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You can embed fonts into an HTML page. For example, place an @font-face with the src:url being a base64-encoded blob, in a style element.

I think part of the point of OP is that if your main concern is DRM (being able to actually own your books) and you also care to a non-zero extent about the author getting paid for…

Sublime Text? (It's extendable in Python, but isn't FOSS, which might be a deal-breaker.)

I'm not quite sure what your exact specifications are, but I think that Celestia[0] fits? [0] https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia

> "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE." I know that current LLMs are almost certainly non-conscious and I'm not trying to assign to you any moral faili…

Interesting slides! Thanks! `pip download --no-deps` allowing arbitrary code-execution is non-obvious, and IMO broken.

Such a disc-renting business would be a competitor to Netflix, both directly (especially in the hands of somebody who tried to focus on it, rather than reluctantly maintaining it, …

What the OP meant is that there are (multiple!) open source C compilers, which you agree is the case. Questions about the standard/specification are a different matter: 1. Whether …

That's a very interesting comparison (thanks!), but I'm not sure if it's the correct framing. Making scraping technically difficult would be equivalent to trying to score a goal (s…

> with keys that are in memory on the same system I'm not sure that actually holds — the encryption keys are in memory, but the decryption keys don't necessarily have to be. The pr…

> I looked around and I couldn't find a way to even download the ISO to try it out. FWIW I had found it intuitive (several seconds of thought) to click on the "Read the announcemen…

I think the point here is about the procurement of the training data, in violation of copyright laws ("piracy"), rather than that the training itself is piracy. The suspicion[0] is…

> 3rd parties come in to capture that wasted value. The value isn't wasted — it's consumer surplus.

AFAIR "no". Humans interact with both the AIs and the "dogs", and both groups of humans end up in contact with each other, but unless I'm missing something, the "dogs" don't direct…

> There were operating systems which took the approach XPCOM has to extensibility, they're not doing so great The Emacs OS is still doing well! :) > "Mozilla did kill XPCOM" isn't …

I also was and still am disappointed about both changes, but I don't think you're being at all fair to Mozilla. In both transitions, Mozilla made sure to support the needs of both …

> Is there an alternative store the author recommends? They mention "Google Books, or Libro.fm, or Downpour" or having your own storefront, but it's mainly a problem statement. > A…

The counter-argument is that nothing prevents governments coordinating on this in a supranational manner, anyway (cf. the planned, but fortunately rejected ACTA). In the EU enforce…

Yes, the scope is not "35k existing GitHub repos are infected", since AFAICT all the infected repos are forks, so the title is misleading. However: 1. The scale is pretty worrying.…

> Note that the Higgs Boson has no part in the mass (and presumably gravitational interaction) of elementary fermions like quarks or electrons This is incorrect — the coupling with…

> Just imagine Ukraine allowing people in Donetsk and Lugansk to actually decide their status themselves, instead of using an army to force them into Ukraine. Apologies to everybod…

You'll be happy to know that Thunderbird is for better or worse now mostly independent Mozilla's leadership.

I assume that you're objecting to the use of the word "right" as opposed to, say, "privilege"? The EU itself phrases freedom of movement as a "right"[0]. Arguably, every human shou…