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Re:Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:08PM (#50279217)
And https://www.seacheetah.com/ and https://seawingsproject.eu/

I wonder how many of these will survive the bursting tech bubble?

Have you ever experienced stable-by-default?

If so, I'd love to hear a writeup!

Re:Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:50AM (#49977644)
Is it illegal to sit on the board of a foreign company?

I can see why it should be, but neither Schröder nor Russia are unique in this kind of conflict of interest.

This is largely due to deliberate underfunding by a succession of governments taking ~~bribes~~ lobbying from private healthcare firms.

https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/...

The FxTec Pro 1 is the closest I've found these days; it has a slied-out keyboard and an unlocked bootloader so you can run LineageOS or Ubuntu Touch (PMOS support seems spotty).

The keyboard isn't as nice as those on phones from ~2010; it's a bit too big for the thumbs to really fly and sliding it in & out is not as effortless as it should be, but nless you count Unihertz's blackberry-likes, there's really nothing else around that comes close!

Re:European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:17AM (#48474606)
Do you have any evidence that Russian espionage backed the far left before 2006?
Consumer cooperatives go back to at least 1844

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Society_of_Equitable_...

Re:The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:19PM (#47967703)
This is the conclusion of the article (and presumably the researchers) but I don't think it necessarily follows.

It seems to me equally plausible that one group were more interested in the craft of an accurate depiction, while the other was more interested in the arrangement of a pleasing aesthetic - both could be considered "solutions" to the given task.

Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:12PM (#47856050)
Will you produce a keyboard with full size up/down arrows?
Re:Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel) on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @11:02AM (#47780094)
>It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians

Mine owners hired planes to bomb striking miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921

Re:Picasso's Guernica (Gigapixel) on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:31AM (#47779538)
>with the intention of killing and without being any kind of strategic strategic objective

Wikipedia says "The airstrike was carried out in the mistaken belief that Italian mechanized troops were stationed in the village. Once over the target, the pilots mistook the market's awnings for military tents." (Carlos Saiz Cidoncha, 2006)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra

> very bad user experience

"To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?
Re: on Thursday April 09, 2026 @08:43AM (#47702975)
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Re:Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element [2019] on Thursday April 09, 2026 @07:55AM (#47702489)
Imgur is blocked in the UK, and last I checked blocked connections from VPNs too.

Which scene are you referring to?

Re:Sending Jabber/XMPP Messages via HTTP on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:18PM (#47325287)
Does anyone have any examples of using this in the wild?

I have fond memories of IRC channels full of all sorts of bots; the Matrix and XMPP rooms I've seen don't seem to have nearly as many fun automations.

You may be interested in https://geminiprotocol.net/
Re:The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:05PM (#47265012)
What is the scrollwheel thing on the left side of some windows?
Re:Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Surveillance on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:26AM (#47165756)
"Surveillance Valley" is another excellent book about the tech industry's military roots.
Re:Samsung Upcycle Promise on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @12:56PM (#47140260)
FxTec Pro1 comes with an unlocked bootloader, and a slide-out keyboard for the true 2010 experience!
Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:18AM (#47073982)
Also loosely related: Redbean is a webserver in a single-file that runs natively on six OSes for both AMD64 and ARM64

https://redbean.dev/

Re:Lilush – LuaJIT static runtime and shell on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:13AM (#47073931)
Does this run on bare metal? Are there any plans to include graphics primitives?

As another comment suggested, Lua seems to lend itself to certain kinds of projects. This looks like it could mesh well with my forever project to rewrite userland in Love2d!

Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:35AM (#47036319)
You might be interested in the Gemini protocol: https://geminiprotocol.net/
Re:Poor Johnny still won't encrypt on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:46AM (#46255376)
DeltaChat are moving away from "classic email" in favour of the ChatMail protocol.

I wish someone would fork DeltaChat so I can keep using it as a client for "classic email".

Re:The Terminal of the Future on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:30AM (#45900654)
> It could be interesting to see if it would be enough to add shell history as a completion source.

Fish shell does this too

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