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hotsalad··on Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding
Heh, the name makes it sound like a daemon.

service letterboxd enable; service letterboxd start

hotsalad··on FreeBSD 14.5-Release
The latest release of FreeBSD with i386 images. The 14.x branch is the last to support the platform.
hotsalad··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
What are you talking about? There are no Minecraft assets in that screenshot, even with "pixels mixed around". I play both games and can tell you that screenshot is easily distinguished from Minecraft.
hotsalad··on Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust
Broken link?
hotsalad··on Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore
And asked to create a WebGL context and to view canvas data.

Closed and reopened the browser and revisited the site a couple times, and it thought it was my first and gave me a different fingerprint each time.

hotsalad··on I Stopped “Creating Content”
What this reminded me of was the fiasco of the McDonald's CEO referring to the Big Arch as a "product". Is it a product? Sure. That is about the least specific word he could have used for it, and it implies that he doesn't care that it is a cheeseburger, but that any type of item produced by any company he happened to lead would have made him equally happy.

It is likely true that he is just there to run a business and feels no sense of pride in its specific offerings, but the accidental honesty was amusing.

hotsalad··on Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
Ran Math.tanh(0.8) on Firefox on Windows and got the value that the article says is associated with Linux. Wonder why they only ran this on one browser.
hotsalad··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Looks nice, but is it finished? I don't see a skybox or any of the more detailed information mentioned in the "about" dialog, and I don't see any effect from clicking the buttons along the top.

I allowed WebGL and disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection and my adblocker, and still only the star labels appear.

hotsalad··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Why a 4GB model? I just tested Firefox's AI; when you long press a link and agree to enable summaries it downloads a mere 369MB model.
hotsalad··on Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
So, bookmarklets for Chrome's AI integration?
hotsalad··on Can I run AI locally?
The latest Librewolf prompted me to allow the site permission to make a WebGL context. That's what it used for hardware detection.
hotsalad··on Can I run AI locally?
This says I can't run anything, because it's missing some of the smallest models. I know that I can run Qwen3.5 up to 4B, Ministral 3B, Qwen3VL up to 4B, and I know there are some Gemmas and Llamas in my size range.
hotsalad··on Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
Wouldn't they still need to switch to a license outside the GPL family in order to add those restrictions, even if they're the sole copyright holder? Otherwise it seems that upon receiving a copy of the software, the user can just remove the additional restrictions, as specified by Section 7.
hotsalad··on Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
If I'm reading the (L)GPL correctly (but I'm not a lawyer), this notice should be completely ignored:

Section 7 says: All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

Section 10 says: You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License.

hotsalad··on Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
*Formerly open source

Seems to violate the open source definition paragraph 5, no?

hotsalad··on JPEG XL Test Page
I enabled image.jxl.enabled in LibreWolf and works. It doesn't work in Firefox Beta, though?
hotsalad··on enclose.horse
Does each day's challenge come out at a certain time in your local timezone? I have a friend who is seeing day 9 when I can only see day 8. I'd request having new daily maps come out at a consistent global time for the purpose of competing with friends who live in different timezones.
hotsalad··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
If I'm reading the requirements around being a "browser engine steward" correctly, does this mean essentially only Google and Mozilla can ever qualify for the "Embedded Browser Engine Entitlement"? Even Microsoft seems to be ruled out, give that Edge's engine is based on Blink. Any other smaller browser engines would be ruled out by the baseline web functionality requirements.

This hardly seems to allow anything.

hotsalad··on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
For me, it doesn't work entirely in Librewolf 142 (shows the text, and some tags moving around an otherwise black screen), but does work in Firefox Nightly.