You’ve probably done it already, but a quick howto for anyone else (on Firefox Mobile):

• Three dot menu -> Settings -> Search -> Default search engine
• Scroll to the bottom, press + Add search engine, put what you like in the Name box
• in the search string URL box put this: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
• Press Save, then select your newly named option for normal and private tabs as you like.

I guess when compared to FAANG/Silicon Valley salaries you are probably right.

Very few people need to code in assembly, or COBOL

But those who do are paid the big bux, that’s for sure. Many big banks still have their backend off of COBOL code originally written in the 90s, only with flowery UI updates over the years.

I still can’t say it wouldn’t be worth it at $1.5k for people that really wanted to get into VR… but unfortunately my price limit is $750 US for me to consider a launch day order, and obviously that ain’t happening. With component prices being what they are, it’s not realistic for me to expect any lower anymore.

But the best I can hope for is a memory crash and DRAM makers come scrambling back to fill the sinkhole void from the collapsing circular financing cycle. Today that’s just a pipe dream.

They aren’t in it for me, but Micron nor SK Hynix give any shits about me either.

I don’t think so, domestic electronics manufacturers have an enormous need for memory that is performant but doesn’t necessarily need the top-of-the-line, and probably China’s government is pushing to reduce the need for imported memory components from Korea or Taiwan as well, so demand for production is there coming from both the private and public sector.

Micron doesn’t seem interested in competing for consumer memory anyway, since they exited the consumer memory market. Latent demand exists for memory at not-outrageous prices so good for CXMT for filling that niche.

Following best practice would be ideal, I agree with you, but for FOSS projects I can settle for best effort, and ability to configure/correct any serious errors if it is brought up constructively. Every dev has their own biases and they make tools to fit their needs, not necessarily everyones. Like if it was by accident that a personal filter was pushed to all instances, and then immediately fixed when made public, personally, I could forgive the dev for the mistake. But available evidence shows this was not a mistake, and intentionally hiding things this dev didn’t like, pushing the upstream changes without telling anyone.

Interesting choice to give the developer who already violated user trust by imposing a secret blacklist the benefit of the doubt on their bigotry.

I never did that, sorry I kind of suggested I did in my last reply, when I meant in general to devs that don’t break peoples’ trust. In a vacuum, a configurable blocklist with biased defaults is acceptable, even if I wouldn’t set it myself that way. Their work, their choice. However, it is specifically the concealment of the biased defaults that is the breach of trust which calls into question the dev’s motivations.

Requiring users to enable “toxic mode” in order to access queer spaces isn’t evidence of bigotry to you?

Alone, no, that would be mere speculation, if combined with the shady practice or if you have antiLGBTQ quotes then yes, I could say that fact potentially supports that conclusion. Consider that blahaj.zone is not the only LBGTQ+ safe space on Lemmy (see beehaw [email protected]). Any admin or dev could have beef with Ada, not with queer folks, that could be motivation to block blahaj.zone. I never gave the tesseract dev that grace, because that blocklist with blahaj was never publicized, until the clandestine filter list was discovered and decoded.

If they come out and say they don’t like blahaj.zone for bigoted reasons, let them, don’t support their project, done. I’ll defend blahaj.zone’s strictly enforced any pronoun policy as much as a dev who clearly chooses to include or exclude certain instances by default, as long as the intentions are clear, not hidden away and easily rectifiable for your needs. What I am saying is a breach of trust is worse than bigotry, which itself is worse than mere ideological disagreements. A < B < C.

You can read into how you like the presence of certain instances/words/users on the blocklist, but putting BZ on a blocklist = bigot seems to me like a jump to conclusion.

you are being far too charitable with an obviously bad faith actor.

Like I said, I afford FOSS devs lots of grace and benefit of doubt, that’s just me, if the issue was solely over the choice of instances being blocked by default, I’d excuse it, but that isn’t the main issue. Call me too charitable, sure, it’s in my nature and you don’t have to be me.

The issue is the blocklist was hidden away in base64, not documented anywhere, while constantly being updated, without any justification (like pulling from a public spamlist), and was secretly affecting every server’s Tesseract frontend. It was the trust that the so-called “Toxic mode” could remove all filtering, but it didn’t, and the trust that connection errors were simply configuration problems and not intentionally obfuscated filtering routines, these formed the trust that was broken.

That will make up somewhat for the fact that Steam physical gift cards are going away.

One note/minor correction, it is in the git repo: https://github.com/db0/tesseract/commits/main/static/data/policy.dat

You can see when asimons04 changed the static base64 filter .dat file. The changes happen in completely unrelated or nondescript commits. Looking at the commit when it was implemented, it does say filter, but the error messages and code comments creating the folder indicate “cache” folder creation, when the variable name and function is for the policy, which might technically be correct, is misleading and is quite suspect to me.

Like I would have zero problems with developers that do this, if they could come out clearly and document/announce: “I don’t like these accounts or words, if you do then this is what you do to change it or shut it off.”

Stuff like Lemmy’s word list, Piefed’s default blocklist, you can turn off or change the words. Even if I think the daily vote quota is a stupid default on setting, if you’re a Piefed admin and don’t like that, set the limit to 10000, 99999999 or whatever. I usually have tons and tons of sympathy for FOSS devs, take their side and give the benefit of doubt in grey areas. They work for free and share it for free so I don’t expect perfection or how I would want things to be.

Undocumented shit like this, intentionally hidden is way past the line, and I have no patience for it whatsoever. You never know when this could be somehow used as an attack vector.

This is Microsoft showing a little desperation to keep Europe from moving onto fully European cloud solutions, by integrating European solutions into Microsoft products.

I think firms can still, for now, use Mistral independent of Microsoft, but this does put into question if Microsoft may further reduce Mistral’s independence or buy it out eventually once the attention is off them.

Government bodies in EU should keep pursuing tech stacks independent of Apple, Google and Microsoft and not let this lead them astray.

the photographer had asked an AI platform to make the picture “look better”

Yes, the Flock system is working correctly, as a tool for police to stalk and harass innocent people.

GKH is to me the second most important guy in the Linux world today next to LT, and he definitely deserves more credit for his efforts maintaining the kernel. Maybe Greg doesn’t get as much press attention because he doesn’t make as profound statments as Linus tends to.

Just as background: I’d started using Steam Remote Play and streaming since it first was released, and though I don’t use it much these days, I did get through the infinite loading by launching windowed.

The other workaround I used to employ frequently was launch another game that’s easy to switch windows out of (I picked a free point-and-click adventure game I had), then launched the app I wanted to use, browser, game or whatever, through the normal desktop environment. Just as a test, see if that works for you. In my experience in the earlier days, I ran frequently into problems when my host machine was running without a connected display, but maybe things have improved over the few years it has been out.

Also your system is Wayland right? Are Switch emulators running through Wayland or Xwayland, and Cemu not or vice versa? Could that have something to do with it?

*Some google-fu leads me to suggest prepending QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to the launch command (as a Steam shortcut you would have the launch arguments be QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb %command% )

One thing to test… if it’s not already, can you try configuring the emulator to launch in windowed mode instead of fullscreen, then try streaming? Let me know if that makes a difference.

Why should viewers be interested, when Netflix treats its shows like draft ideas that more often than not get scrapped after one season?