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Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:57AM (#50286638)
I love example usage photos on this website, made me chuckle.
What I would do if I were manufacturer hellbent on spying would be to search for devices of my own brand nearby to pass data using their internet access, if no access found then extend search - basically p2p/mesh network to pass data.
Re:Color Names on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:21AM (#50207275)
the only color name I remember is rebeccapurple
Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:36AM (#50178661)
How does it work that some service that most people never heard of distributes (paid) images with alleged fix for vuln 24h before official vuln fix/image is available? Seems somewhat shady.
Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:32AM (#50177649)
Mindboggling, wtf don't they release it if its ready and exploit is in the wild, its a lot of time until 14:00 UTC and a lot of websites will be breached.
He won't care because he has established position and is set. It will be just like everybody else - if the individual is at the top of the food chain then he/she is all over it how you are using it wrong and how you should use it (don't forget to follow and subscribe).
Come on, just go watch the movie like everybody else, she needs your financial support
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:43AM (#49975876)
Yep, endless grift with this crap. Bought zigbee gateway? Ooops, out of luck, we are selling only Matter comaptible gadgets now..
Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Sunday October 04, 2026 @03:01PM (#49956795)
>A magnetic cover with physical page-turn buttons

What about physical buttons on the device edges? That could be really innovative

Seems like other vendors are removing themselves from the market by not providing what customers want. It's bad and I don't like it as well as I don't like Apples restricted and walled ecosystem and everything but it is what it is.
It's just analogy which is useful to depict process well: pig needs to be fed and taken care of for some time before it's butchered
That screen inside looks really out of place compared to all of the interior that is looking really nice and indeed luxurious.
Re:98.css on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:25PM (#49029867)
Nitpick: tabs in the multirow tabs example do not change position randomly as they should when clicked
Re:Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole? on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:19PM (#48535300)
Try to ask it to design or code FB scrapper.
Re:Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What? on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:57AM (#48384189)
So who will be doing upkeep and maintenance of the project, will developers who worked on this project need to learn Rust to be able to work with the codebase and be able to have correct judgement about changes done by LLM? If yes then will junior Rust developers be able to correctly assess PR's generated by LLM? Or developers will be fired and new team with Rust expertise will be responsible for the project now?
Re:What Is Happening to Publishing? on Thursday May 21, 2026 @02:19PM (#48226911)
I wondering about other thing - I'm assuming that publishers are now using LLM's en-masse to "proofread", do initial evaluation, do editorial work etc.

So if an author abstained from using LLM in the writing process - isn't then new, original, not yet on the market book ending up in the LLM training data corpus even before it hits the market?

> as soon as May 19 from its Starbase facility in South Texas. Liftoff is planned for 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
Re:Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:16AM (#48122229)
In my case it's less about actual "rotting" and more about the feeling that any mine attempts to write code are futile and meaningless - if my LLM limits are exhausted it's actually more productive to go do something else (or write specs on how it should be done) and return back later and do LLM assisted coding than coding without it because in literally minutes I can then produce equivalent of hours-long "manual" coding session.
Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:48PM (#48114331)
Yes, you used it but in a way not even remotely close to how they envision you should use it.
It's the South Korea model and road, people are working hard to chase constantly and quickly moving goal of securing extremely expensive home, basic setup for having the family. But process itself is exhausting and depleting.
Re:Write some software, give it away for free on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:39PM (#48029712)
That's completely and absolutely fine, if you are millionaire and/or have other well paid job then.. well done, congratulations and enjoy your newly found hobby.

BUT - I'm capable to tinker with my car a bit, to service and repair my bike, to bake a bread - BUT I'm not visiting mechanic shops, bike service shops and bakeries in my city telling owners that they should work for free and give away results of their work.

I can do it, but where are the details of affiliate program?
Yes that's correct, but in doing so remember that only person that cares most about you and your health is YOU - doctor cares about you for 10-15min, then next patient is waiting, and the level of doctor's care is inversely proportional to the level of burnout.
Yes, that's another issue - CS/IT seems to be unique that sharing knowledge and openly discussing problems is the norm, in other professions you can get finger wagging and some general "advice"
This is actually business opportunity for WP/Automattic - they could introduce vetted plugins where plugin author and/or consumer pays for review service.
Now only thing missing is leadership, development and active maintenance of the project for at least 5+ years - and keeping it and ecosystem around it fair and open (to some degree at least) because that whats allows WP to last for so long, it's not zero sum game.

For such rich and resourceful corp like Cloudflare surely this isn't a problem and they are going to overview, maintain and steward the project for a long, long time. Surely.

There's still plenty of "leave my fellow multbillion corp alone" type ones,it means that corp can and should screw it's loving customer base harder.
Good one, at last, April fools joke with some effort.
> Are there more people whose work on a project has been taken away by AI bots?

Of course, what worked me and what allows me to keep my sanity in my case of project owner coming in and remodeling half of the codebase over the weekend with CC is that I mentally ceded "ownership" of the project code, that is, I'm no longer feeling that I'm responsible for what is there and how it is structured. And there are tests.

Apart from that I can say that I empathize with you because I know that initially it feels awful, like loosing some part of agency and also to some degree humiliating when looking that something carefully and meticulously designed is restructured, replaced or thrown away so quickly and carelessly. What also helps is changing mental model and perceiving oneself as controller who overviews process of "shaping" code as whole, in its big mass, to behave in certain way instead of keeping mentally attached to some part of it because "I designed it".

Recently after noticing how quickly limits are consumed and reading others complaints about same issue on reddit I was wondering how much about this is real error or bug hidden somewhere and how much it's about testing what threshold of constraining limits will be tolerated without cancelling accounts. Eventually, in case of "shit hits the fan" situation it can be always dismissed by waving hands and apologizing (or not) about some abstract "bug".

The lack of transparency and accountability behind all of this is incredible in my perception.

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