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The original SWF file can be played by Ruffle (https://ruffle.rs/). Depending on your criteria for preservation a simple web page may be sufficient.

It's an ad.

KDE does that by default. Handy sometimes, funny sometimes.

Most of this writeup is not about Markdown, per se. It's about interoperability issues with extensions to the base syntax that are not implemented consistently in all renderers. The exception is blockquote formatting.

These include: LaTeX math (not Markdown), mermaid diagrams (not Markdown), github callouts (not Markdown).

The rest is a call to action to use a paid service they developed. It's an ad.

"The vast majority of the screen is upscaled."

I have bad news for you, friend. You just described AAA gaming on anything less than a 5090 (and not even then, at all times). Without DLSS or FSR many modern games won't run smoothly at 4k on typical hardware (such as a 5070, which costs more than a Switch 2, or a 5060, which costs about the same).

RCS can be hit or miss on GrapheneOS, but they have made significant progress recently. It requires using Google Messages rather than any other messaging app, and may require enabling an ICC authentication option that is disabled by default. And it may depend on your carrier. RCS is kind of a pain in the butt but the messaging improvements over SMS are substantial which is why I wanted it.

When I first tried last fall I had it working for a few weeks then it stopped entirely delivering messages and I fell back to SMS only. After the recent system updates and enabling the ICC option it has been working well for me.

The official page explains briefly, https://grapheneos.org/usage#rcs

There is a very long discussion threat going back several years that is now considered resolved, which seems to be the case for me. https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1353-using-rcs-with-google-...

A valid choice, a moral choice, is none of the above.

The odd looking circular example shown is not solar PV. It is the Ivanpah solar thermal generating station, and those are mirrors rather than solar panels, or modules.

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

Solar thermal can't really compete economically with photovoltaics.

I was curious since this is a different link than the main SilverBullet site (silverbullet.md). Looks like it's built by the same developer, but as a closed-source wrapping of the MIT licensed open source core of that project, as a desktop application.

It's definitely interesting. Though SilverBullet itself never stuck strongly with me - not enough to replace Obsidian anyways - I still run an instance because it's handy for quick notes. And doesn't rely on anything more than signing into a web site from whatever computer I happen to be using.

It could be a very nice addition to the personal notes space, though macOS only (at least for now) is very limiting.

It was a good compromise, including for Amazon. DRM is immoral when you're "selling" books, because that means I don't own the actual book. I still bought plenty of them when I could easily strip the DRM. But now I'm done, never buying another DRM encrusted book from Amazon.

Of course Collabora is also upset because LibreOffice resurrected their LibreOffice Online project (https://www.neowin.net/news/collabora-clashes-with-libreoffi...).

These projects seem to be really struggling with the Freedom part of Free Software.

Am I missing something? This piece starts out with a discussion of how weather is hard to predict and highly variable (true, though our powers of forecasting are far better than they used to be). Then it quotes a couple developers of apps I am not familiar with, then it describes some of the weather sources used.

That's great, but it certainly doesn't address "why you hate your weather app." And "sometimes the forecast isn't perfect" is not a reason I've ever had. Poor behavior, ad bombardment, poor design, bad visibility, and more are all reasons I've had in the past, but never "the forecast isn't perfect."

I got fed up with several things in Apple Weather but they appeared to be lack of care and attention to design, rather than underlying data sources. One was the lock screen widget not showing current conditions and showing "severe weather" instead. The severe weather was air quality alerts. Less than useless. Another was NWS alerts coming up with generic data rather than the actual information, so I often got recommendations along the line of "execute a pre-planned activity". Useless again.

Perhaps that is because I work in renewable energy and am very familiar with the weather data models and sources and experienced with the variability, but surely we've all experienced weather's unpredictability before.

By the way, I like my current weather app, Breezy[1], which uses a number of sources including Open Meteo[2].

[1] https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

[2] https://open-meteo.com/

This is vague lip service with little substance, as far as I can tell. That is unsurprising consider it's from Microsoft and it's about Windows. It addresses (in cheap words) a few real pain points, but completely fails to address the dozens of either incredibly painful and stupid decisions MS has made.

On the subject of what they address, I have thoughts and many doubts.

Integrating AI where it’s most meaningful, with craft and focus

Just don't, bro. Don't do it. I don't want copilot icons in all the system apps. None.

More taskbar customization, including vertical and top positions

This feels like it's too little, too late. They redesigned the UI in yet another toolkit and in the process broke something had worked for decades. Perhaps they could add a 147th different UI toolkit with a different look instead, just to change things up.

Reducing disruption from Windows Updates

Would be welcome, but I have my doubts. MS has shown clearly they don't care.

Faster and more dependable File Explorer

See comment on task bar above.

More control over widgets and feed experiences

Get out of it. If I see one more stock ticker on a screen share from someone I know does NOT track the stock market I'll know you for the lying liars you are. Don't promise "more control" just stop being so invasive and annoying.

On the subjects they didn't address, I have feedback:

- Remove advertising from the start menu, the system, apps, everywhere. Just remove it forever.

- Remove invasive telemetry. Again, forever.

- Respect user choice. Stop trying to force things to open in Edge, ignoring my default browser. I am a Firefox/Zen user, keep a single (other) chromium-based browser around for sites that don't work right (another rant for another time), and try not to touch Edge if I can help it.

- Stop turning the bundled native apps into crappy web apps. "New Outlook" is a real tire fire.

- Make the default Edge page ANYTHING but the advertising and nasty "news" summary that shows up. Why not a simple search page, like when Google was new.

- Stop making start menu searches return web results instead of local apps

- Make start menu searching actually search in a useful way. Why does QGIS not show up when I type GIS? Because it doesn't start with Q? That's garbage. Make it work how users would expect it to work.

- Let people say no, fully and completely, to OneDrive. You can make adding it later easy at user discretion, but don't ask to set it up automatically. Don't use fear mongering like "your files are not backed up" to try to trick people into signing up for it.

- Local accounts should be easy, not a nasty workaround with a moving target for instructions.

I mean there kind of is: https://lrclib.net/

I'm using it on my gaming laptop because it's the only distro I tried that handled the hybrid NVIDIA/AMD graphics out of the box without user configuration beyond occasionally explicitly setting which GPU to use. Normally I run Fedora.

I'm familiar with Arch at least so system management is fine. So far 3 months in it seems great.

Presumably this is a joke, based on the "Success Reports" and the footer, among other things.

"This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implications, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from use of our services."

There are already minutes of unskippable ads when watching YouTube on a device like an Apple TV. And they come fast and furious, as bad as or worse than network TV.

And the best part is that many of the ads that show up are literally scams. YouTube has no ad standards that I can tell.

What's to stop an LLM from using this? Nothing, obviously. A "MUST NOT" in an RFC won't stop an LLM. They don't care about copyright why would they care about RFCs.

The instructions for how to decide whether to enter these additional unicode codepoints are also highly suspect.

Performative, but not helpful.

For basic 6-digit codes sure. But MS authenticator uses push notice based approvals for many corporate SSO accounts including mine.

Airlines can permanently ban passengers at their discretion. The specifics of behaviors they may consider disruptive aren't that important particularly when they are reasonable (not wearing headphones while listening to audio content could be considered disruptive to other passengers, after all).

There isn't much here beyond speculation. No technical analysis, certainly.

GrapheneOS is neither rooted nor jailbroken in any technical sense, and Authenticator certainly works today, as do Work Profiles and Intune Company Portal (with a little wrangling). Would be nice to know if this is real or not since I am forced to rely on the app even though I don't want to.

"Those who want the latest features will continue to buy pixels"

My friend the GrapheneOS supported devices list is nothing but pixels, including the very latest models. It'll be good to have more supported devices.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

If you want to be pedantic, the companies who track us across the internet with all of these third party tracking cookies on every website are the enemy here, not informed disclosure and consent.

This rant has nothing of value in it. Don't waste your time reading it. It tries to claim the only smartwatch that's any good is the Apple Watch. When the author tries to address the obvious counter of Garmin's smart watch products the only product discussed is a strawman version of the large and expensive Fenix 8, which leads me to believe they are ignorant of the broad smart watch lineup which includes things like the Vivoactive and Venu, which are absolutely smart watches first and fitness devices second (so is the Fenix 8, in reality).

And of course the Apple watch only syncs with Apple devices. So also implied is iPhone or don't bother.

Don't bother with this blog post.

This is unacceptable behavior, and terrible that anyone would think this way. You're telling me that if Tim Cook wasn't getting on his knees every couple of weeks Apple would end? That's farcical.

We're in collector territory here. This take is not hot, but it is mean.

I use Collabora online all the time (via Nextcloud) but I don't quite understand why I'd use this over LibreOffice on the desktop, which feels significantly more powerful than the online tool.

The few screenshots they show make this look similar to the existing online tool, which is fine for a lot of work, but like Word Online hits a wall with more complex documents.

AI in this case is Air India

Yes. As you say it maps to a key sequence, not a scancode. Additionally, it maps as a rapid key-down sequence followed immediately by key-up, so it cannot be remapped to a modifier key, such as right control (which it often takes over from on laptops).

There are ways, which involve using a software trap to capture it and then emit right control for a set period of time, but that's a workaround rather than a real fix.

https://github.com/m-bartlett/remap-copilot has a good writeup in the README

I call BS on this nonsense. I still have a useless copilot key on my keyboard. But we'll see. I'm not going back.