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Re:IRCv3 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:02AM (#50041860)
Yeah it'd need to be some kind of secondary infrastructure - I don't see it being part of any official IRC spec any time soon. But it would absolutely make IRC more appealing to the "average" user.
Re:IRCv3 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:43AM (#50041730)
An IRC client with an extension for image/video embeds and a voice chat (with video/screenshare support) would go far.
Re:ESP32-S31 on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:25PM (#48386137)
Love to see more RISC-V in the wild
Re:Reactionary Me: Windows ME KDE Plasma Theme on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:02AM (#48135552)
I love seeing stuff like this, very nostalgic, looks amazing.
I really do miss the design of Windows 7 and the apps of that era (think Office 2007 style)

I hope it comes back

This website is so laggy I can barely even scroll.
Re:I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:35AM (#47948270)
This is very impressive... The temptation to build my own now...
Re:I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:15AM (#47014705)
I'm looking forward to when they get federation support, so that I can finally convince people to move away from a certain popular chat platform.
I think more competition in the "AI Editor" space is good, but I have to ask – why not make it a VSCode extension? I feel it'd be much more accessible.

Are there limitations in the extension APIs that make it hard to implement?

Re:BlueJ – A Lightweight Java IDE on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:21AM (#32850649)
I remember having to use BlueJ at University... I found that it makes programming so much harder. New window for every file, no ctrl+click following references, no auto-formatter, no easy sidebar tree of files...

I ended up using vscode and just copying the files into BlueJ before submitting my assignments.

Re:460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:01PM (#31439428)
NAT is not a security feature, nor is everything publicly exposed to the internet on IPv6. With most routers you would have to explicitly forward a port in the router to expose that to the client anyways.
Re:How LCEVC works – A new approach to video compression on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:30AM (#30916955)
This is something I've been wishing for for ages - I'm glad to find out it's a real thing now. It's a shame about the licensing, but it's a good start.
Re:Dav1d, fast AV1 decoder, version 1.0 on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:59AM (#30723873)
SVT-AV1 has massively improved encoding speed. I was getting ~4x encode speed with some heavy compression (barely any noticeable quality drop) on 1080p/24fps footage on my Ryzen 7 3700X just yesterday.
Re:Dav1d, fast AV1 decoder, version 1.0 on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:57AM (#30723848)
I'm praying that Apple starts supporting AV1 soon...