Chewy @ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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I've never seen any reason to believe Google has any say in the direction of Firefox. Google pays to be the default search engine, not more, not less.

This same argument could be brought up about Safari. All other browsers are based on Chromium anyway, so they are directly developed by Google themselves.

I got the first part about Chrome as a joke, but after I read the edit I wasn't sure anymore.

But seriously, Firefox kind of sucks.

Why do you think that? I'm happy with Firefox. It let's me customize the tabs bar through userConfig.css to exclusively use tree style tabs and supports uBlock. That's all I really need from a browser, but, sadly, all other browser only support basic vertical tabs.

A lot of edge lovers here

I guess many here don't particularly like Chrome, just like they don't like Edge.

I.e. using a browser that spies on you to download another browser that spies on you doesn't seem like a great deal to me.

Both being based on Chromium there isn't even any performance difference between them. Insert "they are the same picture"-meme.

For me it's fine. These voices have gotten really good, so it's no longer a pain to listen to them. In this case the script is pretty concise for the most part, which makes the video a good overview over the project.

To me the bigger problem is that it makes it more difficult to spot generated content.

Transcoding and transcoded downloads does not seem to be merged yet, altough there's a working PR.

https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid/pull/791

The Lemmy equivalent to a Reddit subreddit is a community.

Great to see another map with satellite images, besides Google Maps and Microsofts Bing Maps.

Now they just have to stop blocking Linux based on the user agent. If I set it to Firefox on Windows, it works, but not if set UA to Linux. A major feature of browsers is that web devs don't have to care about the underlying OS...

I've been using COSMIC Epoch pre-alpha for the past two months, and it definitly is on a good path. There's still many bugs, but COSMIC has gotten much better, and more featureful (e.g. I'm finally able to use my keyboard layout of choice and rebind all keys accordingly). The only major missing feature is VRR/adaptive sync, because I really don't like playing CS2 with vsync.

Sadly they switched from dynamic tiling (river, awesome) to manual tiling (sway/i3-style), but together with the window-movement-animations it's awesome. Finally there's a desktop with a compositor made with tiling in mind, and not as an afterthought.

Also I find it great how many distros already have COSMIC packages in their community repos.

Well, it seems my reading skill deteriorated to a surprising extent. You've even mentioned handbrake in your post...

Building MakeMKV seems to require a binary, which is unfree. I assume this is the reason it's not in official distribution repos (except Nix and FreeBSD).

It's in the AUR and Nixpkgs, both automate building it from "source" (+binary). MakeMKV is in FreeBSDs official repos, according to pkgs.org.

Almost all oft their breaking changes over the last few months were about their docker-compose setup and the simplification of the same. They've startend out with multiple purpose-specific (micro) containers, which turned out as a Bad design decision. These changes require manual intervention but seem to be mostly finished, so I don't expect these to be many breaking changes in the forsseeable future.

The better you plan ahead, the fewer breaking changes you have to impose on your users.

I agree. From what I've read, they now have (published) plans for what's ahead.

Yeah that's right. Having to post sources rules out usage of LLMs for the most part, since most of them do a terrible job at providing them - even if the information is correct for once.

I noticed those language models don't work well for articles with dense information and complex sentence structure. Sometimes they forget the most important point.

They are useful as a TLDR but shouldn't be taken as fact, at least not yet and for the foreseeable future.

A bit off topic, but I've read a comment in another community where someone asked chatgpt something and confidently posted the answer. Problem: the answer is wrong. That's why it's so important to mark AI LLM generated texts (which the TLDR bots do).

Yes, they're using several abbreviations, without explaining them properly, which isn't ideal. It's likely to keep the article short, which comes at the expense of people unfamiliar with the topic)l/organizations.

Another news site I regularly visit has a small information button besides abbreviations with a popup to explain a term, which also links to Wikipedia. This makes understanding articles about unfamiliar topics way easier.

Is it because oft the author using multiple clauses and multiple layers of context in the first two paragraphs?

If yes, then I understand why. I find myself making the same mistake quite often because my first language is German, which often uses clauses (at least it's more common than in english).

Iirc the droidcam module gives the virtual cam a proper name to be displayed in an app (e.g. browser, ...).

desec.io can be used with any domain registrar and has an API with support for various ddns clients (ddclient, lego).

deSEC is a free DNS hosting service, designed with security in mind.

Running on open-source software and supported by SSE, deSEC is free for everyone to use.

Edit: To clarify, desec.io does not sell/rent domains. Desec has to be set as the authoritative nameserver on the registrar, then desec can manage domain records instead of the registrar (which usually also provides their own domain hosting for "free" by default).

I wonder whether they'll only release an OLED Switch, or if they'll sell the LED Switch first again.

As an enthusiast I'd be pretty pissed knowing to either wait a few years for the OLED or having to buy a second switch at some point. Reason being I can't imagine going back to an LED after gaming on an OLED for years. My phone constantly shows me what my Steam Deck is missing.

According to Netflix documentation, they only support 720p on Linux, regardless of the browser.

Chrome officially supports 1080p on Windows and macOS, while 4k is only available through Edge on Windows and Safari on macOS.

In the past I've used a Firefox plugin to enable 1080p playback on Linux, but the bitrate was lower than the 1080p bitrate on Windows (with Edge, iirc).

https://help.netflix.com/de/node/30081

Edit: Luckily Jellyfin does not have such annoying restrictions.

No DRM for desktop Linux supports 4k Netflix. IIRC Netflix doesn't even support 4k on Windows for anything except Edge, at least that was the case for many years.