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Yes, the decision to rely on modern CSS is more like serving restaurant food that contains cilantro. The predominant failure mode is partial credit. The quality perception of this …

Even if it's just the build server, it's really hard to defend just having 1 physical server for a project that aspires to be a core part of the software distribution infrastructur…

So, product idea: A powered "cold storage box" for M.2 SSDs. 2 to 8 M.2 slots. Periodically, an internal computer connects one of the slots, reads every byte, waits for some period…

Yeah, regardless of how one feels about the design decision to fail without fallback, the messaging seems like an oversight.

It looks like Mozilla does use DNS to verify requests to join the list, at least. $ dig +short txt _psl.website.one @1.1.1.1 "https://github.com/publicsuffix/list/pull/2625" Doing …

These days, if you're just wiring to a single workstation in a nearby next room, 50 meter active optical Thunderbolt 3/4 cables can carry 5K+ DisplayPort video passthrough and data…

With a locked screen, key presses go to the password field. I have twice caused my user account to become disabled due to too many password attempts while cleaning my keyboard .

Yes. Most of the major apps play this review game, and there's no way to compete if you don't play it too. The major apps typically exploit selection bias to solicit 5-star reviews…

Yep, this is achieved using slices, which can be arbitrary regions of the frame. Each slice can have its own quantization parameters (ranging from highly lossy to perceptually loss…

The state of the art here is really Parsec, Moonlight, and Apple's "High Performance Screen Sharing" [0]. All three of these use hardware-accelerated HEVC in some UDP encapsulation…

If you were forced against your will to aid in this type of fraud, might you not intentionally include a subtle error in your work that reveals its illegitimacy to a careful observ…

From what I can tell, the "Request Ride" intent for Uber is broken (throws error on any request) and has been like this for at least 2 years. The Ride Request API [1] seems closed …

Exactly. The privacy characteristics of government ID cards are worse than any other solution. When sharing such an ID, a person is providing several global, stable identifiers (e.…

The lock-in situation with passkeys seems far worse than with password managers, though. There is no "export" option for iCloud passkeys - despite being cloud-synced across your Ap…

iOS 17 added explicit support for 5G slicing for QoS in consumer apps: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network/nwparamete... Android 14 added 5G slicing upsell for consum…

It probably makes sense to start isolating build processes from test case resources.

Only in the US. In all other markets, the HBO Max app still functions, and the Max app will only show a "not available" message.

The trademark issues with the BlackBerry logo on the keyboard, combined with the "Beepberry" name, are going to be a problem.

When you tunnel/encapsulate your traffic, many variables change at the same time, such as: - maximum transmission unit (MTU) - TCP maximum segment size (MSS) - different DNS respon…

(likes / views) is still interesting, but you need to grade on a curve

https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#quicktype-ke... QuickType Keyboard: Multilingual Typing English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Du…

iOS autodetects and automatically switches languages as you described. The globe icon is just for switching key layouts. Language is independent of key layout.

Do you really trust your average IT department to make an informed decision about whether WebKit JIT is currently secure or not? I don't see Apple putting these in MDM Configuratio…

If anyone is getting a sense of deja vu, it's because this is was Outlook mobile strategy. Microsoft acquired a popular third-party Exchange mail client for iOS/Android, named Acom…