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> "No, these are ground-truth pixels" - Disclosure Day (2026)

Not technically "Accessibility" but Android has a "developer" setting called "Show Touches" which puts little dots on screen when you touch it. I find it acts a little like being a…

Isn't it possible for creators to release on YouTube some time after the Nebula release? I know of a couple channels that do that, though it seems like there's a requirement to add…

Why would AI make these age worse than, say, libraries or languages becoming obsolete? I don't think a good learning resource gets worse just because there's a newer alternative.

When it includes executeable code? The fact that so many people are now running around with "agentic" software that fundamentally can't distinguish between their own "thoughts"/rul…

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Kobo store is convenient but feels pricey sometimes (I don't have experience with the Kindle store). I don't mind paying them though, because it's still easy enough to strip the DR…

It's been quite a while, but IIRC, in Java these statements actually do have a defined behavior. The ++x is a "pre-increment", meaning the value of the variable is incremented prio…

For the OG controller on Linux, it was/is possible to use third-party open source software like "sc-controller" to map the pads and rebind things the way Steam does, without needin…

I landed on Inconsolata, which makes sense as it's directly inspired by Consolas. I already use Inconsolata most places, since I'm not usually on Windows.

The argument that can be made is that we never would've gotten PipeWire without going through PulseAudio first.

> Claude? The Zoidberg Shuffle?

Wouldn't they do exactly that if they were trained on enough text with punctuation mistakes?

I've had my Framework (w/Arch and KDE) since 2022 and have yet to have any problems with sleep. I can safely unplug from my monitor/dock, close the lid, and drop it in my bag. It's…

Is it possible that the iPhone filters are weaker due to FaceID requirements? I seem to recall that FaceID (and similar systems, like Windows Hello) depend on IR to get a more 3D m…

Allowing the owner of the device root access doesn't necessarily break the security model. It just means that the user can grant additional privileges to specific apps the owner ha…

All this is just "Games haven't(/can't) had their 'Citizen Kane'" all over again. What are you expecting? What would a "Lord of the Rings" of gaming need to do to be "real art" in …

I've had this happen a handful of times with my Frame TV and Steam Deck, though it's inconsistent for some reason. It's pretty cool when it works. The Deck can pretty consistently …

I would guess it's referring to the Erlang VM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)

Hey, I've also used and loved Orpie! I'm not extremely familiar with any of the ML family, but Eric Lippert had a blog series I followed for a while in which he was writing a Z-Mac…

Isn't the Deck x86 though?

IIUC, it comes down to simplifying playback/subtitle rendering to the lowest common denominator among the various western streaming platforms. The good/old subtitles in the ASS for…

The bigger LLMs have generally figured out this specific problem.

Feature branches that have been cleaned up and peer-reviewed/CI-tested, at least in the last few places I worked. Every so often this still means that devs working on a feature wil…

I've been using bat for several years and it's been a really nice drop-in replacement for cat/less/etc. Like rg, it's one of those "rewrite it in rust" projects that turned out to …