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Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:05PM (#50025946)
QuickJS works fine for yt-dlp and is way smaller: less than 1 MB vs 34 MB + its many dependencies for Deno.

See https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/9811

Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:27AM (#49726729)
Cameron did get what he wanted before the referendum: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:24AM (#49726689)
That's wrong, he did get what he wanted before the referendum: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:22AM (#49726649)
You've got it wrong: "After the deal had been approved, Cameron described it as giving the United Kingdom "special status within the European Union" and immediately declared that both he and the UK Government would campaign for a "Remain" vote in the referendum within a "reformed European Union"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_United_Kingd...
They can get fined for up to 2 or 4% of their global annual revenue depending on the violation severity.
Re:Half-Life 2 in a Browser on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:55AM (#48670312)
The screens are missing and the lips don't move, but it's pretty close!
Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:57PM (#48521894)
To be clear: a big disadvantage of permanent magnet motors (PMSM). https://youtu.be/BFmp9ODkCA8?t=725
The parent post says it’s the high economic activity that attracted people even though the US has been more hostile than average by every other measure. So it's as if the US was a honeypot with a flyswatter.

By the way, your [2] is useless to prove your point: you can't compare absolute numbers (for instance Iceland vs the US).

Re:OpenTrafficMap on Thursday April 30, 2026 @08:01AM (#47961181)
The repos are there: https://codeberg.org/opentrafficmap

https://codeberg.org/opentrafficmap/its-g5-receiver: "Current ordering situation

(as of 2026-04-23)

After the talk on Grazer Linuxtage (media.ccc.de, youtube.com) we got many responses from people also wanting to buy this receiver. We fixed a few issues of the first revision and ordered 200pcs of Revision 2.

We expect the 200pcs to arrive in the first week of May, 2026. The cost of one complete receiver (excluding case and mechanical parts) is about 20 €.

If you want to purchase a receiver PCB, please contact us at the email liked in the Imprint/Impressum of opentrafficmap.org"

Re:OpenTrafficMap on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:58AM (#47961162)
Fun fact: OpenStreetMap started out with maps of only the UK. OpenTrafficMap does support data from all around the world.
Re:Obsolete Sounds on Thursday March 26, 2026 @09:40AM (#47530358)
Yes, there are two players, and often the bottom one plays and it's a different song than the one we selected, which is loaded in the top one.
I don't think Russia is a superpower or that all superpowers act like that. Russia is just a mafia state.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Sunday September 21, 2025 @10:04AM (#45322852)
I don't think that the author could have conveyed the same thing with less text and more images and videos. I agree that many project pages (all those about an app with a GUI) could use a screenshot though.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Sunday September 21, 2025 @09:20AM (#45322463)
You may have to wait some time as Mint 19 (2018) actually removed KDE support.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:23AM (#45298857)
Most people choose a theme for all the windows in the system settings.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:11AM (#45298772)
Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @05:57AM (#43971287)
Searchfox didn't exist back then, "there [was] only xul", I mean MXR of course.

Then MXR got replaced by DXR, itself replaced in 2020 by Searchfox (introduced in 2016).

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/decommission-dxr/69475

https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/searchfox/

Re:Firefox Moves to GitHub on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:02AM (#43970286)
Firefox Mobile (Fenix) had just moved to Mozilla's Mercurial mozilla-central repository after using GitHub including for issues. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/wiki#upcom...

Now, both the desktop and the mobile version will be on Github, and the "issues" will stay on Bugzilla.

This will take advantage of both GitHub's good search and source browsing and Git's familiar system.

As a former Firefox and Thunderbird contributor, I have to say that I used local search instead of trying to find something on the mozilla-central website.

Of course, when you're actively developing software, you search inside your IDE, but allowing to find things easily on the website makes it more welcoming for potential new contributors.

Re:The Nation Needs a Shipbuilding Revolution on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:59AM (#42930421)
They may not attack the US directly like the Japanese did, but China may want to take over its neighbours to expand. Just like Russia could.