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worldofmatthew··on Removing support for forwarded ports
Not for vouchers or crypto as per their official policy.
worldofmatthew··on ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important
That more Android being more bloated than desktop Linux.
worldofmatthew··on Squoosh – Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser
Squoosh's AVIF settings are basic to say the least. You are stuck with AV1 style blurring.
worldofmatthew··on Azure Content Safety, a new AI service that helps create secure online spaces
A censorship AI service.
worldofmatthew··on Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands
Than they send bailiffs to your home....
worldofmatthew··on The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
Harder to ban Tor outright. No payments and snowflake bridges run on many (often) residential IPs.
worldofmatthew··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
YouTube and its parent Google are known for being infested with ads linking to viruses and malware.
worldofmatthew··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
All Captcha's could in the USA be illegal aswell under the ADA.... As some people with learning disabilities won't be able to complete them.
worldofmatthew··on Temporal quality degradation in AI models
AI training data eating AI generated content is very much something that can happen. Combine that with less people willing to write real content, just for it to be stolen for AI training data will see the internet be effectively destroyed as a place to get true information.
worldofmatthew··on Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT
Are the TOS even enforceable is AI content can't be copyrighted?
worldofmatthew··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
That would effectively be no different than a bailout.
worldofmatthew··on AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search
I suspect that old fashioned website directories and webrings will come more into popularity.
worldofmatthew··on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
Fallout 3 and New Vegas both have massive issues. You may be better off using Lutris with the GOG version on the Steam Deck and finding a config that installs the performance fix mods.
worldofmatthew··on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
The switch slows itself down when not docked to save battery.
worldofmatthew··on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
Fallout 3 has massive issues on any new operating system. There are unofficial patches and mods to fix that but Valve does not auto-install anything unofficial, even if it would make things far better.
worldofmatthew··on Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU
Fallout 3 may have other issues. The Steam Deck CPU should be more than powerful enough to run all areas of that game at 60FPS+.
worldofmatthew··on Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole
Most small websites will never get attacked.
worldofmatthew··on How to Start Your Blog in 2023
You don't need docker for that. Also if you leave a WordPress for years with auto-updates, the plugins will often be abandoned causing your site to be vulnerable.Not to mention any breaking changes that can be introduced.

A SSG generated site will be the same in 10 years as its today, even if you might need to fix some things with your project to make further updates.

worldofmatthew··on Down the Cloudflare / Stripe / OWASP Rabbit Hole
"very small personal sites" don't need Cloudflare.
worldofmatthew··on How to Start Your Blog in 2023
Why would you need to use docker for a SSG?
worldofmatthew··on Loved Before – Recycled soft toy store
Very overpriced. I have often seen the same types of teddies for less brand new........
worldofmatthew··on Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace
AMD CPUs are much better for laptop as they tend to scale better at acceptable power draw levels for something battery powered while retaining good performance. Intel has the lead on the low power/low performance stuff.
worldofmatthew··on Why are online recipes so long-winded?
Maybe look at adding a merge request on github?
worldofmatthew··on The Anti-Competitive Practices of Google Bard
The blog post was pointing out Google's product as it would be hard to make an anti-trust case against Microsoft because of Google having nearing the whole search engine industry.
worldofmatthew··on The Anti-Competitive Practices of Google Bard
Computers are not the same as people.
worldofmatthew··on EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems
Microsoft can simply ban FOSS from its store.
worldofmatthew··on Small SaaS banned by Cloudflare after 4 years of being paying customer
fly.io is pretty expensive compared to wholesale bandwidth rates. Especially for Europe.
worldofmatthew··on Why are online recipes so long-winded?
https://based.cooking/ ?
worldofmatthew··on How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird
I managed 115KB with my normal AVIF settings at full size, maybe closer to 130KB if using artificial noise regeneration.
worldofmatthew··on How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird
Looks like Google Cloud CDN.

Cache egress $0.02-$0.20 per GiB

Getting on the front page of Hacker News might hurt their "pocket's" a bit.

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