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HugoTea··on Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com
This doesn't apply to Google Workspace addresses that most small businesses will be using.
HugoTea··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
Ah it'll be just like 2015 again
HugoTea··on GIMP Development Update
It's lovely to see such a positive changelog combining the efforts of multiple foss developers, some of which are brand new contributors fixing bugs. Especially in this dark age of opensource closing contributions to defend against endless AI slop committers.
HugoTea··on Pneumatic tube mail in New York City
These systems are fascinating, really feels like a great loss now that parcel deliveries are higher than ever before.
HugoTea··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Rookie mistake
HugoTea··on I also filed the corners off my MacBook
I love the animation on the background of your website. And I totally understand what you mean about using a tool, if it's too delicate to do the job, then it's not doing its job. Imagine buying a hammer and trying to keep it clear of scuffs, it's obviously going to impede your work.
HugoTea··on Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
Even if Valve holds a significant market share of the PC Gaming market, this is a harsh conclusion. There are other significantly more expensive and restrictive options, such as the Windows Store for Windows, or the Play Store for Android, or the App Store for iOS and MacOS. PC has much free-er and more accessible options for indie developers, like itch.io. It's probably the least monopolistic gaming market out there. The struggle of course is advertising and reach, not sure who the gate keepers for that were with TTD, maybe magazines?
HugoTea··on Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing by up to 13 years
Conversely, I would not be shocked to see the vast majority of multi-linguals to be low-income immigrants.
HugoTea··on FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder
>FFmpeg's AAC DEcoder is busted with regards to stereo PNS, and the bug may be in other AAC decoders too, so we work around it in the encoder. Since no other encoder used PNS, the bug was not found until now.

I don't know what PNS is, but I bet this has been bothering someone's niche use-case for 20 years

HugoTea··on Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]
Do you have old 2000s era Argos catalogues? Argos is a shop in the UK, I've been tracking down old catalogues to see if my childhood CD player is in there, can't find evidence of it anywhere and so many were made. The catalogues are sort of rare but were given away for free, now people sell old ones on ebay
HugoTea··on Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition
Very exciting good luck to them all
HugoTea··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
Or the Rust re-write rURL
HugoTea··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
That's lovely
HugoTea··on I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth
If you think of the Loop system as a way of transporting people then it will obviously look insanely stupid.

But if you consider what it really is - an easy way to sell Teslas to cities for no benefit, then it makes perfect sense.

HugoTea··on I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth
> A quick check of Google Maps showed the route we were taking, on city streets, took 6 minutes. As we emerged into the sunshine at Westgate, I checked my timer. Six minutes. I’d saved zero minutes.

Beautiful

HugoTea··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
I think a never-ending pool of young, fresh, and naïve graduates happy to sell their soul to make video games has been a strong contributor for low wages for a while. Any time someone gets too senior, just replace them with another graduate. Naturally, the product quality and timescale suffers too.
HugoTea··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
This is great news, unions not only improve working conditions, but also improve the final product by not having underpaid stressed staff with high turn-over. It's a good sign for the future product quality of any company to see workers unionise.
HugoTea··on Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
To be honest, CI has always been a massive risk, I'm a bit miffed at how blasé some people are about providing runners.
HugoTea··on What killed the Florida orange?
I have no idea what Florida's weather patterns are
HugoTea··on Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Think we've found the solution right there
HugoTea··on What killed the Florida orange?
They mention it as a critical factor, the disease is spread by insects, which is spread by hurricanes. The areas they grow the oranges never used to get hurricanes.

> Hurricanes turned out to be a vector for spreading the little winged bug. The wind carried the psyllid all over the state, dropping it off in hundreds of thousands of acres of groves.

> It was the perfect storm. And then, of course, there were the actual perfect storms, the high-caliber hurricanes that, before climate change, didn’t come to the Ridge: Irma, Ian, Milton, massive cells, all direct hits on the groves.

HugoTea··on Woman with three deadly diseases has 'remarkable' recovery after cell therapy
> At the time, she required daily blood transfusions and permanent blood thinning medication to control her illness.

Daily blood transfusions sounds like such a nightmare, I couldn't imagine.

> A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.

Absolutely incredible, Auto Immune disease is horrific.

HugoTea··on Krafton CEO used ChatGPT in failed bid to avoid paying US$250M bonus
Ignoring legal advice from your lawyers because you managed to convince the text generator that something is possible (even though it also advised against it) is really up there for Bad Ideas.
HugoTea··on Oracle accused of targeting employees with stock options in recent layoffs
Comically evil company strikes again. There is no depth Oracle will not sink too, no funding they will not cut, no quality they will not sacrifice.
HugoTea··on How to turn anything into a router
I suppose if you manage to get OpenWRT or something onto your switch you could use it as a router.
HugoTea··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Licensing rarely makes sense
HugoTea··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
GrapheneOS doesn't give you root access, citing security issues it introduces. You could re-compile your own copy with root access, though not sure if we'll then be back to some non-certified OS that can't make payments...
HugoTea··on Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
This applies to most Smeg products. Which is a shame, they used to be really good and long-lasting.
HugoTea··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
This is the same for every internet service, and the primary experience when signing up to big centralised services like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. If they think your account is suspicious in any way, instantly gone with no way to appeal, I've seen a number of friends experience this recently and they're not even outliers using a VPN or 'unusual' email or anything. At least with federated services, you have the opportunity to keep backups of your profile and sign-up with another instance whenever you want.
HugoTea··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
You can, but you need to be on an instance, go to https://loops.video for that experience. joinloops.org is more of an onboarding site it seems
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