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F3nd0 commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo   blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
4gotunameagain · 4 days ago
I will eat my hat if Google had nothing to do with the demise of Mozilla, what an absolute disgrace.

How incompetent can they be, how out of touch with their core (and arguably only) product ?

Nobody wants AI in firefox.

F3nd0 · 4 days ago
Do we know for a fact that 'nobody wants AI in Firefox'?
F3nd0 commented on Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says   energyconnects.com/news/u... · Posted by u/mpweiher
jshmrsn · 5 days ago
I wish Taiwan’s reactors were never shut down in the first place, and I hope Taiwan can hold out long enough to get it started back up again. It’s a step towards being able to withstand a blockade (Taiwan lacks oil, gas, and goal resources, so it relies on imports). If PRC chose to attack a nuclear power plant, it might give the necessary pressure for international intervention.

For what it’s worth, I’ve personally walked around the nuclear containment area on Orchid island and swam in the waters around it. It’s a well managed and nice place.

F3nd0 · 5 days ago
Hasn't Russia chosen to attack a nuclear power plant in their recent aggression? Unless you're thinking of a more destructive kind of attack, I probably shouldn't be counting on international intervention.
F3nd0 commented on GNU recutils: Plain text database   gnu.org/software/recutils... · Posted by u/polyrand
dontdoxxme · 6 days ago
This among other things is why the GNU project as a whole has little credibility left.
F3nd0 · 6 days ago
Taste in logos—among the most dependable of measures for credibility!
F3nd0 commented on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web   cybercultural.com/p/lastf... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
wantlotsofcurry · 6 days ago
I love last.fm with all my being. I recently created a ListenBrainz (same org as MusicBrainz) account which is an open source alternative that you don’t have to host yourself. I’m scrobbling to both places now just in case.

Check out tapmusic.net too to make cool diagrams out of your scrobbled music.

F3nd0 · 6 days ago
Doesn't look like Tapmusic supports ListenBrainz; does it?

Then again, if all it does is collages, then ListenBrainz has a tool for that of its own.

F3nd0 commented on GNU Unifont   unifoundry.com/unifont/in... · Posted by u/remywang
positron26 · 8 days ago
> A user has asked if GNU Unifont can be used with commercial (non-free) software.

One can be forgiven for thinking the author means to imply that all commercial software is non-free. It is a further disappointment that anyone has to ask.

Open source was right to get rid of the intentional and unintentionally anti-commercial motifs that only got in the way of paid open source development.

F3nd0 · 8 days ago
> One can be forgiven for thinking the author means to imply that all commercial software is non-free.

Do they mean to imply this? It can also be read as a clarification about the mentioned software, not all commercial software in general. Could just be poor wording.

> Open source was right to get rid of the intentional and unintentionally anti-commercial motifs that only got in the way of paid open source development.

Open source did succeed in avoiding the problem present in English language, but in doing so, shifted focus away from freedom and onto different confusing motifs. A rare word like 'libre' arguably does an even better job while staying true to the original ideas behind the term 'free'.

F3nd0 commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower
sebastiennight · 8 days ago
At this point, the milk has become yoghurt, the yoghurt has become cheese, and the cheese has become a cow again. (Is that how it works?)
F3nd0 · 8 days ago
(Not quite; you need to add yoghurt to the milk, in order to make yoghurt. For the rest, though, all you need are bacteria for the cheese and cow to develop naturally.)
F3nd0 commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower
bragr · 8 days ago
They know. That's why it is a brand new throw away account.
F3nd0 · 8 days ago
I'm inclined to believe it was written in jest. Then again, I shouldn't be too surprised if it wasn't.
F3nd0 commented on When a video codec wins an Emmy   blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
g947o · 10 days ago
I assume "file sharing community" is the euphemism for "movie pirating community", but I apologize if I made the wrong assumption.

If that's a correct guess -- I think the biggest reason is about hardware support, actually. When you have pirated movies, where are you going to play it? TV. Your TV or TV box very likely has support for H265, but very few has AV1 support.

Then the choice is apparent.

F3nd0 · 10 days ago
Once can very well argue that 'movie pirating community' is more properly the dysphemism for 'file sharing community'. :-)
F3nd0 commented on Constructing the Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine   stackchk.fail/blog/jxl_ha... · Posted by u/luispa
progbits · 11 days ago
Also one which doesn't add new image decoder with built-in VM that is rawdogged in C, like Safari.

Chrome and Firefox are making a very reasonable decision to wait for a memory safe decoder.

F3nd0 · 11 days ago
Chrome's involvement in the past few years has (until very recently) been anything but reasonable.

That said, have any of them subjected WebP or AVIF to the same strict requirements, or should we reserve those only for less complex codecs actually designed with images in mind?

F3nd0 commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig   lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
loxodrome · 15 days ago
I just want Zig with classes, Zig++. :(
F3nd0 · 15 days ago
Or possibly Objective-Zig. :-)

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