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Re:How to make Firefox builds 17% faster on Monday April 13, 2026 @04:40PM (#47757529)
Why compile code when ccache faster
Definitely, a Spotify boycott would only be necessary if they ran ads for ICE, but that would be ridiculous...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/spotify-ice-recruitment-ad...

Re:The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:08PM (#47009087)
I get a cookie banner accessing that page.
As an Android power user (I’ve ran Lineage, Graphene, rooted with Magisk and passed safetynet) that’s moved to IOS this last month. My subjective opinion: app quality is the same.
Re:Just the Browser on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:23AM (#46648186)
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next...

“AI must be clear and understandable. Controls must be simple. AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.”

Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:32AM (#45194427)
Personally, no I don't see it.
Re:DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020) on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:52PM (#44382534)
Yes simple things such as becoming employed at Mozilla to perform corporate espionage for Google.
I found that hopping to different VPN servers is a mildly inconvenient workaround for that.
Re:Vision Now Available in Llama.cpp on Saturday May 10, 2025 @06:16PM (#43949447)
Give https://docs.openwebui.com/ a look, you'll be able to access it by using your desktops IP while on your laptop (providing you're on the same network).
And if I did my own taxes, I wouldn't know if I were in legal trouble until audit day as well!
Re:DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:43PM (#41801958)
It's not exactly the same, but as an alternative to what jauntywundrkind you can use V4L2-Loopback and OBS to create a virtual webcam and use that to share your screen. I find it really handy being able to switch between either just my cam, my desktop or both.
Re:Anime Is Eating the World on Monday September 23, 2024 @04:40PM (#41630283)
I think Jobless Reincarnation is a perfect example because of its paedophilic undertones if not outright being so.
Yes, because unconsensually sharing sexually explicit material of people is bad.
While there'll be people arguing that you can always draw someone, or cut out their face from a photo and put it on someone else the major wrong that this is attempting to right is the abundance of services that now easily automate this.

For those who talk about privacy in your own home, there's plenty of stuff that's done in peoples homes that's illegal and no one cares about. This law's only going to come into effect when these start being shared which I hope we can all agree is a bad thing if done unconsensually.

Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:05PM (#39933095)
> Two thirds of the merchants surveyed reported no change or didn't know the change in their debit costs post-regulation. One fourth actually reported an increase in debit costs