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Re:French digital tax may kill VideoLan non-profit on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:06PM (#50312572)
They can, and they do. Through VAT. Netflix is a consumer service. They can simply create a different VAT category and be done with it.
Victor Mono still the best for dense terminals
Interesting. I have a very similar setup for myself.
Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:48PM (#50061972)
The regulation is not about cookies. It’s about tracking.

The whole cookie thing has always been bs

Sandbox everything if the OS is not doing what it’s supposed to do
Re:Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:59AM (#49951373)
Apple containers
Re:Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:51AM (#49950738)
So no micro VMs at all
Re:Cloudflare Ohttp Gateway on Saturday October 03, 2026 @12:05PM (#49945431)
Cloudflare provides so much more than just CDN, and in a very nice package
Re:Nesbox: A fast MicroVM with GPU sharing on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:55AM (#49826733)
Very cool. But how do you then view /stream it? Which protocol?
Medical doctors mostly follow standard procedure and decision trees.
Chillin' with Tim Cook :)
Re:There's no point at which turning your brain off will work on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:27PM (#49757514)
It pays 16 craploads of money per year.
You can always selfhost
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:52PM (#49733548)
Do we have proper dictation?
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:50AM (#49711111)
Rapid AirDrop... I prefer stable and always working AirDrop first
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:27AM (#49710890)
Raycast2 has its own index and it's way more reliable and fast. I don't understand how Apple does not care about many of the core services of their OS. Searching in Mail is a coinflip
Re:The case against JPEG XL on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:31AM (#49693188)
And Google also removed jxl support in Chrome in '22 (only to put it back in recently)
Re:The case against JPEG XL on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:29AM (#49693171)
byte-for-byte identical file actually. Not just imagery. You can basically save 30% without loosing ANY bit of the original file
Up to 50%
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:02PM (#49635097)
Wayyy too wide. it's wider than the 17Pro. So impossible to operate. It will sell out because it's new. But it will flop. More than the mini and the Air.

They should've used the iPhone mini width, and adjust height to that.

Super skip..

I mean.. the US has a history concerning gold and duping other countries
Can’t move what isn’t there
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:30PM (#49525987)
Will it respond within a reasonable timeframe?

It’s like we’re on a 14K4 modem when there’s broadband

Re:Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:49AM (#49521271)
That went wrong.. I meant -> Just to make sure we won't be able to buy and run LLMs locally
Just to make sure we’re gonna do opening and run locally?
Re:Haiku R1/beta6 has been released on Monday August 31, 2026 @12:54AM (#49505748)
OpenAI at least provides legal indemnification against those claims
Re:Solving the 1+N Query Problem on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:30AM (#49444381)
I recall hibernate, it maybe rails, as those are my most used tech, that it can detect n+1, and then just query the whole relation.

Detecting is easy if you’re iterating over a proxy collection

Try omarchy

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