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  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • If it's easy to patch this out, I wonder if there will be manufacturers that will choose to do so for their official ROMs. It would be extra value for the brand, imho. A reason to choose, say, Samsung, over a Pixel phone, if Samsung were to patch this restriction out, for example. After all, they also have the Galaxy Store which is also offering apps that I doubt they'll want Google to regulate.

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • Well.. the restriction is for vegan food not being labeled as burger/sausage, but it does not legally prevent someone from calling something a non-burger or non-sausage and still have meat in it.

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • In Germany I've seen some vegan restaurants replace some letter with "v" for vegan.

    Like "vurst" instead of "wurst" (sausage) or "vleish" instead of "fleish" (meat).

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • I mean.. if they meant "meat" literally as flesh/muscle fiber, then eggs would not meet the definition either.

    However, wouldn't that definition also technically mean that milk can also be categorized as a meat product? Same for honey. Someone also mentioned peanut butter in another comment, is butter considered meat as well since it often comes from milk?

    And what about broth/stock? ..chicken stock is common, does that mean that now it should be considered a meat product and you can no longer have vegetable stock?

  • At 1%

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  • Technically, even an optical port can deliver power. Light is just a particular form of electromagnetic wave that just happens to use another method of transmission (and you might need a different mechanism to transform its energy), but it also has an intensity, potential energy and resistance in the medium of propagation.

  • Cobblestone, somewhere in Brussels

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  • ATP (and any molecule, really) is just a particular configuration of electrical particles that use electromagnetism to hold together some mass.

  • Cobblestone, somewhere in Brussels

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  • Much of the water you and me drink, used to be pee and fecal sludge.

  • Shrimp fried rice

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  • It might have been horse-drawn in the 1890s with color paint, and years later photographed with a modern camera.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • I'd argue that the systemd trend actually is the one that's change-adverse.

    I remember that before systemd there was a lot of innovation when it comes to init systems… the flexibility of the script-based inits made it so most distros had their own spin. And there was more diversity in components that now are part of systemd. I’d argue that ever since systemd became the de-facto standard, innovation in those areas has become niche. Distros are becoming more homogeneous and less open to changes in that sense. Some components are becoming more and more interdependent and it's becoming harder to ship, for example, Gnome, without systemd.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • source: https://analytics.usa.gov/

    This is the result currently (last 7 days):

     
        
 Windows   35.5%
      11   18.5%
      10   16%
       7    0.8%
    2000    0.1%
     8.1  < 0.1%
       8  < 0.1%
 iOS       29.6%
 Android   15.9%
 Macintosh 12.3%
 Linux      5.2%
 Chrome OS  1.4%
 Other    < 0.1%

    If we exclude Android and iOS (which make for 29.6 + 15.9 = 45.5%), then the contribution of each of the others would increase (by 100/45.5 = 2.19), leading to 11.388% (5.2 * 2.19).

  • Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time

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  • Honestly, I'm more interested in reliability and mechanisms to prevent data loss...

    Last I checked, the exFAT implementation that MS released to the public was missing some key features that made the Linux port less reliable, particularly for removable storage devices (making it not much better than old school FAT). Has that been fixed already?

  • Git Commit Message

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  • git commit -m "$(fortune | cowsay)"

  • Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.

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  • Allow blob:// videos to be saved normally. It’s just a file. I’m looking at it. Move it from memory to the hard drive.

    True. Although in many cases this is indicative of a stream (not really a traditional file for the browser), but at the very least, even in the (rare?) cases that there isn't cached content already, it should theoretically be possible to start saving the video the moment you press on the save button...

    Already the "picture-in-picture" mode Firefox offers is a step in the right direction, imho. It allows the browser to take over control of the playback, which is something some places try to forbid.

  • Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.

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  • All you need is the promptbar. No need to waste resources rendering a bloated page. Have the AI summarize the contents in one sentence and then speak it out loud so I don't have to read.

  • Infallible Code

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  • What'd be the result for IsEven(1)?

  • The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

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  • I mean, isn't that what "get on or get left behind" means?

    It does not necessarily mean you'll lose your job. Nor does "get on" mean you have to become a specialist on it.

    The post picks specifically on things that didn't catch on (or that only catched on for a period of time but were eventually superseeded), but does not apply it to other successful technologies.

  • When management forces you to use AI

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  • Real programmers use C-x butterfly

  • .DS_Store

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  • Yes, but you know what I did? nothing, I just have the program exclusively accept lowercase doom.wad

    This means it became annoying for the user. The problem shifted and now it's the end-user the one with the responsibility to read the manual and do the work. A lot of people just get a DOOM.WAD, put it there and are surprised it doesn't work.

    And there are many many programs that are doing the same thing in many similar situations. In fact, in the Linux world, most software pushes this to the end user. So this is just as much of a problem for users as it is for programmers.

    At the end of the day, the question should not be: is it more complexity for the user or for the programmer? ..the question should be: what's the end cause making it complex? is there a way it can be made simpler?

    This is the same for every problem. Often user-friendliness is a tradeoff, most user-friendly software I've used keeps so much complexity within that it becomes annoyingly slow and inefficient. I'd rather use the terminal for file management than wait for the GUI file browser to finish loading my huge remote storage directories.

  • .DS_Store

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  • But then you are not getting rid of the complexity, you are just forcing programs to become more complex/inefficient.

    I experienced this with the doom libretro core, which is meant to be portable and have minimal dependencies... so if I need it to automatically find DOOM.WAD/ doom.wad/Doom.WAD/etc in a directory I would either have to add a globbing library as dependency to handle this case and have it fetch [Dd][Oo][Oo][Mm].[Ww][Aa][Dd], manually check for each possible case, or list the entire directory (I hope you don't have a library of a million wads!) and compare each file (after upper/lower) just to find the one with the right name. And that could be a real pain for embedded devices with low I/O or if there's a remote storage layer behind.