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  • Just something I made

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  • Where does Dillo fit into this?

    Its got cookies disabled by default, no support for JavaScript, and only partial support for CSS. Just as god intended.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • When you pick up an apple, do you consent to the pesticides used on them?

    THAT'S the example you choose?

    There are no informed here, only pitchfork wielders.

    Absolutely stunning. You actually unironically do not understand what consent is. You need to take an ethics class.

    I'll give you the really basic version:

    #1: People are allowed to say no to you for any reason or no reason at all. It doesn't matter if you think their reasons are invalid or misinformed. No means no.

    #2: A lack of a "no" does not mean "yes". If a person cannot say "no" to what you are doing because they have no idea you're doing it in the first place then that, in some ways, is even worse than disregarding a "no". At least in that case they know something has been done to them.

    That, by the way, is what the "informed" in "informed consent" means. It doesn't mean "a person needs to know what they're talking about in order for their 'no' to be valid", like you seem to think it means.

    Doctors used to routinely retain tissue samples for experimentation without informing their patients they were doing this. The reasoning went that this didn't harm the patient at all, the origin of the tissue was anonymized, the patient wouldn't understand why tissue samples were needed anyway, and it might save lives. That's a much better justification than trying to develop a web browser, and yet today that practice is widely considered to be deplorable, almost akin to rape.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • The concept of informed consent continues to evade tech bros. It makes me wonder how many other areas of your life you apply this line of reasoning to.

  • In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook

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  • If someone were to visit Vermont is there anywhere you'd recommend they go?

  • In Vermont, an ultralocal social network is as popular as Facebook

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  • Out of curiosity, how does it work and what do you like about it?

  • YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer

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  • The way coil stoves cycle their power on and off is incredibly dumb IMO.

    Induction cooktops don't do that, but it blows my mind that it took as long as it did to get a duty cycle frequency somewhere above 'once every 30 seconds'.

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  • Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable)

    So in other words we sell your data and get paid for it, and some countries won't let us lie about it.

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  • Mozilla is a nonprofit (or it at least it should be, technically it's a for profit corporation that's wholly owned by a nonprofit foundation, shady asf).

    They shouldn't be trying to make a profit, they should make enough money to pay their programmers to maintain the browser.

    They should not be dumping money into more executive hires and AI bullshit like they are doing.

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  • There's never enough money to maintain the browser but there's always enough to dump more into executives pockets.

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    Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

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  • Not lying makes zero sense to you?

  • The Algorithm

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  • Apparently that's quasi polynomial time, which grows faster than polynomial time but not quite as fast as exponential time.

  • Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy

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  • You're strawmaning your opponent so hard that you're the one that's coming off as dumb.

    Its kinda like someone saying "maybe if they didn't all have garages we could fit more houses in the same space" and you just keep replying "WHAT!?! You want me to park my car in my living room!?!?" over and over again.

  • ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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    1. You can host a webserver on a Raspberry Pi. I don't know what you're doing with your setup but you absolutely do not need hundreds of watts to serve a few hundred KB worth of static webpage or PDF file. This website is powered by a 30 watt solar panel attached to a car battery on some guy's apartment balcony. As of writing its at 71% charge.
    2. An Ampere Altra Max CPU has 128 ARM cores (the same architecture that a raspberry pi uses), with a 250 watt max TDP. That works out to about 2 watts per core. Each of those cores is more than enough to serve a little static webpage on its own, but in reality since a lot of these sites get less than 200 hits per day the power cost can be amortized over thousands of them, and the individual cores can go to sleep if there's still not enough work to do. Go ahead and multiply that number by 4 for failover if you want, its still not a lot. (Not that the restaurant knows or cares about any of this, all this would be decided by a team of people at a massive IT company that the restaurant bought webpage hosting from).

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    PewDiePie has switched to Linux

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  • Xenon

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  • Don't listen to the people who say it works by displacing oxygen. It would never be used as a general anesthetic if that was the mechanism of action.

    Xenon has been used as a general anesthetic, but it is more expensive than conventional anesthetics.

    Xenon is a high-affinity glycine-site NMDA receptor antagonist.[155] However, xenon is different from certain other NMDA receptor antagonists in that it is not neurotoxic and it inhibits the neurotoxicity of ketamine and nitrous oxide (N2O), while actually producing neuroprotective effects.[156][157] Unlike ketamine and nitrous oxide, xenon does not stimulate a dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens.[158]

    Xenon has a minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of 72% at age 40, making it 44% more potent than N2O as an anesthetic.[164] Thus, it can be used with oxygen in concentrations that have a lower risk of hypoxia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon

  • What y'all talking about?

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  • In theory having a database of configuration settings isn't a horrible idea.

    But the execution was terrible.

  • This time it's really going to happen, I just know it!

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  • Honestly your situation is kind of a worst case scenario.

    At this point Linux works really well if all you want to do is browse the web and play (single player) games.

    It also works pretty well if you're an expert who understands the system in and out and can comfortably edit any config file on their drive to achieve what they want.

    But if you're a Windows power user whose used to being able to set up all kinds of niche functionality its a rough experience when all of your knowledge is now suddenly useless and there's a different set of things that are easy or hard to do.

    Its actually kind of a similar experience going the other way. For example there are some things that Linux users are used to being able to script that can't really be accomplished on Windows except via autohotkey, which from a Linux user's perspective just seems incredibly dumb.

  • It broke again

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  • I haven't had any problems on Linux Mint with a 3060 Ti aside from some artifacting when I try to do screen recordings (unless I disable flipping).

    EDIT: I've had that GPU for about 2 years. I had a 1050 Ti for about 4 years before that.

    Actually now that I think about it an update did break my graphics at one point, but that might've been partially my fault. I just reverted and reinstalled the same update right after though, and that worked just fine, so it wasn't a huge deal.

    Overall I would say its been more than 10 years since I've had an actual major graphics issue (having to open xorg.conf).

  • Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer

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  • So, keep in mind that single photon sensors have been around for awhile, in the form of avalanche photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes. And avalanche photodiodes are pretty commonly used in LiDAR systems already.

    The ones talked about in the article I linked collect about 50 points per square meter at a horizontal resolution of about 23 cm. Obviously that's way worse than what's presented in the phys.org article, but that's also measuring from 3km away while covering an area of 700 square km per hour (because these systems are used for wide area terrain scanning from airplanes). With the way LiDAR works the system in the phys.org article could be scanning with a very narrow beam to get way more datapoints per square meter.

    Now, this doesn't mean that the system is useless crap or whatever. It could be that the superconducting nanowire sensor they're using lets them measure the arrival time much more precisely than normal LiDAR systems, which would give them much better depth resolution. Or it could be that the sensor has much less noise (false photon detections) than the commonly used avalanche diodes. I didn't read the actual paper, and honestly I don't know enough about LiDAR and photon detectors to really be able to compare those stats.

    But I do know enough to say that the range and single-photon capability of this system aren't really the special parts of it, if it's special at all.