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you’ve been able to link an iPad as a secondary device for years
This is not true. Signal added support for linking secondary Android phone or tablet in August
Re:Four Months of Zig on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:51PM (#50267002)
it’s hyperlinked to the repo where you can see it has nothing to do with tangled
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:37PM (#50188660)
> Rust is not a production language because so much legacy code

You must not exist, because, rounded to a whole percent, literally 0% of the lives of people in the world are directly affected by you personally

Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:10AM (#49830097)
While slop seems to be the popular term online, I never hear it spoken aloud. With Gen Alpha’s exposure to AI mostly through school, spoken media (youtube, tv), and their parents, “AI” probably cropped up independently as an insult
Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:06AM (#49830069)
Like an FAQ I presume
Re:Tokens Too Cheap to Meter on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:47PM (#49818900)
room-temperature superconductors, sure, but I fail to see how quantum computing will disrupt – in the medium term (25 years or so) – classical computing in any meaningful way

Is running LLMs (or some other ML workload) on/with quantum computers expected to bring efficiency gains?

parent was being sarcastic
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:02AM (#49550988)
Re:A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:09PM (#49452499)
Yep! It became public domain in the United States this year. But it's been public domain in Canada since 2020 (70y after death) and has been available from Canada's Project Gutenberg equivalent: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200531
Re:A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @12:37PM (#49451994)
It’s freely available from Project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79003

The edition referenced in the article removes the last 4 chapters (13–16)

Re:The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:12AM (#49362698)
It’s not shipwrecks themselves that are particularly interesting, but in what they provide in contextual evidence to answer the foundational six questions: who, what, when, where, why, how.

> The Binh Chau cargo is an important find which provides physical evidence of the ceramic assemblage that was exported during the closing years of Tang Dynasty. It enable one to have a clearer understanding of the quality and type of ceramics wares that were produced for export. For Changsha and Xing wares, it represented the last phase of their illustrious role in the export trade. What they left behind were huge footprints and milestones in the history of Chinese porcelain production. The high fired polychrome decoration of Changsha and the transparent white glaze of Xing are necessary technical innovation which finally led to the successful production of blue and white and copper red underglaze decoration. As for Yue ware, it had yet to achieve its most glorious moments during the 5 Dynasties and Northern Song period. Guangdong greenwares continued to be an important export item till the Northern Song period.

Re:The Disappearance of Japan's Animators on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:03PM (#48679816)
Maybe they meant “Chou Kaguya-hime!” (2026). I haven’t watched it yet but Cosmic Princess Kaguya was really well received on release.
Re:We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G" on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:40AM (#47949109)
our station in orbit still experiences ~0.9g. it’s not clear if gravity experiments would be at all easier on it
Re:We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G" on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:40AM (#47944226)
how is this at all related to TFA
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @03:57PM (#47939789)
the issue is where to go?

codeberg, self-hosted forgejo, gitlab, still-beta sourcehut, tangled? github was “the git community” and now it’s fracturing—you need accounts everywhere, you can’t easily discover neat projects

i like tangled if only because it’s built on atproto which emphasizes ownership and transferability of identity: something that would make the move off github so much easier

might be A/B testing of titles that youtube lets creator's use
Whittaker’s background is in AI research. She talks a lot (and has been for a while) about the privacy implications of AI.

I’m not sure of any one thing that could be considered to prompt it. But a large one is the wide-deployment of models on devices with access to private information (Signal potentially included)

Signal doesn’t have anything to do with Confer besides sharing a founder (who is no longer involved at Signal)
Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:18AM (#46227938)
it's easier to mandate font than to excise all processes within the fed bureaucracy that result in these.

images being digital have no bearing on OCR ability

Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:14AM (#46227921)
Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:08PM (#46227546)
printed documents, images, horribly inaccessible pdfs, horribly inaccessible websites
i’m not sure how end-of-life it will actually be because rosetta is used in apple/container and seems to be a large part of the virtualization stuff apple’s built in the last few years

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