Sometimes it’s cheaper to make one PCB in huge numbers

That works if you leave the pads unpopulated. You don’t save money by shipping with unused nontrivial components soldered onto the PCB (except perhaps in very small quantities).

and only enable the cellular modem on the higher priced models or when a subscription fee is paid.

In that case, its presence damn well better be clearly documented. Otherwise, it’s a spying device.

In order to retain our rights to private communications, we have to win every time.

In order to take them away, they only have to win once.

They will keep trying.

Stay vigilant.

Sure, but most YouTube streams aren’t delivered as a single webm or mp4 file, and the language & subtitle selection you’re referring to aren’t implemented by the browser (but instead by a JavaScript application downloaded from Google). So it’s not what OP asked about.

I’m not suggesting that it’s outrageous. Merely that it’s probably not a high priority.

Maybe webm and mp4 files with multiple language tracks are usually played with a media player, not a web browser?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth

Let’s not make things complicated when they don’t have to be.

When the fuck will you people get it??

This is the wrong way to get people to care what you have to say.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth

:(

A flimsy band-aid over the real problems:

• Locking an open-source project’s community behind a corporation’s private service & license terms.
• Using a real-time chat platform for long-lived information storage.

They could even remove the word allegedly, since they put misleading in quotes. There’s no need for both.

Sigh… Modern web “journalism”.

Reminds me of this bit of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

All the more reason to call attention to an easily overlooked alternative, especially if it’s able to serve a blind person’s needs better.

Streaming of what? Music tracks? Radio stations? TV?

Running ALSA as root had one huge benefit

Huh? ALSA is not a sound server, but a collection of kernel components and libraries. You don’t run it.

With PipeWire or PulseAudio, audio is bound to a user session.

PipeWire has a system-wide mode of operation. It wasn’t well-tested when I last asked about it, but it might be worth a try.

GTK3 broke accessibility for years.
GTK4 released with no accessibility support at all.

This whole article is focused on GNOME and other GTK-based desktops. The only mention of KDE Plasma at all is to say that a certain GNOME fork (MATE) isn’t like it. This seems like a rather large oversight given that Qt, upon which Plasma is built, has accessibility features built in.

So, nearly every criticism here is not about Linux after all, but about a specific desktop family. I hope the author eventually notices that others exist, tries them, and discovers things that work better in them. (And it would be nice if they were to post a more comprehensive follow-up article, or at least rephrase this one so that it doesn’t mislead people into thinking it represents the Linux desktop ecosystem as a whole.)

This is the first time I’ve read of fwupd having firmware that’s likely to be useful to individuals, rather than data centers. Nice!

Do the arena wall features look like a face to anyone else?

Anyone know if the original save games are compatible with the remaster?

For the uninformed:

That was when Blitzchung, in his post-tournament win interview, uttered a brief sentence in support of Hong Kong (and implicitly in support of human rights). Blizzard responded by revoking his prize money, banning him from tournaments, and terminating the interviewers who happened to be on camera with him at the time.

This action took place late at night (well outside of US business hours) and was accompanied by a letter that some analysts pointed out had peculiar phrasing patterns that one might expect from native-Chinese speakers writing in English. The excuse given was a tournament rule prohibiting any act that “brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image.”

To answer your question: No.

At the subsequent BlizzCon, Blizzard president Allen Brack gave a speech in which he “apologized” for the vague act of failing to live up to the high standards they set for themselves. He didn’t mention Blitzchung at all. This was a typical, predictable, corporate non-apology, allowing them to say “I’m sorry” for something other than the harm they inflicted or the position they took. Neither Brack nor Blizzard apologized for the actions taken against Blitzchung and the interview hosts. The punishments were not reversed. (I think Blizzard eventually responded to massive public pressure by somewhat reducing the duration of Blitzchung’s ban, but never lifted it entirely, awarded his prize money, or restored the interview hosts’ contracts.)

A few years later, Activision Blizzard was bought by Microsoft. Bobby Kotick, the CEO at the time of the Blitzchung decision, is no longer there. We don’t know who else participated, so we don’t know if they are are still making decisions at Blizzard.