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I wonder if the sound could be fully synthesized instead of the current 2.9s recording. That's not an easy task, but perhaps the result would sound more realistic.

> Teen-by-default settings to roll out globally for all Discord users Does it mean that even people who reside outside jurisdictions touched by the age verification craze will have…

I have a recording of me trying to pass the captcha for straight 5 minutes and giving up. To be fair, this has only happened once. What is the purpose of such loop? Bots can simply…

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A very close idea was jokingly suggested in The Birth & Death of JavaScript[1] at 18:07 (rewind to 14:14 for more context) [1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-a…

Fighting with the OS is futile. The OS is always in control and apps can only ask it nicely to do things. Microsoft can simply change Recall to capture DRM-marked content too. And …

I found a wall of shame that includes manufacturers that make it hard or impossible to unlock the bootloader[1]. It was mentioned in a forum post[2]. [1]: https://github.com/melont…

> It's tricky, though. What else can you do? I had an idea about amost-privacy-preserving system by involving government ID and blind signatures: 1. The service passes a random str…

Some time ago there was a website that showed you a random YouTube video. Like truly random. The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always I bel…

Looks usable and useful unlike my joke version: https://plingbang.github.io/morsel/

That's probably rare but I had a no name TV which just let me just enable adb over network with full root access. IIRC I had to install an app that can launch arbitrary activities …

For a case when file sharing is intended between individuals or small groups there's an easy solution: Anyone who got the link should be able to delete the file. This should deter …

Can you provide some context? Do you mean MS employees are prohibited from doing open source even outside work hours?

Awesome but seem to fail on some numbers e.g. https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/api/15000000000000000000000000000... BTW, there are neat divisibility rules which can give you the answer i…

That's a good point. Moreover, someone built[1] an SSH server that prints your name when you connect (because GitHub publishes SSH public keys of every user): ssh whoami.filippo.io…

> so users can see in real-time what code was run and when I'm really curious how this was presented to the user. A table with timestamp, filename, line number, and line contents? …

I understand they "cannot test every possible browser" and that "users may get subpar experience". I don't understand why there isn't "continue at your own risk" button. Maybe with…

Can you name a single Android phone or tablet model that is <10 y.o. for which you can access personal data with this method?

Why not just an LLM-based interpreter that direclty executes a PDF spec plus edits received by email? No need to recomplile and restart the app. A DB is also not required - the LLM…

And what makes it worse in phpBB and other forum engines is the waste of vertical space. 4 messages on your screen seems to be the maximum despite using smaller fonts than web aver…

> Or you can end up like the people who lost their data [1] I don't see how encryption at rest could've changed the outcome. In the article, the cloud provider, which has full cont…

I remember MS Teams opening various files within itself instead of launching an appropriate program. I wonder what they're using for rendering PDFs.

I used gnome-terminal for years and at the times when I had to switch to a virtual console, I often had a feeling that the latter was more responsive. But that could be the placebo…