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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

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  • Are they doing their own development or are they still mostly reliant on Mozilla? The thing with all these forks is that I doubt they'd be able to continue development if Mozilla were to disappear, since they still rely heavily on Mozilla.

  • Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May

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  • I'm still sad they got rid of MSN Messenger in favour of Skype. MSN had superior video and audio quality.

    I had so many international friends on MSN Messenger that I have no idea how to contact any more.

  • Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May

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  • Google Voice is good. I use it to call from the USA to Australia which is only $0.01/minute and doesn't have any monthly fees. You can see the rates here: https://voice.google.com/rates

    I've got an Android phone and you can configure Google Voice so that it's automatically used whenever you make an international call from your phone's regular dialer.

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • Some people pronounce it like "fack", and the official way to pronounce GameFAQs is "game facks"

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • Am I missing something? I've always pronounced it "imager". How else would you pronounce it?

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  • Building a browser from scratch is going to cost well over a million dollars in development costs. I don't think they'd be able to achieve it without sponsors.

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  • The web platform is huge... It's going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.

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  • They recently started developing it again, after being silent for a long time. They released Amarok 3.0 in April 2024 which migrated it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

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  • What's the advantage over regular Firefox?

  • Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos

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  • So is this really just a local AI model? Or is it something bigger? My S25 Ultra has the app but it hasn't used any battery or data.

  • Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos

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  • I see it on my S25 Ultra.

  • MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want

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  • This is the type of content I need in my life at the moment.

  • Encrypted backups to the cloud

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  • is the only "cloud" storage service I'm aware of that doesn't charge for either right now

    Hetzner doesn't either for their storage boxes. They support Borgbackup, restic, rclone, SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV and SMB.

    Most storage VPSes will include a decent amount of traffic per month.

  • Encrypted backups to the cloud

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  • I use Borgbackup, with borgmatic to configure and periodically run it. I have two storage VPSes "in the cloud", and back up to both of them. My main storage VPS is a HostHatch one with 10TB space for $10/month. I got it during Black Friday sales in 2021.

    If you do back up to multiple destinations, Borgbackup's devs recommend configuring two separate backups, rather than doing a backup to one server then syncing it to the second one. This is to handle the case where one of the backups becomes corrupted.

    Hetzner have decent deals on their "storage boxes". You don't get root access, but they support Borgbackup, restic and rclone in addition to the regular protocols (SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, SMB).

    Make sure you configure the SSH key to only allow it to run borgbackup in "append only" mode, so that malware/ransomware on the client system can't delete the backups. This is a common issue with other backup solutions like rsync - the client has full access to the server, so a malicious user/code could delete the whole backup.

  • Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases

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  • This isn't strictly true because most games do still have a playable version on the disk

    At least on my Xbox, there's games where it wouldn't let me play them unless some updates were installed. "day one patches" are very common in the video game industry these days.

    legally transferable due to doctrine of first sale as I understand it.

    The first sale doctrine applies to physical goods. The game companies are moving towards the games always being digital goods, and the disc simply being a physical license key for the digital games. I'm not sure if the doctrine would apply in the same way in this case.

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  • The only difference between a physical and digital copy of a video game is the format of the license key (on disc vs attached to your account). In either case, you're buying a license key that can be revoked by the manufacturer at any time. A playable game isn't even on the disc any more, since games aren't finished by the master date any more (so you need to have internet access regardless of if it's a disc or digital copy)

    At least California is doing something and forcing stores to make it clearer that you're only getting a revokable license rather than actually buying the product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • Diaspora doesn't use ActivityPub, does it? It's still a Fediverse app though, and still fairly widely used.

    It would be one hell of a stretch to assert that a single platform with its own home made protocol that doesn’t talk to any other technology in the entire fediverse as part of that fediverse. So at best you can say Bluesky has its own fediverse.

    I agree with this.

  • Same BS every year

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  • I totally understand. I hate owing a lot too, but sometimes I get the estimations wrong. I've got a fixed yearly salary, but a big portion of my pay is stock (RSUs) so the tax I owe varies based on when I sell the stock.

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  • Why is ActivityPub "the" Fediverse? "Fediverse" is very broad and encompasses multiple protocols, a lot of which predate ActivityPub becoming commonplace.

    The original Fediverse apps are still around and don't use ActivityPub. For example, StatusNet / GNU Social use OStatus and Identica uses Activity Streams / ActivityPump (which was the protocol before ActivityPub). diaspora (if it's still around) used its own protocol too.

    Some of the older apps have adapted to use ActivityPub, while some of them still exist in their own separate part of the Fediverse.