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refalo

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  • GTK ported to Android — here we gooooo!

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  • Their devices were running standard software, and the tricks they used were simple.

    Although Sky News has verified the methods used by Ms Kubecka and Ms Popovici, we won't give details or name any software used.

    It really can only be like one of three things... vpn, proxy or tor-like networks... this is not rocket science (to technical people). And all of those things are legal... so when they say:

    "Platforms have clear legal obligations and must actively prevent children from circumventing safety measures, including blocking content that promotes ... workarounds targeting young users."

    I'm not sure how they think that's possible... is that not at odds with freedom of speech at the very least? Do they really expect every tech company is going to voluntarily ban e.g. all VPN usage because it can be used to circumvent porn blocks? The entire economy and large parts of society would grind to a halt if that were to happen... for example healthcare would suddenly become massively unavailable because they regularly use VPNs to send/receive patient data.

  • ForkServer in Firefox 141: No More Restarts and Better Performance on Linux

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  • Basically instead of launching completely new processes for each tab, which uses the (now updated/different) binary on disk, it uses a small secondary process that stays running the whole time the browser is open, and new processes are forked from that one, which makes them all use the same in-memory copy of the old process even after the program is updated.

    This only works on *nix because you can't overwrite binaries on Windows that are in use... but Linux keeps the old binary in memory the whole time, so it doesn't care if you replace it, as it won't be used until you restart the program.

    So it doesn't actually update anything at all while it's running.

  • ForkServer in Firefox 141: No More Restarts and Better Performance on Linux

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  • Will this stop the constant crashing I've been having the last several versions?

  • You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa

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  • I understand how people can infer subjective conclusions, but I don't agree that it objectively says as much.

  • ForkServer in Firefox 141: No More Restarts and Better Performance on Linux

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  • Did you read the article?

  • You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa

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  • I don't see how that even implies that not having a presence in the first place is inherently a red flag...

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  • Does this mean their hundreds of petabytes of pirated content will go away now?

  • You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa

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  • I have not seen any language that suggests that, nor what EFF is saying.

  • You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa

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  • I guess nobody can really know for sure, but in my opinion, if you truly don't have anything, nothing happens, as that's what they want, complacency.

    I think EFF is just what-ifing things they could theoretically do in the future... which they do a lot. Not saying EFF is bad, but they do speculate a lot. Sometimes it's a good thing though.

  • Open source computer mouse by Ploopy

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  • It used to be an awesome clone of the famous MS Trackball Explorer (now that the patent has expired), but apparently they have completely changed the design and don't offer it anymore: https://www.trackballmouse.org/ploopy-classic/

    Unfortunately I'm not interested in this new design at all.

    If anyone is still looking for an explorer clone, I highly recommend Sanwa.

  • Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC

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  • define American-made

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  • Code red: turning negative feedback into positive outcome

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  • Also remember:

    As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.

    and:

    If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.

    By being humble and understanding that not everybody will perceive the world like you do, you will be able to engage in deeper conversations that foster more fulfilling relationships that can boost your well-being.

  • Bit chat is a peer-to-peer messaging app designed to operate over Bluetooth Low Energy mesh networks

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  • Why write it in two completely different languages?

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  • duckduckgo, icon.horse and favicongrabber.com also have their own APIs for this

    I bet there is a way this could be abused in order to proxy/tunnel arbitrary requests via google IPs. Even if it's slow and must be done through e.g. PNG image data and dynamic subdomains or something, it would still be possible.

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  • Yes they are, but when a platform prides itself on decentralization and tries to gain users based on that, only for the user to find out they're already wrongly banned everywhere because of a centralized blocklist (my personal experience as an example)... to me that's still too centralized.

  • Ubuntu Autopatch Failing

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  • What do you mean by "out of date"... what is out of date? According to what?

    Livepatch is only for kernel security fixes... it doesn't upgrade the regular packages on your system if that's what you mean by "out of date". You either need to run apt (or a GUI version) manually or set it to automatically update your system packages.

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  • I'm not sure what better choice there is if you want strong decentralization/federation... every attempt so far has been met with moderation woes whose solution is just.. more centralization (mjolnir/shared ACLs/blocklists/etc.).