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I think it's because the LLM asked for permission, was given a "no", and implemented it anyway. The LLM's "justifications" (if you were to consider an LLM having rational thought like a human being, which I don't, hence the quotes) are in plain text to see.

I found the justifications here interesting, at least.

I'm pretty sure Kiwis can't vote in Aussie elections though. And they can be deported back to NZ.

The author might get a kick out of an upcoming game called Junxions, which is a sandbox game to just do that... create road junctions.

The subreddit is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Junxions/

Sure they teased that they've made their own solution, but I think Junxions should scratch the itch of most of us here interested in this kind of game.

I loved my T430s. I swapped the keyboard out for a backlit one, and took out the DVD drive and replaced it with a hot swappable second battery. I was running Ubuntu MATE on it, it worked very well for me. The ThinkLight was also great.

I now have a second hand T480s which is also a wonderful machine, but not as amazing as that T430s. I gave my T430s to my mother who uses it to run software (albeit via Windows now) for her sewing machine.

Noted, I thought Future Fonts did the same system as many other type foundries out there, evidently not. Thanks for letting me know.

My bad, I assumed Future Fonts did something similar to other type foundries. Thanks for letting me know!

The way these kinds of fonts work is that you don't host the font, they do. You link the font licence you purchased through your HTML code (or CSS, depending on how the foundry recommends you to apply the font) with a specific font URL that they provide you, which will contain unique identifiers. Then they can track how often the font gets loaded.

If your site really kicks off and you max out those visits per month (that they track on their end), they either start charging you the higher tier, cut off loading your font, or send you stern emails.

There is no expectation that you share your analytics with a type foundry.

A pretty interesting proposition if you are into cinematography with your mirrorless cameras.

According to Nikon, the takeaway key specs are:

- The full-frame ZR can record up to 6K/60p (59.94p) 12-bit RAW video and incorporates the new R3D NE RAW video file format with RED color science based on RED’s popular R3D RAW codec. It uses Log3G10 and REDWideGamutRGB, the same color space and log curve found in RED cameras.

- Multiple internal RAW formats with high dynamic range: Choose RED’s R3D NE with 15+ stops of dynamic range, or Nikon’s N-RAW, or Apple ProRes RAW HQ.

- The impressively huge 4", DCI-P3 touchscreen LCD is bright enough to be used even in direct sunlight.

- World’s first 32-bit float audio from built-in and external microphones.

- OZO directional audio with 5 pick-up patterns.

- Up to 7.5 stops of built-in image stabilization.

- Straight Out of camera Cinematic Video Mode preset gives RED-curated color for expressive, filmic color and tone.

- Stunning autofocus with Nikon’s deep learning-based AI technology: Smart detection of nine object types, including people and vehicles.

- Fan-less, durable body: Heat-dissipating structure with lightweight magnesium alloy, offering the same dust- and drip-resistance as the Z6III.

- On-screen LUT previews, stores up to 10 LUTs.

- New digital accessory shoe.

- Price -$2199.95 SRP (body), available late October.

An amiga museum with all the games, artwork, coding technology, music technology etc. Perhaps an AI can be tasked to produce all of this soon. Youtube videos might be an engaging delivery mechanism. A physical museum too can be considered, perhaps as part of Computer History Museum and similar.

Sounds like you haven't been in touch with the Amiga scene in quite a while, if you think the above is something new. Perhaps Amiga / retro museums haven't been set up in your location, but there are heaps of them in Europe, for example. Youtube videos are a dime a dozen, just search 'amiga' on youtube and you will find literally hundreds of channels dedicated to the Amiga and/or Commodore in general. I subscribe to many of them already, and they all provide excellent in depth content for the Amiga, from hardware, to software, to games, to demos.

AI coding might unlock mass creation of new software, games, demos, music etc. What was once conceived impossible will be very possible and likely abundant soon

Why would game writing / music creation / demos / software be "once conceived impossible"? Kids were doing the very thing in their bedrooms in the 80s and 90s, without AI. What would AI bring to the table nowadays that couldn't be done in the 80s/90s when the Amiga was popular?

People developing for the Amiga were putting their heart and soul into their creations. AI can't replicate that, and it definitely can't improve it, in any sense of the word.

I'm not sure why you are testing in iOS 9.3.6. (which was released in 2015), when the documentation says support for Safari is for versions 16 and above.

Why can't you be both? I am an amateur photographer, but it doesn't mean that I carry my camera with me everywhere that I go. I see photography as a hobby, so when I feel like I want to do "hobby things" I bring a camera with me. I prepare myself to do so. It doesn't mean that I don't use my phone camera at all (in fact I upgraded my phone purely for the "better camera").

If you are just taking snapshots to share with friends, then it makes sense to not bring the camera. But if it's your hobby, where you sit down and take time and care to take a photo, then it's a different game altogether.

I don't often print my photos out and put them on a wall, but I do have my own photography blog where I post the photos I take (with a camera). I think the article is still relevant to that kind of scenario too.

I think the purpose of this kind of page is to outline differences between taking a snapshot and taking a photo. This is to argue back at people who think that taking a photo with an iPhone is just as good _in any situation_ and think that _anyone_ with a camera is wasting their time. It also attempts to combat the prevalent myth that more megapixels = better photos. Yes that myth still exists in 2025.

I'm Aussie, so I'm automatically wrong, but here in Australia it's typically pronounced "caysh". It's a uniquely Australian thing, saying cache this way outside of this country will get you looks.

Just a heads up that this site has an animated SVG favicon. I had added it to my Firefox bookmarks bar and the favicon kept animating its color changes. Looked pretty neat, but then realised after a day or so that Firefox was chewing up 50-60% CPU on my MacBook Air. Turns out it was down to this bookmark, after I removed it, the CPU levels were much much lower.

I'm not sure if it's the same deal if I were to put the bookmark in a folder (so it's not in view all the time) but just something to note.

While what you said is true (MacOS was really unstable in these tumultuous years), this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS.

I disabled the module but it still chews up a lot of CPU.

Neat little app, but it made bluetoothd go bananas on my CPU, chewing up to 40% (M2 MBA here)

A mastodon instance where bots were welcomed.

At the cost of also harming WP. Well done Matt. clap clap (these are sarcastic claps)

Pentium 2s aren't the only retro computers out there. There's many different computers, especially in the 1980s, that have components that are just simply not made anymore -- break one of those components, and you'll have a hard time repairing / replacing them.

Some old components will be, sure, but there are some chips that aren't manufactured anymore. There's no one blanket rule.

To enter? No. To borrow? Yes.

The article says it’s a midrange oven.

Sure, it was very ambitious to run something like a 16-bit version of Composer on such a low spec machine, but I still gave it a go :D

This was around 1995. I didn’t suffer too long with Composer on my 386, I got sick of the swapping pretty quickly and stuck with Notepad for a long time afterwards.

I didn’t upgrade my 386 PC until 1998 (couldn’t afford to), when I got a Cyrus 6x86, which is another story altogether. If you know about Quake and FPU performance with the 6x86, then you already know the story.

I learnt HTML purely because I was sick of waiting for Netscape Composer to launch on my 80386 PC back in the mid nineties. It had an 85MB WD HDD and 4MB of ram, running Windows 3.1. Double-clicking on the Netscape Composer icon in Program Manager would cause my hard drive to thrash for a solid 5 minutes, before the screen would update with _some_ resemblance of a Netscape window.

There's gotta be a better way to create web pages -- so I learnt HTML and was using notepad.exe to hand-craft my HTML pages. I would then copy them to disk (usually using ARJ.EXE to compress everything), and then go to school to use their internet connection to upload my pages to Geocities.

XD may be good to use from a UX engineer perspective, but from a web developer perspective, it's not so great.

I occasionally get XD files from designers that I then have to cut up / develop for in HTML/CSS/JS, and XD does not do this well. Figma on the other hand, seems like it is designed really well with considerations for both designers (creating the designs) and developers (turning the designs into a product / project) alike.

APNIC includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore – did you block addresses from there too?

Say nothing? They can't do that, what else are they going to talk about in the next video that they have to release to appease the Youtube Algorithm?!

/s obviously!

Amiga 2000 and 1200: no battery right? (unless you've got an expansion card)

The 1200 won't have a battery on the board, but the 2000 likely will. The number 1 killer for A2000 motherboards is that bloody Varta battery.

If you've opened your A2000 and you've had a look around and couldn't see anything, it /might/ be OK, but snip that battery out ASAP (they're soldered on the board).

I did the same, before our plasterboard went up, I went around with a video camera and videod everything (borrowed my brother in law's digicam). It has helped heaps!

Thanks! I filtered out the lines in that XML blob for make="Nikon" (I shoot Nikon) and saw the list of cameras supported that I was interested in :)