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Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
It's been 3 years, I might have people mixed up, but that was the justification at the time.
Comment · 9 months ago
If you look at the issue tracker, the creator of Webp killed it because of untrue claims there was no interest or advantages over existing formats.

Concerns about the implementation only came up after years of pushback forced google ton reconsider.

Comment · 10 months ago
With that logic, the Django orm should only support one database.
Comment · 11 months ago
HBO owns Westworld and stopped streaming it to avoid paying residuals.
Comment · 11 months ago
Gracefully handling hardware faults is a software problem. The Air France Flight 447 crash was the result of bad software and bad hardware.
Comment · 11 months ago
I'm very surprised that you find this surprising. Do you mostly stay at Airbnb? I expect this at any traditional hotel in the US.
Comment · 11 months ago
How is this relevant to just Mac users?
Comment · 1 year ago
That project is a pipe dream. They don't have what it takes to continue X11 alive once X.Org pulls the plug.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why go through the trouble of exploring such a bug, when you have the ability to just replace the binary with something with a backdoor?
Comment · 1 year ago
AI Slop.
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be easier to ask google than post here. It's the first google result for "blocking website scaling"

Changing your user agent won't help. No half decent web developer has cared about since the 2000s.

Comment · 1 year ago
Most Kobo books have DRM. There are a few publishers (TOR) and authors that are DRM free, but most of books I've wanted have it.

This is why I have a Boox Android eInk tablet, although I only use it with burner accounts. They run Ancient versions of Android.

Comment · 1 year ago
Did I just wake up from a time loop?
Comment · 1 year ago
Launching under AGPL was the kiss of death. They eventually went MIT, but the developers it steered away, probably never gave it a second chance

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