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jvdvegt··on Peacock feathers can be lasers
https://archive.is/K4de9
jvdvegt··on How to Firefox
A bit ironic that I cannot see the left few pixels of that site in Firefox on Android. (A 'T' starts at the vertical bar)
jvdvegt··on Fstrings.wtf
Why would "0^5" evaluate to 5? (question 21)

And is there a way to link to a specific question?

jvdvegt··on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
https://archive.is/dQ7oH
jvdvegt··on Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows
Quite worrysome they think that the screen not auto-locking after a time out is a small issue, but not auto-suspending is a big issue. That might be the case for laptops, but for desktops I'd say it's the opposite. Not auto-locking is a security incident.
jvdvegt··on World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone. Now what?
Is it the biggest wildlife crossing? This one [1] is 50x150 meters. Granted, it's in flat land so it's not covered with such a thick layer of soil.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/natuurbrug-zanderij-crai...

jvdvegt··on When I converted my home from gas to electric my utility bills nearly doubled
https://archive.is/WCYgP
jvdvegt··on A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports
No problem here from The Netherlands... I wonder what's so specific about Slovenia.

But the site is mostly a link to this 6 hour track: https://youtu.be/ZWUlLHv7-64

jvdvegt··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
A quick search points me to [1]. Granted, it does not contain further links but there should be enough names to find more.

1. https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/12/11/smart-tvs-take-screensho...

jvdvegt··on Honey Bunnies
It's a GPU-heavy demo site. My Firefox on Linux handles it fine.
jvdvegt··on The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon
PSTN starts at the home router these days, I don't think I can get an actual analog line in my house.
jvdvegt··on WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
jvdvegt··on “A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
I use it too, but it also computes 0 instead of 1 for:

    e^100 + 1 - e^100
jvdvegt··on CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'
To prevent the cookie wall with no 'reject all': https://archive.is/oHc1e
jvdvegt··on All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days
Does playing golf all day count RTO? Or does the president himself not have to return to the office?
jvdvegt··on Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
They'll have your data if they just take the whole server...
jvdvegt··on My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
Works fine on Android too, with Firefox.
jvdvegt··on Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users' piracy
I misread it the same way.

If ISPs are responsible for piracy though, they could be for privacy as well!

jvdvegt··on A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a WWI doughboy's death

    - Israel left infrastructure behind 
You mean they decided not to destroy it all? They caused billions of damage to EU funded infrastructure even before they invaded Gaza.
jvdvegt··on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
I missed it, apparently. Link?
jvdvegt··on Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3
I don't know about iOS, but Firefox syncs my passwords between my Linux machine and Android phone just fine.
jvdvegt··on Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says
Unavailable in EU, so here we go; https://archive.is/9I14n
jvdvegt··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
Fyi: yeah they're Dutch.
jvdvegt··on Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
To be fair: I also can't find the current year on my Pixel 4 (Android 13) in the clock app or the settings. I have to open Google Calendar.
jvdvegt··on Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk
That comment saved me the trouble of switching to chatgpt, and saved a lot of kW due to less AI usage.
jvdvegt··on We created a fake delivery company to get a job
In Firefox on Android, I only get one image.
jvdvegt··on Booting Linux off of Google Drive
He casually mentions he boots of S3 as well. Changing S3 for Google Drive mostly adds latency, apparently.

But still, nicely done!

jvdvegt··on 20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU
MS teams does this already, right? (I assume they do, as it didn't work in Firefox until recently)

Or do they do it server side?

jvdvegt··on Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells
How long does it take for the cup to fill? Weird 'loading' display with no clear progress in 10 seconds, so I backed out.
jvdvegt··on Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
Hover? I'm on mobile...
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