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Re:JetKVM Mini on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:08AM (#49681729)
Can't you do the same thing in Windows' own Advanced Display Settings, by toggling the resolution in list of modes? (I might be remembering the naming wrong). That seems to work to change the "Active Signal Resolution" or whatever it is. But perhaps the Nvidia method is faster.

I agree that it's insane it works this way though.

Re:Firefox intent to ship: JPEG XL on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:53AM (#49429978)
Tell that to all the users with iPhones chucking out HEIC/HEIF images by default, which are much less convenient
Re:Staging patches with Git add -p on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:38PM (#49104007)
Mercurial's `hg commit -i` with the curses interface is so much better for this it's not even funny. Fortunately I'd assume Jujutsu's UX is similar, based on arccy's comment.
Do you actually even have more power with git?
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @06:43AM (#47763845)
I wonder if it's because of the font-weight being decreased. If I disable the `font-weight` rule in Firefox's Inspector the text gets noticeably darker, but the contrast score doesn't change. Could be a bad interaction with anti-aliasing thin text that the contrast checker isn't able to pick up.
Re:GitHub Stacked PRs on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:30AM (#47762860)
My understanding was that that was more a function of how arc submitted stuff to Phabricator, rather than solely Phabricator itself. arc at submission time submitted a bunch of different commits as a single Phabricator DREV or whatever the terminology is/was (basically a DREV is the {domain}/D123 webpage you'd do a review on). But other tools that submitted commits to Phabricator instances (and maybe even arc itself with the right flag?) submitted each commit as its own separate DREV, so each commit got its own separate /D{N} page and its own review, but all linked together in a stack. And then still landed as separate commits in the actual repo. This is how code submission works with Mozilla's use of Phabricator.
Re:What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:30PM (#46995501)
No because they weren't optical, they were magnetic.
This is factually incorrect. GOG famously has no DRM.
Re:Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky) on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:54PM (#46673456)
Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space series is modern and without humans as the bad guys. And highly recommended too. The books are also more standalone than calling it a series would suggest, but he also has lots of other one-shot books, and a few trilogies, if that would be a better way for you to try him out. I got into him via the standalone Pushing Ice.
Obviously "lust" is a forbidden word for domains. Must be a porn site.
Re:Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:26PM (#46175933)
Sounds like you're just sailing the wrong seas. Some have plenty of AV1. Though those tend to be more obviously advertised as such, I believe, so perhaps this is about downloads from YouTube.
Re:Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python on Saturday December 06, 2025 @02:25PM (#46175917)
> A more direct way that also bails out early

If it bails out early it is of no use to them.

> This means that if the test fails, I can see all the affected videos at once. If the test failed on the first AV1 video, I’d only know about one video at a time, which would slow me down.

Huh, I wonder why we would put potential interspecies messages on the probes we're sending into interstellar space, but not on the ones we are only putting into orbit around our neighbouring planet. Real mystery.
Re:Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification on Thursday November 20, 2025 @10:11AM (#45993388)
Looking at the full diff[0] it certainly looks like it's using ~/.cache (and has been for some time), but I cannot see anything about ~/.local/share, no.

[0] https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8a6d6c0...

Re:Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @06:39PM (#45986843)
This is grossly unfair.

You've entirely omitted the `dism /cleanup-image /(scan|check|restore)-health` rain dance

Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web on Monday November 03, 2025 @06:11AM (#45797880)
>Browsers don't have native support for MathML any more for a good reason. Mozilla did support this for a while but dropped it because of limited adoption and high maintenance burden.

This seems to just be entirely untrue? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML shows wide support (For Chromium/Blink-based since version 109) and if I open the example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/P... in Firefox and Edge both seem to render it correctly.

Re:The reason GCC is not a library (2000) on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:16AM (#45632335)
Re:Brutalita Sans: An Experimental Font and Font Editor on Thursday September 25, 2025 @10:08AM (#45372789)
So far as I can tell an extra blank grid appears as soon as the previous blank one has content/pre-existing default grid is edited.
Re:YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press) on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:54PM (#45305791)
Huh, last/only time I used yt-dlp on a livestream it downloaded exactly from when I ran it, didn't get anything in the past at all (which was a shame for me personally at the time, as I would have liked the earlier stuff too).

Maybe that was a difference in the stream itself though, since I've experienced both past-seekable and live-only live streams on YouTube.

Re:FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:33AM (#44941089)
Prior discussion 2025-02-22, 222 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140614
Re:Sign in with Google in Chrome on Monday July 28, 2025 @08:24PM (#44717528)
Is this a successor to Mozilla's old Persona project, or similar in anyway?
Yeah audio CDs do (or at least can) carry those bare bones of metadata, which can be used by some CD players with built-in displays to display the currently playing track title etc.

It's defined by the CD-Text extension[0] to the Red Book standard.

I think classical releases probably make greater use of it to encode things like composer and arranger, since they are more important to that audience, but for the average popular music release you're only going to get the artist and title, and maybe the ISRC that few are going to care about/display anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text

Huh, once I saw the image with the discrepancies I immediately assumed 'ah, "Nothing Coming Soon" must be in the pre-gap of "Don't Need a Reason", especially with that track length, and the rip combined that into one music file', but no, turns out it just isn't defined in the disc metadata at all. Wonder if that's a (mastering?) error, given that the TITLE metadata doesn't even include it.
Re:Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)? on Sunday June 08, 2025 @06:04AM (#44215937)
Couldn't you just make my-private-server.vanity-domain.example a manual /etc/hosts entry to prevent advertising it?
Re:The Awful German Language on Friday May 16, 2025 @02:09AM (#44002277)
Would "wine, friends, and song" do the same?
Re:What I've Learned from JJ on Friday May 02, 2025 @06:05AM (#43867939)
Huh, reading the penultimate "“Units of change” and collaboration" section reinforces the feeling that Github PRs really are a poor way to do code submission/review, and have been holding back a lot of the industry from better ways of working for a long time.
And it's worth noting that since your comment later in that thread about sandbox being an issue, that's been fixed too as of Firefox 128: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411641
That isn't it. The Lynch PS2 commercial is in the video in the original article, 16:14 through.
Perhaps your memory had incorrectly conflated that with his infamous "The Third Place" commercial for the PS2? I remember a fuss being made about Lynch making that at the time, but I've never heard any claim he directed the PS9 one.

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