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heftig@beehaw.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong?English10·2 months agoA BR disc contains much more than just video data. The BR player device contains user-hostile functionality.
For example, firmware updates for various parts of DRM, like HDCP key revocation lists, are distributed with commercial BR discs.
Your playback setup could become permanently broken because you inserted the wrong movie and now your player refuses to send a video signal to your TV, or it suddenly stops accepting discs it did before.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Solarpunk technology@slrpnk.net•Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades2·2 months agoIt’s just the time the manufacturer is willing (or forced) to be held liable for certain defects to be caused by manufacturing errors instead of expected wear and material degradation.
Unless something is mission- or safety-critical, replacing it before it breaks is wasteful.
An imprint like this lasts maybe a minute. At worst, it’s a harmless gag in bad taste.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Climate@slrpnk.net•New York City Housing Authority to Replace Gas Stoves With Battery-Backed Induction Stoves in 100 Apartments Under Energy-Efficiency Pilot Program6·3 months agoIt appears the main driver for the replacements are frequent gas service outages. Presumably they didn’t want to just replace that with an equivalent vulnerability to blackouts.
Also, a battery can add to the power of a standard outlet, so these stoves can have some serious output even without a 240V connection.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Firefox tab groups just got an upgrade, thanks to your feedback | The Mozilla Blog1·5 months agoYou greatly overestimate the capabilities of Firefox’s average user.
Would be just as vulnerable to automated SEO unless there’s a significant barrier to being able to label and vote, such as invitation-only groups.
And don’t we have this already, almost? Filter Mastodon hashtags for links or add UI for hashtags to Lemmy. Or use full text search.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Firefox tab groups just got an upgrade, thanks to your feedback | The Mozilla Blog1·5 months agoSome websites that present cookie banners or other modal dialogs like to piggy-back starting an audible video to the click that dismisses the dialog. Most videos get ad-blocked anyway, so this rarely bothers me, but last week one news article with accompanying (non-ad) video hit me with sudden audio.
heftig@beehaw.orgto DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz@feddit.org•"Likör ohne Ei" angeklagt - und gewinnt: Skurriler Streit vor Gericht findet ein Ende4·5 months agoalle vergleichbaren Lebensmittel
Sind halt nicht alle, und das Zeug sieht auch cremig aus, wie Eierlikör.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?2·6 months agoHow did they do that?
heftig@beehaw.orgto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Control Ultimate Edition is -90% on GoG [DRM free [expansions+extras] [~4$/€]English42·7 months agoIt was an enjoyable game overall but the ending was really disappointing. Just a gauntlet of the same fights you’ve been doing all game. It feels like it’s building up to something big, but it just ends with you doing a victory lap of yet another gauntlet against severely underleveled enemies.
Maybe they should be siege towers.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Putin flight to Alaska according to flat Earth mapEnglish3·8 months agoActually, the map the flat earthers seem to use the most is the polar azimuthal equidistant projection (as in the UN logo). Trips not involving the southern hemisphere get distorted much less.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Firefox@lemmy.ml•What do you think about the new menu of Firefox Android?3·8 months agoNightly has this so I assume it will come to Firefox sooner or later.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Firefox@lemmy.ml•How to undo Firefox changes to the titlebar controls buttons?1·9 months agoI guess this is really a bug in KDE/Plasma’s themes, then? The window controls in the GTK3 theme should have the same look as the window controls in the icon theme.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Firefox@lemmy.ml•Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux3·9 months agoThey now use a zygote process like Chrome does. When a new process is needed, the zygote just forks.
In the old version, the main process used a classic UNIX fork+exec of the browser executable instead, which could start an incompatible process if the executable has been replaced.
With the zygote process, all code and data files are preopened, so replacing or deleting them does not affect the running Firefox.
As another effect, skipping the exec makes process creation faster…
heftig@beehaw.orgto Are The Straights OK?@lemmy.blahaj.zone•The manosphere is very normal.English11·10 months agoAlphabetical ordering, I assume. Just not the right alphabet.
heftig@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs5·10 months agoA recent Technology Connections video mentioned people are configuring chargers to 48 A when they’re using 14-50 “50 A” sockets that are really designed for 40 A continuous current. Or they’re using aluminum wiring without corrosion protection, or not abrading the oxide layer.
Kelvin decided that we should use a scale based on what atoms feel like is the the full range of sensible temperatures, with that range set to 0 through NaN (exception thrown).
There’s actually a theoretical maximum temperature.
The mathematically perfect scale goes from zero to one TP.
I think it was even a modification of Doom, not a clone.