Skull giver
Giver of skulls
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Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It’s not finished yet, and it’s turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days.
I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I’ve seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don’t think release is very close based on the problems I’ve encountered.
That must be a chunky laptop lid! It’s not just thickness, it’s also parts availability. Most laptops are super thin so the market for USB webcam daughterboards is optimised for shitty, thin laptop cameras.
There’s also post-processing: a webcam of the same shitty image sensor size can look a lot better if the raw data is processed better. That’s why many Qualcomm laptops look to have better webcams even though the camera quality is just as bad, they just use the skills they’ve gathered in the mobile space to process the image into a more pleasing image.
Laptop cameras are terrible because they need to be super thin. Why? Because people like laptop lids that are super thin.
Some manufacturers sort of fixed that by placing the camera somewhere else. On the one hand, the camera is a bit better, on the other, placing the camera by the keyboard gives you permanent chin face.
Qualcomm laptops seem to have better processors for their terrible webcams at least, but they’re still webcams.
If you need a good webcam, you may need to buy an external one. You need to check reviews, but many USB webcams are excellent. Still won’t solve the problem of your video being compressed to shit by video conferencing software, but it’s a start!
Google Play already does this, though. Well, it used to, but now it’s throwing errors when I try to update apps.
I think this just changes the installer package stored by the package manager API so they can skip a permission prompt somewhere. Without that, you’d need to hit “OK” for every update you receive, like on older alternative app stores that don’t have the Android 12 API enabled yet (F-Droid, for instance).
Unless Google is willing to risk a DMA fine, other app stores should be able to do the same.
Their business line is quite good, actually. HP is one of the few companies that a) offered email notifications for driver and firmware updates and b) still produced BIOS updates seven or eight years after I bought the laptop. Even came with a WD Black HDD, which wasn’t an advertised feature but it sure performed admirably. Even the fall detection stuff worked!
Their website is slow as balls but it features more manuals and spec sheets than you could ever need, and their enterprise support is quite good if you pay for the privilege. They have plenty of replacement parts (for a price, of course) that are still available a few years after buying the hardware.
Coming from HP, I was kind of disappointed with Lenovo. Their on-site support offer is even better, but everything else just felt like one step back.
I’ve also had the displeasure of trying to get performance out of a consumer laptop sold by HP. I have never wanted to burn a laptop quite as badly as when I tried to make that thing remove the crapware it came with.
When you’re buying a thousand machines, and you’re not buying the cheapest device on offer, HP seems to do quite well. When you buy a laptop advertised in consumer friendly stores, stay the hell away from HP. When you’re buying a 400 dollar laptop, get yourself a premium Chromebook from another brand because no 400 dollar laptop running anything else will be worth the money.
Nah, I’m with this dev on this one.
To make this work, you need the session cookie of an admin, or be able to set the cookie on an admin’s computer. This “attack” works against almost any website, including Lemmy. In fact, the requirement for the URL token makes OpenCart more secure than 90% of websites out there.
He sure didn’t respond professionally, but if this is the kind of “security vulnerabilities” he has to deal with every day, I totally understand.
There are bigger OpenCart issues that do warrant a better response, of course.
Asking it about Taiwan and Tianamen Square told me everything I need to know about this AI model. Fun for chat bots, but clearly trained on lies and propaganda by the CCP.
LLMs are already difficult to trust, but this one takes the cake.