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Re:Pico CSS is no longer maintained
on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:00AM (#50300352)
All of them failed my ten second evaluation. It's amazing how many mediocre CSS frameworks that are out there.
Re:New iMac with M6
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:24AM (#50259878)
Considering the insane memory price surge it's going to take years (or an eternity) before most people will consider upspecing their machines to run local over paying $20 per month to have the honor to loan a slice of Altman's hardware.
The only hope we have is the AI bubble bursting, but that will undoubtedly come with its own set of macroeconomic surprises.
Re:JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:30AM (#50127952)
> with a better encoder you can get it down to 178kB
What encoder?
Re:JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:19AM (#50127902)
I'd say I'm rather well-versed in this topic but I have a really hard time following what you're saying. Could you attempt rephrasing?
MFT is a sensor size and lens mount, not a raw file format. Panasonic and Olympus (among others) have made cameras using this standard, but use different raw file formats.
Re:Tiny Little Office
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:58AM (#50102994)
And then you're also the maintainer of the software in charge of keeping it up-to-date with its dependencies etc.
Re:Voice Dictation for Linux that learns as you speak
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:50AM (#50066867)
I would recommend not downloading 67MB of data without asking.
Re:Muse Wonder
on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:46PM (#50062829)
> upholding the law
What law? Saudi Arabian law, US law? Both depending on the user?
Re:Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers
on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:27AM (#50051381)
I can tell you that this is, for better or worse, what a lot "forests" look like in Sweden (and I assume, Finland too). A large part of our forests are industriskog (industrial forest).
Great for the economy (in the short term), not great for biodiversity.
Re:Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:28AM (#50043677)
Nitter is a hydra. One instance goes down, another one goes up.
Re:AI 'godfather' LeCun has 'zero concerns' about human extinction
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:37PM (#49955992)
AGI arrived recently because Jensen Huang is getting scared shitless about the unprofitability of the LLM companies that are his customers.
Re:CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web deve...
on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:26PM (#49935385)
Not that I know of.
Re:CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web deve...
on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:27AM (#49930105)
Eye opener. I think I looked through almost all of them and none got basic typography right such as less margin bottom beneath a heading (to the paragraph following it) than above.
Many had zero left/right margins on mobile.
Overall terrible defaults.
Re:LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:42PM (#49926192)
That happens to social media accounts too. My friend lost her Facebook account to scammers. It was impossible to get back because Meta support is an automated AI shit show. Now someone else gets her messages.
Re:Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:37PM (#49902351)
> This handles use cases Distrobox can't
Which?
Why Omarchy Exists
Re:Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation ...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:35PM (#49779224)
True, not the earliest gen. But it's a 2001 console (not 2004) despite this being a 2004 title.
Re:Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:18PM (#49779048)
> although being Android based it's not really an option for me. It'd be like trading a Porsche 911 for a Pontiac Aztec.
I use GrapheneOS for my own phone and have always been forced into iPhones at work.
iOS, after 12 years of use, is still so terrible that I can't just get over it.
I open my MacBook and will do whatever needs to be done from there.
I should probably get an iPhone for private use too though. It would surely stop me from being on my phone more than I'd like to.
Re:Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation ...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:34PM (#49778584)
I'm so emotionally torn about all the awesome decompilation work done.
Too bad all the cool decompilation is happening for games on early 3D centric consoles. I say this a Quake fanatic. Low res textures combined with that blurry bilinear style filtering is a look that's not easy to love. It's just a generational thing I guess.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:37PM (#49768548)
Say you want to add an artist or change some information. Regeneration will end up with another poster altogether, right?
Re:Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google's AI
on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:18PM (#49762972)
No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking"[1] eloquently debunks whole rouge AI PR scam.
[1] https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/no-ai-is-not-autonomous...
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:19PM (#49733182)
There's little margins and whitespace and this bothered me like hell before making the switch. It's funny, now I kind of like it. A lot is happening too. The latest Plasma had a very high degree of polish IMO.
It's far more consistent than Windows 11, but you have to pick Qt/KDE software, not GTK/GNOME for that to be true. I always choose the more KDE native option.
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:03PM (#49732986)
When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release?
Me? Snow Leopard.
When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.
Re:Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @04:52PM (#49732848)
> How it's any better? Small companies can be bought by big companies.
This. I've come to view a startup as a company without a business model, doing everything to get acquired by a mega corp that will finally squeeze the juice out of the userbase
(The lack of a viable business model applies to some mega corps too)
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:05AM (#49709271)
Yawn, when was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release?
Me? Snow Leopard.
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0
on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:33AM (#49694150)
> How does Homebrew auto-update on Linux? Do you have a daemon, cron job, or similar? Or a plugin for GNOME Software, Discover, or similar? (I’ve used Homebrew on Mac and Linux, but not with auto-updates.)
I don't know, and I don't want to have know, how it works. :) It just does. You can force updates by running "ujust update". It updates Homebrew, Flatpaks, the system image and all Distroboxes in one go. You can also turn auto updates off.
> Does Aurora sometimes reboot multiple times when doing updates?
I doesn't reboot at all. I never notice updates, they happen in the background. System image upgrades are applied that time I turn off my computer and turn it on again. No extra reboots then. It's just a boot like any other.
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0
on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:29AM (#49692728)
> Are you saying that Silverblue-based distros are noticeably more stable than Fedora?
TBH, I can only say it's far more stable than openSUSE, Ubuntu and Manjaro which are the non-atomic distros I've used for a long time.
Aurora has never broken and I've never had any major problems that I can recall in over two years. I never initiate updates of the system, my Flatpaks or Homebrew. That happens in the background and whenever i restart (without me noticing).
It's Linux for those who have work to do and don't want to be a sysadmin for their desktop.
Re:The case against JPEG XL
on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:06AM (#49692596)
Just demosaiced JPEG XL? That's not raw.
Lossless JPEG XL is in the DNG spec since three years (v1.7). So, you can convert your proprietary camera raw files to smaller ISO standard compliant JPEG XL compressed DNG raw files (mosaiced, not linearized).
Re:The case against JPEG XL
on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:59AM (#49692549)
> PNG, the lossless format is great for diagrams and stuff with sharp edges.
But also, like GIF, it's pointless when lossless WebP exists and is supported everywhere. It's more efficient. Lossy WebP does not make as much sense though since jpegli entered the game.
OP has made https://halide.cx/iris/ which could make lossy WebP make sense, but it's not open source or generally available.
> The new formats are interesting webp, avif, JXL and so on.
WebP was introduced 15 years ago. New relative to JPEG perhaps, but certainly not new.
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @09:38AM (#49683885)
> I don't understand the distinction you use here.
Distinction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683258
I use "dnf" to upgrade my system and "flatpak update" and "brew upgrade" to upgrade the apps I've installed.
An app like VirtualBox does not install using Flatpak or Homebrew, so I would use dnf for that. It's usually an app or two that doesn't work via Flatpak/Homebrew/AppImage that I need to install using dnf.