Service providers underestimate my stubbornness when it comes to age verification. No, I won't send you a scan of my ID. No, you can't scan my face through my webcam. What I will do happily is stop using your service instead.
As pained as I am to side with Farage, this is an extremely dangerous precedent. The UK Government would rather brand anyone who opposes the Online Safety Act as a predator than actually admit that the legislation is deeply and fundamentally flawed.
Don't DM me on Bluesky. I will not go through the age verification so I won't see it. Meanwhile, if you're a Brit, sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... and complain loudly to your local MP and/or anyone else who will listen.
This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...
Surreal seeing what Twitter/X has become. It's now nothing more than people making absurd claims followed by endless replies like "@grok is this true", "@grok explain", "@grok what's this post about". Basically an unchecked human-scale experiment of whether AI will fight disinformation or worsen it.
What I meant was that it’s just a very outdated thing to reference.
As of this month we're closer to 2050 than we are 2000.
Have a great day!
You're about 20 years too late for Claris anything.
If anything highlights the sheer toxicity of the Hacker News crowd, it's a new Apple operating system announcement. Every year, commenters shit from a great height on each and every change under this delusional but predictable belief that talking something down enough makes them look smart.
For a beta 1 it is surprisingly usable. It felt very sluggish for the first hour or so with indexing but having been left overnight it is much smoother now. I’ve crashed the springboard a couple times and there are some virtual keyboard bugs, but it feels decent otherwise. This is on an iPad Pro M4.
Also the addition of Wi-Fi Aware to iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 was without fanfare but is extremely welcome either way, finally making it possible to build peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections between iPhones/iPads and devices from different manufacturers. An enabler of true edge computing anywhere you are.
It’s extremely rare for me to install a beta operating system, but in the case of iPadOS 26, I had to try it out. The windowing and multitasking changes are a huge step up and, except for usual early beta bugs, it works pretty well. This is much closer to what the iPad should have been all along.
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Not really understanding what you mean.
Apple’s decision to restrict browser rendering engines, for better or worse, probably had quite a lot to do with this, in the same way that refusing to implement Flash really kicked HTML5 into life. I can’t say I’m mad at the result though, the result has been thousands of high-quality native apps.
In a roundabout way, Apple unknowingly created a bastion of sanity in the computing world with iOS and iPadOS. They are both platforms where Electron/Tauri etc didn’t catch on, where the developer tooling and ecosystem encourages developers to build using non-web languages and native UI frameworks.
Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾
Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨
Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆
These days quite a lot of bloatware appears on even a vanilla Windows 11 install from a Microsoft ISO, although I did discover weirdly that you can avoid much of it out of the box if you install Windows as “English (International)” instead of a country-specific locale.
It’s difficult to understate how good iPads are for those with modest requirements. Not perfect by any means — iPadOS could certainly be a lot more discoverable instead of hiding things under gestures or mysteriously-iconed buttons — but it’s overall pretty good. Easy to pick up and run with.
Asking as a serious question and not to take sides in fanboyism: was this a configuration that he achieved by himself without help?
I have long held a gripe that today’s computers are mostly built without much understanding of the people using them. Many can’t figure out filesystems for example.
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.24.0@latest $ go1.24.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 74636413 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (37318206 / 74636413 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (74636413 / 74636413 bytes) Unpacking go1.24.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.24.0' $ go1.24.0 version go version go1.24.0 linux/arm64
🥳 Go 1.24.0 is released!
📰 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.24
📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.24.0
#golang
Hell is the “For You” tab on Twitter/X
This from the same BBC that still hasn't figured out how to stream 4K to an Apple TV when every other streaming service on the planet has.
One of the best feelings is rediscovering old songs & albums that I used to love and finding they have been remastered into Dolby Atmos. *chef's kiss*
A very happy and prosperous 2025 to you all!
As it stands, it's very difficult to write in-memory caches (i.e. read-through from disk) that are responsive to memory pressure, particularly when you can't easily predict access patterns. Weak pointers should make this considerably easier.
That’s very exciting, and please do, I’d love to see them!
Weak pointers?! Pleeeeaaaaaaaasssssseeeeeee? :D
12 Million users already! We just passed 11 yesterday 👀