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@ Zangoose @lemmy.world

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  • Sorry had it the other way around, it uses gecko but then uses the Android system WebView as a renderer. I think it's similar in iOS (but with the iOS equivalent of WebView because of iOS limitations) Either way, mixing and matching like that is generally less secure

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  • For the record I didn't downvote you, but if I was actually being serious about opsec I'd say not to use anything based on mobile Firefox at all :)

    1. Firefox mobile is inherently less secure because on mobile because it's basically just slapping a new renderer on top of either safari or Chromium's browser engine. This is partially because, everywhere except the EU, Apple requires all iOS browsers to use the safari engine under the hood, so it doesn't make sense for them to develop their own mobile engine just for EU and Android. If you're actually serious about opsec, just use safari on iOS, Vanadium on GrapheneOS, or Brave (brave is also lame tho :/ There might be a better chromium fork I'm not aware of)
    2. Fennec/Ironfox still have cookies, they won't sign you out of things every time. The improvements come based on actively blocking more telemetry (and hardening it with things like always-https and DNS-over-https, and tracking blockers on by default)
    3. I don't actually have a 3rd thing I'm basically just trolling at this point. Rule of 3s and all. Have a good day.

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  • Fennec and Ironfox are improved versions of Firefox with better privacy/security hardening so picking either is probably preferable to base Firefox

  • It really is the worst image format

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  • I'm realizing my wording might be vague, by "everyone" I meant the big tech companies that didn't implement it, like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe. AFAIK most of the open source apps actually implemented support pretty quickly, and obviously it wouldn't be the end users' fault because they can't change what formats are supported

  • It really is the worst image format

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  • Why are we sending someone to "Extra Hell" for making an improved image format that has better compression and is an overall improvement over all 3 of the existing formats it replaces (jpeg, png, gif)?

    Shouldn't this apply to everyone the companies who refused to adopt it, thus breaking every normal image workflow? (Same thing can be said about JXL)

    Edit: fix vague wording

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • The fact that the macOS usage is still only half as much as OS X after ~6 years is pretty incredible to me, especially since Intel macs have still been supported until the end of this release cycle

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    Maybe it's just me, but I feel like since 2020 reddit has been going downhill

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  • Calling reddit the last bastion of internet quality is a crazy take no matter what time period you're talking about

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    Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM

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  • (preface that I've never actually worked with wasm before)

    It seems like wasm64 exists though? Does it have any crazy limitations or is it just not well supported yet?

  • AMD will finally add HDMI 2.1 support to Linux

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  • Not that I want to defend AMD but the reason they haven't been able to is because HDMI is a private spec and the HDMI forum specifically forbade them from releasing the driver they tried to publish a few years ago (even though the firmware with the actual implementation is in the GPU itself and still proprietary). That's why 2.1 works on windows and not Linux with the past 2 gens of AMD GPUs.

  • Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine

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  • They are quite literally taking the "if you don't like it, fork it yourself" approach. Who said they aren't going to make changes/improvements on top of it?

    I don't see anyone else mentioning it but this is also probably because brave browser is published under the MPL license so the licenses are actually compatible between projects. They don't want to implement completely from scratch because there is a compatible existing implementation that they can build on top of instead of starting from scratch.

  • Furret beats Dragonite in an argument.

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  • Ok but there's a big difference between being on the bleeding edge of tech and releasing games which are borderline unplayable because of bugs and framerate issues to the point where Nintendo issues an apology on your behalf.

  • Furret beats Dragonite in an argument.

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  • I think I'm cautiously optimistic after seeing the gen 10 trailer, but at the same time after ZA I'm ready to skip out on it if the direction looks bad.

    I just want my black/white remakes so I can be done with this franchise -_-

  • Furret beats Dragonite in an argument.

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  • Not that I want to defend Nintendo but Palworld barely even qualifies as the same genre as the mainline Pokemon games, literally the only thing they have in common is that you catch monsters

  • Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore

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  • The work-life balance is otherwise pretty good and my manager/direct coworkers are chill 🤷

    Otherwise I would have lost motivation a long time ago

  • Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore

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  • That's the thing though. Even if the code is good, the plans are good, the outputs are good, etc, it still devolves into chaos after some time.

    If you use AI to generate a bunch of code you then don't internalize it as if you wrote it. You miss out on reuse patterns and implementation details which are harder to catch in review than they are in implementation. Additionally, you don't have anyone who knows the code like the back of their hand because (even if supervised) a person didn't write the code, they just looked over it for correctness, and maybe modified it a little bit.

    It's the same reason why sometimes handwritten notes can be better for learning than typed notes. Yeah one is faster, but the intentionality of slowing down and paying attention to little details goes a long way making code last longer.

    There's maybe something to be said about using LLMs as a sort of sanity check code reviewer to catch minor mistakes before passing it on to a real human for actual review, but I definitely see it as harmful for anything actually "generative"

  • Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore

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  • As someone who has to sift through other people's LLM code every day at my job I can confirm it has definitely not gotten better in the past three months

  • No Microslop for me

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  • As someone who has worked with a pretty large C# codebase and several smaller ones, I've found it to be one of the least efficient languages to program in. This is maybe not a technical fault of the language, but the way Microsoft encourages developing C# means that once you get past a certain point even simple MRs will have 10-20 files changed. There is sooooooooo much boilerplate caused by .NET that even things like Java Spring Boot just don't have (and even then I'd consider Java to be a pretty bloated language in terms of boilerplate).

    That's ignoring the fact that the ecosystem surrounding .NET is a lot more enterprise-y, meaning a good portion of libraries require paid licenses to use.

  • No Microslop for me

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  • My company uses it for some of our legacy on-prem hosting, but a lot of that is being actively decommissioned.

  • Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!

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  • I mean I don't see any reason why a Wayland compositor couldn't support it, it's pretty cursed either way though.

    There's a screenshot in one of the other comments in this thread (from owenfromcanda, I think the other screenshots are fake)

  • Finally, an optimal monitor configuration!

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  • X11 already supports this lol

  • Nix / NixOS @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Clangd LSP support for C/C++ on NixOS?

  • Linux @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Pipewire/Wireplumber set volume based on node name

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Only 5 years out of date now 🙃

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    C++ try not to add footguns challenge (impossible)

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Zangoose @lemmy.world

    Good luck web devs