Wait, did Apple implement its own codec? I thought even the Airpods Max used AAC, which is lossy.

As for Qualcomm, only aptX Lossless is lossless and I’m not aware of many products supporting it (most supports aptX HD at most)

Yeah, I use Caddy for that, as I only use DNS-01 for local-only services.

I have been using BunkerWeb for the past 4 years and have been mostly happy with it. Its default settings are sometimes a bit agressive but you can change those globally or service per service.

Mozilla will probably lose (part of or all of, it’s not clear yet) Google’s funding following their monopoly case, so it’s probably best for them to look for other revenue sources.

Yeah, the janky foundation made me and my boss wish we chose Java for the back-end multiple times. I like async / await (or coroutines in Kotlin-land), it’s easier to wrap my head around than Promises / Futures and I thought I would miss Reactive Programming, but not that much.

Yet, people willingly choose to use one of the most horrific ecosystems out there.

So far I have heard the following explanations for going full-stack JS

• Ability to re-use business logic in back-end and front-end

• Reduced context switching (though with frameworks that’s less true)

• You don’t have to recruit developers proficient in your back-end language in addition to Javascript

Personally, having worked on a full-stack Typescript project for the past year, I kinda miss the maturity of Java’s ecosystem: there is usually one mature and well-maintained library that does its job really well ; while in Javascript-land there are multiple libraries for a single job, each with varying quality and maturity, and most of them are no longer maintained.

This is anecdotal experience, but last time I left Wireguard on for an entire day and it accounted for 5% of battery usage that day.

I believe you swapped DoT (TLS, port 853) and DoH (HTTPS) in your message. I have yet to be in a network that restricts port 853, but if I could I would rather use DoH on Android.

Not directly, but if the developers would call some global variable set by a third-party library that’s blocked by an ad-blocker (say GTM) without checking if said variable is set first, that probably could trigger that error.

Personally Meet hasn’t worked in Firefox for weeks, unless I clear all my Google cache and cookies, where it’ll work once and then no more.

I have Enhanced Tracking Protection set to strict and disabling uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger does not fix the issue, though I haven’t tried lowering / disabling ETP.

A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy

Free as in free beer, not as in freedom unfortunately

I recall that Acer laptops had a reputation of being unreliable over 10 years ago already, I’m surprised it had not improved since then.

I see Amazon is trying something else for their 2024 attrition strategy.

(for those wondering what I mean by attrition strategy)

RSS/ATOM has to be the best thing to come out of XML

I feel like not everyone is conscious of these biases and we need to raise the awareness and try preventing for example HR people from buying AI-based screening software that has a strong bias that is not disclosed by their vendors (because why would you advertise that?)

Seems like not a bias by Al models themselves, rather a reflection of the source material.

That’s what is usually meant by AI bias: a bias in the material used to train the model that reflects in its behavior

I get it, I had to watch a couple of video reviews before making my mind in this one.

I use the standard cube (there is a large one) and I usually pack either

• my A7IV with a 24-105 attached to it + a Tamron 16-28 + a prime
• or body + 24-105 + 3 primes
• or body + 24-105 + 1st gen Sony 70-200 f/2.8 (I can’t remember if I managed to pack a prime as well)

There is no dedicated pockets for the filters but I usually carry them in the “tablet” pocket that I never use.

Then I fill the top half of the bag with a couple of t-shirts, underwear, chargers, cables, sunscreen, glasses, headphones and hat, usually the roll top is expanded 3/4 of the way with a little more headroom.

As for pictures of the bag, I’m not home right now, I’ll try to remember to snap some and send them here.

Oh yes, I have a toiletry bag as well for weekend trips, it’s nice to add volume to the bag.

I personally have the WANDRD PRVKE 21L, I really like it. The camera bag can be removed as well and there is an external water bottle holder as well as quick camera access. The roll-top is very useful to increase its capacity. My only gripe is that the top compartment lacks pockets to organize my stuff, but I guess I should buy zipper pouches.