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Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:47AM (#49330795)
This is getting ridiculous. Issues, PRs, actions... nothing's working
Re:Google Flight Simulator on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:31PM (#48543685)
If only they took this seriously as a competitor to Microsoft Flight Simulator... Or licensed the photogrammetry to X-Plane. But I guess that’s asking too much of Google.
Re:Most confusing Git flow chart from Microsoft Learn portal on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:28PM (#47039181)
It's really sad to see us getting so lazy. It's extra concerning when people supposed to teach others simply don't give a damn to double check stuff.
Re:New Posthog Website on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:01PM (#45203645)
Beautiful, and a really novel way of presenting product features. Would love to find a GNOME theme in this style by the way
Absolutely disgusting. No reason to keep using Android then.
Re:NuxtLabs is joining Vercel on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @09:41AM (#44499875)
The announcement on Vercel's side: https://vercel.com/blog/nuxtlabs-joins-vercel
Tried it out. Zero interest in what they offer. Incredible that Arc had to die for this
Re:Introducing Ads in Threads on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:13PM (#42816128)
I'm just staying away from any Meta consumer facing products at this point. It's like self flagellation.
Re:Veo on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @03:36AM (#40364107)
I think he's talking about the diversity controversy
Re:VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @02:13PM (#39542346)
VATSIM has traditionally been more US-centric. IVAO[1] is the european "counterpart"

[1] https://www.ivao.aero

Not to be confused with https://nitro.unjs.io the server tech behind Nuxt and SolidStart
Re:Threads, an Instagram App on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:45PM (#36580304)
Great timing, given Twitter's situation
Re:Twitter has started blocking unregistered users on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:03PM (#36537424)
So Reddit will of course do this in the following months. Monkey see, monkey do.
Re:Google Play has hidden applications permissions on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:59AM (#31449230)
Yes, noticed this too. I think the new Google Play interface is still in A/B testing... but it's coming
Re:Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:49AM (#11397579)
In the Opera blog, some dev said that it's coming in a couple of weeks
Re:Leaving the Mac App Store on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @01:11PM (#10657498)
This is really it. It's so painful to use. Slow, buggy, and unreliable.