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dracs,

I believe Steve has said that he hates the title/thumbnails too. But Google’s algorithms heavily incentives them, so he reluctantly uses them while maintaining the good quality content.

Android custom ROM with rooting support

So I’m interested in buying a Pixel 8 to install GrapheneOS in it but I’m also interested in rooting it and from what I’ve read rooting your device with a privacy focused custom ROM like GrapheneOS beats the purpose of installing it, so I don’t know if it’s actually posible to do it or if it actually has any grace,...

dracs,

Droid-ify can auto update apps in the background with root. I’m running it on GrapheneOS without root and it’s doing it just fine.

dracs,

Yeah, no need for ID to vote here in Australia. Just rock up at any polling place and give your name and they’ll cross your name off.

Don’t even need ID to register to vote. Any other person on the electoral roll can vouch for your identity.

dracs,

You technically could make cheese without murdering a cow but you won’t find any made that way. Cows only produce milk for their young. To make milk they need to be repeatedly impregnated over and over again. Lifespan of a cow can be 20 years, though they are usually killed after about 5 as their milk output drops. Half of the cows they give birth to will be male and almost all killed as they don’t produce milk. Some of the females may be killed too as you’ll end up with more cows than you have room for it you keep them all.

As for a human child, drinking human breast milk is considered vegan as long as it was given consensually. If you kidnap someone and tie them up in your basement then it wouldn’t be.

dracs,

FYI for anyone interested. Immich is a open source, self hosted system for photos/videos like Google Photos. It uses machine learning locally for facial and general image recognition.

dracs,

It certainly can be a bit involved. When I moved from Gmail address to my own personal domain I did it slowly over a few months.

I set my Gmail address to automatically forward to my new email address. Then I setup a quick filter which added a label on everything that had been forwarded. Once a week or so I would look at all the emails that had been forwarded and update them to my new email (or delete them if unwanted).

dracs,

I’ve used it quite a bit recently. It makes it really easy to submit data in small amounts. I usually have it open while walking my dog and enter in basic things as I go. I’ve completed about 1500 quests so far with it.

dracs,

You just know that Q is on every single one of those cards he picked up.

dracs,

What’s Janeway going to do when she learns mitrocondria was once a separate organism from our cells?

dracs,

You might get something harder after that. But there’s a reason one of the most common code interview questions is FizzBuzz. There’s a shocking number of applicants that can’t do it.

dracs,

The Vegan Society does do certifications for products which will let you use their logo. I’m not aware of any laws which would stop you from calling a product vegan without that certification, just can’t use their logo for it.

I can’t remember if it was the EU or ISO which was working on a standard to classify a product as vegan in the past couple of years. Though the last news I heard about it was that it was being led by agricultural lobby rather than animal rights activists.

dracs,

I’ve got no idea how much the Vegan Society (or other orgs) charges for certification. As you said, plenty of other labels/logos they can use.

I do occasionally see reports of companies labeling a product as vegan when it isn’t. Usually from someone not understanding what vegan means (like honey). But those are pretty rare in the grand scheme of things.

Unfortunately I’m not sure how good a case someone would have for misleading claims without any legal definition on what “Vegan” means.

dracs,

I wouldn’t be surprised if they made a torrent for it. They probably want a simple download button for the less technically inclined too.

dracs,

I’m not sure if their app does it. But the gluten docker container supports their port forwarding. Works really well if you’re looking to route other containers through a VPN.

dracs,

Yeah, it’s possible to get it to work with password managers. I believe it has to do with ensuring the password field still exists on the page when the username is shown.

dracs,

This is what I do as well and it’s been working great for me.

dracs,

This is what I’ve done too. I’ve tried a bunch of other keyboards from F-Droid, but haven’t been 100% happy with any of them. So I’m using GBoard still with all network permissions disabled.

Can you use PLEX to stream local media to gen 1 chromecast WITH subtitles?

This is something I’ve been trying to do reliably for years. I can stream anything I want easily with VLC or even just Chrome itself but I can’t get subs to work. I was able to make it work for a long time using a Chrome app called “videostream” but it now no longer works correctly on my system. It’s a bit confusing to...

dracs,

You should be able to do this. I don’t know if the first gen Chromecast supports native subtitles. But even if it doesn’t, Plex has the option to burn the subtitles right into the video. It places some extra load on the server as it needs to transcode the video, but it pretty much guarantees compatibility.

dracs,

Yes, the transcoding is done on the fly automatically. Plex automatically transcodes any media that the client doesn’t natively support. Turning on burned in subtitles forces it to transcode to add them in.

Could the Federation defeat Star Wars' Empire in an all-out war?

Would a Federation warship like the Defiant out gun a Star Wars Star Destroyer? Who has a bigger armada? Who has the tactical advantage? Don’t forget that The Federation includes the Klingons, who love warfare and have fast, agile, heavily armed ships, with cloaking devices, and the Vulcans with superior logic and tactical...

dracs,

O’Brian will unite all the warlords together (in the pattern buffer)

dracs,

I don’t think WebAuthn protects against cookie theft. WebAuthn better protects the login process. But if the result of the login process is still a session/auth cookie, that can be stolen like any other cookie.

dracs,

I do the two profiles on mine as well. The Google profile isn’t allowed to run in the background so it’s only active when I’m using an app that really needs it. Down to just a single app now that needs it.

Can you tell excel sheets which were created using a pirated version of MS Office?

My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...

dracs, (edited )

Software cracks leaving a calling card isn’t unheard of. Companies before have been caught out before with names of cracking groups showing up in their files.

Edit: found the article I was thinking of. Turns out it was Microsoft themselves!

techpavan.com/…/microsoft-deepz0ne-pirated-cracke…

dracs,

Signal does have a fallback if FCM is unavailable. It supposedly uses slightly more battery, but I can’t say I noticed it. I’ve swapped to using Molly which is a fork of Signal which implements UnifiedPush (among some other features).

dracs,

It’s mostly a power efficiency thing. Before push notifications were the norm, most apps used a polling method. They had the application send a request every X seconds asking “anything new”. There wasn’t coordination between apps, so even every app checked once every 30s, it likely wouldn’t be on the same 30s. This caused the device to wake up a lot and never let it switch into low power mode.

A push notifications system like FCM or UnifiedPush means only a single application needs to run in the background. It maintains a persistent connection to the push notification service and waits for a message. When it receives one it wakes up the relevant app and passes it the details.

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