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JBiserkov··on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
April 2016, damn, that's 2 full years before Microsoft acquired GitHub!
JBiserkov··on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
Thank you for the "direct link to the bottom of the rabbit hole". This article makes the point clearly and succinctly.
JBiserkov··on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
> could be a libre fork of the project

They should call it PressWord.

Then get a ton of free publicity when Microsoft sues them.

JBiserkov··on Orbit by Mozilla
mozilla.exe has crashed
JBiserkov··on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
> Remember this advertisement? "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone."

1. Take the biggest downside of your product

2. Advertise the opposite

3. Profit

JBiserkov··on Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
JBiserkov··on Map of GitHub
Most of the mass is concentrated in the node_modules folder.
JBiserkov··on Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
Very cool magic/tech!

Apologies if this goes against the hacker spirit, but do you know where I can buy a similar thing? In Europe?

JBiserkov··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
> and their silicon is only sold in machines with extremely fat margins

Like the brand new Mini that cost 600 USD and went to 500 during Black week.

JBiserkov··on Show HN: Physically accurate black hole simulation using your iPhone camera
> Data Not Collected

> The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Well, duuh, nothing can escape the black hole, not even information!

JBiserkov··on What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)
"Steve's goal is to transform the learning process at the college and graduate school level with a powerful computer and a new kind of software."
JBiserkov··on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike
Because. Employers are firing people without a good reason. It makes the stock price go up. And even the threat of it keeps the masses in check.
JBiserkov··on Security flaws found in Nvidia GeForce GPUs
The 'S' in FPS stands for "security".
JBiserkov··on Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them?
Does Betteridge's law apply to all headlines?
JBiserkov··on Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018)
- How do you even visualize an 11-dimensional space?

- oh that's easy - you just visualize an N-dimensional space and then set N equal to 11.

JBiserkov··on Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time
Well, Visual Studio 6.0's Visual Interdev (1998) had actual browser rendering (via the Trident engine used in Internet Explorer I assume), including Java applets, which would run in the "Quick view" mode, but also amazingly in the Source [code] mode!
JBiserkov··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
I guess it's also used when one (usually disapprovingly) tells a story/accusation about themselves from a third party's perspective.
JBiserkov··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
In Bulgarian there is "double inferential" mood, used to relate reported speech about the speaker.

Usually used when the speaker got drunk and has no memory of the thing they did. a.k.a. "past forgotten" tense. The double inferential also reflects the fact that the witness account maybe inaccurate/exaggerated either because the witness(es) were themselves drunk or because they knew the speaker cannot dispute their account.

The most extreme form is when the speaker doesn't even remember getting drunk ("Бил съм се бил напил.) and/or getting in a fight ("Бил съм се бил бил.").

The extra pun comes from "fought" and "was" being spelled and pronounced the same.

It also rhymes.

JBiserkov··on Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org
Perhaps he shorted the Automattic stock... no, wait, Automattic is privately held... make it make sense!
JBiserkov··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
Another salvo in the PR campaign to pump and dump AI stocks, or?
JBiserkov··on Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
That sounds incredibly interesting! Thanks for sharing that!

The YouTube link at the end is ironic ;-)

JBiserkov··on Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast
And shaking horizontally, with a bit of rotational wobble.
JBiserkov··on Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out
Block ocsp3.apple.com while you're at it.

And ocsp4. And 5. Block them all!

JBiserkov··on Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
They got 1 pun in their comedic relief budget and they spent it brilliantly:

> We have enough data to know that we don’t have an acute problem on the horizon with 13th Gen — it is more of a slow burn.

JBiserkov··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
"Not only should municipal transit be zero fare, using it should provide tax credits."

"This is a genuine, serious proposal. Cars and car infrastructure are so enormously expensive and destructive. Paying people to use public transit instead would be a net positive, and it's not even close."

From: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/112667806776752372

JBiserkov··on Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images
> I'm not sure what I would do without lemonade.

Me too. So. many. lemons :-)

JBiserkov··on Scientists have traced human tail loss to a short sequence of genetic code
Yes:

> But while the new study explains the “how” of tail loss in humans and great apes, the “why” of it is still an open question.

Title is still clickbait.

JBiserkov··on What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)
The intelligence of current generation of "AI" has been compared to a baby's, so... ;-)
JBiserkov··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
Check out the Sony Ericsson P910that had not 1, but 2 keyboards that could be detached. https://gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_p910-pictures-846.php
JBiserkov··on The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness (2009) [pdf]
I read only the abstract and this is my response: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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