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Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @11:19AM (#47766814)
There should be some browser-level enforcement of this. For example, it would seem possible to detect a user frustratingly mashing the back button, and offer a remediation dialog to disable any hackery that's hijacking the back buttons.
Re:Apple at 50 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @04:18PM (#47605980)
Paul McCartney played inside the ring yesterday.
It would seem like a naive solution would be some arrangement where Discord would ask for a proof-of-age from an official service ran by the State (which issues your ID)
Re:Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:48PM (#46282686)
A side note: I am very sad that HDMI-CEC apparently can only support like 3 "console-like" devices. I have an Apple TV, Nintendo Switch 2, Sound Bar (eARC) and PS5 hooked up, but only 3 can really interact with CEC.

It took me a long time to diagnose why it seemingly wouldn't work with my Nintendo Switch 2.

I ended up disabling it on my PS5 because I never use the darn thing, but it kind of stinks since most TV's have 4 HDMI inputs.

The key that is punched into the input field is based on where your finger lifted up. So if you have slide-to-type on, the pop-up paddle that showed up on key-down won't change to where your finger slid to for key-up. That's why when typing fast with slide-to-type on you can get confusing UI hints like this.

It kind of seems like the grace period for the paddle hiding with slide-to-type needs adjustment. I just leave slide-to-type off.

AI generated bounty report spam is a huge problem now.
Re:Apple: SSH and FileVault on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:59PM (#45295530)
They are encrypted with a SEP key when stored in preboot volume.
Re:This map is not upside down on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:10PM (#45292974)
I'd bet a lot of this behavior is heavily correlated with how we generally read top to bottom, which is in itself, probably an arbitrary decision made by ancient text writers.
Re:Major Rule About Cooking Meat Turns Out to Be Wrong on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:38AM (#44684407)
FWIW I agree with you, I don't like pre-sliced steak served to me. I can slice it myself.
I don't really get it, it must cost peanuts to leave a static map like this up for the rest of Google's existence as a company.
Re:Major Rule About Cooking Meat Turns Out to Be Wrong on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:30PM (#44665573)
Big steak fan here.

Many times I've ordered a large cut of meat, like a porter house or a tomahawk (usually intended to be shared with the table), they have came pre sliced. I'm pretty sure even Peter Luger's will pre slice it for you even for an individual.

Private Cloud Compute has been in use since iOS 18 released.
Even if you had open hardware, how would you even know a chip you have sitting in front of you was fabricated correctly?
Re:Data Centers in Space on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @07:10PM (#43978848)
Data center on Mars.

I will call it MartianCloud.

For what it's worth, I have exclusively used Waymo in SF ever since my last Uber driver was smoking weed while driving. I just don't want to deal with the human variable anymore.
It's the new self-driving, but for programmers.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:36PM (#43212632)
Yes, it hasn't been long enough for any real effects to start being felt, even though it's felt like an eternity.
The main menu is awesome
Re:MySQL at Uber on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:28PM (#42881844)
They used to produce some neat stuff. Jaeger and Cadence were quite cool.
Re:The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:14PM (#42577669)
TPM can measure the Secure Boot state for later reporting (attestation) but when it comes to DRM, that’s not a terribly interesting bit of information, knowing the firmware and kernel are valid, when the configuration of the OS and installed applications is really the important part.

As far as I know there’s no real scalable way for that to work in the Windows ecosystem.

Re:Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger on Monday December 02, 2024 @02:57PM (#42299750)
Don't forget Bob Swan
I think Half Life: Alyx really is their "Half Life 3" - there's no game I've played that comes close to anything like it. It's fairly clear in hindsight they opted for a prequel to disassociate with the baggage HL3 carries, in all aspects.
Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won" on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:29PM (#42151961)
This sort of absolutism is the same kind of garbage middle-school level philosophy that Elon Musk peddles, and it doesn't work in practice. For example, holocaust denialism, or in the most recent example, Sandy Hook massacre denialism isn't an opposing viewpoint worth hosting on a private platform. The best course of action is to simply eradicate it. Infowars being shutdown is a great example of a good thing happening.
Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won" on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:34PM (#42150668)
I don't think we should, nor do I think it's healthy. Some viewpoints are horrific and should absolutely be suppressed.
SetWindowsHookEx is a blast.
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:45PM (#42000755)
The first release set should be downloadable now for inspection. (It's binaries only, source is released for select components)
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:40PM (#42000714)
That could be said of any device you own, ever.
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @03:38PM (#41999302)
I think it’s usually filmed on weekends
Re:How I write code using Cursor: A review on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @01:15PM (#41986866)
I've had similar experiences. I've basically disengaged any form of AI code generation. I do find it useful to pointing me to interesting/relevant symbols and API's however, but it doesn't save me any time connecting plumbing, nor is that really a difficult thing for any programmer to do.

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