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Google removed all remaining Manifest V2 extensions, including uBlock Origin, from the Chrome Web Store.
Two camps: switch to Firefox, or accept Brave as a pragmatic alternative for ad blocking.
A free phone booth at Burning Man lets anyone call or receive calls from the playa.
A split between those seeing Burning Man as a tech-bro event and those defending its participatory ethos.
A lightweight Spotify client built on librespot offers local playback and Spotify Connect.
Dominant concern: Spotify is reportedly killing librespot, pushing users toward self-hosted alternatives.
OpenShot 4.0 adds color grading, screen recording, and local AI object masking.
Mixed reactions: praise for local AI masking, but criticism of the cookie banner and feature gaps versus Resolve.
A DIY project repurposes security cameras to automatically identify birds by song using BirdNet-Go.
Enthusiastic DIY sharing and discussion of BirdNet-Go setups, including custom frontends and e-ink displays.
Unexpected enterprise AI demand drove Apple's early Mac Mini and Mac Studio release.
Commenters split between those frustrated by price hikes and those saying Apple should have seen this coming.
Refrigeration failures at 14+ military commissaries may stem from hacked networked control systems.
Skepticism toward the hack narrative; simpler explanations like incompetence, batch failure, or IoT insecurity dominate.
Google Play rejected AnkiDroid updates over its Open Collective donation link.
Debate over whether Google's policy targets tax-exempt donations or tax-exempt organizations.
Python module shadowing trick achieves 60-80% code execution in Claude Code Auto Mode.
Split over whether this is prompt injection or just a Python trojan exploiting Claude's habits.
A 12TB leak of Valve's old Steam2 servers exposes pre-2013 game prototypes and cut content.
Archivists celebrate the leak's permanence via torrent; legal risks noted for hosts.
An ASCII cyberpunk city built as a walkable 3D environment in a single HTML file.
Split between praise for the concept and criticism of the paid, obfuscated demo not matching the video.
A contest asks writers to imagine a world where everyone has access to frontier AI by 2040.
Energy constraints dominate: 8 billion GPUs would require roughly three times current global electricity production.
Data for a classic procrastination study by Ariely and Wertenbroch appears to have been fabricated.
Deep disappointment over Ariely's fraud; some debate whether procrastination is just laziness.
Darling is a translation layer to run macOS software directly on Linux without emulation.
The thread compares Darling's slow progress to Wine's long development and Apple's API churn.
A curated inventory of 232 tool interfaces and 44 skill files for ChatGPT Work.
The thread centers on the control-browser skill's dynamic documentation pattern and the uniform look of AI-generated sites.
uv deduplicates identical files across cached wheels by storing each file under its BLAKE3 hash.
Commenters value uv's bundled tooling and Python-version management more than its raw speed.
An autocomplete API achieves p99 0 ms latency for 240M domains by prefetching suggestions on keydown.
Thread split over whether keyup-based latency measurement misrepresents perceived speed, and whether suggesting unregistered domains hurts usability.
Network Address Translation (NAT) broke the Internet's original peer-to-peer design and enabled centralization.
Commenters agree NAT broke peer-to-peer, but split on whether its security side-effect was a net benefit.
RavynOS aims to blend macOS's design with open-source freedom by building a new OS from Darwin, FreeBSD, and Apple open-source code.
Skeptics question the project's viability after four years in pre-alpha; supporters defend it as a passion project.
A site that catalogs public restrooms with 3D scans and location details.
The thread balanced enthusiasm for the archive with critiques of pay-toilet norms and debates over door-timer prevalence.