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TingPingon Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

Not OP but I don’t think DoQ is very interesting. DoH is nice because it blends in with HTTPS. Both do the protocol level things to avoid connection handshakes. The HTTP overhead isn’t that much really.

DoT is more complex than you’d imagine because it has to try hard to implement its own solutions to avoid handshakes.

TingPingon Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

Standard webkit content blocking, so it will filter requests and hide elements.

TingPingon Fastpotify

Depends on how much they care. They can take down repos containing any keys, or use heuristics to block clients.

TingPingon AI usage patterns in software teams

Local llms aren’t super exciting unfortunately.

TingPingon Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

You can trivially configure it to forward logs to another service to manage them.

TingPingon Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

If a problematic bot is on any mainstream VPS it will just get shut down.

TingPingon IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

Networking is very core to webkit of course. But it has apis to block and modify requests.

TingPingon June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more

Linkedin lists 8 employees for Ladybird.

TingPingon Orion Browser by Kagi

That’s a feature of Safari itself.

TingPingon LG ThinQ Terms of Use

Disconnect it and buy any streaming device. An Apple TV is nice.

TingPingon LG ThinQ Terms of Use

Well in the TV space they have monopolies on oleds.

TingPingon Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

I specifically take a timed release melatonin, really improved my sleep. Otherwise I did have inconsistent sleep on regular melatonin.

TingPingon Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

Almost no hardware is open anyway. Plus all of the hard problems have been solved on typical pc hardware.

TingPingon European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple

The chain of trust always has a software layer. I don’t believe what you want is possible.

I find the bank talking point strange, why are they special, are they even targeted more. It just feels like a boogeyman “think of your money!”

TingPingon Deno Desktop

Those issues are typically from the decoding libraries you choose. Which could even be ffmpeg if you wish. GStreamer just provides a nice high level API.

TingPingon Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

There is no official tool to download aur repos, so that’s up to whatever you do.

TingPingon Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-1080p...

TingPingon Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension

They can’t modify webkit on ios. They also don’t appear to contribute upstream. So it’s just not supported.

TingPingon macOS Container Machines

Well yeah it’s a simple vm…

TingPingon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

I won’t say vlc is my favorite UI but it does all of this.

TingPingon Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

It doesn’t mean anything for desktop users, it’s just a new standard that could have wider support than VAAPI since it’s part of Vulkan. Mostly embedded devices lacking VAAPI support today, though nvidia requires a third party implementation so this might improve that situation.

TingPingon Dav2d

Youtube artificially limits the resolution, on mine if you cast the exact same video it doesn’t impose that limit and works fine.

TingPingon What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications

While iOS doesn’t do this at the OS level I’ve never seen an app that didn’t have these options. I assumed it’s required by Apple.

TingPingon Deno 2.8

> Plus, bought by Anthropic.

Who thinks this is a positive?!

TingPingon Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

This oversimplifies reality. Fedora has a community and actively makes decisions RHEL has no interest in. But yes they also help with testing many things.

TingPingon Flipper One – we need your help

They literally paid Collabora to do FOSS work?

TingPingon Native all the way, until you need text

More importantly all HTML is valid markdown.

TingPingon Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

It already exists, the appstream spec can associate binaries with metadata.

TingPingon Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

In my personal experience macOS is fine but updates are often buggy or regress performance. Linux has just been the more polished option. Plus it just has a nicer desktop and apps.