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Arthur Besse

@ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

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  • no transcoding quality loss

    is jellyfin actually transcoding when people don't want it to?!

    otherwise, "no transcoding" doesn't sound like a feature. transcoding is very useful when you actually need it, eg watching something remotely which is stored at a higher bitrate than your network connection can stream. one way to do it with mpv is ffmpegfs, btw.

    (fellow mpv user here; i've only used other people's jellyfin instances... but i'd be very surprised if they're always unnecessarily transcoding everything they watch.)

  • We'll Hang Don Chafin From a Sour Apple Tree

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  • We'll Hang Don Chafin From a Sour Apple Tree

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  • Don’t do this stupid shit. Advocating for violence like this

    I'm curious, did you read about Don Chafin before posting this comment?

    check out the song too: Hang Don Chafin

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Domino theory

  • Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino

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  • nope.

  • The Final Final Layer_new(3)

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  • Does anyone remember a mahjong game where the tiles were completely solid different color tiles, it was a digital game I think

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  • they were just solid colored without symbols

    you are describing a tile-based game other than mahjong

  • This meme keep evolving day by day.

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  • the C and fiber layers should be swapped, fragility-wise

  • The ChromeOS of Linux: Basic use cases, impossible to break, ~1,000 happy(?) users, Nix based. Nixbook OS.

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  • I have to ask: what’s with all the obsession with immutable distro?

    I guess the promise of having updates JustWork™? I don't currently use one but I see the appeal.

    However FWIW, unlike its namesake ChromeOS, the "Nixbook OS" this post is about is not actually an immutable distro: the instructions are to install NixOS normally and then clone the nixbook repo into /etc/nixbook and run its install.sh. Among other things it installs an update service which runs git pull on that repo as well as running nixos-rebuild boot --upgrade and flatpak update --noninteractive --assumeyes etc.

    Cheers to this guy for what he's doing, but the name is a little confusing. This approach works but it is not nearly as robust as the immutable distro paradigm implied by the name.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act

  • What's a non-traditional candle scent you would like?

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  • i checked their website to see if these are real; disappointingly they are not. they do actually have a "conductor's coal" scent, though.

  • Microsoft has blocked Massgrave's KMS38 activation method for Windows

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  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Important context!

    They had to change this because newer laws like the CCPA classify some ways of transferring/processing data as a “sale”, even if no money is exchanged.

    What? No. Do you really think their "sharing" with "partners" who are "providing sponsored suggestions" doesn't involve money being exchanged? 🤔

    Here is an abridged version of that FAQ entry consisting only of substrings of it:

    The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because [...] to make Firefox commercially viable [...] we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar

    All of the other words in there implying that they had to stop promising not to sell user data because of some (implied to be unreasonable) "LEGAL definition" of "sale" is imo insulting to the reader.

  • you guys are paying for git?

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  • it works for me. did you forget to pay your git bill?

  • Blame qt

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  • Binary

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  • How Forward Text messages (SMS) in 2025 ??

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  • Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?

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  • Engage the overlay. Put them on screen.

  • YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header

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  • Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email

    I'm guessing you probably don't realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.

  • StackOverflow vs ChatGPT

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  • StackOverflow vs ChatGPT

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  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Rule Interchange Format Rulesystems Arrangement Framework (RIFRAF)

    www.w3.org /2005/rules/wg/wiki/Rulesystem_Arrangement_Framework.html
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    RuleML

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header

    neilzone.co.uk /2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me-by-adding-a-postfix-header/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    plenty of fir

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK the ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ELIZA_effect
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol

    writings.thisismissem.social /statement-on-discourse-about-activitypub-and-at-protocol/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    "we're all trying to find the guy who did this"

  • Europe @lemmy.ml
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    Bulgaria flip-flops on von der Leyen plane’s GPS glitch

    www.politico.eu /article/bulgaria-no-jamming-eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-gps-plane-russia-pm-rosen-zhelyazkov/
  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    GPT5's Rotated Tic-Tac-Toe

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality

    www.techdirt.com /2025/08/19/privacy%e2%80%91preserving-age-verification-falls-apart-on-contact-with-reality/
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog

    eprint.iacr.org /2025/1237
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    X11 Session Removal FAQ

    blogs.gnome.org /alatiera/2025/06/23/x11-session-removal-faq/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    postmarketOS v25.06: the one with systemd

    postmarketos.org /blog/2025/06/22/v25.06-release/
  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Herzl Day is on May 8 this year

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    CVE program

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Libertarians be like

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    Nora Brown with Stephanie Coleman - Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (March 13, 2025)

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    LWN.net

    2024 Linux and free software timeline

    lwn.net /Articles/1004204/