AnActOfCreation

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Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.

 
  • Linus Torvalds added hidden tabs to Kconfig to challenge parsers that can't handle them.
  • Tabs were intentionally added to the common Kconfig file for page sizes to expose faulty parsers.
  • Torvalds believes parsers unable to handle tabs shouldn't be parsing kernel Kconfig files, aiming to force fixes.
 
  • Big Tech has implemented passkeys in a way that locks users into their platforms rather than providing universal security
  • Passkeys were developed to replace passwords for better account security, but their rollout by Apple and Google has limited their potential
  • Proton Pass offers passkeys that are universal, easy to use, and available to everyone for improved online security and privacy.
 
  • Mozilla ends partnership with Onerep due to CEO's ties to data broker
  • Onerep's data removal service bundled into Mozilla's Monitor Plus subscription
  • Onerep CEO admits to owning people-search websites, leading to end of partnership with Mozilla. Transition plan in progress.
 
  • El Salvador will continue buying 1 Bitcoin daily until it becomes unaffordable with fiat currencies
  • President Bukele's statement highlights commitment to cryptocurrency adoption
  • Move demonstrates belief in Bitcoin's long-term value and potential as a global currency alternative.
 
  • Ubicloud aims to provide an open source alternative to AWS by offering core cloud computing services on affordable bare-metal servers.
  • The focus is currently on compute, PostgreSQL database service, networking capabilities, with plans to add block storage and Kubernetes-based container service.
  • Co-founders have experience with Citus Data and Azure, and the company recently raised a $16 million seed round.
 
  • Microsoft ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
  • WSA designed to run Android apps from Amazon Appstore on Windows 11
  • Support for WSA will end on March 5, 2025; no impact on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
 

Do you root or do you go straight to ROMs?

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This and Zune were peak music.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for this clarification! That is slightly more palatable.

Wow, this is really insightful! Thank you so much for digging into this. I learned something!

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've only been using it since... well... since I posted this. But so far the experience is great! They have an easy guide for migrating from Google Photos (basically they can import a Takeout export directly).

https://ente.io/faq/migration/from-google-photos/

I've got it installed on my phone with automatic backups enabled. It had no issues with duplicates from both Takeout and the existing photos on my phone. (I even did the upload twice due to running out of space the first time, and there were no dupes). The app has a pretty similar design to Google Photos, so it feels familiar. It also supports Google's version of "live photos".

You can create links to share albums or individual photos, and you can also add people to your plan.

I enabled the local machine learning analysis and, while it's not perfect, it does make for a pretty nice searching experience.

P.S. I promise this is not an ad! I'm running out of Google storage and figured this was as good a time as any to de-Google my photos. Ente came up as a frequent cloud solution. If you're looking for self-hosted, Immich is far and away the most popular.

I think it's the opposite. I think he saw her as a girl whom he was protecting from trans girls using "her" bathroom.

I don't know about that. From the article:

Experts told the Vancouver Sun that Air Canada may have succeeded in avoiding liability in Moffatt's case if its chatbot had warned customers that the information that the chatbot provided may not be accurate.

The ENG US is only shown if the user has multiple languages. As for the icons to the left of that, the user has manually chosen to always show them instead of having them in the overflow area. So it is a bit cleaner by default.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying to explain to someone recently why rebasing and force pushing their feature branch has no benefit when we use a squash commit strategy for merging to main.

While you're 100% right, is there anything wrong with this approach? Sometimes I like to keep by personal branches clean, especially before I open a PR.

I believe the one you linked is the fork. Here is the original.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I recommend the fork you linked because the original author supposedly was slow and reluctant to add new sites and now copies fixes from the fork.

Read more about the history here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/-/issues/1

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I actually thought the paywalled article was the meme at first.

Also shoutout Bypass Paywalls Clean (D). It's practically up there with uBlock Origin as required to browse today's internet.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. I would've changed it except I had in the back of my mind that the post title needed to match the article title, but now I don't see that in the rules. Oh well. But yeah the article is not really about Chrome at all.

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