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  • Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong?

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  • A BR disc contains much more than just video data. The BR player device contains user-hostile functionality.

    For example, firmware updates for various parts of DRM, like HDCP key revocation lists, are distributed with commercial BR discs.

    Your playback setup could become permanently broken because you inserted the wrong movie and now your player refuses to send a video signal to your TV, or it suddenly stops accepting discs it did before.

  • Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades

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  • It's just the time the manufacturer is willing (or forced) to be held liable for certain defects to be caused by manufacturing errors instead of expected wear and material degradation.

    Unless something is mission- or safety-critical, replacing it before it breaks is wasteful.

  • New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program

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  • It appears the main driver for the replacements are frequent gas service outages. Presumably they didn't want to just replace that with an equivalent vulnerability to blackouts.

    Also, a battery can add to the power of a standard outlet, so these stoves can have some serious output even without a 240V connection.

  • Firefox tab groups just got an upgrade, thanks to your feedback | The Mozilla Blog

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  • You greatly overestimate the capabilities of Firefox's average user.

  • Google Search Is Dying

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  • Would be just as vulnerable to automated SEO unless there's a significant barrier to being able to label and vote, such as invitation-only groups.

    And don't we have this already, almost? Filter Mastodon hashtags for links or add UI for hashtags to Lemmy. Or use full text search.

  • Firefox tab groups just got an upgrade, thanks to your feedback | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Some websites that present cookie banners or other modal dialogs like to piggy-back starting an audible video to the click that dismisses the dialog. Most videos get ad-blocked anyway, so this rarely bothers me, but last week one news article with accompanying (non-ad) video hit me with sudden audio.

  • "Likör ohne Ei" angeklagt - und gewinnt: Skurriler Streit vor Gericht findet ein Ende

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  • alle vergleichbaren Lebensmittel

    Sind halt nicht alle, und das Zeug sieht auch cremig aus, wie Eierlikör.

  • Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

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  • How did they do that?

  • Putin flight to Alaska according to flat Earth map

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  • Actually, the map the flat earthers seem to use the most is the polar azimuthal equidistant projection (as in the UN logo). Trips not involving the southern hemisphere get distorted much less.

  • What do you think about the new menu of Firefox Android?

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  • Nightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.

  • AnarchyChess @sopuli.xyz
    heftig @beehaw.org

    Balatro Meets Chess (Passant: A Chess Roguelike)

  • How to undo Firefox changes to the titlebar controls buttons?

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  • I guess this is really a bug in KDE/Plasma's themes, then? The window controls in the GTK3 theme should have the same look as the window controls in the icon theme.

  • Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux

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  • They now use a zygote process like Chrome does. When a new process is needed, the zygote just forks.

    In the old version, the main process used a classic UNIX fork+exec of the browser executable instead, which could start an incompatible process if the executable has been replaced.

    With the zygote process, all code and data files are preopened, so replacing or deleting them does not affect the running Firefox.

    As another effect, skipping the exec makes process creation faster..

  • Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs

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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.

  • Why LibreWolf isn't in the official Arch repositories?

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  • 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.

  • Why can't we go back to small phones?

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  • 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.

  • Why are pineapples hard to eat?

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  • (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.

  • Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux

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

  • Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux

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  • 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.

  • Heidelberger Umfrage: Jeder zweite Deutsche will kein Glasfaser

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  • Es ist echt grausig, insbesondere für all die kleineren Websites, die CloudFlare's Free Plan nutzen und nur für die DTAG über EWR (New York) geleitet werden.

  • Deutsche zahlen nach wie vor häufiger bar als viele Nachbarn

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  • EIne einzige bargeldlose Transaktion zusammen mit der Payback-Karte sollte reichen, um deine Bezahlkarte für immer mit deinem Payback-Profil zu verknüpfen.