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hamsterkill ,

Libre Computer itself is a Chinese company, though, no?

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South Park was right all along. Those time travelers really are taking our jobs.

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...

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Why would they need to tie that telemetry to people in order to use it to inform their own development (as it states as the purpose, and is the purpose of all their telemetry as far as I know).

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Companies can seem very bipolar that way. Always yelling about how well they're doing, while also cutting costs to maximize investor confidence.

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I wonder if the decline in morale correlates with the decline in morals.

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If a third party app store provides a tool or service to improve their app store, should apple expect to be able to use that for free? Negating any benefit that third party would get for developing such an improvement

Sideloaded apps aren't asking for benefits from being in Apple's app store. They're asking to be allowed to exist on Apple's platform without being fined for it.

Apple has used other platform API and tooling at no added cost the same way everyone everyone else does. iTunes and Safari used to run on Windows. Apple provides AppleTV+ apps for several platforms. And there's a number of apps they make for Android.

Apple already charges developers for access to their APIs and tooling. What Apple is doing with the per-install cost is trying to charge developers for access to their audience — which is not what the EU intended.

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Abandonware amounts to "the rights holder no longer exists or no one knows who owns the rights anymore" or, more clearly "no one is enforcing their rights to this game anymore for whatever reason, so it's de facto public domain."

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I'm honestly somewhat surprised that these firings haven't triggered a mass walkout or something at Google offices yet. They're being very cavalier with employees they spend so much effort (at least historically) on keeping in the office to work "free" hours.

hamsterkill ,

When my co-workers get terminated for political criticism? Yeah, I would. Lots of tech workers would and do — remember the Blizzard walkout several years ago? At the very least, this is the type of thing that spurs white collars to form unions.

hamsterkill ,

But you can't just wait until every phone on the planet supports it.

The proper approach is simply to have the app check the hardware decode capabilities of the device and use the best option. Pretty sure that's what YT has always done for codec transitions in the past.

Forcing AV1 on devices without hardware decode will end up making users think their battery is starting to wear out, even with the better software decoder'

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Kobo? No. They have their own firmware.

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I'm not aware of any Kobo using Android.

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Tolinos use different processors precisely because they run Android, while Kobos do not.

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I'm dubious Android even serves as a base for Kobo's OS. I've seen no evidence to support that claim.

EDIT: if you are referring to Tolinos, they are not simple rebrands of Kobos.

hamsterkill ,

most people who use Firefox are already privacy conscious enough to change their Search Engine too...

This is either hyperbole or delusional. Most Firefox users don't even use an ad blocker. Google definitely remains the selected engine for most users. There were even many complaints about the default not being Google during the Yahoo default years.

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Every selectable search engine in Firefox has a partnership with it. Google just pays big bucks to be the default.

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DDG also has a partnership with Firefox. It's one of the selectable engines included in Firefox (at least in the US).

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Could mean that Qwant will be a selectable option included in Firefox. Could mean something else. The last time Qwant partnered with Mozilla, it was on a Qwant-branded version of Firefox.

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Bigger problems that the FCC can address right now?

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Screen corners are prime real estate. They have infinite size beyond the screen, allowing you to quickly fling the pointer to them. It's a big reason things like app menus or the Mac's Mission Control are accessed by the screen corners.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

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The investigation actually started in 2019 under Trump's DoJ.

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VPN use likely spiked in South Korea recently as well, since being blocked by Twitch.

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Knowing how hard something is can be a larger barrier than not knowing. But the main barrier preventing space colonies is the same thing preventing ocean colonies — "Why?". What motivation is there to settle space? Exploration and experimentation can be done for motivation of seeing if we can, but settling needs known payoff both for the settlers and the funders.

Asteroid mining is the only current suggested motivation for such a thing. And it's very possible that by the time we figure out asteroid capture, we won't need humans present for that work.

hamsterkill ,

Which point would that be?

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users') through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

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How very much like a gatekeeper to their users their argument is.

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This appears to be an experimental initiative within Mozilla right now. It's not available to the public and may never be if it doesn't pass muster for them.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-thoughts-on-how-you-shop-online/td-p/43015
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/the-future-of-shopping/

Apple Walks Back Decision to Disable Home Screen Web Apps in the EU (www.macrumors.com)

Following the release of the second beta version of iOS 17.4, it emerged that Apple had restricted the functionality of iOS web apps in the EU. Web apps could no longer launch from the ‌Home Screen‌ in their own top-level window that takes up the entire screen, relegating them to a simple shortcut with an option to open...

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PWAs are able to have some offline functionality. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/Offline_and_background_operation

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Hydrogen storage is a significant focus of materials science and chemistry research for this reason right now. There's a lot of interesting possibilities being studied to solve those challenges.

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Albania? Kosovo? Indonesia?

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations...

hamsterkill ,

Because batteries suck for any application where weight (ie. energy density) matters. Running long haul semis off batteries is not a super practical thing. Even with consumer cars, there are people for whom hydrogen will be a better fit.

Basically we've been in a world where the happy medium of energy density and efficiency (gasoline) was used for everything. Now we likely need to split those things up into what energy density is more important for, and what energy efficiency is more important for.

hamsterkill ,

There's a lot of activity on the hydrogen-fueled aviation front.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/hydrogen-fuel-cell-aircraft-explained/

The infrastructure issues for planes are way less. You need fuel available at airports, which significantly fewer and farther between than consumers require for cars. Planes (and least of the jet variety) already use specialized fuel they keep available at airports. The phase-in is a lot easier too, since most running planes only travel between a few airports in their route — so you'd only need the hydrogen fuel available at the airports hydrogen planes are using to start.

There's certainly a lot of challenges to solve there too, but hydrogen remains the most promising solution for decarbonizing air travel.

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Batteries (currently) are way too heavy for commercial planes. They can be used for the smaller propeller planes, but not for jets.

I don't know what you were expecting to see to indicate activity. Flight tests are a pretty far along milestone, given the expense and time it takes to make a test plane. That nothing went wrong on the test flight is even more impressive, given that the engineering of using hydrogen in planes is still ongoing (as the article mentions).

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Looks like their subreddit's been restricted too.

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On a side note, 1 Terapixel is just crazy. A square with 1 million pixels has this number of pixels. So, about 1000 of 1080p will fit into this square vertically and about 500 horizontally. How has such eyes to see this all pixel perfectly?

If you zoom in on it (a pretty common thing to do with pictures) enough, most people.

YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work (grist.org)

YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work::A new report documents a shift away from climate denial and a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won't work.

hamsterkill ,

It's gotta be a peer pressure thing, diplomatically, to work. The countries taking the biggest steps need to be loud about it so the ones dragging their feet (hi from the US) get their pride hurt if they don't take action. The ozone hole fix worked that way too (though of course that didn't have major political powers denying it was a problem).

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The irony is that AI will probably be able to do the jobs of the c-suite before a lot of the jobs down the ladder.

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I mean c-suite jobs (particularly CEO), are usually primarily about information coordination and decision-making (company steering). That's exactly what AI has been designed to do for decades (make decisions based on inputs and rulesets). The recent advancements mean they can train off real CEO decisions. The meetings and negotiation part of being a c-suite (the human-facing stuff) might be the hardest part of the job for AI to replicate.

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Even centrally signing every app doesn't justify a fee. There's virtually no cost in doing so. Mozilla does it for all Firefox extensions just fine.

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Not completely official, no. Mozilla may help with it, but since it doesn't carry the Firefox branding, and isn't built by Mozilla, it's not entirely official.

hamsterkill ,

An example of this in practice is Firefox addons. You need to get your extension signed for people to install it, but you can distribute it however. Mozilla of course doesn't charge for signing though. It's just to give them the ability to ban an extension found to be malicious.

hamsterkill ,

Assuming you're talking about Android, there's been some early work done on this recently, I've noticed.

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It's more complete on Firefox for Android than it is for desktop.

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There's still a good chance of a DOJ antitrust case against Apple coming that seeks allowing alternative app stores (and Apple's way of complying with the part of this case that went against them makes it even more likely, I think). But Epic's case is done, yes, unless they want to challenge Apple's compliance with the ruling.

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