with Ecobee.
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by themerone 1y ago
MIT & BSD don't include a patent grant, that's a good reason to go with the Apache license.
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by themerone 1y ago
Unfortunately some cultures value quantity over quality and they drove medium into the ground long before LLMs were a thing.
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by themerone 1y ago
I've seen people use IPC to workaround the GPL, but I've also seen the FSF interpretations claiming that is still a derived work. I don't know if this has ever been tested in court.
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by themerone 1y ago
This means nothing without information on the group requesting the exemption.
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by themerone 1y ago
We need to eliminate overtime exceptions.
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by themerone 1y ago
Have is a nice language, but it doesn't live up to it's promises. It's really cool that it can compile itself to a bunch of different languages, but the API isn't consistent enough for complex applications to work with a
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by themerone 1y ago
Direct Rendering Manager doesn't predate the concept of digital rights management, but it might predate the widespread usage of the acronym. From I remember, back int the 90's, "copy protection", was the common term in u
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by themerone 1y ago
What are Doors, it's too common a word to Google.
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by themerone 1y ago
Losssy compression is standard on high end cinema cameras. In most cases the compression ratio will be low enough that the video will be perceptually lossless.

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