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Iirc aren’t all iOS browsers just reskinned safari?

Would love more expert opinions about the different Firefox forks

I don’t understand this part:

Waterfox’s governance has allowed it to do something no other fork has (and likely will not do) - trust from other large, imporant third parties which in turn has given Waterfox users access to protected streaming services via Widevine.

That has not at all been our lived experience so far.

Every week it seems like there is a new AI feature snuck in that we have to tell each other about and disable.

It’s funny, in the late 2010s, I met some ‘programmers’ who said they just searched Stack Overflow for code to copy for doing their jobs and that programming was easy. These same people now just use AI do do their shit jobs.

At least with stack overflow you had the chance to learn something.

I still use it

If his eyes were sending out rays, they did go out into space.

But that’s not actually how it works. Although it is how it works in video games (raytracing).

I think it is just a fun way of thinking about it.

In reality, things from space were travelling to earth to interact with Galileo’s retina.

Wait, what?

[…]whenever the criminals quit security updates for this orphan kernel exploit. […]

Funding this criminal world is what I hate more than anything else.

I’m confused. Are Google the criminals in this context? What is the orphan kernel exploit?

The article says itis designed for cold storage of data, e.g. backups, or perhaps things that get written once and accessed infrequently.

“Statistics show that between 60 to 80 percent of all data which is currently stored globally is classed as cold data,” said Kazansky. “However, because of the way that humanity is developing, because of all of the budgets and AI and so on and so forth, a lot of businesses historically have been like, ‘look, we are just going to use hard disk drives or SSDs,’ which are expensive, which are bad for the environment because they consume a lot of energy. They’re non-recyclable. They fail often, but they’re just easier to use. Through inertia, people have been using the incorrect type of tool for a use case that can be used with a different tool.”

How hf can you have 5D space within 3D space? This sounds like marketing bullshit.

The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess “birefringence,” meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light.

That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel’s location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space.

Oh, I get it now. It’s a five-dimensional mathematical space which is given by the three physical space dimensions plus the difference in light orientation and the difference the light strength.

Didn’t they think in those days that your eyes sent beams out to touch whatever they were looking at?

I wonder if he thought his eyes were sending beams out into space.

Do you understand now?

Rice is bad advice

Your question, “What features does the Windows version of Calibre have that the Linux version not have?” cannot be answered without accepting an unargued premise: that the windows version has more features than the Linux version.

No one was saying that, so your question is begging the question.

That is what begging the question means in the uk, unless I’m mistaken.

Some context, which you may or may not be aware of, that makes the original comment funny, is that recently, Calibre, which had been a very boring piece of software, has started including a bunch of AI features. So there are some new forks that intend to make a drop in replacement for Calibre without the unwanted features.

Yes you can. This would remind you that itis an appimage and then delete it

Just shareholders

That is really cool! Thanks!

Thank you kind stranger

That works for things that are installed via the app store, but I install things from other sources as well.

I don’t know what you mean by platforms, but if the software I want is not in the app store, I usually go to their website and see how the developers recommend installing it.

Sometimes I download an appimage. Sometimes I download a .deb. Sometimes the developer wants me to wget directly into sudo (yuck) sometimes I have to clone a github repo, rarely these days do I have to download a source tarball and make compile, but maybe I get some old software that works that way.

Sometimes it is confusing because the software I installed (e.g. Steam) has the preferred way from the website different from the version in the app store (Steam-launcher or whatever). The problem is I don’t remember which method I used to install what.

In my imagination, I open the universal uninstaller, and start typing the app. As I type it shows suggestions. If I select it, it tells me how I installed it (downloaded a deb from their website, etc.,) then the next click takes me to the correct uninstall method.

Thanks! Here’s how you can try to replicate it:

1. Be on Android, with IronFox as the browser
2. Reply to this comment: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/453110#comment_2488545
3. Go to this website https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v883-self-signed-certificate/
4. Select the text starting with 2025-07-09 and ending with We recommend that users who have previously installed the root certificate remove it.
5. Switch back to Blorp, and start your comment with a > Blorp automatically converted this into a quote block. Everything is good so far
6. Paste the formatted text from the webpage. Notice that there are some problems converting the formatted text into markdown: strikethroughs are inconsistent, codeblocks are present when none exist in the copied text, etc.,
7. Switch to editing markdown mode in the bottom right corner
8. Clean up the formatting – remove the code blocks, clean up the strikethroughs so they match the website
9. Save the image from the notepad++ website
10. Switch back to visual mode
11. Place the cursor where the image should go, put in a few line breaks (should still be within the nested quote)
12. Upload the image
13. Blorp becomes unresponsive
14. Closing and reopening the app gets it responsive again, but it goes unresponsive any time you edit that comment.

Let me know if this helps of if you have any advice for how to make bug reports!