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I assume the implication was an intercept facility.

Quite the opposite, people worked very, very hard to make Winamp even more non-standard via skinning.

"Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?"

It has been associated with 3D rendering, but given that things like the S3 86C911 are listed on the Wikipedia GPU page, saying "Accelerated GUIs don't need GPU" feels like attempt…

Is that what's going on? So many touch gestures seem to rely on landing in the right 2mm diameter area, but the minimum reliable resolution for touch seems to be a 4mm diameter cir…

What does "GPU" mean here? Previous uses of the term seemed to imply "dedicated hardware for improving rendering performance" which the SVGA stuff would seem to fall squarely under…

Was it the same 1% that was using each of the long-tail features? I suspect that by refusing to invest effort in at least some amount of niche features, we essentially alienate _ev…

"I think" is explicitly disclaiming authority. Omitting it changes the social signaling of the response significantly. Switching "wooden" for "a bit unnatural" also does a disservi…

I would take things somewhat further: I'd be happy to pay the equivalent of $20 2015 dollars for this service if it were comprehensive. Unfortunately, that might allow for a consum…

Wouldn't browser prefetching subvert these small frictions to entry?

Are you suggesting that beggars would ride, if only wishes were horses!?

Also worth remembering that around 2010, the music and film industry associations of America were claiming entitlement to $50 billion dollars annually in piracy-related losses beyo…

"No security features should exist for anyone" is itself fanatically hyperbolic narrative. The primary reason this event has elicited such a reaction is because OnePlus has histori…

At one point I could have sworn they were sticking obsoletion notices in the header, but now I can only find them in the right side-bar: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc52…

For the audience: I had never heard of Brian Berletic previously. In an attempt to understand what this person's undisclosed conflicts of interest were, I found numerous reports of…

If the political environment gets bad enough, you may expect to die anyway, and the TTL difference that obfuscation provides means the difference between making a small improvement…

I'm not an IETF process expert. Would this be worth filing errata against the original RFC in addition to their new proposed update? Also, what's the right mental framework behind …

It does look like there are legitimate issues with x87 floating-point: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/114479

Yeah, that sucks. I assume this is SSE2?

I thought the Pentium Pro _was_ a 686? Wikipedia seems to correlate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro , as do discussions on CMOV: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4429563

It's not just that, current sentiment around the CFAA is that any kind of unsanctioned third-party user agent for anything that isn't the open web is potentially prosecutable. Plus…

Isn't it usually one bill, but an omnibus bill? My understanding is that the actual guard rail that the US congress has discarded is requiring that the contents of the bill be limi…

I agree with the sentiment in general, but in this case it seems extremely well known: https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-11-11/mcconnell-paul-clash-ove...