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Comment #46746751
Here's the referenced YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQM4CD64xDE
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Comment #46605416
It's been 3 years, I might have people mixed up, but that was the justification at the time.
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Comment #46601829
If you look at the issue tracker, the creator of Webp killed it because of untrue claims there was no interest or advantages over existing formats. Concerns about the implementatio…
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Comment #46214414
With that logic, the Django orm should only support one database.
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Comment #46163895
HBO owns Westworld and stopped streaming it to avoid paying residuals.
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Comment #46085032
Gracefully handling hardware faults is a software problem. The Air France Flight 447 crash was the result of bad software and bad hardware.
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Comment #46065753
I'm very surprised that you find this surprising. Do you mostly stay at Airbnb? I expect this at any traditional hotel in the US.
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Comment #46047606
How is this relevant to just Mac users?
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Comment #45795328
That project is a pipe dream. They don't have what it takes to continue X11 alive once X.Org pulls the plug.
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Comment #45729053
Why go through the trouble of exploring such a bug, when you have the ability to just replace the binary with something with a backdoor?
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Comment #45667961
AI Slop.
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Comment #45624915
It would be easier to ask google than post here. It's the first google result for "blocking website scaling" Changing your user agent won't help. No half decent web developer has c…
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Comment #45611658
Most Kobo books have DRM. There are a few publishers (TOR) and authors that are DRM free, but most of books I've wanted have it. This is why I have a Boox Android eInk tablet, alth…
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Comment #45595335
Did I just wake up from a time loop?
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Comment #45555270
Launching under AGPL was the kiss of death. They eventually went MIT, but the developers it steered away, probably never gave it a second chance
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Comment #45499333
Wasm can be sandboxed. Its a safe as visiting a website with javascript.
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Comment #45393255
Google blocking jpegxl from Chrome is tragic. AVIF is only better when quality is less important than saving bandwidth. AVIF is also significantly less capable.
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Comment #45356011
What's the legitimate use case for a 1U rack with 32 cell modems (Assuming 1 modem for every antenna in the photos)?
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Comment #45280515
Wasm is one of the best solutions for running untrusted code. Alternative are more complicated or have limited language choices.
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Comment #45176209
It's as complex as it needs to be to losslessly convert old binary office files. A better format would have made us geeks a lot happier, but the average user just wants things to w…
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Comment #45144143
I've had both and am much happier with Ecobee.
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Comment #45094832
MIT & BSD don't include a patent grant, that's a good reason to go with the Apache license.
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Comment #45054234
Unfortunately some cultures value quantity over quality and they drove medium into the ground long before LLMs were a thing.
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Comment #44814947
I've seen people use IPC to workaround the GPL, but I've also seen the FSF interpretations claiming that is still a derived work. I don't know if this has ever been tested in court…
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Comment #44735157
This means nothing without information on the group requesting the exemption.