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worble··on Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API
I'd be curious in how well it passes 100th Coin's NES accuracy tests https://github.com/100thCoin/AccuracyCoin
worble··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
They've all started cracking down, in the past year the Barclays and Lloyds app have broken on my phone.

TSB still works for now, but even for a bank they're technologically incompetent so I'm going to just assume they're behind the curve rather than willingly not using SafetyNet.

The only one I would bank on still working in the future is Monzo, since, like you say, they detect it and just give you scary warning and let you continue.

worble··on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
Hello fellow Ubuntu font lover.

I have this set as my OS default and also forced for all webpages, I just find it so clear and easy to read. On the occasion that I have to browse the web without it, I don't struggle per-say, but I definitely find that I have to read slower, and find myself rereading words more often.

worble··on Using LLMs at Oxide
See: Kernighan's Law

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

https://www.laws-of-software.com/laws/kernighan/

worble··on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
Junior's grow into mids, and eventually into seniors. OSS contributor's eventually learn the codebase, you talk to them, you all get invested in the shared success of the project and sometimes you even become friends.

For me, personally, I just don't see the point of putting that same effort into a machine. It won't learn or grow from the corrections I make in that PR, so why bother? I might as well have written it myself and saved the merge review headache.

Maybe one day it'll reach perfect parity of what I could've written myself, but today isn't that day.

worble··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
The CLAUDE.md is a bigger giveaway
worble··on Winamp clone in Swift for macOS
>remember foobar

It's still being actively developed

worble··on Gmail AI gets more intrusive
Migadu, Fastmail, Protonmail, Zoho, Tutanota

These have all been running for many years and work fine, hell there's even the meme addresses at cock.li which has been running for over 10 years.

You don't need to be on a gmail account for reliable email.

worble··on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
For anyone as confused as I was, even if you're part of the rollout it will NOT migrate your old profiles. So this is nice and all, but completely useless to me until I can spend the time recreating my profiles on the new interface.

Seriously, what the hell Mozilla?

worble··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
I just wish they had to toggle to use proton by default for all games, regardless of if a Linux version exists. There have been several games where I ended up with the buggy abandoned Linux version (Rocket League is a particularly egregious example of this) instead of the much better supported Windows + Proton version.
worble··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
I've not really had a problem with Japanese software, but I mostly stick to old games and the like. You do need to make sure you install cjk fonts, and if your system locale isn't Japanese you need to make sure jp locale is enabled then set it before running with `LANG="ja_JP.UTF8"` (or possibly LC_ALL if that fails) but other than that I've not had any major problems.

What kind of software isn't working?

worble··on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
> It’s not like they have to buy an iPhone.

I'm so sick of hearing this, the current smartphone market is an american megacorp duopoly, both of whom are locking down their phones to such a degree that you cannot even claim you own the hardware anymore. There is essentially no choice.

And not buying a smartphone is not a choice either, if you want to actually exist in the modern world.

worble··on Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
Even if that was true, as other comments have pointed out, also consider that maybe the stuff I do in my spare time is private and just for me or a small group of friends? It's not enterprise ready, and might even contain personal details I don't want others knowing.

My work and personal life are separate, and deliberately so.

worble··on The React Foundation
There's always preact, which is pretty much a drop in react replacement.
worble··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
If anything, gaming is the pillar that is furthest ahead, thanks to SteamOS and Proton and everything else surrounding it.

The main issue is that a lot of people I know need things like Photoshop or propriety CAD apps or video editing software where the alternatives are simply not acceptable - sure I can mention some OSS alternatives but it's not really my field; this is their job and they can't really take the velocity hit, or waste time finding out mid-project that it can't do what they need it to do.

worble··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
Let me preface this reply with that I'm not trying to preach or tell you how to live your digital life - everyone is different and if you have setup that works for you then great, keep on trucking.

That said, I worked the same way many years ago, with browser tabs and desktop sessions that were precious and I didn't want to drop them. But what I ended up realizing was that the stress of losing that state due to random power failures or software bugs was too much. I found it far better for my sanity and actual productivity to instead make sure I had a sane note taking system, where I could track what was actually important to me.

It was a great relief to my mental state and general stress to allow myself to shut down all processes and start clean every day.

worble··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
While I don't deny that suspend is an issue on Linux I've just never seen this as a major problem? I simply turn off my laptop and turn it on when I need it - boot times are less than a minute so it really isn't a issue for me, just flick the power switch, wait for a bit then I'm good to go.
worble··on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'
Yes, that's the joke
worble··on Beyond package management: How Nix refactored my digital life
As a last ditch resort, you can always use flatpaks, or failing that, use distrobox and install it in a distro that does actually package it. Yeah, it's a faff but hopefully you'll have to very rarely do this (if ever, I currently daily drive nix for web development and gaming and don't have anything that isn't nix-ified but obviously that's highly up to what you need)
worble··on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
> Normally they're full of spelling mistakes and unprofessional grammar.

Frankly I can't believe we've trained an entire generation of people that this is the key identifier for scam emails.

Because native English speakers never make a mistake, and all scammers are fundamentally unable to use proper grammar, right?

worble··on How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website
> Of course, only the beeping Internet Archive totally ignored it and scraped my site. And now, despite me trying many times, they won't remove it.

In all honestly, if you're hosting it on the internet, why is this a problem? If you didn't want it to backed up, why is it publicly accessible at all? I'm glad the internet archive will keep hosting this content even when the original is long gone.

Let's say I'd read your website and wanted to look it up one day in the far future, only to find many years later the domain had expired, I'd be damn glad at least one organization had kept it readable.

worble··on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Libreoffice has always just worked for me, but I don't do anything special with word.

I've also heard that OnlyOffice is very good and has better compatibility with Microsoft's formats, but I've never personally used it.

worble··on Google did not unilaterally decide to kill XSLT
I do not understand how this can possibly be considered. It comes down to one question: will this break websites that are in production right now?

If the answer is yes then it can't be done, simple as. I really don't care about anything else, you can't just break the web for people who are actively using it.

worble··on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]
Majulaar's Ultima retrospective is one the highlights of my subscription feed
worble··on Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?
Personally I've found googles responses to be very rude; they've asked for feedback and people have come back saying "We're still using this, please don't just remove it" and despite that they seem to be completely uncompromising on removing it without any adjustments like shipping the wasm polyfill instead of native code.

It kind of baffles me that they could even consider this, maybe I'm just naiive but the webs greatest strength has always been it's backwards compatibility; I can fire a page up written 30 years ago and it still renders (assuming it wasn't built in flash lol). Breaking the user experience like this and saying "well the owners need to update their site" doesn't work - a lot of these pages won't be actively maintained or under the control of someone who can make changes.

worble··on HTMX is hard, so let's get it right
> I have to use a third-party library called react-hook-form to build forms

Regular form elements work just fine in React, all you need to do is interrupt the onInput and onSubmit handler and deal with the form data yourself. I've tried a handful of these form libraries and frankly they make everything way more complicated and painful than it needs to be.

worble··on The Useless UseCallback
Not typescript, but elm essentially promises that. Unfortunately it's been pretty much abandoned while barely scratching the surface of javascripts api (and had drama when the community attempted to make their own native code)
worble··on Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration
my current favorite trick is writing all lowercase, just to signal that this definitely wasn't written with ai
worble··on Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft
The article says they use open-vsx, which is managed by the Eclipse foundation. It's not really anything to do with cursor, other than the fact they're allowing you access to the only other vscode marketplace that all the forks use.
worble··on Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft
And yet, this entire class of abuse is only possible because Microsoft refuse to implement any kind of permission management or sandboxing for extensions.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116

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