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Even Apple has forgotten about this it seems. There are various places in the UI where this change is not respected, e.g. Stage Manager.

The iPad 2 can be downgraded to iOS 6.1.3 or 8.4.1. Both offer better performance than iOS 9 and have untethered jailbreaks. Once downgraded and jailbroken you can sideload hours and hours worth of games. A lot from that era are IAP-free.

I use an iPhone 5 downgraded to iOS 6 (tethered) as an iPod. I love how I can unplug my headphones from my work Mac, plug directly into the phone (no adapter required!) and it effectively mutes Slack without actually muting it. Syncing with the latest version of iTunes still works, albeit slowly.

I also use an iPad 4 (tethered to iOS 6) as an ebook. iBooks works great and I love the pseudomorphic design.

See also: https://github.com/LukeZGD/Legacy-iOS-Kit

Oversight. Frameworks tend to make it easy to make an API endpoint by casting your model to JSON or something, but it's easy to forget you need to make specific fields hidden.

The US is hardly the only country where this is the case and locking down your phone is almost entirely pointless (see xkcd #538).

If you're concerned about having it searched, don't bring your primary phone. Go to a phone shop, buy an old phone, put your SIM card in it, and use that instead.

It's not a forced binary. There are no in-between gametes. There are large gametes (eggs) and small gametes (sperm).

The law and government doesn't get to decide this, as you say, it just is. How the law reacts to the scientific fact of the sex binary is a different matter.

We've been able to observe that there are two sexes since time immemorial based on secondary sex characteristics. There is a very strong correlation between these characteristics and gametes produced. This isn't what I or anyone else has decided nor is it based on religion or culture.

A less succinct way of phrasing it would be something like: which gametes are produced, were produced, or should have been produced.

There are messy edge cases. Not all people have 8 fingers and two thumbs, but we don't say digit count is on a spectrum because some people are born with more or less, or that some people have had digits amputated.

The vast, vast majority of people are not messy edge cases. And some of them find language like "pregnant people" or "people with protates" awkward and vaguely dehumanising as opposed to the more understandable and specific terms: "women" and "men".

Sex is defined by which gametes are produced, not chromosomes.

I was curious about this. This appears to be the original tweet, but I do not see any notes on it when I view it: https://x.com/guardian/status/1820788959095529653

There are more screenshots of the note in the replies, but none with the complete links to the articles.

The motion to dismiss is revealing.

https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/10/15/dismiss.pdf

The AI policy starts at the bottom of page 5. Students have to mention any use of AI, even generating ideas. They must include an appendix with "the entire exchange, highlighting the most relevant sections" and provide an explanation for how and why everything was used.

It seems overly strict to me, hastily written when ChatGPT became popular perhaps.

Pretty soon most students are going to be say "Hey Siri, help me with my homework it's about X" and get an AI answer - are they all academically dishonest?

This is such a myopic view. The average smartphone user may not immediately understand why increasingly locked down and user hostile devices are bad, but it does not negate the fact they are.

WordPress 3.7, which introduced automatic updates, received security backports all the way to 3.7.41. From 2013 to 2022. 4.1 and above are all still receiving them.

I've converted a few fan fictions into audiobooks using edge-tts (https://github.com/rany2/edge-tts).

It uses a reverse engineered API from MS Edge to use the more premium MS voices for free. A bit of a grey area, but it works remarkably well.

Except for curl, which now has more users familar with it than say wget or aria2.

Sadly Apple picked neither option. 3rd party apps cannot meaningfully interact with Spaces for example, even basic things like moving windows between spaces or adjusting the animation speed so it's not nauseating on ultrawides.

32, late diagnosed autistic. This is how I got into software development back in the day. Opera circa 2007 had a feature where viewing a page's source also let you edit it and update the page live. Neither Firefox or Chrome today have the feature as it existed in Opera. The inspector we have today is probably better overall though.

The first project I ever completed and shared with others was a userstyle that replaced a forum's ugly dithered gif gradients with much more modern pngs (`linear-gradient` didn't exist yet).

I run this on my old Eee PC 900a from 2008. The SSD was upgraded from the stock 16GB to a massive 128GB, and the ram doubled from 1GB to 2GB.

I have most of Adobe CS6 installed along with Office 2010, the final releases of both packages that ran on XP. I realised to my horror, these are also the then-current versions that I used whilst I was at university. I wrote my dissertation in Word 2010 and some of the graphics were made in Fireworks CS6.

This was the only XP ISO I found that easily booted on the device too. I'm not sure what was added to it, but the final retail ISOs wouldn't boot into setup. I think I have the OEM CD somewhere, but I don't have any optical devices that can read it.

If the battery held charge better, I could see myself bringing it to conferences. Despite what Jobs said, I love netbooks and can type reasonably well on them.

It stands in stark contrast with my old iPad 2, which is more or less marooned on iOS 9. It can't be downgraded, and even if it could be, finding IPAs from the era is a nightmare.

Open source? Would love to see a production Livewire app, especially since it's using v3 with AlpineJS.

PHP does indeed have good support for types now. Laravel as a framework generally eschews them, but it's flexible enough to make it developer preference really.

Datamined probably. Thousands of them can be found in the game files: https://www.wowhead.com/search?q=bunny#npcs

Typo, original title starts with 'learn'.

I've built a bespoke warehouse scanning application in the form of a PWA before. Our scanners are meant to always be connected to the internet, but there are dead zones in the warehouses and sometimes the connection just drops out of the blue. We added support for limited offline mode, essentially remembering its state, syncing when the connection comes back or warning the picker to reconnect if they leave it offline too long.

New and old reddit use different markdown rendering engines. New reddit is able to handle the slashes introduced by the new reddit WYSIWYG editor, it also supports fenced code blocks.

Old reddit supports neither resulting in broken links and broken code blocks.

These links go to a NSFW image if you have a Hacker News referrer.

rossneedstowat.ch

Shows my friend Ross needs to watch, but stubbornly hasn't.

It's not entirely clear to me which of these policies apply to any and all content you upload without sharing externally.

Both the misleading content and sexually explicit material sections start with "Do not distribute content...". So does that mean as long as I don't enable sharing, I'm free to upload such content? If I'm the only person who can access these files, then I'm not distributing it surely.

I also find it curious the section on circumvention makes no mention of the use of encryption. I suppose doing so would show imply Google scans your content and use such techniques to find files in violation of their policies. With that not explicitly banned, I'll continue to use Cryptomator to keep my private documents out of Google's hands.

I mod a programming subreddit. 99% of our submissions are screenshots. It drives me mad. I tried to enforce pastebin / text posts only a few years ago and the community was firmly against it, so I let it go.

We even have volunteer transcribers (thank you /r/TranscribersOfReddit) who transcribe the majority of posts. The modern internet truly is a weird place.

The company I work for ships hundreds of packages through RM. The RM tech I've seen is a mess. Makes me wonder what it's like behind the scenes. Just one lowlight I've come across, this comment can be found in the HTML for one of their portals:

    <!--  $Revision: #6 $ $Change: 54072 $ $DateTime: 2004/02/16 15:56:30 $" -->

I was in the same boat, except I moved to Querious (https://www.araelium.com/querious)

This is something of an aside, but the design of Tailwind CSS classes inadvertently (or perhaps not) makes developing custom user styles nearly impossible.

When Laravel refreshed its documentation design, I wrote a stylesheet to revert it almost entirely to the old design. I could do it because restyling something like `.sidebar` is super simple. The new class list is

    fixed top-0 bottom-0 left-0 z-20 h-full w-16 flex flex-col bg-gradient-to-b from-gray-100 to-white transition-all duration-300 overflow-hidden lg:sticky lg:w-80 lg:flex-shrink-0 lg:flex lg:justify-end lg:items-end 2xl:max-w-lg 2xl:w-full

Open Mission Control and drag a window into an already full screen application. You can also drag two windows in a new full screen space, or drag a full screen space into another to merge them.