Interesting. I can’t find anything about the FLAC licensing issues. Do you have a link?

(Also, correction — Wikipedia says macOS in general can play FLAC. I guess it’s just the Music app that can’t import them.)

Yep. Lack of format support is usually to blame on the one who doesn’t support the format. You can absolutely blame Apple for this too though, their apps can’t open e.g. Matroska video or FLAC.

And perplexingly, they don’t support uploading HEIC, their own image format of choice, on the web iCloud Photos. So there’s that too.

(At this point my music library is stored as ALAC because it’s well supported in both Linux and Apple’s OSes. Really wish it wouldn’t have to be that way though. Someone needs to tell them about ffmpeg.)

For example they used to have their own video container .mov

It’s always very very funny every time someone mentions MOV, because while it’s very similar to MP4, it’s actually an open format while MP4 isn’t (!). You actually have to pay for the MP4 standard document while Apple just gives you the MOV documentation.

Also at least taking a screen capture on macOS still gives you a MOV container, actually.

Meeeeh, that sucks though compared to iCloud. I haven’t tried it but it seems like it will upload only and not download, and it will not store the entire Photos database (including faces, etc.).

Would be cool if this results in being able to store the Photos library in Nextcloud. Not holding my breath though.

Sounds like exactly the right way to talk about physical buttons to me.

Oh, so he has a new ID but I assume registered to vote before the name change and the registration is tied to the name? Ah yeah that sounds like a pain in the ass.

Why does his drivers license specifically have to match up with his ID to be able to vote? That seems really weird. (Also, could he pretend to just not have one?)

I think in this case I would translate “Lager” as “warehouse”

Irresponsible and malicious journalism like this is why I have an immediate distrust against any sort of reporter that tries to talk to me. Probably irrational but still.

I hope your balls explode.

I wish him the very same.

Kanidm

I’ve been trying VS Codium out for Rust/C++ development after avoiding it for years. (Used to use CLion until it for some reason stopped scaling consistently a couple days ago after I reinstalled my PC.)

So far it’s pretty good, except that run configurations seem extremely half baked and inconsistent between the two languages (or rather between build systems, at least for CMake, which doesn’t use the built in one at all; maybe specifically because it is half baked).

I’m not convinced this is a good idea. Resident keys as the primary mechanism were already a big mistake, syncing keys between devices was questionable at best (the original concept, which hardware keys still have, is the key can never be extracted), and now you’ve got this. One of the great parts about security keys (the original ones!) is that you authenticate devices instead of having a single secret shared between every device. This just seems like going further away from that in trying to engineer themselves out of the corner they got themselves into with bullshit decisions.

Let me link this post again (written by the Kanidm developer). Passkeys: A Shattered Dream. I think it still holds up.

sourcehut. I like how it’s structured, where issue trackers, repos, and so on are independent of each other but can be grouped using a project, and you can have as many of each as you want or none at all. You should be able to have a huge monorepo with many issue trackers, or a single issue tracker for a project split across many repos if you want. GitHub doesn’t really allow you to do either, certainly not the former, and same with most of the alternatives. Everything else seems to clone GitHub’s workflow for contributions as well which I can’t stand (sourcehut uses git send-email as the primary contribution method — but there is also a GitHub style PR button —, which apart from the email jank I find much better because once it’s set up you can just send changes to any project with just a local clone; it also means you don’t even have to be registered on sourcehut to send changes to a project hosted there).

I also self-host cgit I suppose but that’s not really a GitHub alternative.

Wow, I didn’t know there was so much piracy on Android. At least much more so than on desktop computers (or Windows specifically I guess). Enough to make a dev stop even, not just the usual “oh no a few people are pirating our software that would otherwise not have bought it anyway”. I assumed it would be a relatively small percentage of more experienced users.

By mid-September, the iA team claimed to have spent five months making 55 updates to its app and privacy policy and was ready to scan its passports and verify its payment accounts.

Google then requested a CASA Tier 2 assessment. This needed to be done annually, either through an intensive self-directed process or through a corporate partner, like TAC Security or KPMG. By iA’s estimation, the labor and fees to do this would cost “one to two months of revenue” for "a pretty much meaningless scan,” iA suggested in its post.

This is just absolutely crazy. I feel like Google absolutely had it out for them because why would they make them go through this arduous bullshit process for what seems to be described as a text editor app here.

But giving up Factorio is a bridge too far.

Factorio has an ARM port, it runs great on my M2 MacBook. But even if it didn’t, Rosetta works well enough so that x86-only games are playable.

Rotten to the core. The pigs are even arresting children here now: https://www.tumblr.com/heritageposts/762278495163383808/this-is-not-the-first-time-this-has-happened?source=share

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I’d trust a chinese vehicle over a Tesla any day.

I like to order tech stuff from mindfactory.de

It’s not illegal anywhere except in Norway according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine?useskin=monobook#Regulation