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by Latty 3y ago
This instantly made me think of a recent video by the Cathode Ray Dude, talking about HP's 'email client' (read: Outlook Plugin) "QuickLook" which was a shipped product implemented this way: https://www.y
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by Latty 3y ago
I use Jellyfin and it defaults to direct play unless you need transcoding (e.g: the client device doesn't support the chosen format, Firefox with h265 for example, due to licensing) and it will just remux if the container is the only
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by Latty 3y ago
The obvious solution seems to be adding an extra hurdle, where it warns you the source may be compromised, so you can still get it, but aren't going to just grab it without knowing something happened. There is value in making sure (pot
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by Latty 3y ago
Indeed, and they claim it is "easily transportable": it seems to be the two are mutually exclusive, if you are going to shove it into the existing systems that leak methane habitually, it's horrific for climate change.
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by Latty 3y ago
This was my thought, methane is much worse than carbon when not burned, but just released. Any claims of carbon neutrality that rely on assuming perfect storage and transport without leakage are fantasy. If anything, when you are calling
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by Latty 3y ago
Podcast Addict has some niche features I really like, I like being able to have a different automatic playback speed per-podcast, as I tailor it to the talking speed of the specific podcasters. The UI can be a bit cluttered, but in a power-
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by Latty 3y ago
I don't really understand the focus on the material rather than the shape then, why would copper in this shape not be a problem?
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by Latty 3y ago
Silicon is hardly some wild exotic material, we are talking about 30% of the Earth's crust here. I can understand worrying if this could impact other things in this form, but I'm not sure why making it out of copper or steel inste
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by Latty 3y ago
I'm not sure that's on the Linux crowd: UEFI is what the hardware ships with, they don't really have much of a choice.
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by Latty 3y ago
People tend to use FAT these days because it tends to be an EFI system partition and almost all modern systems are UEFI.
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by Latty 3y ago
I feel like it isn't a surprise Hacker News has more opinions on software security than enviornmental disaster. If you post about the backdoor to an environmental forum, I suspect it wouldn't gain as much traction.
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by Latty 3y ago
Makes sense, closer pronunciation.
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by Latty 3y ago
Well, it is reversed in a sense, in that it is "no, de" reversed, it's just not reversed character-by-character. I'd agree that's not generally how we used "reversed" for words, but it tracks more generall
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by Latty 3y ago
Genuinely, the example on the main page on a wide monitor is so unreadable it feels like it's attempting obfuscation. I've never liked vertically aligning things even when the data is all the same type so it might make sense to sc
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by Latty 3y ago
This is very much the opposite of my experience, M.2 Wifi modules are very standard, cheap and solid. All my motherboards have one installed for the wifi and it's trivial to swap it out. I have just replaced it when it stopped working
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by Latty 3y ago
Hardware decoding can mean less battery usage, which is very big for end users. I just don't think any of those features matter as much a battery life, most of them are about encoding speed which just seems wildly unimportant to me: en
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by Latty 3y ago
The advantage is increased battery life and performance, which is way more important to most end users than any of the advantages I've seen for JXL. People are not pixel-peeping different images to compare quality, they are annoyed w
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by Latty 3y ago
You kind of ignore the case where almost every device is going to do AV1 hardware decoding (which very much appears to be the trend), if that is significantly faster/cheaper battery wise then AV1 still has a big advantage. Comparing si
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by Latty 3y ago
AV1 is being adopted? Almost every modern bit of hardware has AV1 decoding baked into it now, which is a huge hurdle to pass.
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by Latty 3y ago
I must admit, I'm not sure why JPEG XL is viewed so favourably on HN, it's not something I know a ton about, but my understanding is that the big advantage of AVIF is that you can reuse hardware decoders built into devices for AV1
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by Latty 3y ago
The case is well documented and was not just "the coffee was hot", the coffee was served 20 degrees hotter than other establishments, with no special warnings, in a cup that was not rigid enough, and the company had hundreds of pr
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by Latty 3y ago
At least here in the UK, the enterprise drives are often way cheaper than the NAS drives. They are in theory louder, but in practice as long as you have them in a reasonable case the difference isn't noticable, in my experience.
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by Latty 3y ago
A good option for power users, probably a bit overwhelming if you just want something simple, but for someone like me that wants to do stuff like different default playback speeds for different podcasts, it's really good.
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by Latty 3y ago
Somewhat famously the US not doing this stopped Thalidomide being such a large issue in the US, but of course one example of it failing doesn't mean it is inherently bad policy.
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by Latty 3y ago
I see a viscious cycle if being policed aggressively, producing further poverty, increasing crime, encouraging more aggressive policing. The evidence I have seen is that more aggressive policing fundamentally fails at changing systemic pove
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by Latty 3y ago
So some news site you read on gets hacked and they install malware that means when you move to another tab, it changes the tab to look like a log in screen for say, google, and when you go back, you log in. This has been seen in the wild, a
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by Latty 3y ago
More vulnerable to phishing, a good password manager checks the URL programmatically and won't fill a different domain, human validation of domains is weak, we forget and can be tricked.
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by Latty 3y ago
High Yield has a good video on how much more Valve worked on making the Steam Deck's APU work at low TDPs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOo10p1ijM Just shoving a laptop chip into it clearly can work, but it is a ve
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by Latty 3y ago
Does it need to be "professional"? I'm not really a fan of his content, even if I largely agree with his ideas, but I find it a bit weird to expect that, just because anyone could do something doesn't mean it isn'
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by Latty 3y ago
Seriously, every time people complain about CSS and HTML I think about how much work it is to support all the localisation and layout stuff they do. Managing massively different sized screens as elegantly as them is hard and yeah, it&#x27

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