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ace , 7 hours ago to Memes in Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources

In general, browser benchmarks seem to often favor Firefox in terms of startup and first interaction timings, and often favor Chrome when it comes to crunching large amounts of data through JavaScript.
I.e. for pages which use small amounts of JavaScript, but call into it quickly after loading, Firefox tends to come out on top. But for pages which load lots of JavaScript and then run it constantly, Chrome tends to come out on top.

We're usually talking milliseconds-level of difference here though. So if you're using a mobile browser or a low-power laptop, then the difference is often not measurable at all, unless the page is specifically optimized for one or the other.

ace , 7 hours ago to Memes in Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources

There's a bunch of extensions that allow you to switch user-agent easily, I personally use this one, it includes a list of known strings to choose between as well.

ace , 8 hours ago to Memes in Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources

They used to also use the unreleased version 0 of shadow DOM for building the Polymer UI, which - being a Chrome-only prototype - understandably didn't work on Firefox, and therefore instead used a really slow Javascript polyfill to render its UI.

I haven't checked on it lately, but I imagine they must've changed at least that by now.

ace , 8 hours ago to Memes in Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources

One thing you can test is to apply a Chrome user-agent on Firefox when visiting YouTube. In my personal experience that actually noticeably improves the situation.

ace , 12 days ago to Privacy in Ars Technica reports Microsoft will add AI to Windows, to steal your corporate secrets

To quote Microsoft themselves on the feature;

https://lemmy.ananace.dev/pictrs/image/6b53f957-62d6-46c6-b03f-6ddeb0219c5a.webp

"No content moderation" is the most important part here, it will happily steal any and all corporate secrets it can see, since Microsoft haven't given it a way not to.

ace , 28 days ago to linuxmemes in I really do want to know though

Well, one part of it is that Flatpak pulls data over the network, and sometimes data sent over a network doesn't arrive in the exact same shape as when it left the original system, which results in that same data being sent in multiple copies - until one manages to arrive correctly.

ace , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Bloat

We're mirroring the images internally, not just because their mirrors suck and would almost double the total install time when using them, but also because they only host the images for the very latest patch version - and they've multiple times made major version changes which have broken the installer between patches in 22.04 alone.

ace , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Bloat

What is truly bloated is their network-install images, starting with a 14MB kernel and 65MB initrd, which then proceeds to pull a 2.5GB image which they unpack into RAM to run the install.

This is especially egregious when running thin VMs for lots of things, since you now require them to have at least 4GB of RAM simply to be able to launch the installer at all.

Compare this to regular Debian, which uses an 8MB kernel and a 40MB initrd for the entire installer.
Or some larger like AlmaLinux, which has a 13MB kernel and a 98MB initrd, and which also pulls a 900MB image for the installer. (Which does mean a 2GB RAM minimum, but is still almost a third of the size of Ubuntu)

ace , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Release Miniflux 2.1.3 · miniflux/v2

If you're going to post release notes for random selfhostable projects on GitHub, could you at least add the GitHub About text for the project - or the synopsis from the readme - into the post.

ace , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Is Radicale the way forward?

I've been looking at the rewrite of Owncloud, but unfortunately I really do need either SMB or SFTP for one of the most critical storage mounts in my setup.
I don't particularly feel like giving Owncloud a win either, they've not been behaving in a particularly friendly manner for the community, and their track record with open core isn't particularly good, so I really don't want to end up with a decent product that then steadily mutilates itself to try and squeeze money out of me.

The Owncloud team actually had a stand at FOSDEM a couple of years back, right across from the Nextcloud team, and they really didn't give me much confidence in the project after chatting with them. I've since heard that they're apparently not going to be allowed to return again either, due to how poorly they handled it.

ace , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Is Radicale the way forward?

I've been hoping to find a non-PHP alternative to Nextcloud for a while, but unfortunately I've yet to find one which supports my base requirements for the file storage.

Due to some quirks with my setup, my backing storage consists of a mix of local folders, S3 buckets, SMB/SFTP mounts (with user credential login), and even an external WebDav server.
Nextcloud does manage such a thing phenomenally, while all the alternatives I've tested (including a Radicale backed by rclone mounts) tend to fall completely to pieces as soon as more than one storage backend ends up getting involved, especially when some of said backends need to be accessed with user-specific credentials.

ace , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in RAM??? Let use GDrive as swap

Well, there are people running Linux in all manner of ways, like VRChat shaders.

ace , 3 months ago to Fediverse in FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol

This looks really odd in relation to other fediverse software; Why /magic and required to be on the root of the domain? Why hard-require routing the domain part of the user ID when .well-known/webfinger exists? Why is there a X-Open-Web-Auth header which the spec only describes as "its purpose is unclear from the code"?
So many questions.

I definitely like the idea of distributed sign-in, Solid did a decent work of that many years ago after all. This particular proposal just looks rather odd.

ace , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in We don't talk about #3671.

Let me tell you about Bumblebee and their issue #123, though that one's even worse seeing as installing system packages are done as root.

(Their install/update commands included rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg)

ace , 8 months ago to Memes in Bloody brilliant mate

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/63/63f480d6a7ac62f4192b79a557c1a49e1be3be345c092da3d0f2e39927f77a76.jpg

A.k.a. do you have a larger version?