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Thank you for demonstrating how great and underrated the Amstrad CPC is (and the comparatively undeserved strength of the British nostalgia distortion field towards the ZX Spectrum…

WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted. It doesn't have the same business model as the rest of Meta (which by the way, is to get advertisers products in front of users eyeballs…

I am no environmental activist, but Hetzner's carbon footprint is so much worse than the rest that it's hard to ignore. I've always avoided them as a matter of principle. Two of th…

1. Overprovision as much as you want, solar still won't work at night. 2. Do you realize the consequences of casually overprovisioning solar capacity when it uses orders of magnitu…

First one I remembered with a proper song was 303 by Acme : https://demozoo.org/productions/62/

Liquid Glass appears to be the culmination of the Alan Dye era at Apple, where UI terms like "radio buttons" were derided as "programmer talk". https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/b…

15 in the top 20 most productive countries per hour worked are European. The US is in 12th place. China is 99th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_pr... Dim…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://www.demoscene.info/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRkZcTg1JWU

> I know a couple of iOS developers who recently switched to a M4 MacBook pro The M4 Macbook Pro will be released next week, what did you mean instead ? > they swear that in some f…

No that's an accurate TCO calculation. It's interesting that on this topic, the inventor of the PC also seems to be caught in that supposed "Apple reality distortion field" and can…

> We can decide to build wind/solar instead of nuclear reactors. That's what Germany did, but such intermittent renewables can't power an industry-heavy country by themselves for o…

I'm French and live in the UK, so feel qualified to compare. A few examples off the top of my head : The UK census and most NHS health records include ethnicity and religion data. …

The problem may have more to do with Uganda and having a surveillance state than it has to do with National ID cards. Most European countries have them and they are as uncontrovers…

> I believe that the need to manage motivation is usually a sign that what one is doing is at least somewhat off-course from the ideal of the individual. You're lucky not to have A…

The return of the 90s is not next up, it's right now. For the past 2 years, mainstream chart-toppers like David Guetta or Calvin Harris have been (respectively) covering 90s euroda…

He explains in the video that the goal is basically to force AWS / GCP / Azure into revenue sharing agreements in their Llama-based products. For 99% of users, it's as good as open…

What if Zuckerberg didn't change overnight but his terrible reputation was somewhat undeserved all along ? I worked at Facebook in 2010-2011 and I must say that the gap between wha…

A typical use case for it is to dump Amiga disks, which are physically 3.5" disks but whose 880KB format is unreadable by a standard PC floppy controller.

Yes they did. Participants were even compensated for it IIRC

TV ratings used to be collected from panelists using a wearable device that literally had an always-on microphone recording you 24/7 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People…

> If I give consent to participate in collection of my internet data, it doesn't give you authorization to like, have someone live in my house and follow me around 24/7 so they can…

Onavo users signed up, consented to their traffic data to be used for market research and were actually compensated for it. What's the complaint here ?

> The number of criteria required for a diagnosis of ADHD has been set arbitrarily in DSM-5. No scientific justification has been presented nor method used for deciding how many cr…

At the end of the day both FPGAs and software emulators are Turing machines that produce a set of outputs given a set of inputs : any logic an FPGA can implement can also be implem…

> I didn't know Detroit had French Origin. It means "strait".