Born and raised in London. Just a normal guy with a moral compass.
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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Technology@beehaw.org•Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
17·5 days agoSignal is down too.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Technology@beehaw.org•From 2028: EU expands USB-C mandate to chargers
1·6 days agoI’m less concerned about the max power, but rather the minimum power.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I'm looking for recommendations for FOSS software that notifies me when an artist releases a new track/album.
12·8 days agoWhat platform?
Android: https://f-droid.org/packages/info.schnatterer.nusic/
But ultimately, check out https://muspy.com/ and you can set up something using RSS with n8n or something similar.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Technology@beehaw.org•People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
5·13 days agoAn old condom is better than no condom.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Technology@beehaw.org•People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
50·14 days agoI hate to be an I-Told-You-So type of guy, but surely you look at how they handle their tablets and knew it was why these things are so cheap. Honestly the best smart display I’ve seen so far outside of the DIY ones is the Pixel Tablet and that was underpowered as a tablet. It’s funny though, because smart displays will become ubiquitous eventually not just because they’re useful, but because they’re prime real estate; look at the Samsung fridges. I’m guessing more people will have to install a Pi-Hole just to make them bearable.
As has always been the case, you can turn off Sponsored Shortcuts and Sponsored Stories.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•FF won't let me install BPC extensionEnglish
7·1 month agoIt’s an unverified extension and an about:config variable
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube Live adding joint horizontal/vertical streams, side-by-side ads
26·1 month agoConcurrent ads is one usage, yes. But from when people started reacting on YouTube, I always thought there should be a more seamless way. When I started seeing takedown notices for people reacting to music videos, I thought why can’t they just overlay/embed it. It seemed like a no-brainer to me. Now that technology is finally here.
As for the technology being co-opted by ads, on my TV I don’t have ReVanced and so am stuck with ads, if I can have silent ads play at the side rather than delay what I’m trying to watch at the beginning of a video, I’d go for the side ads.
So…
Great. Here’s something no one asked for
Except me!
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•FF won't let me install BPC extensionEnglish
273·1 month agoIf they didn’t have safeguarding in place, I’d be more worried. As with all things Firefox, it can be overridden.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCGEnglish
2·2 months agoCrazy statement
Nope, it’s just an option in the main settings.
Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Advanced Protection
If you disable advanced protection, you can bypass their check
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals
3·2 months agoNothing. I expect a lawsuit at some point that complains that nothing useful is being shared.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•They finally fixed the navigation buttons on the new Firefox menu. They're at the bottom again!
4·2 months agoI find the very notion that collections are still a thing, offensive. Such a waste of time and effort.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPto
Firefox@lemmy.ml•They finally fixed the navigation buttons on the new Firefox menu. They're at the bottom again!
5·2 months agoSome of the design decisions and indecisions that have come from the UX team has led me to feel like none of them actually use Android, let alone Firefox for Android. But I’d absolutely love to be wrong about this and just ignorant of their vision and their passion for modern Android design. It can’t be easy to try and deploy designs and see a design come to fruition, only to not have the staff to implement it. It’s worth mentioning that the size of Fenix Team is miniscule compared to the desktop team or even the combined sum of people working on AI. Which is crazy given the size of the mobile market.
That said, they got there in the end and I’m happy with the implementation whereby they put the navigation at the top for people who want the address bar at the top and at the bottom for people who want the address bar at the bottom.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPto
Technology@beehaw.org•Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
16·2 months agoI bet they’re gonna try and require VPN websites to put age checks on them.

















Confirmed. Should be back up now