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  • No, MS has been “shipping” curl with Windows for ages, it’s just that legacy powershell has an alias for curl to their internal download module that predates the bundling. And they won’t change that because it has backwards compatibility risks.

    Upside is, it’s a literal alias. “curl” uses the internal module while “curl.exe” uses the normal app.

    Further upside, if you use the up to date version of powershell, that alias is gone as they removed it during the transition.



  • So there’s a couple of sources, like the (rather outdated) Mozilla wiki page detailing the sandbox support on Linux.

    And I know it’s specifically the Chromium sandbox, since they vendor their copy of it.

    I also just checked the sandboxing status directly in Firefox.

    And I’m kinda of cheating, I knew they used it since I’ve got an unsupported configuration with HW video decoding. It’s caused by their sandbox blocking certain things, and it’s a known issue. Nvidia drivers don’t support VA-API, Firefox only supports VA-API. There’s an adapter library available, but it doesn’t work in Firefox unless you disable the sandbox.

    Edit: Oh yeah, Firefox is also affected by the same issue Chrome is, where Flatpak interferes in the sandbox.



  • They don’t do that anymore in new versions, but you still need to actually use the new version to get that behaviour. It’s a bit of a pain since the “fixed” version is in the MS store, the broken one is a base system component.

    It also hits the people who use the terminal the least, anybody who uses it regularly will just install the new shell at the same time they install the new terminal and always get the new clean behaviour.








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    Not really - if a woman came in with a gunshot wound, she’d be asked if she was pregnant. Why? Because she’d need a CT scan or an X-ray, which are ionizing radiation and have a risk for a foetus.

    Pretty sure immediate blood loss from a bullet wound trumps hypothetical risks of an x-ray.

    Edit: To quote the health department of the state next to me…

    Most radiation exposure during medical testing is unlikely to harm a developing baby. Testing is only done if the risk to you or your baby is greater than not doing the test. The ‘risk’ is the increased chance of your unborn baby getting a cancer during their childhood.




  • Webp is a smaller file size than jpeg for the same image quality in almost all circumstances

    For lower quality images sure, for high quality ones JPEG will beat it (WebP, being an old video format, only supports a quarter of the colour resolution than JPEG does, etc.) JPEG is actually so good that it still comes out ahead in a bunch of benchmarks, it’s just it’s now starting to show it’s age technology wise (like WebP, it’s limited to 8bpc in most cases)

    It also doesn’t hurt that Google ranked sites using WebP/AVIF higher than ones that aren’t (via lighthouse).

    Edit: I should clarify, this is the lossy mode. The lossless mode gives better compression than PNG, but is still limited to 8bpc, so can’t store high bit depth, or HDR images, like PNG can.

    Edit 2: s/bpp/bpc/