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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet

I’ve been using for a few months. Here is my opinion:

  • Translation quality is still far from good, but is good enought to be understandable.
  • Can’t translate PDF files (hope it could do it in the future, even if that mean reflowing it)
  • The extension allowed to keep translating this tab. That’s a future that, in my opinion, would be highly appreciated in the built-in translator (instead of enabling the "always translate").
  • The language choice doesn’t correspond with what I usually need (which is chinese. But I know chinese is notably hard to translate.)
  • It seems that translation into french first goes thought a first pass of english translation. While this still produce readable result, targeting english is for now probably the best option (even thought the cost of implementing a new language translation pair doesn’t seems too high, I understand they might prioritise adding more language, at least for now. Actually, I should probably contribute to this myself if I care as much about it)

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Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority

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According to this article, NVidia has a 80% market share over Discrete GPUs. https://wccftech.com/nvidia-retained-80-discrete-gpu-market-share-amd-20-in-q2-2022-despite-gaming-revenue-losses/

That certainly count as monopoly (wonder how igpu goes, but I’ll guess it’s AMD’s who’s first).

Plus they tried to buy ARM recently.

And in France, it’s not monopoly that’s illegal, but company in such situation have more legal restriction due to their potential bad influence on the market compared to smaller companies.

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La messagerie instantanée aussi peut être fédérée

Merci pour cette description. J'aimerais demander, comment cela se compare à Matrix (si tu connait cette dite différence).

D'à cette description, les deux sont plutot proche. Deux différences que je remarque: Les performances. Matrix est plutot consomatteur avec tout ses truc cryptographique bien sympa. J'ai eux du mal avec FOSDEM sur ma raspi 3 avec une microSD pas très performante (mais pas de probleme sur mon VPS à OVH avec 1 processeur plutot rapide et un stockage rapide).

Cependant, il a également ce dit système de synchronisation impressionant garantissant un remplissage arrière total et permanent (avec potentiellement une latence potentielle, bien que je ne sais pas comment XMPP marche sur ce point)

Et Element est vraiment un client lourd et pas très réactif.

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Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market

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FYI, arm can already handle most Open Source Software with no problem as far compiling them is concerned. In particular, Qt and GTK does work, and cross compiling too is very easy. Not that it's necessary anyway (aside of probably faster compilation unless you have really good ARM CPU). In particular, QEMU have qemu-user (if you didn't know), which basically Rosetta for Linux, but with a good performance hit when testing cross-compiled code.

Edit: In my opinion, what will switch the faster to a non-x86 on a large scale (for computers, not counting phones, tablet and microcontroller, not using them anyway) are servers. A lot of them use standard open source software, so switching might be pretty easy if the package manager abstract it (like... All of those I know).

I mean, certain cloud provider are starting to offer renting such servers (and not speaking of all those hacker who host server on raspi (and then those who use standard linux on mobile phone too))

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Can We Help Lemmy Infrastructure with Nix Flakes?

It is possible to deploy a lemmy server via a NixOS option. It's under services.lemmy, see https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=lemmy

You could always try to improve the packaging (there is an issue I had, but a ticket was already open and should be fixed at worst in the next version of lemmy, which was released a few days ago if I'm right)

Of course, everything that make NixOS server hosting will making hosting lemmy with nixos easier, but most of the trouble I had with setting up my server a few years ago was understanding how to configure and run the DNS server on it.

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[Other] Not sure if I'm up to the task (selfhosting Lemmy & Mastodon)

Usually, maintaining a server doesn't take much time once set-up. I personally use NixOS to manage my server, but it's very complicated, and I would not recommend it to a non-developer. However, there is tools/OS called YUNoHost, that is able automatically set up a bunch of services including lemmy and mastodon.

They also provide a free third level domain name (or can use your own, but do it before installing Mastodon or Lemmy, as it'll break federatio.), but you'll need to provide a server. You can rent one (I use an OVH VPS), but you may also just use a spare computer at home, or buy a cheap one (Everything that isn't a slow HDD should work well). I'm unsure about what capacity you need to plan for storage thought.

You should also probably make sure your ISP provide a static IP (that may disabled by default) and that they allow to configure port forwarding (can be found in the router settings usually).

Also, don't forget to set up an automatic backup system. YUNoHost probably recommend something in that matter.

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Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now

That seems pretty interesting mix of the performance of Wifi with the more multi-connection side of Bluetooth. I have yet to see what would support it (or even if there is a generic protocol for things like headset, game controller, screen, remote, media player, etc), but it seems to be the missing technology for wireless haptic feedback controller on PC.

(edit: yes, joycon can do it, but it’s a special case where they does not pass raw audio)

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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems

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Well... That seems uselessly risky and complex when you can just ask them to not do that. The issue tracker said the Youtube folks have been informed. Let’s just see if they fix that rather quickly. (but they are certainly not the only one with that kind of stuff. I’m not a big fan UA discrimination. I mean, this kind of stuff is what webcompat is all about.) (except for some purpose where you truly care about the architecture, like selecting a download link for an installer) (on the other side, I’m totally fine with feature-flags based discrimination, but that need to be done client-side).

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Help me create Firefox logo on lemmy's canvas

Hello. Seems like the pony faction really like it. But there is a problem: We use a custom system for determining how to match canvas’s pixel with the source image, and it looks different than what it looks on your side.

Do you want to review ours? It’s here. If you want to change it, feel free to tell me, I’ll relay the info.

Edit: we deleted it waiting for a response, see here: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1136699394037657791/1137306327799058492/Sans_titre.png?width=69&height=74

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[2025] Canvas Group Finder / Templates

  • No group name, just personal announcement of my intention
  • Hmm... I have this lemmy account. Or my Discord user marius851000. Or (oops, wrongly pressed the submit button. Let me some time to finish this fill that)
  • Template URL: here
  • Fun fact: The atlas for this year will be ready soon after the end of the event. (also, the pony template stack has not yet been set up)
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Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous

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The table that store upvote is named comment_like and post_like. Here, you have the vote’s unique id, the local user id that is linked to the it’s "global id", the local post id which is also linked to it’s "global id", the value of the vote (+/-1) and the date.

So votes are indeed totally not anonymous.

(and I run my server sinces less than a week, and the sum of entry in the two table is of 114 950 votes. Certainly enought for doing a bunch of analysis.)

Example of datas for the comment vote table (ids has been changed)

  id   | person_id | comment_id | post_id | score |         published          
-------+-----------+------------+---------+-------+----------------------------
     1 |        10 |          3 |      61 |     1 | 2023-06-17 20:01:20.948684
     2 |        34 |          1 |      22 |     1 | 2023-06-17 20:01:26.346783
     3 |        12 |          2 |      54 |     1 | 2023-06-17 20:01:27.627144
     4 |        20 |          7 |      91 |     1 | 2023-06-17 20:01:36.570636

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La messagerie instantanée aussi peut être fédérée

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Merci de cette comparaison. Pour information, le chiffrement de Matrix correspond fortement avec ce que tu décrit: Il y a bien du chiffrement de bout en bout, avec chaque appareil une clé unique, mais il y a système (je sais pas comment ça marche) qui permet a un appareil avec une clé d’en attester une autre aprés vérification manuelle par l’utilisateur.