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Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.
  • You mean "confidentiality", not privacy.
    Just the metadata related to whether you personally, traceable to your full name and address, have a Signal account and how much you use it might be considered a privacy breach already, even if the content of the messages is confidential.

  • For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one
  • "First evidence in a billion years of two lifeforms merging into one"

    It's slightly shorter and more accurate.. it does not state absolutely that it happened for the first time, but rather that it's the first evidence we've found.

  • It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this
  • And please, get all countries to actually start properly accepting ISO 8601 format for dates as a mandatory universal standard...

    Obligatory reference: https://xkcd.com/1179/

  • Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps
  • Yes. The thing is that then you are no longer anonymously using yt-dlp.
    The next step would be trying to detect that case.. maybe adding captchas when there's even a slight suspicion.
    Perhaps even to the point of banning users (and then I hope you did not rely on the same account for gmail or others).
    It'll be a cat and mouse situation. Similar as it happened with Twitter, there are also third party apps, but many gave up.

  • Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps
  • I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they start doing something like what Twitter did and require login to view the content.

  • Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps
  • The thing is.. they are not really disagreeing if they are not saying something that conflicts or challengues the argument.

    They just mistakenly believe they disagree when in fact they are agreeing. That's what makes it stupid.

  • Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps
  • If you don’t like it, vote with your wallet

    I'd say more: don't use Youtube if you don't like it.

    It's very hypocritical to see how everyone bashes at Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Uber, etc. and yet they continue using it as if life would be hell without the luxury of those completelly non essential brands. If you truly don't like them, just let them die... look for alternatives. Supporting an alternative is what's gonna hurt them the most if what you actually want is to force them to change.

    There's also a lot of videos from rich Youtube creators complaining about Youtube policies, and yet most of them don't even try to set up channels on alternative platforms. Many creators have enough resources to even launch their own private video podcast services, and yet only very few do anything close to even attempt that.

  • Your first distribution
  • I think it was Mandrake Linux for me.
    It no longer exists though. ...I guess I'm old.

  • Minecraft brings official mod support to ALL platforms — And the first free add-ons are already here
  • The title is a bit confusing.. at first I thought this meant they are bringing Bedrock add-ons to Java Edition.

    But no, they are just improving the modding support that already existed in Bedrock. However, Java edition still can't use those new mods.

  • Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
  • The packager always should "explicitly require" what are the dependencies in a Nix package... it's not like it's a choice, if there are missing dependencies then that'd be a bug.

    If the package is not declaring its dependencies properly then it might not run properly in NixOS, since there are no "system libraries" in that OS other than the ones that were installed from Nix packages.

    And one of its advantages over AppImages is that instead of bundling everything together causing redundancies and inefficient use of resources, you actually have shared libraries with Nix (not the system ones, but Nix dependencies). If you have multiple AppImages that bundle the same libraries you can end up having the exact same version of the library installed multiple times (or loaded in memory, when running). Appimages do not scale, you would be wasting a lot of resources if you were to make heavy use of them, whereas with Nix you can run an entire OS built with Nix packages.

  • Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
  • Huh? as far as I know it has its own libraries and dependency system. What do you mean?

  • Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
  • The nice thing about Nix/Guix is that each version of a library only needs to be installed once and it wont really be "bundled" with the app itself. So it would be a lot easier to hunt down the packages that are depending on a bad library.

  • Why aren't more people using NixPKGs?
  • Flatpak still depends on runtimes though, I have a few different runtimes I had to install just because of one or two flatpaks that required them (like for example I have both the gnome and kde flatpak runtimes, despite not running either of those desktop environments)... and they can depend on specific versions of runtimes too! I remember one time flatpak recommended me to uninstall one flatpak program I had because it depended on a deprecated runtime that was no longer supported.

    Also, some flatpaks can depend on another flatpak, like how for Godot they are preparing a "parent" flatpak (I don't remember the terminology) that godot games can depend on in order to reduce redundancies when having multiple godot games installed.

    Because of those things, you are still likely to require a flatpak remote configured and an internet connection when you install a flatpak. It's not really a fully self contained thing.

    Appimages are more self contained.. but even those might make assumptions on what libraries the system might have, which makes them not as universal as they might seem. That or the file needs to be really big, unnecessarily so. Usually, a combination or compromise between both problems, at the discretion of the dev doing the packaging.

    The advantage with Nix is that it's more efficient with the users space (because it makes sure you don't get the exact same version of a library installed twice), while making it impossible to have a dependency conflict regardless of how old or new is what you wanna install (which is something the package manager from your typical distro can't do).

  • European Commission (@[email protected])
  • From the actual regulation text:

    the concept of ‘illegal content’ should broadly reflect the existing rules in the offline environment. In particular, the concept of ‘illegal content’ should be defined broadly to cover information relating to illegal content, products, services and activities. In particular, that concept should be understood to refer to information, irrespective of its form, that under the applicable law is either itself illegal, such as illegal hate speech or terrorist content and unlawful discriminatory content, or that the applicable rules render illegal in view of the fact that it relates to illegal activities. Illustrative examples include the sharing of images depicting child sexual abuse, the unlawful non-consensual sharing of private images, online stalking, the sale of non-compliant or counterfeit products, the sale of products or the provision of services in infringement of consumer protection law, the non-authorised use of copyright protected material, the illegal offer of accommodation services or the illegal sale of live animals. In contrast, an eyewitness video of a potential crime should not be considered to constitute illegal content, merely because it depicts an illegal act, where recording or disseminating such a video to the public is not illegal under national or Union law. In this regard, it is immaterial whether the illegality of the information or activity results from Union law or from national law that is in compliance with Union law and what the precise nature or subject matter is of the law in question.

    So, both.

  • Are We All Too Cynical for Star Trek?
  • Were the earlier series not focused on shared values to more or less a similar extent too?
    Kirk has usually been given the reputation of being a rule-breaker, often ignoring Starfleet rules when they are in conflict with his values. Even off-camera (in DS9 I think) they attribute him 17 temporal violations, and I think he has been accused of violating the prime directive multiple times.

  • Apple to EU: “Go fuck yourself”
  • +1, either cull them from the union or cull them from the free trade deals.
    What makes no sense is to let them decide to not enforce the EU rules while at the same time treating them as if they are a valid compliant member when it comes to trading with other countries in the union.

  • [Julia Evans] Combining Branches
  • I feel it's a balance. Each operation has a purpose.

    Rebasing makes sense when you are working in a feature branch together with other people so you rebase your own commits to keep the feature branch lean before you finally merge it into the main branch, instead of polluting the history with a hard to follow mess of sub branches for each person. Or when you yourself ended up needing to rewrite (or squash) some commits to clean up / reorganize related changes for the same feature. Or when you already committed something locally without realizing you were not on sync with the latest version of a remote branch you are working on and you don't wanna have it as a 1-single-commit branch that has to be merged.

    Squashing with git merge --squash is also very situational.. ideally you wouldn't need it if your commits are not messy/tiny/redundant enough that combining them together makes it better.

  • Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts?
  • Same effort as getting &* and () on a US layout (so, modifier key + 7 8 9 0, respectively), the difference is you press AltGr instead of Shift as the modifier. And i'd argue its actually easier to press AltGr with the thumb than shift with the pinky.

  • www.theguardian.com EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power

    Digital Markets Act aims to allow more competition and let consumers delete preloaded phone apps

    EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power
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