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- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 19 hours ago:
Note that I am, despite your assertion, using the full uBlock Origin, not the Google-friendly uBlock Origin Lite
Seeing your screenshot I was curious how that works, so I spent a minute searching and found this post from June 2024 where Vivaldi says:
We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.
In my quick search I didn’t find anything more recent about their schedule for dropping it, so I guess (assuming your software is up-to-date?) they haven’t dropped it yet but presumably will do soon.
But in any case, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source, so, I recommend against using it.
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- Comment on NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations 23 hours ago:
Meanwhile the Tiangong space station began construction in 2021 and has been continuously crewed since June 2022. It currently has capacity for six people, and via UNOOSA-organized cooperation has plans to host experiments from 17 countries including Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. The first non-Chinese person to travel there will likely be from Pakistan. (The US would be welcome too but Congress currently prohibits NASA from participating.)
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 1 week ago:
Sure it’s possible, but you can’t actually do it. Because you need a dedicated programer
I try to avoid recommending proprietary software but FYI the multimedia authoring tool formerly known as FutureSplash Animator which you presumably knew as Adobe Flash Professional (or perhaps Macromedia Flash before that) in fact lives on today as Adobe Animate and it can now target HTML5/SVG/WebGL/etc.
There are also many free/libre open source alternatives to it.
- MODPOD: The collapse of IETF's protections for dissent - new rules will go into effect unless enough people hear what's happening and file objections by October 7 (in any timezone, so 18 hours remain)blog.cr.yp.to ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
i’ve gotten some cooked mp3s before. i don’t know if they got that way through steaming or what but i did need to uncook them before i eventually burned them 🤔
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 weeks ago:
Tylenol is Acetaminophen
… which is what most of the world calls paracetamol.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 5 weeks ago:
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also: username checks out
- He crossed 26 miles in a kayak made from mushrooms – and lived to tell the talewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that this is not a publication I want to send traffic to, for a variety of reasons.
I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining.
- MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Declinepublichealthpolicyjournal.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 154 comments
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month ago:
with BlueSky I’d have to account for the data volume of all users on the platform as a whole, bringing the data volume way up to tens of terabytes
I think this is a common misconception based on some critics’ incorrect assumptions and back-of-the-envelope math. See the atproto overview for the different components involved, and then this post (from a BlueSky employee) “A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month” for some numbers.
If I understand correctly, to run a “full nework relay” does mean to consume all of the text posts from all known servers, but not necessarily all of the media, and not necessarily to keep data you aren’t interested in for any long period of time.
Also, you can run your own PDS and/or App Views without running your own relay at all. And, you can also use multiple other people’s relays.
Disclaimer: I’m not an atproto expert, and I haven’t set any of this up myself.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month ago:
The blog post also says this:
There is one other thing which Bluesky gets right, and which the present-day fediverse does not. This is that Bluesky uses content-addressed content, so that content can survive if a node goes down. In this way (well, also allegedly with identity, but I will critique that part because it has several problems), Bluesky achieves its “credible exit” (Bluesky’s own term, by the way) in that the main node or individual hosts could go down, posts can continue to be referenced. This is possible to also do on the fediverse, but is not done presently; today, a fediverse user has to worry a lot about a node going down. indeed I intentionally fought for and left open the possibility within ActivityPub of adding content-addressed posts, and several years ago I wrote a demo of how to combine content addressing with ActivityPub. But nonetheless, even though such a thing is spec-compatible with ActivityPub, content-addressing is not done today on ActivityPub, and is done on Bluesky.
My comment should have been clearer; what I meant when i said it is more “decentralized architecturally” I was referring to the data model part of the architecture as opposed to the physical server infrastructure currently operating it. The latter is obviously quite centralized still, but the former is designed for resilience against nodes unexpectedly (and permanently) failing.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month ago:
ok, but, does ActivityPub have portable identity and/or content addressability yet, so that when some of those servers (which are often hobbyist-run and/or tenuously funded) inevitably cease operating their users can continue on a different server? 👀
It’s a rhetorical question, and the answer is no.
otoh, atproto’s PLC DID method is also not really decentralized… but at least the rest of their system is actually substantially more decentralized architecturally than AP is.
To anyone interested in reading a very informative in-depth discussion of this topic, I recommend the blog post How decentralized is Bluesky really? by ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber (followed by this and this).
- Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs 1 month ago:
i looked into other services with did got an llm to put those ideas in the required format for the issue. Can you please point out the hallucinations in the issue so i can go and fix them
No. Asking other people to read (and now also to correct!) your LLM slop is extremely inconsiderate. Please don’t do that again.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 1 month ago:
here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:
this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones
- Comment on There are people young enough to not even remember Pokémon Red/Blue who are old enough to be parents now 1 month ago:
- Comment on kansas can get fcked 1 month ago:
- Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 1 month ago:
paywall bypass: archive.is/mdi9x
- Comment on Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? 1 month ago:
(tldr: libxslt is a significant source of vulnerabilities and it should absolutely be removed from browsers ASAP.)
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 1 month ago:
in US english posh is a synonym for british
/s (½)
- Comment on Me too. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 1 month ago:
also the maelstrom in question actually does exist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskstraumen
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 1 month ago:
looking closer I see the earliest archive.org snapshot of this URL (from Feb 27, 2020, the day it was published) also says 1857 so it seems like the transposition to 1847 must have happened somewhere else - and yet the attribution to SciAm (external to the screenshot) was somehow preserved. @nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world can you shed any light on this mystery? where did you obtain this image (and know to attribute it to SciAm)?
- Comment on Terrible liquid coils 1 month ago:
apparently in 1857 “I have been informed by a European acquaintance” was sufficient sourcing for something to be published in Scientific American :)
somewhat relatedly, it’s 2025 now so you can actually link to a thing instead of just posting a screenshot of it: scientificamerican.com/…/that-giant-sucking-sound…
i wonder why this screenshot (and OP’s text which includes the fact that this comes from scientific american, which is not included in the screenshot) both say 1847 while the text on the SciAm website says it’s actually from 1857 🤔
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 2 months ago:
2nd arrest made in alleged shootings at GTA movie theatres
article doesn’t say which of these theaters it was 🤔
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 months ago:
NTFS, fat32, exfat, could I theoretically create my own filesystem?
Yes. There are many different file systems and with a bit of work you can absolutely create your own. Making one that is reliable and performs well, and/or is something you can actually use for the disk that you boot from, is a lot of work and generally involves low-level kernel programming - not exactly a beginner’s programming project.
However, you can also more easily play with implementing filesystems in a high-level language using FUSE.
If so would my computer even be able to work with most files or connect to other devices?
Your computer can use many different filesystems at the same time. You can also store a filesystem in a file on another filesystem, rather than dedicating a partition of a physical disk to it. So, yes, you can use a filesystem of your own design at the same time you are using other storage devices formatted with more common filesystems.
- Comment on Le Penguini 2 months ago:
- Comment on Think about it 2 months ago:
