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Devorlonon Electric motors with no rare earths

It's brushless: https://www.evspecifications.com/images/news/6ec9484/additio...

Devorlonon How to make Firefox builds 17% faster

Why compile code when ccache faster

Devorlonon UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment

Definitely, a Spotify boycott would only be necessary if they ran ads for ICE, but that would be ridiculous...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spotify-ice-recruitment-ad...

Devorlonon The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

I get a cookie banner accessing that page.

Devorlonon Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

As an Android power user (I’ve ran Lineage, Graphene, rooted with Magisk and passed safetynet) that’s moved to IOS this last month. My subjective opinion: app quality is the same.

Devorlonon Just the Browser

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next...

“AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.”

Devorlonon Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0

Personally, no I don't see it.

Devorlonon DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020)

Yes simple things such as becoming employed at Mozilla to perform corporate espionage for Google.

Devorlonon LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

I found that hopping to different VPN servers is a mildly inconvenient workaround for that.

Devorlonon Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp

Give https://docs.openwebui.com/ a look, you'll be able to access it by using your desktops IP while on your laptop (providing you're on the same network).

Devorlonon I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs

And if I did my own taxes, I wouldn't know if I were in legal trouble until audit day as well!

Devorlonon DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing

It's not exactly the same, but as an alternative to what jauntywundrkind you can use V4L2-Loopback and OBS to create a virtual webcam and use that to share your screen. I find it really handy being able to switch between either just my cam, my desktop or both.

Devorlonon Anime is eating the world

I think Jobless Reincarnation is a perfect example because of its paedophilic undertones if not outright being so.

Devorlonon Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

Yes, because unconsensually sharing sexually explicit material of people is bad.

Devorlonon Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK

While there'll be people arguing that you can always draw someone, or cut out their face from a photo and put it on someone else the major wrong that this is attempting to right is the abundance of services that now easily automate this.

For those who talk about privacy in your own home, there's plenty of stuff that's done in peoples homes that's illegal and no one cares about. This law's only going to come into effect when these start being shared which I hope we can all agree is a bad thing if done unconsensually.

Devorlonon Anatomy of a credit card rewards program

> Two thirds of the merchants surveyed reported no change or didn't know the change in their debit costs post-regulation. One fourth actually reported an increase in debit costs