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I remember poking around at the Wii U browser. Nintendo had examples of fetching the current state of buttons, analog sticks, and the touch screen to monitor for input. While cool …

I think there's a difference between music that people will cherish for decades to come, and music that will sell in the short-term. This isn't even me being an "old man yelling at…

I don't think Twitter/X know for sure who the bots are, since Elon has been pretty vocal about trying to stop them for ages, yet I still get lots of spam DMs (as do others with far…

> Still no email blast from Vercel alerting users, which is concerning. On the one hand, I get that it's a Sunday, and the CEO can't just write a mass email without approval from l…

Such has been the case with many technological advancements. You can change the date on this to 1999 and complain that the Internet has accomplished this; suddenly everyone can get…

Great piece. I thought the same of Cal's announcement; it basically boiled down to "we're willing to shift our entire business to a security-through-obscurity approach." It won't b…

I was experiencing something similar over the weekend. Just happened to see this post. Lots of hours spent digging over the weekend!!!

I think it also helps them figure out which videos keep people on YouTube longer. If I scroll to a section of the page that has 6 videos, and I stare at them for 10 seconds, then s…

Advertisements have helped finance the web for decades. AI could be no different. What type of advertisers would want to advertise next to an AI chat window? How often would ads sh…

Good software can be art. And like all art, we have hit the stage in which code can also be cranked out en masse, thoughtlessly, for a quick buck. It was only inevitable.

The lack of domain re-verification seems important. The other things listed are the case for any social media platform, but they bear repeating. I hope domain re-verification is fa…

I find such thoughts exciting. In the future, children will be taught basic facts that, to us in the first half of the 21st century, are some of the most complicated questions of t…

> how does bluesky solve the problem of building your castle in another man's kingdom? Bluesky (the platform) doesn't, and they acknowledge that. It's centrally owned, and is prone…

Nope. Almost everybody has more than one device (laptop, phone, and maybe a tablet) with more than one IP (both home wifi and phone data). Everyone has multiple email addresses. Yo…

Fun! I played this without sound, and got all of them correct. I think part of the problem is that I knew that some videos were fake, so I was looking to see if their lips matched …

Given what you wrote, it's hard to tell one way or another what they think about you personally. Was the code stored on your personal device, or a company-issued one? If it's compa…

> I run YouTube revanced not even for the Adblock but just to remove shorts. [...] I might feel differently about this one day and turn off the algorithm completely on YouTube, but…

They seem against any nay-sayers, so I’ll respect that and bite my tongue. The silver lining is that, their idea (which they later reveal that they “forgot to mention” will also in…

The core facts are: Brazil demanded information regarding Brazilian users, and believed it was in their right to do so. X believed that the requests did not comply with Brazilian l…

There are many small things you can do right now — avoid buying food or drink that is in plastic, avoid storing leftovers in plastic, avoid plastic cutlery and plates. Never heat u…

.com is not a full word either (company), or .org (organization), .net (internet), .gov (government), ...

I feel like there's an unwritten "recently" in there. If you were to speak ill of Colonel Sanders, nobody would berate you for speaking ill of the dead. But when a CEO like Wojcick…

To explain CHIPS very simply: In the Internet of yore, if you loaded example.com and it had facebook.com embedded, then facebook.com would be able to access all of the facebook.com…

I’d give the same advice to someone wanting to start a career in web design, mobile app development, or video editing — it’s like any other software-focused field. First, find a pr…

Definitely convenient, but I question the need for an ever-changing API for this sort of thing. If you reload the endpoint (which can be done directly in the browser, which I like)…