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> That approximately nobody outside the US really cares about

That's just not true at all.

Re:A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021) on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:16AM (#50239059)
Quite a lot of websites do that, actually. That's why Firefox Android has _always allow zoom_ toggle under accessibility.
I guess hand svgs aren't as prepared as pelicans
Great name to be replaced in about a week.
Which is almost certainly less than how they really should be, according to what they (allegedly) cost.

Various cost-saving measures have been discussed, including a separate Assistant plan.

Again, it will be priced according to how much the market will deem fit, which is less than what it costs at the moment.

Moonshot pay for access at the price point Anthropic sees fit, potentially more, since they likely had to jump through multiple hoops?

It's hard to feel sorry about the breach of their ToS, which ultimately is all Anthropic can argue, when they are constantly being sued by countless IP owners

Yes. I bet Moonshot paid for API access as opposed to pirating like Anthropic did.
Re:Decoy Font on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:56PM (#48937069)
Not even AI. I think I can write PIL script that will fix the font to be read by any ocr software.
Re:How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @09:53AM (#48746833)
One of my favorite website ever. Delight as always.
> So the question isn’t “bots vs no bots” - it’s what kinds of automated access should exist, and under what norms.

I think it's pretty simple: if a website clearly isn't welcoming automated access, like when they set up UA filters and such, it should not be automatically. Stealth browsers that bypasses those filters are abusing the site.

> Redaction added by Mindgard

"AI does horrible things when told to. We use AI to hide them."

Re:Image Toolbox (T8RIN) on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:19AM (#48585777)
One from my essential FOSS apps list. Especially helpful with compression/conversion.
Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:07AM (#48486086)
In the mean time, HTMX is pretty much that with much more. Definitely recommend.
No traditional media talk about this as much as it should be. No one seems to care but the always-angry, chronically online. I had no high hopes for free internet in this country but it's getting worse than I've ever imagined.
1. There is a link to a demo website, which is in fact in similar style.

2. I don't think the website is _nearly unreadable_.

3. Pretty rude remark.

Re:Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:25PM (#48362866)
I had no problem with it not supporting Linux, like I said, it was expected and if anything, I'm to blame.
Re:Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:28AM (#48357323)
After all, I'm still using it. But I'd have ditched the laptop if it weren't for the linux kernel. Can't thank them enough.
Re:Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:25AM (#48354038)
I will never buy a Surface device ever again. I've been using an SL4 for the last four years with Linux on it, thanks to the surface-linux kernel.

It's awful. It feels like it's actively refusing to work properly with Linux.

Fair - it's not for Linux, and clearly that is expected with a Microsoft device.

I've recently had to call their support for missing rubber feet. I figured I could get the replacement mailed(that was how it went when it first happened about two years ago). An AI answered, did not understand what I was saying at all, hung up the call. I called again; it told me to check the website and hung up, not even giving me a chance to say anything.

Okay. Guess I'll never buy anything from you ever. Ordered them off of Aliexpress and moved on.

Re:You need to stop using Google now on Sunday May 31, 2026 @02:40AM (#48343540)
Heh. Gotcha.
I don't do this myself, but I can also see how many would do this.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:29PM (#48317424)
How much did it cost?
This is true even with the SOTA models. Making LLMs ask questions and giving answers is always a good idea. Almost every prompt I write ends with something like this: Unless undoubtedly clear, every decision and action must come from mutual agreement.
Re:The Programming Language for Agents on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @06:18PM (#48200443)
> Zero is aiming for a language an agent can learn while working: regular syntax, few special cases, and compiler feedback that points toward the next edit.

Why? Why should an agent learn while working when there are already-familiar languages with most of the logics embedded in the model and with much better ecosystem?

I wonder much time did the author actually spent vibe coding this. I bet 90% of the time were spent on subscription payment processing.
It's also 28 times more expensive than V4 pro and 111 times than V4 Flash.
Re:Scrcpy v4.0 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:54PM (#48116930)
This is something that non-techsavvy users would go nuts over how it seemlessly and easily works.

> A virtual display can now be made flex using --flex-display (or -x), meaning it can be resized dynamically along with the client window.

Amazing.

Genuinely curious what makes you say that. Haven't used Chrome for a really long time and not once I've missed it.
This is an extreme level of pedantry(forgive me), but there is a subtle difference between "DC" and "할인" (and also "세일").

"할인" refers to a wide variety of discounts: it may have a few conditions (minimum quantity, membership, etc.), be available only for a certain period of time, or be a fixed amount or percentage.

"세일" is pretty much the same, although it puts a tiny bit more focus on being a limited-time offer and being percentage-based.

"DC" almost always refers only to a simple, percentage-based discount or rounding down the price. It also sounds much more spontaneous and less formal.

Imo as a Korean speaker, the thing about North Korean Korean is that it sounds much more aggressive, from the words to the general tone. They’re also usually much more direct, and in a lot of North Korean defector stories I’ve read, that has been a common pain point for them.
I've never asked LLMs to build a whole app without detailed directions. I've done giving it a general data flow, structs and methods..etc

Are frontier models capable of building something only with general directions now?

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