jsmailes

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by jsmailes 4mo ago
It saddens me to see the communities surrounding free software projects going dark because of the threat posed by AI tools, but I don't know what other solutions there are that would mitigate the threat, particularly when browsers are
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by jsmailes 8mo ago
Unrelated to the article itself, but I'm really not a fan of websites like this one hijacking the back button to show more articles. It feels like a mistake to have ever allowed websites to modify behaviour of the back button like that
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by jsmailes 8mo ago
That digital phosphor effect is fascinating! As someone who works frequently with DSP and occasionally with analogue signals, it's incredible to see how you can pull out the carrier/modulation just by looking at (effectively) a mo
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by jsmailes 8mo ago
For those like myself who didn't know, CVD = cardiovascular disease.
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by jsmailes 9mo ago
Fascinating, thanks for explaining! I had assumed it was just that capacitors were easier to get hold of than batteries, and that the author was just putting up with a reduced "battery" life as a result. It makes sense to replace
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by jsmailes 9mo ago
I love the aesthetic of cassette tapes and players -- there's just something really satisfying about the size and tactility of putting in a cassette. Beyond that, it feels better to choose to listen to a particular album rather than
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by jsmailes 10mo ago
If I'm reading this correctly, Opera added support in an earlier version then took it away again. Any idea why they might have done it? Maybe a browser engine change under the hood?
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by jsmailes 10mo ago
For me, the big killer feature would be if this device is approved for modern media DRM. As much as I'm tired of streaming and its level of control over how I watch TV, it's still a decent part of my media consumption, but any Lin
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
The blob-finding algorithm makes me think of the "advent of code" problems - I wouldn't have thought to do a two-pass approach, but now that I see it set out in front of me it's obviously a great idea. Seems like this te
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
I've been using and loving the Affinity v2 suite for the last 3 years or so, and will continue to use v2 of the suite for the time being. I know how it works, I know it won't change drastically, and it already does all the things
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
Is the photo in the article relevant? Unless they have some new tech that isn't pictured in the article, it looks like all they're doing is installing solar panels facing multiple different angles with motorised mounts. Potentiall
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
Seeing hexchat always gives me a pang of nostalgia for hours spent as a teen on various IRC channels. I know that even if I went back to some of those servers I wouldn't be able to recapture the same "magic" since it was prim
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
Helix and other new editors (kakoune comes to mind) always appealed to me because they seemed to have slightly more intuitive approaches to editing than vim, but I just don't think I can ever switch, purely because vim just exists ever
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
Fun art style and I'm sure there's some interesting tech behind the renderer/shader - to my eye it looks like the pixels don't shift much as the camera pans, which would naturally happen a fair bit if you're simply
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
I like how all the tests seem to be contained within a "jury" folder which judges the merit of your code, made me smile - It's always nice for open-source/FOSS projects to retain a bit of whimsy and joy.
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by jsmailes 11mo ago
I believe this is already starting to be solved via Global Privacy Control (GPC) [1], and has already been implemented in Firefox to replace Do Not Track [2]. All that remains is to see if lawmakers will catch up and make it a legal require