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SSLy··on GPU World
> fonts haven't loaded, reload the page

oh bugger off

SSLy··on Fastpotify
nts is all fire until a dj plays mp3 bitcrunched track that just hurts your ears
SSLy··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
you can pick the best things out of cachy without moving to it wholesale. Like their proton, maybe kernel or mesa
SSLy··on Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
whoo hooo, I've had an unused account there. guess I'm on yet another list, woe betide me.
SSLy··on Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
https://hello.mu.social/
SSLy··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
Yeah, instead I have unsubbed from WoW this week. The atrocious state of the game's code and scripting is unbearable.
SSLy··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Looks like I'll be sporting my 5800X3D + DDR4 + 9070 XT gaming box for a little while. Too bad the CPU's ST is slower than my MB Air m4.
SSLy··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
xmake, build2, whatever msvc and xcode insist upon…
SSLy··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
My country's agency for weather and water mgmt has consistently the best 48h forecast. Try looking for an equivalent in yours.
SSLy··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Indeed Firefox
SSLy··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
the favicon isn't removed
SSLy··on Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
enjoy!
SSLy··on Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
I am afraid MK World isn't even the best kart racer on NS2. It's Sonic Crossworlds
SSLy··on Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
they indiscriminately shut down any sight of online smash tournaments
SSLy··on The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
of course the absolute idiots at MSFT don't know their own APIs https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040329-00/?p=40...
SSLy··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
A portmanteau of anti, and fan. 'Hater' wouldn't be exactly the same.
SSLy··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
As a certified MSFT's antifan, I’ve noticed Apple’s Music.app uses roughly 580 MiB of RAM for comparison.
SSLy··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
70k, which I believe is a fine result for a second language.
SSLy··on I hate compilers
bpf isn't a far stretch from that
SSLy··on Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
Also for gaming too: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

1920 x 1080 51.89%

2560 x 1440 21.20%

3840 x 2160 5.00%

SSLy··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
> putting the currency symbol at the end. I wonder what places do that...

plenty of Europeans at least

SSLy··on Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
For me Tahoe's performance was alright, but cmd-space spotlight search disappeared after second keystroke wayy too often. Reverted to Sequoia.
SSLy··on Rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt, an interactive introduction
Had to swap stanzas around to fit in the charlimit
SSLy··on Apple WWDC 2026
what about keystone correction? A staple in any proper digital image editing tool
SSLy··on French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
And French is still language of educated class in some places in Levant, esp. Liban.
SSLy··on Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
> unless you log in as root, the apps can't do much.

https://xkcd.com/1200/

SSLy··on macOS needs its grid back
so does linux since when infinality-lite was ported into fontconfig, harfbuzz, and friends.
SSLy··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
it wouldn't surprise me if insights was in fact a wrapper around npm install
SSLy··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
Backrooms does have comedy, or at least comedic moments in it.
SSLy··on AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes
especially their marketing dept which made this decision seems to be run by absolute buffoons
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