Venia Silente

Better to crush their spirit now, before it can be misled by lies; so that it can crash and burn and be reborn in the Fire of the Fox, as a Libre Wolf.

Or, if they prefer a more compact fursona, a Fennec.

True, but neither that nor anything else has stopped republicans and conservatives from pushing crap after crap until it slips in (or rather, is let slip in, given the Supreme Court the US has over there).

So then what are you recommending to connect to the internet? curl? wget? netcat?

Darlin’, English, like any language, evolves.

The problem is, Mozilla is not doing that. The ability install xpis is censored (oh the irony) in retail Firefox.

No. Brave is merely Chrome with extra steps. And it’s associated with lots of “web3” / crypto scams.

You don’t need one. It is easy to install an xpi in Firefox

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The access to install xpis is (irony intended) censored in “retail” Firefox.

People are getting upset about this, but it only applies within the country where Roskomnadzor has authority, and it’s temporary pending further review.

Which means that now, for example, Republicans can file to have any extension that “provides or facilitates woke content”. To put forth one (1) such case.

Idiot laws are idiot and must be fought at every point, in particular if you have more power than one (1) mere citizen. What Mozilla is doing is just announcing to the world they’re open to spreading their legs before the MAGAs.

Mozilla, as a law-abiding organization, must at least acknowledge the requests of a regulatory agency within its own country.

Insert Nick Fury “I recognize the council has made an ass-stupid decision”.

Whether you agree with their requests or not, Roskomnadzor has governmental authority in this context within Russia.

Any law pregraduate knows those EULAs are not valid in court.

I have an Intel Celeron Mobile laptop with iGPU and, I think, 256MB VRAM. How many bs does that get me for the LLM?

Only half-joking. That’s my still functional old daily driver now serving as homelab

Bets are strong such tos are not legally enforceable.

Would love to contribute, but I won’t have access to my 3DSes until around the 22nd.

Also would love to try and know why the data can’t be sent after the deadline (it’s just data, should not be “time-encoded”) but unfortunately the link to the image with the explanation says the image can’t be loaded because it has errors. Does anyone have the actual text explanation?

So, lemme get this straight: allowing remote parties to install malware (DRM) on your system results in allowing remote parties to install malware on your system? Wow, who could have known! Certainly not the distributors of the step-one malware, am I right?

I’m certain there’s a couple of lessons to be learned here (install and run games as normal, non-elevated users, people! It’s easy to do on Linux) but I’m also somehow certain Big Corpos are going to stick their heads into the sand regarding such lessons.

Oh well, the pirate way it is.

, but the fonts are a factor.

I’m not sure if the possibility is there depending on your use case (eg.: you are exporting the fonts) nor if the cost of doing it would be worth the shot, but you can send minified versions variants of fonts, too.

They’re FOSS competence porn

Exactly the kind of porn youngsters leading to become adults should read, IMO.

Wow. You know you dun goofed it when the “online encyclopedia anyone can edit” makes it very clear that “but not to write about you”.

Spotify wants to generate translations for these audiobooks in the original voices.

Would an author be able to claim trademark infringement? Not to mention libel or slander, if the translation says something the author definitively wouldn’t (and obviously hasn’t)? Such as, say, AI inserting slurs.

Ah yes the “labour should be free” / “but if we have to get permits from every artist we won’t be able to feed our AIs!” argument.

Listen, I’m not gonna lie. it’d be wonderful if we lived in the utopia where everything is autotranslated for us (not to mention it’s done correctly, no “Brock’s jelly donuts”). But there’s 123456 ways to get it done with human labour properly paid and the corporations are in the position where they have the power and the responsibility to do it. Else authors are going to end up with automated translations which are sold as “official” but over which they don’t have control, in particular if the AI translation misrepresents them (using language the author wouldn’t changing concepts, or even - imagine - adding slurs).

Like, sure, maybe these corpos don’t want to pay for someone to do the translation from scratch… but have they thought of looking for fandom translations and sourcing and paying for those? That’s work already done, and has the advantage that someone cared enough about the “niche work”, kinda like with anime fansubs. Or they could also, you know, novel idea and all, pay people a wage to translate this. I know. The horror. How dare I suggest that a company doesn’t divert wages and income to the CEOs!

Oh, are your gaming statistics hurt?

Are you ok?