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Reveal.js with the multiplex plugin [0] does that. I write my presentation in Quarto [1] and render them to reveal.

0: https://revealjs.com/multiplex/

1: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/

Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:46AM (#50168155)
Facebook actively courted publishers so they'd post links to their content on their pages. Now they want to charge them for the privilege.
Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:52PM (#49937811)
Also, there's a missing space in "Look insideeach cabin" and "Save astay plan".
Re:MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:27PM (#49885344)
It's not very good semantically either.

> Give me a recipe for soup.

> Here is a recipe for soup:

> Saffa-Cake-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:08AM (#49874217)
I get why you would want that, but I don't get why you don't get that it might not be the case for others. I love searching and clicking and reading around. Sometimes I read fascinating things about topics I wasn't searching for. I can't imagine a world where all my web searching is done through an annoying chatbot.
Corporations can host whatever they want and governments can ban them for it.
Re:AI Robots – When will they be in our homes on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:46AM (#49693781)
Scrollable story, sometimes also referred to as a scrolly. This is a particularly bad example though.
Re:A look under our trunk: what's in our compute on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:58AM (#49420726)
The very source you are providing is pretty clear to me. For cars, only hybrids and EVs are more efficient, and that is because it's comparing electric passenger cars with all buses (most of which still run on fossil fuels). There is no data for electric buses, but it's pretty intuitive to me that they would emit less per passenger kilometre than an electric car.
Re:A look under our trunk: what's in our compute on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:46AM (#49399701)
Surely a person driving 18 people will emit less than each person driving themselves? I can see how dollars can be a proxy for macroeconomic stuff, for example by comparing countries, but it doesn't make much sense for comparing individual units of transport.

I don't understand why we have to do napkin maths to guess what's more polluting. There is countless research showing buses emit less than individual cars per passenger per km, self-driving or not.

And there's no reason buses can't be self-driving as well, if anything, them driving slower, on dedicated lanes and on fixed routes would make it much easier.

Re:A look under our trunk: what's in our compute on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:42AM (#49398374)
You're counting emissions from a person's breathing as part of the vehicle's emissions?
Re:A look under our trunk: what's in our compute on Friday August 21, 2026 @08:22PM (#49395344)
Most of the cost comes from paying the drivers, but also cost is a proxy for emmissions?
If there was a ghostwriting detector, I would use that too.
It would be compatible with life for longer though. A dry sauna can get to 80-100°C, steam rooms are "only" 40-50°C. And subjectively, I can bear it much longer in a typical dry sauna.
Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @11:13AM (#49320837)
> You can manage the sponsored content on the Firefox Home and New Tab page in your Homepage settings.
Believe it or not, the BBC has published multiple articles about the by-election, and most of them mention Farage's win in the headline.
Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:00PM (#49292380)
Largest by what metric? And which model is that?
Imagine that you bought an axe, but the manufacturer banned you from making more axes with it.
Re:Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:46PM (#49280062)
The inner screen is definitely not as durable as the outer one. I've not tried it, but it does feel like a hard press with a fingernail will leave a mark.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:24PM (#49215779)
In London, subway cars are either completely separated and you can't travel between them, or it's just one long continuous tube, there are no vestibules. You don't get much signal underground either way, so it's rare to see people on a call.

Most trains however have a space [0] at the end of each car where you enter and exit. That space can also have a toilet, bike storage, various (locked) train controls, sometimes even a few seats [1] where you can sit if your call will be a while.

0: https://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/uploads/7/6/8/3/76...

1: https://www.modernrailways.com/sites/modernrailways/files/im...

Re:99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:15AM (#49211745)
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:40AM (#49211198)
There's usually some space between train coaches (I think it's called a gangway?) or at the end of a coach (a vestibule) that is separated from the seats area by doors on both sides. You can take your call there.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:33AM (#49211082)
A quarter of Americans (and 40% of young Americans) see Mangione favourably, so it definitely is a society thing.

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/51189-presidential-pardons...

Re:Make Everything to Markdown on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:33PM (#49125327)
So is this mostly a wrapper around Docling, or are there any advantages compared with using Docling directly? https://klartext.it-handwerk-stuttgart.de/lizenzen
Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @11:24AM (#49124300)
Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:30AM (#49121824)
The sparkle emoji has become an indicator for "this is an AI feature, click here to do AI things". I have even used it.

The beige UI with orange accents probably refers to the design guidelines of Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft AI and a bunch of other companies. They all try to use soft, non-threatening colours, and for some reason those two are a popular choice.

Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:12AM (#49121685)
I read all of these as being about interacting with AI. It says apps made by AI labs have tiny icons, not that AI-generated apps have tiny icons.
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:52PM (#49076578)
The fact that much of the world is as unconcerned with the interests of the US as with those of China, if not less so, should give pause to Americans.

As a citizen of neither country, Chinese open models are in my interest more than US closed models. My only concerns is that if/when Chinese AI becomes more powerful, they too will have little incentive to make their best models open weights.

Re:MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:17PM (#49074374)
The Microsoft AI homepage mentions "human" or a variation of it 15 times, including in the tagline.
I've linked this several times, but LLMs are capable of reproducing entire books. Researchers were able to extract books nearly verbatim: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671

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