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SatyrSack
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member since 25 Aug 2025 03:30
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- on Anyone else seeing that unhinged "UK phones require digital ID or get child-locked" screenshot making the rounds? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
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on OMG, this is so useful! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 7 Sep 2026
I know I’ve definitely heard the “remove the French language pack” joke. Is that the same thing, or did they use a different cover?
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026
All the UI/UX for AirVPN looks pretty bad. The website just looks… off, design-wise. But yeah, as long as the VPN works as intended..
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
Oh, it fails to install anything when Obtainium does not find an installable build.
That’s because not every git repo necessarily hosts installable builds at all. The main purpose of git is just to host the source code for that project. With that said, many repos do also build an installable release (
*.apk,*.exe, whatever) of each major version and host that in the “Releases” section.As an example, here is Obtainium’s GitHub repo. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you see the “Releases” section that contains the most recent APKs and everything:
But not every git repo hosts releases. Eddie is one of those. The git repo for Eddie is just for hosting the source code. They host the releases on their own website instead. In that case, you can often just take the URL for whatever website is actually hosting the APKs and paste that into Obtainium and it will do its usual web scraping method to find the appropriate APK files for each update.
On the other hand, that web scraping often does not work and requires more complicated techniques to get Obtainium to find the appropriate APK files. That is where https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/ comes in handy. This is a crowdsourced list of popular apps that require more complicated techniques to add to Obtainium, and each has a neat little “Install” button to quickly and easily add that app to Obtainium by applying that complex config in the background for you.
But there are also some projects that don’t host releases anywhere other than F-Droid. In that case, by all means, just use F-Droid for that app.
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
What? It fails because it locates an app to install?
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on Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
AVIF is often unsupported, but in recent years, most sites seem to accept WebP. There was certainly a time in which most sites rejected WebP, and there are a handful of websites that still do have issues with it today, but it is certainly not “half the internet” at this point.
EDIT: Your main point is definitely true, though. It took several years to reach this level of WebP compatibility, and its still not perfect. JPEG XL compatibility adoption will unfortunately likely be just about as slow.
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on Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Do you have some experimental flag enabled or something? Neither link is working for me on LibreWolf.
Regardless, it is good to know that when Firefox supports JPEG XL, it seems to support animated ones.
EDIT: I just enabled that, and both of the above links work as expected!
1. Navigate to
about:config2. Search
jxl3. Toggle
image.jxl.enabledtotrueActually, see what @mschae@discuss.mschae23.de posted below. That is likely a safer method than messing with
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on Intent to Ship: JPEG XL – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Will animated JPEG XL be supported? I like to make animated images and dislike GIF for obvious reasons, but WebP is not a perfect replacement for philosophical reasons. I am eager for more programs to support JPEG XL so I can use that format for the animations that I create.
But in my experience with WebP, some programs that claim to support that format only support static WebP images. When they encounter an animated WebP, some programs only render the first frame of that animation. Due to that experience, I am hesitant to assume that animated JPEG XL images will work just because static ones do.
If you want to test, here is an animated JPEG XL I made a while ago: https://files.catbox.moe/80ottu.jxl
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 Sep 2026
I’ve heard a lot about AirVPN, but it doesn’t have an app on Fdroid or anything. Yes you can download it directly from their site, but that is a little cumbersome.
Consider using Obtainium. It might be a little cumbersome to get it set up, but once you do, Obtainium will handle checking for and installing updates whenever they are released.
Install Obtainium from GitHub or F-Droid. Then you can add Eddie (the AirVPN client app) by using the install button on this page: https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/apps?categoryMode=inclusive&category=vpn&sort=popular&q=Eddie
- on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
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on PSA: Trilium Notes (FLOSS alternative to Obsidian) is now heavily AI coded with Claude in c/foss@beehaw.org · 30 Aug 2026
Those are all either features of the text editors I am used to using or features that I just don’t care about. I am just going to switch to manually managing a synchronized folder of
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on PSA: Trilium Notes (FLOSS alternative to Obsidian) is now heavily AI coded with Claude in c/foss@beehaw.org · 30 Aug 2026
I’m wondering why I don’t do the same. I write all my notes using Markdown syntax anyway, have Syncthing set up to sync, and am comfortable with raw text editors on every platform. Why am I even bothering with the likes of Joplin? What benefit is that even providing me?
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on PSA: Trilium Notes (FLOSS alternative to Obsidian) is now heavily AI coded with Claude in c/foss@beehaw.org · 29 Aug 2026
How does the community feel about Joplin? I tried out Logseq a few times, but always went back to Joplin for whatever reason.
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on Me when I enter any website in 2026 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 28 Aug 2026
There doesn’t seem to be a rule against slop. I say just let the downvotes take care of it. Or consider adding a slop rule.
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on Me when I enter any website in 2026 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 28 Aug 2026
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on We ignored the signs. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026
This picture is from the olden days, when pixels were rare.
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on Happy Manjaro Certificate expiration day! To all who celebrate! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
The name of the web browser being used there, yes.
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on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 21 Aug 2026
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on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 21 Aug 2026
$ life --help -
on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 21 Aug 2026
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on GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
GitHub Has a Microsoft Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
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on would you wait for the Grapheneos-Motorola phone or buy a new pixel now? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Aug 2026
It all depends on how badly you need a new phone. My current Pixel is perfectly serviceable, so I have no problem waiting to see what Motorola eventually has to offer. My current phone will almost certainly suffice until then.
With that said, if my current phone was actually broken or whatever, I would probably buy a cheap/old/used Pixel to tide me over until the Motorola reveal.
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on Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
A character simply driving a Mercedes car is one thing. But podcast ads are more akin to a movie character entirely interrupting the flow of the film to stop and talk for two minutes straight about how great Mercedes is and to recite a series of specifications about that model car and gush at what a low price it is.
Is anyone making that claim? Based on what I see in that image, phones will have limited functionality. I don’t know enough about the situation to know if that’s overblown, but I certainly don’t interpret that as saying “bricked”.