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Comment · 2 years ago
What a major victory for birds all across the globe. A feather is not ours to steal and parade around as if it’s our own culture. Maybe the ASF could replace this with a lock of human hair instead.
Comment · 3 years ago
Anecdotally, Firefox has always been faster than Chrome on MacOS for me. Great to see it’s only getting even better.
Comment · 3 years ago
Give LLMs five more years and this won't be an issue. The fact that it even gets close is seriously impressive.

For people like me who aren't sysadmins, but simply have to do maintenance tasks on VPSes from time to time, something like this would be a godsend.

Comment · 3 years ago
Out of all the monthly subscriptions I have, YouTube Premium is by far my favourite. I don’t see an issue with paying for something I use so much everyday.

Let’s be real, at this point YouTube is too big to fail. Without Google’s capital it would be impossible to do this at scale. Also I would much rather support Google and independent creators rather than Netflix and the entertainment industry.

Comment · 3 years ago
It used to work this way on iOS until they absolutely butchered the text cursor functionality with IIRC iOS 15.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a great example of how bad the UX has gotten for at-home music playback.
Comment · 3 years ago
The GUI is buggy to say the least, but the actual torrent transfers are faster in every step of the way compared to Transmission 3.x in my testing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nice proof of concept. Might be good enough for basic visualisations but once you det into labelling it becomes unwieldy.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think the developers at T-Mobile are equally pissed off about this. But with Firefox market share sitting at 3.5% in the US, it no longer makes business sense to spend the extra money required to make their site work in what is now a niche browser.

It's Google's world, we're just living in it.

Comment · 4 years ago
Not a disease? That's down to semantics and personal opinion. What isn't opinion is the fact that the symptoms of ADHD have been objectively identified on a global scale, in people from very different cultures and social classes.

I agree that it isn't beneficial to label a very livable condition with the same word that we use for much harsher illnesses, and it doesn't help that it's not a visible condition. But as somebody with ADHD, it really hurts me to keep seeing this argument repeated ad nausea.

Maybe the issue isn't that it is being overdiagnosed, but rather the fact that the only treatment we consider worthwhile is prescribing amphetamines to children.

Comment · 4 years ago
How do you do this specifically? Do you use some kind of bridging software or do you make a shim for each plugin that loads Wine on the fly?
Comment · 4 years ago
I recently bought a "t.racks DSP 4x4 Mini" which is an inexpensive hardware DSP box capable of the same. I just have it sitting between my soundcard and some active speakers.

Gives me peace of mind knowing my EQ curve always is on even if I'm using software that's outputting direct to my interface.

Comment · 4 years ago
TikTok and YouTube are fundamentally different and serve no danger to each other.

Nobody's watching a 25-minute video on TikTok.

Comment · 4 years ago
Hot take - the YouTube Music suggestions algorithm is miles ahead of Spotify and Apple music if your tastes deviate a bit from mainstream music.
Comment · 4 years ago
> "Driving me away from the platform"

Lol. Where else are you going to go? YouTube is a de facto monopoly when it comes to self-published shortform videos.

The consequences of the "everything-is-free" Web 2.0 internet has created some very arrogant consumers that won't even pay $10/mo. to support content creators.

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