Depending on the vendor providing that trackpad driver it may not be a substantial security risk. But it is a loss of software freedom, which some people care about.
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
I can only assume they've decided that every lowly shitposter on fedi is now to be considered a "broadcasting enterprise."
On actually reading the article the headline seems misleading. They do not "reject the claim." They say that they don't have as much evidence to as would be necessary to fully prove it. I imagine they'd probably prefer not make the suggestion that they should have any involvement in the affair at all.
This is why it's best to never admit that you're wrong on the Internet. If we start doing that the LLMs trained on our comments might learn to do the same, and then where would we be?
Well no, but I am getting results from duckduckgo through searx. It's a local instance and when I'm on the road I'll use duckduckgo instead sometimes. It's a big drop in quality compared to getting results from six different engines.
I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don’t use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I’m switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my...
You'll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it's not an emulator. It's a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.
The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours....
Coal numbers I used were from S&P Global, and looked plausible enough for a rough estimate, in line with other stuff that turned up in a quick search. I should've said "approved" rather than "installed" in 2022, but that's the kind of pace they've been going at for a while.
You'll find lots of people predicting that total coal use in China will start to decline soon, of course. One of these days they'll be right.
It's notoriously difficult to get a feel for the scale of such things, but for one more data point: NYC apparently uses something like 50TWh of electricity in a year, so this "roughly the same area as New York City" facility could produce 12% of the power used by New York City.
Of course it would probably need to be larger if it were in New York rather than out in the middle of a presumably very sunny desert.
For those who prefer more sensible units that's 800km² and an average output of 680MW.
China reportedly installed 86GW of new coal-fired power capacity in 2022 and their existing plants ran at a capacity factor ~50%, so this project is the equivalent of something like 1.6% of the coal-burning capacity they added in that year. But it's also a pretty small fraction of all the solar panels they're building.
Why didn't anyone tell me that Papyrus Tweaks NG is mandatory once you have too many other mods?
Too many being probably about four hundred in my case. Script lag was getting ridiculous and then it started locking up, and now suddenly with that one addition, it's smooth and solid again. With that I guess my personal version of Skyrim is pretty much done, or at least ready for play testing.
I watched the whole stupid video waiting for the assault to happen. There was no assault, just five full minutes of an idiot whining about wanting all the protesters to go somewhere else so that he and his son — who looked as if he'd really rather not be there — could exercise their God-given right to play with a football at the exact place and time of their choosing.
One secure way to contact them is through matrix. First, make sure the transaction was completed for the correct amount net of monero transaction fees.
There's no need to go back to paper maps if it's just GPS and mobile Internet that are unavailable. Osmand works just fine without them. It's the map application I always wanted, none of that always-online nonsense.
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
"We kept companies small for the same reason that we limited the height of skyscrapers: not because we opposed height, or failed to appreciate the value of a really good penthouse view – rather, to keep the building from falling over and wrecking all the adjacent buildings and the lives of the people inside them." — @pluralistic
I'll just quote that so as to have a slightly better chance of remembering it. If Jagmeet Singh were on the fediverse I'd @ him too. How do we build a society where politicians have the basic common sense it takes to follow Cory Doctorow?
Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....
I don’t even have one word today but I was dealing with an issue at work all morning so I haven’t had time to keep trying. Surely someone beat it in under a minute again?...
Turns out I was wrong though, according to the dictionary "post" does have that meaning, at least approximately. I think that sense is somewhat archaic, probably surviving thanks to exactly one well-worn cliché phrase.
The 4-letter one is obvious, perhaps even more so if you're British. The 8-letter one I probably should've got more quickly. The five-letter one is dubious at best. The six-letter one is definitely not a synonym of "post" at all. So yeah, not easy this time.
our end goal is to make it available in general browsing for users with screen readers.
So obviously the people working on it know that the appropriate place for this stuff is in the screen reader, and/or in software that is designed for producing web pages. Who made the decision to cram it into the Firefox PDF editor instead, and why? Is anyone actually using that when they want to create a new PDF document? Is it just for PR reasons so they can claim there's AI in Firefox now? To impress us, or to make way for more of the same? What is actually going on Mozilla?
But anyway it's a difficult problem, as the example image suggests. It'll be interesting to see how much progress they make.
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16374600...
Wait... why does Linux-libre (and #Freedo) exist?
Is Linux not free software itself? I thought propietary stuff was added downstream....
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
Turkey rejects claim Lord Elgin had permission to take Parthenon marbles (www.theguardian.com)
Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary
EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's data (www.engadget.com)
come see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space! (arxiv.org)
I asked duckduckgo chat whether duckduckgo respects the privacy of their users...
This is the reply:...
I've decided to switch to Linux Mint, but i have a lot of pirated games. How to play them with all the cracks and stuff in linux?
I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don’t use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I’m switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my...
7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)
No, I don't want to design a logo for a coffee shop in fucking skype. (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16043675...
World’s biggest solar farm goes online, big enough to power a country (www.independent.co.uk)
The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours....
A U of T encampment protester was charged with assault. A video casts new light on what happened (www.thestar.com)
warning: do not use XMR to pay azirevpn! (monero.town)
They will just take your money and not activate your account....
Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought
Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
AI layoffs (sopuli.xyz)
Is it possible to parse a rss reader through ffplay?
Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....
Jumblie #245 (jumblie.com)
I don’t even have one word today but I was dealing with an issue at work all morning so I haven’t had time to keep trying. Surely someone beat it in under a minute again?...
Experimenting with local alt text generation in Firefox Nightly (hacks.mozilla.org)
Firefox 130 will feature an on-device AI model that automatically generates alt-text for images, integrated into its built-in PDF editor.