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How on earth is this page killing all 3 mobile rendering engines?! I literally can't view the page on my phone.

What dark patterns can you find in Plasma today?

Uh, okay.

We're talking about dark patterns, which are anti-consumer and anti-user design decisions to pursue profit over user experience. Like stuffing candy crush into windows by default or making it incredibly difficult to switch default browser, or berating the user with popups when he tries to download Firefox.

Windows is stuffed full of anti-patterns. You can't avoid them just by using notepad.

The only way to avoid dark patterns in software these days is to use Linux.

Which is why the author is positioning it as an alternative to PNG, not JPEG.

Hah, I knew a JS wizard would come up with an easier solution after I posted that. Perhaps I'll have to re-sub to that site to see if they've changed their DRM scheme...

I once broke the "DRM" of a site which displayed images by downloading them obfuscated and using a big blob of JS to unfsck them and display them on a canvas. Grabbing the image should be easy, no? Just use `.toDataURL()`, right? Well, this site deleted all the methods on the canvas object which could be used to grab the image data, and then `.freeze()` (or maybe it was `.seal()`, this was a while ago) to prevent the method being added back in.

In the end I said 'fuck it' and made a patched firefox build in a VM with freeze and/or seal disabled completely, then a small jetpack addon (remember them?) to unfsck the canvas element and grab them images.

Theft deprives the seller of the object, causing direct financial losses. With piracy, there's no difference between someone who doesn't consume the media and someone who pirates.

If consuming media without paying the copyright holder is morally wrong, then so is second hand purchasing and selling, as well as rentals. Indeed, copyright industries have a long and storied history of trying to shut down rental chains, to some success in Japan.

Just because you paid someone some money to view a TV series, doesn't mean you paid the people who funded production.

WSL needs to be manually added to windows by the user before it can be used. Also a distro then has to be installed in the VM.

From what I recall, an MS engineer explained why they gave up on WSL1 as being intractable issues with the way Windows and Linux interact with the filesystem, leading to major, unfixable performance issues.

I don't know anything specific about your situation, so I'm sorry for sticking my nose in here, but isn't this a case where you just need to compile your own kernel with a bare minimum of modules for your hardware? Surely that would save 500kb.

I don't understand any of that. Any chance of an acronym dictionary for us laymen?

Oh, for sure. There are always other factors in the real world.

But I think that's the main one that allowed Linux to snowball ahead of the other Unix(-likes).

IMO Linux won because its license forced everyone who used and extended it to open their changes - this changes the calculus for firms building products on Linux to make it more worthwhile to upstream their changes to reduce their local maintenance burden.

Compare this to something like the playstation 4, which used freeBSD as the base of their OS, and contributed nothing back to the project at all.

Google workspace isn't free.

Ack, I do indeed. I blame the JPEG org for having such confusing names!

The great thing about XR is that ordinary JPEG images can be compressed with XR and receive a reduction in size without any reduction in visual quality. Once all your tools receive support for XR, you can convert your entire image library in one fell swoop with no fear.

If that isn't an upgrade path, I don't know what is.

At least at restaurants, alcohol is both more expensive and served with food - alcohol is dramatically less impairing when consumed with a meal.

I mean if you're asking me personally I'm happy with any extra alcohol restrictions, even acknowledging that many people would not be nearly as gun-happy as I and the social ills of prohibition. But my father is an alcoholic and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

>Now some grocery stores have wine bars, beer on tap, signs inviting you to “shop ’n’ sip,” and carts with cup holders.

What the hell?! That's absurdly irresponsible and dangerous considering most people travel to the grocery store in a car. Why aren't local authorities stamping down on this?

Have you tried googling the app identifier (grab it from the google play url) to find an APK download?

That Firefox issue only happens on Linux when you upgrade Firefox on disk using your package manager while Firefox is running. The ABI mismatch between the running version and the new version makes starting new Firefox processes unstable, so it's disabled to avoid crashes.

Simply don't run system updates during a Firefox session and you're golden.

Yes, and Arathorn works on element, does he not?

Great to hear! I'd love to be able to recommend Matrix/Element as a Discord alternative.

However, actually competing with Discord will require a tonne of hard work in Element. The little things like automatic voice activation, echo cancellation and volume normalization are the reasons Discord are as fantastic as it is, so Element will need to be excellent with those to compete.

For future reference, most windows apps keep their settings in the AppData/Roaming folder in your user folder. There's a useful shortcut as an env variable - type %APPDATA% into explorer to go straight there.

System-wide settings and state should be stored in C:\ProgramData.

>Apple Music will also make its catalog of more than 75 million songs available in Lossless Audio. Apple uses ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) to preserve every single bit of the original audio file.

Generally good comment, but if search is separated from ads, how does it make money? I'm totally on board with splitting up Google, but losing Google search (or search becoming notably worse) would not be worth it for me. The competition is just so bad, and always has been.

The latest exynos chip replaced Samsung's custom CPU designs with stock ARM ones, presumably because exynos variants of the S20 lagged far behind the snapdragon variants in performance and battery life.

Appreciate this, but the discussion is about male circumcision.

Municipal broadband really isn't the solution here. Sure, it's miles better than private infra, but we down here in NZ have a much better solution. (Not claiming we invented it, of course.)

In 2011, Central government started a big infrastructure project to roll fibre out to ~80% of the population. (Called UFB - ultra fast broadband.) However instead of making this just be state owned, the money was paid as cheap loans with a competitive bid system. Companies bidding had to agree to a significant number of regulations, including a requirement to not act as an ISP and to offer wholesale access to the network for a set fee. They could also offer their own services above and beyond the regulated maximum.

So to start an ISP in NZ, all you need is some national and international transit, and at least one server to do billing and core routing. As a result, we have dozens of major, actually good ISPs and many more niche ones. Most of them service the whole country - at least the UFB service area.

I actually like my ISP. I have IPv6 and a static public IPv4. Peering is excellent and international bandwidth plentiful. Gigabit bandwidth with no usage call and no fair use policy (at least no policy regarding days usage).

Municipal internet is great until you realize you just turned a monopoly into a duopoly. Without competition, what drive your new ISP to do better? If you're super lucky, the goodness of their hearts, I guess. Because you know the old incumbent will just match the new ISP and do not better.

EDIT: Folks in other threads have pointed out how bad US government bodies have historically been at investing in infrastructure maintenance. I'd like to note that the NZ model neatly deals with those concerns too. The companies which build out the networks are made the owners presumably when the loans are paid off. These companies become very profitable even though they can't become ISPs themselves, and are thus heavily incentivized to invest their profits back into their networks to keep them working well and to come up with new products to sell. Already a NZ fibre company has deployed 10gbit fibre commercially, with no extra government support.