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  • Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

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  • It does seem to be animated when I view the file in firefox. That doesn't have to mean it works when embedded on webpages though, but I guess there's an easy way to test that :)

  • How do people handle authoritative DNS redundancy for their self-hosted workloads?

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  • Interesting, that's much more sophisticated than my setup (though to be fair, I host my services on a rented VPS instead of home)!

    The issue only occurs with my externally-facing DNS, which is needed to, for example, to reach my Lemmy backend instance (lemmy.pootis.network) and the pictrs deployment. But yeah, internal DNS works perfectly for me and it easily survives a node failure.

    Could still set up a recursive resolver for external DNS, but I guess that wouldn't help other people who use a bad resolver. Tricky situation.

  • How do people handle authoritative DNS redundancy for their self-hosted workloads?

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  • But even if I query 1.1.1.1 directly for my-website's record, it just doesn't work most of the time because the resolver pins itself to ns1 which is currently failing, or it selects ns1 and does not even care to try ns2.

    That sounds bad. They really shouldn't do that.

    moving my DNS infra somewhere else (Cloudflare, for example)

    And it would also mean this isn't a solution either. If the problem is on the resolvers' side, moving to a different DNS hoster would not change anything. Hm. And the other two potential solutions you've listed would be extremely overkill for this use case...

    Personally, I only host one authoritative nameserver and do redundancy by using some free secondary DNS services (although a friend has also recently set up an authoritative nameserver, so maybe we'll host secondary DNS for each other in the future). I haven't encountered this issue before, but my server also hasn't been down a lot.

    There's a lot of custom machinery that keeps my workloads running and accessible after a node failure, but all of this becomes completely moot when authoritative DNS is the bottleneck.

    If it's only necessary for your own stuff, maybe you should set up a local DNS resolver that works correctly which your services can use?

  • Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin

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  • To be fair, I've heard it from somewhere else too. I'll see if I can find a source.

  • Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin

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  • It's best not to use multiple ad blockers at the same time. They'll conflict with each other and you'll be worse off. uBO alone is probably enough.

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • Ah, didn't expect you to already know qobuz 🙃

    But yeah, that's definitely a problem. I remember them sending the email where they announced this could happen now (although weirdly enough, they never sent an email for when purchased items were taken down any time after that again), and had it happen a few times as well. Luckily, I've also saved everything locally, so I haven't lost anything. Still annoying. Also sometimes, an album that's suddenly gone just seems to reappear a few months later, as if they were just reorganizing their library, but really, I have no idea what's going on.

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • Didn't know about them before, thanks for sharing!

    The same album might be sold lossless in one region and only lossy in another region.

    That's weird, since as far as I can tell, qobuz doesn't offer lossy downloads at all (I've heard they used to, but stopped. Maybe there are some regions where they're still offering it?)

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • Copyrights are rights. A license grants others (parts of) that right. A copyright isn't a license.

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • I don't really see what that has to do with what I said? Unless you are saying that licenses exist for other things than copyright (in response to “licenses are a copyright concept”). That's definitely true, I oversimplified to make my point, but I'm also pretty sure that copyright licenses are the only kind of license that are relevant here in the first place.

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • MP3 is a horrible non-free (well, not anymore, because the patents expired; but still), outdated format. bandcamp also lets you download as FLAC, which is none of that and lossless.

    edit: it feels this comment came off a bit aggressively, so I just wanted to say that wasn't my intention 😅

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • Not quite true anymore, publishers have pretty much given up on DRM for purchased music :)

    Neither Apple's iTunes store nor amazon's store (although to be fair, I haven't used amazon, so I'm not 100 % sure about them) use DRM on purchased music, so you can just take the music files and use them in any way you want. In my personal opinion though, rather than use the iTunes store or amazon, I'd recommend you to try the qobuz store, which is DRM-free and is the only one I know of (ignoring bandcamp, which doesn't get music from regular distributors) that provides lossless audio.

  • PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games

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  • Licenses are a copyright concept, but this isn't a copyright issue. You're buying a copy of a game, and you should own the copy after the purchase (which of course, means the company who sold it to you shouldn't be able to revoke your access at will). That's the part that sony is apparently not willing to do. But copyright-wise, it would be a license either way, so I don't think it's a good idea to confuse people with only tangentially related concepts here.

  • Hide posts already viewed from the feed

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  • The closest you'll probably get to this is by disabling “show read posts” (also called “show me posts I've already viewed”).

  • Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature

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  • Yeah. I believe it has a different name on iOS, but they both have the feature.

    A really nice feature would be a hardware button triggering this mode!

    And I think iOS literally lets you configure the button on the side of the phone to enable this mode by quickly pressing it three times or something like that.

  • Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com

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  • If you allow me to do a bit of self-promotion: https://code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym (this is my fork of the software running on old.lemmy.world).

    It's a different frontend rather than just a theme, so it needs to be set up separately (similar to lemmy-ui). If you have any questions, feel free to ask me :)

  • Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

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  • Same. I can also recommend the Qobuz download store, which has a larger library because they get their music from the usual distributors.

  • Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

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  • I was wondering when an open source solution to that would come out, similar to sponsorblock for YouTube, but I guess Spotify is first.

    https://spotsponsorblock.org/ :)

  • authenticity problem

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  • So if a poster uses an em dash out of that context, it right away throws up a red flag cuz... howd you do that easily?

    Did you memorize the alt code to make one?

    On KDE, the default keyboard layout makes it pretty easy to type the various dashes and quotation marks, so that's one way. Ever since discovering that, I've been making a conscious effort to use them (because I am the type of person who likes doing the typograhically correct thing, even in an informal context… maybe that's the problem, actually). Haven't been called out as “AI” yet, but it's probably going to happen at some point.

  • What instance of Lemmy would you recommend to use, lemmy world or something else?

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    1. A very minor minor comment; one thing I don't like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.

    You can set this on the preferences page :)