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by CivBase 2y ago
Plenty of choice... so long as that choice has been approved by Apple. It's a very convenient position for a company with a competing product.
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by CivBase 2y ago
IMO, Apple's position as part of a duopoly disqualifies them that kind of defense. When customers aren't empowered to choose which company they engage with, companies should not be allowed to choose which customers they support.
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by CivBase 2y ago
I tested with an RX 7900 XTX on Fedora/Proton for ~5 minutes at the start of Ravenholm. My FPS counter was consistently over 50 once all the assets were loaded, but the image was extremely blurry. I don't know the cause and I coul
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by CivBase 2y ago
For those wondering about AMD performance, I did some very brief testing. I have an Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card and a Ryzen 7800X3D running Fedora 41 with Proton Experimental on a 1920x1200 display. I booted into the Ravenholm level an
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by CivBase 2y ago
Making this example even worse, both Firefox and Chrome are open source (except for a few proprietary add-ons). An EU company wouldn't even need to make their own browser. They could just hard-fork one of those.
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by CivBase 2y ago
> Of course, something in common with all the examples above, and with US citizens travelling to Mexico, is that you're travelling to neighbouring countries with friendly relations. Militarily speaking, yes. But unlike the other exa
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by CivBase 2y ago
> I guess it was just a talking point to shit on Apple’s approach? It started with Apple promoting the "green bubble = inferior" thing. Google responded by insisting the iMessage experience with Android was only bad because App
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by CivBase 2y ago
> I'm of course also just as critical of having Meta run the world's communication industry instead of Google, but that's the duopoly Don't forget Apple with their iMessage protocol.
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by CivBase 2y ago
They were on a road trip in the United States and never crossed an international border. Why would they need a passport? I've never taken mine on a trip like that.
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by CivBase 2y ago
And Google never made that promise to being with. Hell, it's their primary business! Mozilla has done plenty of bad things and they rightly deserve criticism, but options in the browser space are few and Mozilla is considerably less ba
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by CivBase 2y ago
Apparently I'm not paying attention because I seem to have missed that Supreme Court ruling. Can you link it for me? If our democratically elected representatives in Congress will not impeach the President, then they are evidently cont
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by CivBase 2y ago
I subscribed to SlingTV a little over a year ago and it did not support Firefox, even with all the DRM enabled. Although that's a problem I blame on SlingTV, not Firefox. It was a known issue which they refused to address. I've si
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by CivBase 2y ago
> It was created by Congress in 1961, but destroyed by the ire of one man in 2025, without any Congressional approval. Does it feel like democracy to you? Are you suggesting what he did was unconstitutional? If so, Congress can (and shou
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by CivBase 2y ago
The point of switching to Firefox is not "Google bad, Mozilla good". The point is to chip away at the chromium browser monopoly. If you have another non-chromium browser to recommend, please share as an alternative. Mozilla has no
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by CivBase 2y ago
I use Discord for three things: text chat, voice chat, and screen sharing. Looks like screen sharing isn't supported yet, but it's on the roadmap at least[1]. [1] https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/projec
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by CivBase 2y ago
Are you confusing Publisher with Visio?
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by CivBase 2y ago
This is too conspiratorial for me. If the point was to make the government less efficient to justify political platforms, why have private companies been doing the same thing for the last 3 years when there's no political upside for th
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by CivBase 2y ago
The embedded TikTok video in the linked article shows someone replicating the issue. The video showed two attempts, with the issue only occurring on the second attempt. It isn't obvious how many attempts were made before the start of t
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by CivBase 2y ago
Employees often are not particularly motivated by the company's bottom line. It isn't hard to imagine a lower-level developer adding an entry like this to a substitution database because they were particularly frustrated with Trum
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by CivBase 2y ago
But the point of the feature is to write the words the user dictates, isn't it? So if it correctly recognized the word "racist", why would it replace it with "Trump"? The application must know that's not what t
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by CivBase 2y ago
There's no way this is a bug, right? There is no phonetic overlap between the words "racist" and "Trump", and the political implications seem too obvious for it to be coincidence. Surely this was intentional, even i
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by CivBase 2y ago
Reasonable people are sometimes lead to believe that repairability is counter to safety (i.e. "if an amature does the repair wrong, they could hurt themselves or the owner"), security (i.e. "if we let people know how it works
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by CivBase 2y ago
"New hammer builds house in hours that took construction workers months." Reads the same to me. They introduced a new tool to help with a task that sounds like it was already near completion. It is still a big accomplishment if th
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by CivBase 2y ago
These are some extremely serious claims that I'm going to need to see sources to believe. I'm by no means here to defend DOGE, but what have they done to put the lives of trans kids at serious risk?
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by CivBase 2y ago
There is a difference between storing a string with only a null character (i.e. an empty string) and a proper null (i.e. the absense of value). That is what I was getting at when I listed "C strings" as an example. Since in C stri
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by CivBase 2y ago
No, but it also doesn't let you store null in a string variable. Well... it does, but that would just be an empty string.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Yeah I read that. Your comment about "small unknown stores" threw me off because none of the parties involved with this story are small so I'm not sure what it has to do with the discussion.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Do you have any examples of digital media/apps in open formats which are no longer accessible?
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by CivBase 2y ago
I'm not sure what "small unknown" stores you might be referring to. Surely Amazon qualifies as a "big name" store same as Apple or Google, right? Clearly this event shows a big name is not an indication of consume
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by CivBase 2y ago
Bash, C strings, URL query strings, and CSVs off the top of my head.

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