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They're now owned by infamously-litigious Microsoft.

It requires more precision than Swype, but GBoard supports multi-word word deletion if you swipe back originating from the backspace key. You get some haptic feedback, and can scrub to adjust the selected boundary.

Unfortunately some of those Swype nicities are patented [1], so other keyboards can't use them.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7098896B2/en

We still use GitHub Actions but our monthly bill is now flat because we pay for a server.

Caveat here being that GitHub is exploring charging a usage-based fee for self-hosted GitHub Action runners [1]. While they've halted it for now, it's something worth being aware of as you assess your costs. This is probably a drop in the bucket compared to the order of magnitude savings you've described.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-16-coming-soon-simpler...

Oh nice! I guess they're back to features after finishing tackling their availability issues [1].

[1] https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

A "Steam for Movies" service (as expressed in an ancestor comment) is basically that, though. One doesn't own their Steam games.

In a society where women are being prosecuted for medical procedures, menstrual data becomes very risky to have handed over.

As do his sprites.

My favorite is when someone discovers they haven't yet granted Zoom screensharing permission, and that they need to exit the call to re-launch the application with the permission granted.

I use this alias:

    prune-local = "!git fetch -p && for branch in $(git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{if ($1!=\"\*\") print $1}'); do git branch -d $branch; done"

2. Enumerate local branches, selecting each that has been marked as no longer having a remote version (ignoring the current branch)

3. Delete the local branch safely

Yes. You can also continue to use SDDM.

As others have said there are challenges with the core assumption that something can similultaneously be open source and restricted from being used in AI training.

That being said, here's a repo of popular licenses that have been modified to restrict such uses: https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

IANAL, so I can't speak to how effective or enforceable any of those are.

The sorting for the "Duration" column appears to be lexicographical, not numeric.

Agreed.

I joined a Zed hackathon at RustConf 2024 where I built the "Open in split" functionality from the file fuzzy picker. A member of the engineering team who was floating around helping folks had us exclusively work through the included collaboration features. It was a great tour of the editor, and did not feel tacked on.

There are two additional recent ones mentioned in the article:

On Oct. 15, the Post heralded the military's push for a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors. "No 'microreactor' currently operates in the United States, but it's a worthy gamble that could provide benefits far beyond its military applications," the Post wrote in its editorial.

A year ago, Amazon bought a stake in X-energy to develop small nuclear reactors to power its data centers. And through his own private investment fund, Bezos has a stake in a Canadian venture seeking nuclear fusion technology.

and

Three days after the nuclear power editorial, the Post weighed in on the need for local authorities in Washington, D.C., to speed the approval of the use of self-driving cars in the nation's capital. The editorial was headlined: "Why D.C. is stalling on self-driving cars: Safety is a phony excuse for slamming the brakes on autonomous vehicles."

Fewer than three weeks before, the Amazon-owned autonomous car company Zoox had announced D.C. was to be its next market.

Edit to respond to your edit: these are the opinion pages, not reporting.

The PSF and several other organizations that provide public package registries wrote an open letter [1] announcing a joint effort to make this situation more sustainable. I'll be interested to see where it goes.

[1] https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-n...

Works for me. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0

From the tail end of the blog post:

The technology that underpins this initial version of secure backups will also serve as the foundation for more secure backup options in the near future. Our future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing, alongside features that let you transfer your encrypted message history between Android, iOS, and Desktop devices.

Thanks for this cod piece.

This is the same dude who brought us the butterfly keyboard, so I'm anticipating a form-beating-function failure (if they actually ship something).

I'll be curious to see how these handle the gridlock caused by motorcades.

Wow, this brings back memories! This game had such a fun online community. My secret weapon was my trackball. The minute I entered a duel I'd spin it rapidly and mow down whoever I was fighting.

Do you have your terminfo set up properly? I used to experience bad glitching when working with vertical splits, but it went away once I applied this. https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/config/term.html

The fact that, many months after this app update, I still don't have play controls in the notification shade is appalling. God forbid I need to pause my music or need to skip a track.

Someone had to make a decision as to when the updated app would ship. They did not make a wise choice.

Some do! For example, I used Wezterm, and it offers that capability [1].

[1] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Scro...

Oof, hugops to the team.

I keep them separate for two reasons: one privacy, and another preference:

1. If I'm interacting with the URL/address input, I'm either entering a full URL, or searching through my local history to jump to a previously-visited page (or, in Firefox, a tab I may have open on another device). I don't want that shipped off to my search provider for autocomplete suggestions.

2. If I'm interacting with the search input, I want autocomplete suggestions. Additionally, because it retains the value of the last term I searched for, I can use it as a shortcut to jump back to the results if I no longer have the tab handy.

What would be a better approach?

I think Github handled this well by letting you choose between a few canned shortcuts, or disabling the feature altogether [1]. Since I seldom print, I opted to bind the command palette to "CTRL + P"

Honestly, I think the web platform could use a standard API for defining shortcuts, with browsers providing a UI to manage or disable them. Maybe I'm still over-engineering here.

I'd agree with this sentiment. It's hard, but an obvious (IMO) pain point that has numerous sites reinventing the wheel and needing to introduce some state to save user preferences.

[1] https://github.com/settings/accessibility

Hijacking CTRL+K sucks, too! It's the shortcut used to focus the browser search input in Firefox, but the industry has seemingly decided it's a great way to launch a command palette.

A challenge I experienced with JSON Patch is convincing external parties it's worth learning. I used this in a customer-facing API at $PREVJOB and had to do a lot of evangelism to get our users to understand and adopt it. Most of our customers weren't tech shops, however, so the contracted engineering staff may have had something to do with it.

Looking forward to kicking the tires on this to validate functionality in Safari.