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The Prompt API [0] works in Edge, though it uses the Phi-4-mini model instead of Gemini Nano. [1] Currently it doesn't work in Brave (at least on my machine), and I can't find anyt…

The Java language specification is open and there are multiple implementations. OpenJDK is the official open-source reference implementation, and many of the alternative implementa…

exFAT is widely used but it not being journaled has led to so many thousands (if not more) people losing tons of data, many of which wouldn't have lost so much data had they used a…

I agree with you. To be fair though, the concept likely seemed more reasonable in 1999. Hardware, browsers, and websites (and their front- and back-end services) were all less comp…

I agree with you: they'd rather not. If Google's Android became closed source to the public, but Google gave Samsung and other OEMs the right to modify it (including a hard fork la…

Right, but if Google's Android becomes closed source and a well-funded FOSS fork becomes available, that changes the situation. If Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, HONOR, OPPO, etc. all …

Some fair points. Courts have ruled Congress can make laws concerning foreign residents that would be unconstitutional if applied to domestic residents and citizens. They generally…

> First Amendment protections are only available for U.S. citizens and to a lesser extent to permanent residents Nowhere in the First Amendment, or anywhere in the Bill of Rights (…

Having a browser written entirely (or mostly) in a memory safe language. LadyBird is now using some Swift, but most of the code is still C++. The browser, while extremely impressiv…

Gas car ≠ EV charged by fossil fuels. As of 2018, 94% of the US population lived in an area where charging an EV would emit less than a >50mpg car. In terms of electricity grid reg…

It may have been at one point, but since then it has been decompiled and ported to many platforms: - PS Vita - Emscripten - Nintendo Switch - webOS TV - Android (WIP) - Nintendo Wi…

There is no comparable alternative to the Internet Archive though. They've gotten involved in several lawsuits and their future is far from guaranteed. They're an incredibly import…

Right, archive.org is very useful if you have a URL, but if you're searching for a question that was answered in a forum, and that forum post no longer exists and no longer shows u…

Sure, but you can't search for the forum pages on archive.org as far as I'm aware (or at least as easily as searching on Autodesk's website or Google/Bing/etc.) For the time being,…

BBC reports "The South Korean military says it will maintain martial law until it is lifted by President Yoon Suk Yeol, despite the nation's parliament voting to block its enforcem…

Subsidies for oil, coal and natural gas currently cost us about 7.1% of global GDP. [1] I imagine if we were willing to spend 2 to 5% of global GDP on fighting climate change, we'd…

What you're saying is correct, but I can't think of many scenarios where it's relevant to human actions in the present, with the exception of freight ships' sulfur emissions. [1] F…

Right, fossil fuels cause around 8 million deaths a year from air pollution [1], so regardless of climate change it'd be worth making a dent in those numbers. And no, air pollution…

Unfortunately not. Looks like you can set the time (or choose sunrise or sunset), and then you can set it to repeat daily, weekly, or monthly. No option based on inactivity. Howeve…

"The following OEMs equip some of their laptop series with SD card readers manufactured by Realtek: - Dell - HP - Lenovo - MSI The list may be incomplete. Basically, if your laptop…

What do you foresee not working in the future? If future versions of Proton break compatibility with older Windows apps, you can use different old versions of Proton for individual…

We don't have to imagine what Linux gaming would be like without Proton. - CD Projekt Red: released Witcher 2 on Linux, didn't for Witcher 3. - iD Software: released Doom 3 on Linu…

I'm not sure, outside of my expertise, but I think it might not help. The attack takes place after boot, so maybe at best UEFI secureboot could prevent persistence of the malware, …