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You've never heard of "the most funded project in Kickstarter history"?

This project is the continuation of Pebble watches after they sold their assets to Fibit, Fitbit got bought by Google and Google open sourced Pebble software.

Is that related to StarLAN?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarLAN

Spatie (creators of a bunch of Laravel/PHP packages) is postcardware, too! https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards

This post just makes me realize that one day I need to buy myself an oscilloscope.

+1 for ControlD. I've been using for a while, and whilst it does have false positives sometimes and I need to manually add a site to the allow list, it works great for me. Also, their support has been very helpful whenever I needed something.

I read it as "how much is actually assembled in Finland versus arriving pre-assembled?"

Yes, but which pieces are put together there and which are already assembled elsewhere?

Hiding filename extensions was one of the capital sins in computer history

Amen. The first thing I do on any (Windows) OS installation is make sure file extensions are shown. I guess Microsoft did that for "simplicity", but it also made for easy "virus.jpg.vbs" files.

.vbs

Wait, which Copilot is this? :-P

Wait, which Outlook is this? Is it "new Outlook" or "Outlook (new)"?

recruiter at a small crypto startup

That's your first red flag right there.

I hate to admit it, but I'm pretty sure that's the same for me, too. Dial-up, NetZero I think. Waiting for images to download...

There is no single control that solves indirect prompt injection

There is, actually. It's called removing the AI agent. Done.

I respect the amount of work that goes into projects like this; I can't wait to be able to play it.

I learned about this site from the TV show "Going Deep with David Rees" (episode 2)! I recommend that show if you haven't seen it.

I found an HP-12c at Savers for like $2 about 2 years ago! It's a "financial calculator" and I don't really know how to use it :-)

Maybe it's just me, but I hate the word "agentic" so much.

Sorry Spotify, but if it's AI-generated then by [my] definition it's "slop." We - or at least I - don't want AI music, we don't care about your AI. I'm just so tired of hearing about AI and new AI stuff.

Also, one of my friends uses Suno to make "music" and put it on YouTube, and I just don't have the heart to tell him it's "slop" and I've never/won't listen to it.

I meant in general.

For whatever reason, I forgot that Go uses a gopher as its mascot. But like, their PHP books don't use an elephant.

I dunno, I was just curious if the author could pick an animal to be on the cover, or if it wasn't their choice.

I have a small collection of programming/technology books, some from O'Reilly, others from Manning and No Starch Press. I've read them and they have been very helpful, but I will admit that I been buying less books. They take up space, and my shelves are full of these and other books like novels and manga.

Also, now when I am trying to learn a language, I just work on a project and search in the docs (or just on Kagi) to find what I am trying to do. Maybe a physical book would be a quicker reference, and maybe I should buy some more of them.

P.S. I enjoy finding old computer books (like DOS/Win95 era) at the thrift store.

This has nothing to do with the article posted or anything, I was just curious... who gets to pick the animal on the book cover? Do you (the author) get to pick, or does the publisher (O'Reilly) pick?

Are we still talking about ads?

That's actually what I thought this submission was. Didn't remember what it was called, so I didn't realize PhotoGIMP wasn't GIMPshop.

Now that's just kooky! Sorry, I had to.

I guess it's been a while since I used those type of sites. I admit that I used to, and I do remember those sites like megaupload or whatever that had a timer.

Fair enough. I do remember using those sites back in the day, and the `.rar.000`, `.rar.001` file lists (or was it `.part1.rar`, `.part2.rar`?). I guess I haven't visited or thought about those sites in a while.

I remember using download managers back in the day, and by "back in the day" I mean dial-up (and maybe early DSL). I liked being able to pause downloads and possibly split them up using multiple connections.

Nowadays, are download managers even needed anymore? At least for me, the internet is fast enough that I don't need a separate download manager, plus browsers support the pausing (and maybe multiple connections?) feature already.

I'm just curious why someone would need to use JDownloader.

EDIT: I hadn't thought about "warez" sites in a while and sites like megaupload where you had to wait for a timer. Those are totally "valid" uses for a downloader like this, thanks.

https://www.halupedia.com/blink-182

Blink 182 is a species of subterranean fungus that exhibits a peculiar, rhythmic photoluminescence.

Sounds right to me.

Last night on AEW Dynamite [1], Tony Schiavone and Sting had some very nice things to say about Ted Turner. I didn't know he'd died until then. They both talked about how Ted started WCW and how he defended pro wrestling when certain execs wanted to cancel it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXSILHvWe0