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Re:Linux 7.3 Released on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:45AM (#50149943)
"Showing the industry how to adapt to new technology", as in, don't blindly trust whatever the big probability box committed to your repo but actually perform a good code review with the same standards as human-written code?

I think this says way more about the industry being completely out of touch and less about Linus leading the pack.

Re:Pi 1.0 on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:25AM (#49930754)
1.0 is a pretty bad approximation.
Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:44AM (#49832308)
Very cool, the visual redesign was very much needed and I had been using Droid-ify for a while because of this. I'll switch back to the official app, congrats to the contributors!
Re:3D Pinball for Windows (1995) on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:49PM (#49113289)
I only discovered very recently that it was supposed to have music as well. I played on Windows XP back in the day, and I'm 99% sure the music must have been turned off by default.
Re:Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:24AM (#48747372)
> Why should Apple care if a modern Linux kernel boots without workarounds on their hardware?

To sell more hardware?

Obviously I get your point, but there's a bunch of customers who would like good ARM hardware but can't accomplish their work with macOS. It's not like Apple needs this tiny market, but it wouldn't hurt them either.

Re:ΠFS on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:59AM (#48487601)
Reminded me of PortalRunner's latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6rkhvdAqHU
Re:Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:32PM (#48315805)
Finally we can run Kotlin/WASM on desktop! /s
Re:I Ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii on Thursday April 09, 2026 @12:55AM (#47699421)
Super cool project and write-up, I loved reading it!
I've tried to find this for so long. I remember seeing it at the time as a teenager and thinking it was SO COOL. Basically made me discover Apple and want a Mac. :)
Re:UEFI Bindings for JavaScript on Monday February 09, 2026 @10:06AM (#46946013)
I love it.
I was completely confused when I recently discovered this behavior. I've been using middle-click to open tabs in macOS and Windows for years, and I could not understand why it automatically pasted whatever was in my clipboard.

I think it makes total sense to change the default to be aligned with the other platforms, and leave power-users the choice to keep it enabled if they wish.

Re:The Swift SDK for Android on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:02PM (#45699040)
I'm a big lover of Kotlin Multiplatform, but I think this is pretty cool anyway. I could imagine making a native Swift library shared between the platforms for memory-sensitive work. I'm not sure about using it to write an app's entire business logic, KMP is going to be more mature for a while for this.
"Novice" is not "average"
I can easily see a novice user coming from Windows accidentally getting into the edit mode of Plasma and being completely confused. I like KDE as an advanced user but I wouldn't install it on my grandma's laptop.

I agree that it would be great to have it as a first-class citizen in more distros, but I guess the maintenance burden is not negligible. I'm glad Fedora promoted it though.

Re:The Country That Broke Kotlin on Monday October 13, 2025 @05:36AM (#45566521)
I assume that Locale.ROOT will stay backwards-compatible, whereas theoretically Locale.US could change. What if it changes its currency in the future, for example, or its date format?
Re:MicroPythonOS – An Android-Like OS for Microcontrollers on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:40AM (#45566170)
Your definition of fun is scary
Re:European Union Public Licence (EUPL) on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:27AM (#45422851)
I don't see the actual source of the text mentioned on this non-official website, which makes it confusing.

https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/eu...

Re:WASM 3.0 Completed on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:20PM (#45280234)
Kotlin/WASM is a thing
You already can replace the default assistant app with any app that declares itself as an assistant on Android, and have always been able to.
Re:WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @03:53AM (#45100251)
Sounds to me like this is similar to Coherence mode in Parallels. I'm sure it won't work 100% of the time, but could be good for basic use cases.
Re:Study mode on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:07AM (#44732212)
> Me: What is 34234 times 554833?

> ChatGPT: 34234 × 554833 = 1,899,874,522.

> Me: That's wrong. The actual answer is 18994152922.

> ChatGPT: You're right, and thanks for the correction. Indeed: 34,234 × 554,833 = 18,994,152,922. Sorry for the earlier mistake!

How good of a teacher is that?

Re:YouTube No Translation on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @03:45AM (#44431581)
Google has that preference as well, YouTube just doesn't care to honor it, which is somehow even more frustrating.
What if we tried more power?
Re:How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @08:14AM (#43983593)
Thank you for the write-up. Cool to see some degree of open-source hardware running PebbleOS.

Though, can we stop having left-aligned blogs in 2025? Wide screens have been here for a while, it makes it unnecessarily hard to read :(

Re:VMOS – Virtual Android on Android on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @03:43AM (#43902658)
> Two Accounts Online > Running two social accounts;Dealing with life and work in one device...

Work profiles and user accounts are a thing on Android, I'm not sure why that's the first bullet point.

Re:GIMP 3.0 Released on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @04:25AM (#43396872)
Were you raised as the TV generation or the video game generation? Because I guarantee you your elders were saying the same thing about your generation.
Re:We're bringing Pebble back on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @05:32AM (#42850842)
Super exciting. I just found my Pebble Time again last week, and configured it with Rebble. The animations of this OS still feel so great, I hope whoever was responsible for them gets hired again.
Re:CSS Gets a New Logo: and It Uses the Color `Rebeccapurple` on Sunday November 17, 2024 @06:05AM (#42163437)
There's a time to use critical analysis, and there's a time to keep quiet and show some respect.
Re:Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:06AM (#41215610)
Couldn't you do all of that with fairly simple, native Shortcuts? Or even Automator scripts?
Or, you could just turn it off in the Location Services settings.

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