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Re:The AI Aesthetic on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:09PM (#49117911)
They published 17 pages [0] of docs about it. Here's their intro page: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/get-started/about-s...

[0]: https://github.github.com/gh-stack/

Re:98.css on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:22PM (#49030895)
Multi-row tabs are the primary thing I dislike about old UIs. You never seem to see them anymore, for which I am immensely grateful. Not only do they take up valuable vertical space, but they way the rows jump around always confused more than it really should have - a button shouldn't move after I click it, especially if it is representing state.
Re:It's a shame what's happened to radio on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:28AM (#49004506)
Here in NZ we have a wonderful publicly-funded ad-free radio station RNZ! (Radio New Zealand.)

The main channel "RNZ National" is a mix of news bulletins [1], panels featuring interesting people [2], and episodes of the numerous high-quality podcasts they produce [3].

The really channel one is "RNZ Concert" through - it's just msuic. They have a best-in-class audio team who record concerts (e.g. choirs, orchestra, or anything else) as well as getting famous artists in to their studio to record their own music or a cover. Played for free all the time with no ads! It was super exciting as a kid in a community choir when we got the chance to be recorded by RNZ, and then find out roughly when it would be on so we sat by the radio in anticipation all day waiting for it to play. It also made getting to the finals of choir nationals [4] extra exciting knowing your performance there would be played nationwide.

[1]: Interestingly, despite us having reasonably good private competition for news here, the government-funded news source was recently votes the most trusted in the country - I reckon it's because they aren't beholden to advertisers: https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/17/rising-trust-should-keep-p... [2]: Regularly including top politicians like the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, top academics, CEOs, investors, and the like [3]: https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcasts [4]: Yes competitive classical choir is a thing here, and it's treated just as seriously as rugby or any other code. You might travel will your high school choir all the way across the country to perform at Finale. https://nzcf.org.nz/events/nzcf-events/big-sing

Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Sunday July 19, 2026 @06:35PM (#48972306)
My main gripe with this is the pretty shocking performance on old "supported" iOS devices (e.g. an iPhone SE 2). When you have too many tabs, or watch more than a couple videos it just starts freezing and will sometimes crash the phone - you get an unresponsive sideshow screen for a bit before it goes to the lock screen with fingerprint login disabled (like after a restart). I can only assume they've accidentally found a way to make webkit leak memory?
Re:Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all on Thursday June 25, 2026 @01:10AM (#48669188)
Though given most people use gmail or outlook, the two main oauth providers (Google and Microsoft) will know anyway
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:39AM (#48536672)
Also worth checking out, this guy's Open-Source 60hz e-ink screen: [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4
"Is the text too readable? Colors too pleasant? Not enough whimsy?"

I found text in the theming section quite funny. I think most custom themes for many different pieces of software manage to provide solutions to at least the first two of those questions.

Not op, but I often do say 'whilst' out loud. It feels more structured and certain than 'while', which feels floppier as a word.
Re:Oxford All Souls College General Examination (2025) [pdf] on Saturday April 25, 2026 @02:38AM (#47899250)
I think the prompts being "easy" in this way is sort of the point. An applicant can demonstrate their mastery of language and the topics they select, producing an essay that goes far beyond the obvious leading direction (which most of the questions have).

The examiners are, I imagine, quite good at the close reading of essays which this sort of question produces. That ought to address your second point.

Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @09:06PM (#47857343)
Same problem here in NZ - they only ship to AUS, despite lots of people here being keen on their laptops. I know multiple people who have made it a point to time a trip to AUS with buying a Framework so they can pick it up while they're over there.
Re:Cloudflare Email Service on Thursday April 16, 2026 @06:28PM (#47800339)
As an aside, this company's services seem incredibly sketchy - they let you have fake residential or commercial addresses so you can pretend to have a US office or other address
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:37AM (#46822783)
lmao there's an XSS popup on the main page