Why are Some Apps Updated Daily?
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    What would be best? Dealing with a bug for 1 month waiting a monthly update, or dealing with a bug 2 days waiting a daily update?

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  • Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds
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    The issue isn't emissions, it's costs. Sadly we don't live in a dream world, and everything has a cost.

    Even running excess production into hydrogen production has costs (transport, storage, infrastructure...).

    The current (not taking in consideration the new tech currently in testing) beeing highly ineficient creates many cost issues.

    Less effieicnt means that more power needs to be used to get that amount of hydrogen, reducing the gains on electricity surplus.

    The storage beeing ineficient means a higher running cost, more space used, less of that space...

    The transport beeing ineficient also increases the running costs, but also the emissions if the transport uses fossil fuel. Of it uses hydrogen, well it increases the running cost even more. That expensive produced hydrogen is used for transport...

    The electricity production from hydrogen being ineficient increases the used hydrogen to get the same energy amount, which then increases the costs because more of that expensive hydrogen has to be used.

    So taking all this into account, being "clean" doesn't necessarily make it is viable compared to other storage or energy production tech.

    The costs have to be taken in account because resources don't appear magically.

    Mining Uranium has a cost. Buying it from abroad has a cost, paying people to maintain all that has a cost...

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  • Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds
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    It's another solution, now there is also issues with costs. However with time the costs can be reduced.

    For hydrogen based on this video : https://youtu.be/M0fnEsz4Ks0 there could be some hope for large hydrogen storage for a smaller cost (not used in cars tho, due to the weight).

    Hydrogen production however is/was very ineficient. However there is also some hope for this https://youtu.be/m0d6iljzzEI

    So with this, maybe it could be an interesting solution to store energy.

    Tho I'm not sure how efficient it would be to produce energy from that stored hydrogen, and how efficient it could be for the entire hydrogen production/storing/electricity production chain.

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  • Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds
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    Well the issue with renewable power like wind and solar, is that they are not stable.

    Having a battery in order to store the energy and release it when the demand is higher than production is one part of the solution.

    But what happens when there wasn't enough solar and wind to replenish the batteries if those batteries aren't enough for the demand? Power shortages, which are pretty bad to get.

    One of the solutions to this is natural gas for a simple reason : it's very fast to start generating power or to stop. It's also not very expensive, at least when there isn't a war... The co2 equivalent emissions aren't as high as coal either.

    Nuclear power on the other hand is very hard to stop. Having a surplus of power on the grid is also very bad. Some of it could be used to recharge the batteries, but there would be some loss at some point.

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  • Switched from Manjaro to Fedora after being told Manjaro is "a bad distro" by many. Looking for a telnet terminal such as Syncterm to run on rpm or flatpak.
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    I convinced myself that manjaro is less stable than fedora. But not completely. It depends on the device and what is installed on it.

    For some reason, I was able to run Manjaro on my hp laptop without issues for a long time. However my brother on his Lenovo laptop, the manjaro update just killed itself after 2 months. And this always after some months the updater would not work anymore.

    I then installed Fedora on his laptop, and damn that thing stayed up and running for 2y now. Even after major system update, never broke, and package install always worked, at least when the tutorials are up to date on special things.

    Like installing video codecs, I had to do another command which was not mentioned on the fedora docs, in order to switch from ffmpeg libre to ffmpeg. And then the rest of the install commands would work.

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  • Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded
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    There is a difference. Not sure how they ar made, but the chemical composition and possibly the design is different.

    Trying to recharge a non rechargeable battery can risky and there is the possibility of leaking or explosion.

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  • it's the steam winter sales, what game did you enjoy playing and want to share?
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    I finished Laika : Aged through blood. An indie metroidvania / 2d bike shooter / bullet time.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/

    It's the story of a mother in a post-apocalyptic environment having to care for her daughter and village while doing the war outside.

    Everything, art, music, is a masterpiece. The music is just extremely good.

    Outside of special zones, there are 20 you have to find, and it cycles between them. All 20 are voiced, with words or humming.

    The story is good, and is extremely anti-war.

    The gameplay feels amazing. It can be hard at first, but I quickly learned how to control the bike and and to do backflips and frontflips at the right time to reload guns and the pary.

    The main character laika is one-shot, but the game isn't very punishing. The respawn points aren't too far away from each other, and they are optional. When you die, you loose a pouch with the currency, and can get it back.

    There are some little issues with the game tho. The ending seems to be a bit rushed. The ending boss isn't that difficult, and there were some cuts it seems.

    But overall these little issues aren't that bad, and the game is still amazing for an indie.

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  • The Steam winter sales are here, up to the 4rth of January. What game did you enjoy playing and want to share with the community, and why? It's like a mini (or a bit larger) review for the people in the community to discover your loved game, and get it for a smaller price. Also remember to share a link to the store page to help people find the game. The game must be on sale currently and must not be a free to play game, or what would be point of this post. The release date doesn't matter. Neither the sale amount. If you enjoyed the game, it should be shared. You can put the game type/tags at the beginning of your comment if you wish so, it may help other people. Please a single game per comment if you post a review. I'll start in the comments.

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    Gérald Darmanin annonce la dissolution de Gérald Darmanin
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    J'ai quelques idées...

    Comme il est indiqué sur les infos du site, d'après eux ils se sont séparés du figaro, et bien sûr comme l'URL du site est legorafi = lefigaro.

    Ce serait donc un site exagéré parodique du figaro ?

    Mais je ne sais même pas pourquoi le site existe encore... Je suppose il y a toujours des gens pour perdre leur temps à lire des articles inutiles...

    (si l'objectif est de faire quelque chose de marrant, ca ne me fait pas rire des gens qui se font tirer dessus ou qq qui se lamente et fracasse la tête contre un mur...)

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    Gérald Darmanin annonce la dissolution de Gérald Darmanin
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    C'est quoi cet article de bouse. Elle est où leur source ? C'est la rédaction leur source ?

    Je ne peux rien trouver comme source à cet article.

    Donc sans source ou preuve que cet article est factuel, cet article est faux et une invention du journal qui est sûrement m*ique dans ce cas.

    Si c'est du sarcasme ou je ne sais quoi, c'est totalement raté et nul. Ça paraît trop gros pour être vrai, ce qui pe s'en rapprocher, mais ce n'est pas du tout une bonne chose de propager de telles fausses infos.

    Vu les autres articles de la rédaction, le journal est de la bouse.

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  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 17th
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    I finished Laika : Aged through blood. An indie metroidvania / 2d bike shooter / bullet time.

    And i can say that it is, damn amazing!

    It's the story of a mother in a post-apocalyptic environment having to care for her daughter and village while doing the war outside.

    Everything, art, music, is a masterpiece. The music is just extremely good.

    Outside of special zones, there are 20 you have to find, and it cycles between them. All 20 are voice, with words or humming.

    The story is good, and is extremely anti-war.

    The gameplay feels amazing. It can be hard at first, but I quickly learned how to control the bike and and to do backflips and frontflips at the right time to reload guns and the pary.

    The main character laika is one-shot, but the game isn't very punishing. The respawn points aren't too far away from each other, and they are optional. When you die, you loose a pouch with the currency, and can get it back.

    There are some little issues with the game tho. It doesn't tell that combo rewards more currency from enemies (it's a timed combo, sho shooting will either increase or refresh the combo, and shooting flying bodies increases the combo up to 2 more times). The ending seems to also be a bit rushed. The ending boss isn't that difficult, and there were some cuts it seems.

    But overall these little issues aren't that bad, and the game is still amazing.

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  • Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons
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    Consent-O-Matic (has to be downloaded from the main website, and not the android sub category)

    And what you wish to have other than that depends on your needs.

    I myself have an extension to unlock Bing AI on Firefox android.

    Google Search Fixer (for when I need a Google service)

    TWP - Translate Web Pages

    And more.

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  • Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight
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    It's something else. Here it's US antitrust monopoly.

    Google made deals with games and special contracts with other apps in order to kill competition.

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  • It’s estimated that 9,000 games industry jobs have been lost this year
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    Nah, the game is utter trash not the bugs. Let's look at 3 games very hyped :

    • Redfall : game had game breaking bugs and performance issues at launch. Gameplay was bad. No one played it.

    • Gollum : game had game breaking bugs and performance issues at launch. Gameplay was destroyed due to bugs. The studio closed their gaming branch.

    • Starfield : very hiped, bought by a lot of people, the game looks like 2010-15 game with some little 2023 enhancements...

    Redfall and Gollum were failures. High budget failures. They most likely layed off people.

    Starfield : Microsoft layed off people at the start of the year https://www.polygon.com/23561210/microsoft-layoffs-xbox-bethesda-halo-infinite-343-industries for who knows why. The game got delayed, and then it gets out very mixed due to bad exploration gameplay and no love put into population design (population characters look like 2010 or even worse).

    All of these 3 games have been very hyped, with a high price, but none of their failure have anything to do with gamers "fault" and "opinion". It's all on the studios fault on not delivering something good.

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  • USB fingerprint sensors with Linux support?
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    The issue is that even the same brand can have multiple USB fingerprint scanners, which may not all work.

    From a 4y old reddit thread some person found a fingerprint scanner which worked, but some other person who had a similar one didn't get it ot work.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/gc8a2e/i_finally_found_a_cheap_usb_fingerprint_reader/

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  • What the Fuck Amazon?!
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    Drms need to be installed and enabled on the browser. Drms like widevine and others.

    If the drms aren't enabled and installed on the browser, and able to communicate to the service it's "safe", spoofing the user agent won't do anything.

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  • What Linux distro should I choose?
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    There is a lot to learn for Linux. Search engines are your best friend. Tho sometimes advice is outdated. There are also some discord servers where help exists, tho they also expect someone asking to do their research.

    I mostly learned by YouTube, then doing research on Google and other search engines, on forums... Discord servers were my last resort when I had some specific question.

    Linux for all : https://discord.gg/eSP6cXjY4B Gaming on Linux : https://discord.gg/AghnYbMjYg The Linux experiment (YouTuber) also has a discord server...

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  • What Linux distro should I choose?
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    • Mint = the desktop is closer to windows look.
    • Pop os = the desktop is closer to mac look. With extensions and settings with those, it can be even closer.

    However keep in mind that Pop OS is developing their own desktop to get away from gnome (the name of the desktop environment(DE) (the bunch of apps and tools making the desktop and settings work)).

    That new DE will most likely not be compatible with gnome extensions. And I don't know how it will look.

    For functionality, both work pretty well.

    • Pop os has 2 ISO : one which includes the nvidia driver, and another without the Nvidia driver, should be easy to download the right one.

    • Mint I don't remember exactly how it works, but it should be easy enough to download and install the proprietary nvidia driver, either through a driver tool, or through the store.

    • Pop os has a gnome extension which allow you to switch from integrated gpu / hybrid / nvidia "only" directly from the notification menu.

    • to switch in mint, you need to open the nvidia control panel.

    Both need a reboot or log out to switch gpu mode.

    (keep in mind, the Nvidia gpu consumes a lot more than the cpu integrated one. In hybrid, nvidia gpus canot be put to 0w sleep yet, so it will still consume some power).

    Both need a special argument for app launch or steam launch arguments to launch with the nvidia gpu if you set hybrid.

    For boot :

    • Pop os bypasses grub (a Linux boot menu), so to choose the os to boot from, you'll have to either use your laptop's boot menu or the bios priority.
    • Mint has a grub boot menu displayed each time. So if you choose mint as priority boot, you can at boot still choose windows (about 5-10 sec to use the arrows to boot into something else than mint).

    Disadvantage :

    • Pop OS still needs an additional app to be able to change all settings, including mouse acceleration (say thanks to gnome devs, theming has become harder to do for non gnome standard themes).
    • Mint : they only now made plans to develop their DE to support Wayland (a new window manager explained a bit further), and so you could have a bit less track pad fluidity (no 1to1 gestures ... ). Tho as the DE used is cinnamon, there is less use of track pad gestures.

    About Wayland : it's a "new" windows manager (what allows apps to be displayed, and how they interact with each other). It is a hopeful replacement for X11 (released in 198X, before Linux...) full of issues but still working well for what it has to do. Wayland wants to bring enhancements on security, gesture fluidity and many other things. However it is not yet fully developed and you shouldn't really base your decision on it yet.

    For the rest. I don't really remember other disadvantages as i don't really use them anymore.

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    Vous avez peut être déjà vu passer des articles sur cela, comme celui de lepoint https://www.lepoint.fr/high-tech-internet/les-ministres-francais-invites-a-desinstaller-whatsapp-signal-et-telegram-29-11-2023-2545099_47.php Celui-ci de numerama est bien mieux recherché et montre qu'en fait le choix de Olvid a été fait parce que l'entreprise est française et qu'elle a postulé pour le rôle. L'audit a été fait sur une version ancienne de Olvid.

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    **Another article, much better and presents in more detail that Olvid was audited on an older version and chosen because it was French and they applied for it (French) https://www.numerama.com/tech/1575168-pourquoi-les-ministres-vont-devoir-renoncer-a-whatsapp-signal-et-telegram.html** Google translate link original post : https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog/high-tech-internet/les-ministres-francais-invites-a-desinstaller-whatsapp-signal-et-telegram-29-11-2023-2545099_47.php?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp The translation has some mistakes but good enough to understand the context. Here is a short summary : Olvid passed a 35d intrusion test by Anssi (French cybersecurity state organisation) experts or designated experts, with code examination without finding any security breach. Which is not the case of all other 3 messaging apps (either because they didn't do any test, or because they didn't pass). This makes WhatsApp, signal and telegram unreliable for state security. And so government members and ministerial offices will have to use Olvid or Tchap (French state in house messaging app). More detail in the article.

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    The article is about Kyutai, a French AI lab with an objective to compete with chatgpt and others with full open source (research papers, models, and training data). They are aiming to also include the capability to use sound, image, etc... (according to this article (French) https://www.clubic.com/actualite-509350-intelligence-artificielle-xavier-niel-free-et-l-ancien-pdg-de-google-lancent-kyutai-un-concurrent-europeen-a-openai.html ) The post article also talks about some French context.

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    >All of these Windows 11 changes are part of key tweaks that Microsoft has to make to its operating system to comply with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, which comes into effect in March 2024. > Alongside clearly marking which apps are system components in Windows 11, Microsoft is also responding by adding the ability to uninstall the following apps: > > - Camera > - Cortana _(already removable and thrown in the trash)_ > - Web Search from Microsoft Bing, in the EEA > - Microsoft Edge, in the EEA > - Photos >Only Windows 11 users in the EEA will be able to fully remove Microsoft Edge and the Bing-powered web search from Windows Search. Microsoft could easily extend this to all Windows 11 users, but it’s limiting this extra functionality to EEA markets to comply with the rules. “Windows uses the region chosen by the customer during device setup to identify if the PC is in the EEA,” >Microsoft will allow EEA machines to remove the Bing results, so Google could provide its own search results here and effectively become the default if a user has uninstalled Bing. “If the user has more than one search provider installed, Windows Search will show the last one used when opened,” So possibly search engines like ddgo and others may be able to develop an integration to be able to be used in the windows search menu. But no nice things for outside the EEA. Now I hope that when uninstalling edge, it won't auto reinstall back like the f piece of s omen software which installs itself because I have an hp display. Also what would happen if a user, who has no idea what they are doing, uninstalls edge without having another browser available?

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    Thanks to more than 100 civil society groups joined us in speaking out against this proposal. So did thousands of individuals who signed the petition demanding that the EU “Stop Scanning Me.” The LIBE comity has changed it's stance towards the on device scanning and message scanning. The text is not final, but scheduled to confirm the new agreement on the 13th of November.

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    ![](https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/4f23bb92-b5c5-4aeb-b5da-f999cc66a9af.jpeg) This one allows me to move, while beeing friendly, not like this one, who follows me "aggressively" for pets. ![](https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/8347e999-5979-4c49-8726-9720baefec6f.jpeg) https://jlai.lu/post/1328045

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    It's in French. Here is a translation to help you understand : This environmental impact is with the configuration shown in the picture : - 50 mails/week from a pc, each with 1mb attachments - 7 hours of 4k streaming (YouTube, Netflix, or whatever). - 3 hours of HD video calls. All through wifi. In the impact and comparison below, you should be able to understand from the emojis : The impact equates to - 153km in a car, 5 t-shirts, 4.6 meals with beef. The list under that is the calculated environmental impact : (1y, is with the amount per week, so one year in weeks). - 1y email - 1y video call - 1y streaming - 1 smartphone - 1 touch pad - 1 laptop - 1 TV - 1 PC Source : https://impactco2.fr/usagenumerique You can play on the website to find your impact. The website is from the French government, and created with the help of the ARCEP and ADEME through extensive studies https://www.arcep.fr/la-regulation/grands-dossiers-thematiques-transverses/lempreinte-environnementale-du-numerique.html So next time when you get a proposition to clean your emails, think about this. The emails are dwarfed by everything else.

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    L'emprunte carbone est avec la configuration au dessus. Vous pouvez configurer différemment l'usage : https://impactco2.fr/usagenumerique L'emprunte carbone des mails ne représente rien par rapport au autres éléments. Pensez à ça la prochaine fois qu'on vous propose de nettoyer votre boîte mail pour l'écologie. Je pense cependant qu'avoir une boîte mail propre est bien aussi.

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    I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible. In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end. All were skippable after 5 sec. 2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video. But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda. I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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    "We would like to inform you of a recent incident affecting the security of certain data hosted by one of our service providers. What happened? At the end of September, we were the victim of a social engineering attack targeting one of our employees. This highly sophisticated attack began on the Discord platform with the downloading of malware under cover of a game on the Steam platform, proposed by an acquaintance of our employee, himself a victim of the same attack. Our security team took immediate action. Despite our actions, the attacker was able to exploit one of the stolen cookies to connect to the management interface of one of our SaaS providers. Thanks to this cookie, now deactivated, the attacker was able to extract, via our SaaS provider's API, certain private information about you. The information concerned is your first and last name, e-mail address, date of birth, billing address and credit card expiry date. It is important to note that no passwords or sensitive banking data have been compromised. What actions have we taken? As soon as this incident was discovered, we took immediate steps to secure our systems and took all necessary precautions to avoid future incidents. We have also reinforced the security protocols we apply with all our SaaS providers. Finally, we will be upgrading our internal systems to render compromised workstations harmless. What can you do? In the wake of this incident, please be very vigilant about the emails you receive, as they could be phishing attempts. In general, for all your accounts, we advise you to protect yourself by setting up multi- factor authentication ("MFA"). To set up MFA on your Shadow account, please refer to the following guide: https://shdw.me/HC-B2C-2FA We are here for you We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and assure you that we are doing everything possible to ensure the security of your data. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our customer service department at https://shdw.me/HC- B2C-Support Form Thank you for your understanding and trust. Best regards, Eric Sèle, CEO, Shadow"

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    Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won't work on another device. Now I don't know if that key can be stolen or not, or if it's really more secure or not, as people have really unsecure pins.

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