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  • A recent Technology Connections video mentioned people are configuring chargers to 48 A when they're using 14-50 "50 A" sockets that are really designed for 40 A continuous current. Or they're using aluminum wiring without corrosion protection, or not abrading the oxide layer.

  • If ever Firefox actually starts to disgust me and not just disappoint me, I'll stop maintaining it and look at forks.

    But it won't be Librewolf, because the default settings are just a cargo-cult of self-contradictory "privacy enhancements" without any sane threat model that make the browsing experience much worse for little gain.

  • My mother would have trouble using a small phone at its default display scale. Large text, small screens and poorly designed UIs do not mix.

  • (Also: be careful, because the pineapple is just as interested in eating you as you are in eating it.)

    Are you talking about the bromelain? It rapidly makes milk and milk products bitter and also irritates the mouth.

  • It's about adding API to Vulkan for access to the hardware encoding units that you're complaining about.

  • Cross-platform, I guess. However, the only platform of commercial interest (and that I know of) that offers Vulkan as the primary, supported API is Android.

  • Only iPads.

  • It does. The Signal app for Android does not support being a secondary device. It must be the primary device with a phone number.

    In addition, whatever Play Store settings they use excluded all of our tablets, even the one that had a SIM. Manually installing the APK worked for this case, but that didn't really solve our problem.

  • Signal is not available for Android tablets, which was a deal breaker when I tried to move my family off Telegram.

  • This is a nonsense comparison as these features serve completely different purposes, while only having in common that advertisers currently use user tracking to achieve the same.

    Topics data-mines your browsing history for information about your interests and reveals this information to advertisers in order to improve ad selection. It's meant to replace ad networks tracking each individual user's visits to connected websites and building that profile themselves. Since this is, in a way, much more powerful than tracking cookies, Chrome has a scary dialog asking for it to be enabled, and I don't think we'll be seeing it in Firefox. "Using different links" cannot replace user profiling at all.

    PPA doesn't provide any new capabilities to advertisers. It's a privacy-preserving way of measuring ad campaign success that is currently done by ad networks tracking individual users from ad impressions to conversions. "Using different links" is also defective, as advertisers need to connect ad impressions to conversions even if they are not immediately connected through a click on the ad.

    If these features become generally available, this reduces the leverage advertisers have on legislators to prevent tracking from being outlawed. Mozilla will be hoping Chrome picks up PPA.

  • It's another feature that intersects with the sidebar work but has to be enabled separately.

  • It was never about money. This feature isn't and was never going to make Mozilla one cent.

    It's about reducing the leverage advertisers have on legislators when it comes to the measurements necessary to operate effective ad campaigns. The hope is that with privacy-preserving methods available, privacy-violating measurement can be more easily outlawed.

    I think we would have arrived at the very same feature.

  • Looks like it's available in the Windows Package Manager Community Repository, so you can update it via winget update LibreWolf.LibreWolf or keep it up to date using the Winget-AutoUpdate tool.

  • It's a reference to Toto's song "Africa", and in the line "I bless the rains down in Africa" the "A" gets extended a lot.

  • They're usually also Biblical literalists, who believe that their infallible God-authored Bible says the Earth is flat ("four corners", covered in a dome, etc), thus the globe is an attack on Christianity. The worldly institutions are all controlled by the devil, who wants Christians to doubt their Bible and their belief in God.

    https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44

  • I would add the 1999 game Warzone 2100 to this list. Much like Earth 2150 you can design your own units and it also has the persistent homebase + mission outposts system. It was open-sourced in 2004 and has received quite a bit of love since then.

  • That doesn't seem to be true. A lot of German publishers do not allow you to proceed without giving consent to cookies and profiling for targeted advertising. They consider this legal because they offer you the alternative of "opting out" by signing up for a paid subscription.

  • That's a tool to help application developers figure out how something looks to color-blind people, so the developers can correct their presentation. It doesn't resolve color ambiguities for color-blind people by itself.

    For example, in the case of the image here, it turns everything into different shades of yellow, with both ends of the color gradient just being "dark yellow". Now it's clearly ambiguous to people with normal vision, as well.