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Re:Did it just build.. a clock? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:08AM (#50232357)
Too bad the stationsklok doesn't actually do the Swiss-style minute break ;)
Seems that this €0,50 flat fee per installation has been replaced by a 5% commission on digital transaction made through sideloaded apps as of last August.

https://developer.apple.com/support/apps-in-the-eu/

Re:Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:53AM (#48020698)
vim-athena would automatically move your cursor towards the command buttons whenever it made a popup appear

i thought that was genius, until i upgraded to vim-motif, which would instead move the popup to where your mouse cursor is

Re:Dolphin Progress Release 2603 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:19AM (#47350899)
There was a thread on it a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524

Though I don't know if you can count it as a "buried lede" if the first paragraph of the article is dedicated to it, with a big clickable banner, haha!

Re:Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:28AM (#46985822)
I feel like Nvidia Omniverse's main innovation is that they call themselves an 'industrial metaverse platform' even though their product is practically not much different from a game engine.
In the chart, it says 大海 (dàhǎi, lit. big sea) above "SEA", which means 'ocean'.
The easily replacable parts feature sounds like it'd work great in a university context. The uni's service desk could stock up on replacement parts and fix the phones right there instead of having to send it in for repairs.
Re:GDI Effects from the PC cracking scene on Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:45AM (#46487885)
Maktone is so good! I remember hearing one of their songs in a GBA intro[1] and it still gets stuck in my head sometimes...

[1]: https://youtu.be/CGaqlSIUSEo

Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:11AM (#46420934)
I mean, to an extent... like it would still give passengers an earlier opportunity to correct course.

If they got off at the next stop after troisdorf they could take the local bus back to Troisdorf (ten minute wait worst-case).

At later stations they could get on the train in the opposite direction (30 min wait worst-case).

Re:RuBee on Monday November 24, 2025 @03:59AM (#46031838)
i'm a little bit sad the kernel diagram background is gone
Re:Removing XSLT for a more secure browser on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:05AM (#45823614)
That's upsetting. Being able to do templating without using JavaScript was a really cool party trick.

I've used it in an unfinished website where all data was stored in a single XML file and all markup was stored in a single XSLT file. A CGI one-liner then made path info available to XSLT, and routing (multiple pages) was achieved by doing string tests inside of the XSLT template.

I think that convention depends on the language, not the currency.

For example, in German it's usually written postfix, but in Dutch it's usually prefix.

this might be conspirational thinking, but i don't think it's an accident that the site came out like this. yes, there's moderation, but the moderators are explicitly told to go easy on moderating racism[1]. it feels like once that kind of stuff isn't punished, it starts to snowball a change in the attitudes of the site as a whole.

that's not to say stringent moderation doesn't make a site less welcoming, though. it's about choosing what's the lesser evil to you, i guess.

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4cha...

Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper on Monday December 16, 2024 @03:11AM (#42428987)
yes, definitely. if you don't check the schedule multiple times per day, you're bound to end up in an empty classroom or missing class. at least once a week, in my high school experience, a class gets moved in time and/or place, or gets cancelled entirely.

it's like train timetables, you know. yes, they're meant to be the same every day, but you'd be a fool not to check the updates before you go. that's just how it is in a large chaotic system.

Re:Charset="WTF-8" on Sunday November 24, 2024 @09:16AM (#42228010)
A coworker once implemented a name validation regex that would reject his own name. It still mystifies me how much convincing it took to get him to make it less strict.
Re:Side channel vuln in Infineon crypto library on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:27PM (#41440337)
Perhaps some kind of rolling key system could've been used? If the key was rewritten on each successful login, either the attacker would have to use their cloned key immediately (alerting the user), or have their cloned key become useless the moment the user logs in again. This would only work with discoverable credentials, and would increase wear on the device's flash storage.
Same. I suspect they're all blocked in the EU to avoid having to comply with GDPR. It's archived here, though: https://archive.today/D0fQZ

The picture from Ohio's website too: https://web.archive.org/web/20240612173428/https://www.trans...

Just gotta add a nice XSLT stylesheet to that feed.xml and people with only web browsers can also enjoy the blog.

ex1: https://darekkay.com/atom.xml ex2: https://feeds.nos.nl/nosnieuwsalgemeen

Oh, they were just random hieroglyphs? I thought you made a tiny cartoon of a man flipping a table.
Re:DVD's New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit on Saturday February 24, 2024 @07:50AM (#39491132)
Can't wait to go to the store and buy a copy of GPT-7 on one of these
Re:How to copy a file between devices? on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:46AM (#39381175)
That sounds like https://justbeamit.com/. I don't know if it still works.
Re:OpenFPGA. The future of video game preservation on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:47AM (#39347070)
They may have read this article written by Near arguing that FPGA-based products are still (hardware-based) emulation: https://archive.is/fWosI

It's a well-written article, and presents a balanced view. Its stance is against the idea that FPGA-based emulation is always better than CPU-based emulation.

I'm not sure about a room with this, but I remember seeing a demo of this concept some years ago: https://youtu.be/1orUctibUow

The keyword is "redirected motion/walking".

Re:Clickr, or a young man's Flickr clonejure on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:37AM (#39114340)
Flickr sounds like "flikker", which translates to "fag" (as in, slur for gay man).
It's Apple's words, not the author's:

> Products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago.

~ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

Products older than that are considered "obsolete".

Re:The History of the PDF [pdf] on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:36AM (#38515728)
I'm so impressed by the design of this PDF file. It's amazing that they put in so much effort to design what comes down to just an informational article.
That must be pretty outdated, because I'm on Firefox ESR and I have used the multi-line console editor and WebSocket inspector.
Re:.io Considered Harmful on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:32AM (#38085456)
It stands for Delgium.
A rewrite in Scratch is in the early planning stages.
Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:44PM (#37918730)
Could've made it a picture of a middle finger or whatever. Same message, but not at the risk of breaking obscenity law.

That's not to say that Goatse wasn't the correct option in this case.

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