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eNV25on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

This is a windows issue, not a hardware issue.

eNV25on iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

That's ridiculous. The card number has nothing to do with the account number.

eNV25on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

Modern phones have 7 years of software support, but the battery lasts only around 3 years.

eNV25on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

Isn't Developer Edition just a rebranded Firefox Beta that uses a different profile by default?

eNV25on Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide

What are the justifiable reasons to specifically kill journalists with machine guns?

eNV25on Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root

It only works with new versions of android. It's a feature.

eNV25on Common mistakes when using the metric system

A IB Diploma Physics textbook I had used a negative one exponent instead of a division symbol in units. This is not normal right?

eNV25on Navy chiefs conspired to get themselves illegal warship Wi-Fi

I was on a ferry from Barcelona to Mallorca. They had a movies, magazines and newspapers on what looks like an intranet app. It probably works the same way an airplane's in-flight entertainment.

The US Navy could have their own version of that.

eNV25on Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)

wezterm has both according to the above article

eNV25on Can't sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com

It means that the website doesn't work in Firefox intentionally. The website was proframmed to not work with Firefox user agent string.

eNV25on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_meat

Pointing out that in some parts of the world, mutton may refer to goat meat or sheep meat. I'm not sure how much of a difference that makes.

eNV25on Iterators in Go: A proposed extension

I would rather have type inferred literals: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12854

eNV25on Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

Try putting it in a bookmark and then execute it.

eNV25on Times New Bastard

NotoCJK

eNV25on Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default

This reminds me of secondary school, where the IT guy blocked UDP completely. WireGuard didn't work, HTTP3/QUIC didn't work, network time didn't work, and probably a bunch of other stuff.

eNV25on Elon: Code is brittle. Need a complete rewrite

Probably plenty, they're just not famous.

eNV25on The extensible vi layer for Emacs

I learned helix's keybinds pretty quickly, it's not too difficult. Though, I don't really use it anymore, I prefer Neovim.

eNV25on The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web

A lot of your privacy related extensions are obsoleted by features in uBlock Origin.

Consent-O-Matic: use annoyances filter list PopUpOFF: sounds useless, use filter list Privacy Badger: sounds useless, use filter list ClearURLs: use url cleaning filter list

eNV25on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination

"old generation" probably means generations of immigrants. 1.5th and 2nd generation immigrants are much different from native Indians, they are basically raised outside India and have non-Indian friends.

eNV25on ABC: A C compiler for printable x86

sed -E 's/(.{160})/\1\n/g' paper.txt | less

eNV25on Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

I thought it said Jaws. I was concerned for a second.