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Utterly breathless, in the "OMG these loss prevention people are amazing!" sort of way. Awful to read, truly awful. No discussion of privacy, of whether this kind of stuff is overl…

The original SWF file can be played by Ruffle ( https://ruffle.rs/ ). Depending on your criteria for preservation a simple web page may be sufficient.

It's an ad.

KDE does that by default. Handy sometimes, funny sometimes.

Most of this writeup is not about Markdown, per se. It's about interoperability issues with extensions to the base syntax that are not implemented consistently in all renderers. Th…

"The vast majority of the screen is upscaled." I have bad news for you, friend. You just described AAA gaming on anything less than a 5090 (and not even then, at all times). Withou…

RCS can be hit or miss on GrapheneOS, but they have made significant progress recently. It requires using Google Messages rather than any other messaging app, and may require enabl…

A valid choice, a moral choice, is none of the above.

The odd looking circular example shown is not solar PV. It is the Ivanpah solar thermal generating station, and those are mirrors rather than solar panels, or modules. https://en.w…

I was curious since this is a different link than the main SilverBullet site (silverbullet.md). Looks like it's built by the same developer, but as a closed-source wrapping of the …

It was a good compromise, including for Amazon. DRM is immoral when you're "selling" books, because that means I don't own the actual book. I still bought plenty of them when I cou…

Of course Collabora is also upset because LibreOffice resurrected their LibreOffice Online project ( https://www.neowin.net/news/collabora-clashes-with-libreoffi... ). These projec…

Am I missing something? This piece starts out with a discussion of how weather is hard to predict and highly variable (true, though our powers of forecasting are far better than th…

This is vague lip service with little substance, as far as I can tell. That is unsurprising consider it's from Microsoft and it's about Windows. It addresses (in cheap words) a few…

I mean there kind of is: https://lrclib.net/

I'm using it on my gaming laptop because it's the only distro I tried that handled the hybrid NVIDIA/AMD graphics out of the box without user configuration beyond occasionally expl…

Presumably this is a joke, based on the "Success Reports" and the footer, among other things. "This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for a…

There are already minutes of unskippable ads when watching YouTube on a device like an Apple TV. And they come fast and furious, as bad as or worse than network TV. And the best pa…

What's to stop an LLM from using this? Nothing, obviously. A "MUST NOT" in an RFC won't stop an LLM. They don't care about copyright why would they care about RFCs. The instruction…

For basic 6-digit codes sure. But MS authenticator uses push notice based approvals for many corporate SSO accounts including mine.

Airlines can permanently ban passengers at their discretion. The specifics of behaviors they may consider disruptive aren't that important particularly when they are reasonable (no…

There isn't much here beyond speculation. No technical analysis, certainly. GrapheneOS is neither rooted nor jailbroken in any technical sense, and Authenticator certainly works to…

"Those who want the latest features will continue to buy pixels" My friend the GrapheneOS supported devices list is nothing but pixels, including the very latest models. It'll be g…

If you want to be pedantic, the companies who track us across the internet with all of these third party tracking cookies on every website are the enemy here, not informed disclosu…

This rant has nothing of value in it. Don't waste your time reading it. It tries to claim the only smartwatch that's any good is the Apple Watch. When the author tries to address t…