Category: Tech

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/30/zuckerberg-apple-policies-not-sustainable

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday added to the growing chorus of concerns about Apple, arguing that it’s “problematic that one company controls what happens on the device.”

Some day he is going tell the people still working at twitter to do whatever it takes to make it profitable. He dont want to sell more Tesla stocks to keep twitter running.

Mastodon is confusing for most people. They are not going to understand what the fediverse is. They are not going to find their favourite celebrities on Mastodon. What they will find is imposters. How can anybody know who is the real person posting by a name. How can they find their friends. Their friends could be on different instances. It could work if there was only a few instances that worked together, but that would not be a fediverse. The twitter blue mark was good. Elon ruined it.

I tried first with ublock origin. I could remove the loop attribute on video elements. Then the videos only played once. They played once every time they were scrolled into view. There is some script that starts videos every time they are scrolled into view. I tried with Firefox advanced settings in about:config. It removed the videos from the page. Not what i wanted. Then i tried Tampermonkey. You have to add video controls and pause the video all the time. Daily mail scripts sets back videos and starts them. The script runs a function every second. The function loops through all video elements and puts video controls back and pauses the video. When a video is scrolled into view it stops in a second. You can skip trough it with the video controls. Now i don’t have to get the experience the user expects. As a web developer would say it.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Stops and add Controls to HTML5 videos on Daily mail
// @namespace   video-controls-html5
// @version     3
// @description Adds controls to HTML5 videos
// @grant none
// @exclude        *//*.youtube.com/*
// @match *.dailymail.co.uk/*
// ==/UserScript==

function func() {
for (var e of document.getElementsByTagName('video')) {
    e.setAttribute('controls', true);
    e.pause();
}

  console.log('Add controls');
}

setInterval(func, 1000);

The uBlock origin filters i use. I believe only the first one makes any difference.

www.dailymail.co.uk##+js(ra.js, loop,video,stay)
www.dailymail.co.uk##+js(ra.js, playsinline,video,stay)
www.dailymail.co.uk##+js(ra.js, auto,video,stay)

Thank you everyone for your comments and feedback regarding JPEG XL. We will be removing the JPEG XL code and flag from Chromium for the following reasons:

– Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely

– There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL

– The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

– By removing the flag and the code in M110, it reduces the maintenance burden and allows us to focus on improving existing formats in Chrome

The open source guys are upset. I did not know there was a new jpeg format.

Oh boy. If Google had applied the same kind of standards for WebP, that image format simply wouldn’t exist today. And frankly WebP is a complete shitshow and supported nonetheless to this today.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Dropping-JPEG-XL-Reasons

When i saw that Dashlane would support passkeys i thought that was interesting. I did not understand how it would work. You can see in the picture how it works. You have to enter Dashlane master password to use passkeys. Passkeys was supposed to get rid of passwords. It is not very bad because you only have to remember one password. Passkeys works much better with Windows Hello and a fingerprint reader.

India fines Google $113 million, orders to permit third-party payments in Play Store

Techcrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/25/google-hit-with-113-million-fine-in-india-for-anti-competitive-practices-with-play-store-policies/

I hope this works. I am not ready for a new image format. JPEG is good enough for me. If you go to about:config there is a “image.avif.enabled” setting for AVIF images. If you set it to false images are JPEG again on websites.

It looks only like a waste of money. If we cant get some small amount CO2 out of earths atmosphere it will fail do something bigger on another planet.

NASA’s Retiring Top Scientist Says We Can Terraform Mars and Maybe Venus, Too

https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/01/03/0112258/nasas-retiring-top-scientist-says-we-can-terraform-mars-and-maybe-venus-too