Meanwhile Landline *pricing* appears to be firmly stuck in the 1960s, back when the concept of a "Long Distance" call had any relevance.

If you are a YouTube creator, and want your video to have a non-default thumbnail, you have to give YouTube a phone number.

Notepad was traditionally a simple application designed to expose the standard Windows Text Box as an application.

The last time the standard Windows TextBox got new features was with Windows NT, where they added options to add Unicode Left-To-Right control characters to the context menu. Then kind of upgraded again with Windows 10 when Emoji support was added in there, with WindowsKey+Period to add emojis anywhere you could type text. They didn't render very well in a standard windows textbox though.

Animation is generally not realistic, so there's nothing to disclose. The policy applies to things that are realistic in style, and are things that could be misleading.

Whenever you use any online videoconferencing system (Google Chat, Skype, Zoom, LINE, whatever), you will most likely be using OPUS as your codec. It was made Mandatory To Implement for WebRTC.

I just read that the "SafetyNet" plugin for Magisk is now obsolete, and that people should move over to a different plugin called "PlayIntegrityFix". There's also another variation called "PlayIntegrityNext" which provides ways to use downloadable spoofed device fingerprints to get around device bans, but I don't need that feature.

DuckDuckGo is just Bing, but with location-based ads inserted into the bottom of your search results.

That has mainly to do with angles, and assembling the burger in a slanted way. The patty is placed further back, then the top bun is placed even further back, and the toppings are placed in front to make them film better. Ingredients are still real, but rather than a representative finished product, you're getting an illustration of the food item.

FTC regulations say that "a food product (and any ingredients) advertised must actually be the food product sold. Otherwise, the ad is deceptive."

Common Crawl means that they already have the data.

Wait, do you actually think that web browsers are shielded against other programs on Windows?

Wait till you read about ReadProcessMemory, WriteProcessMemory, VirtualProtectEx, CreateRemoteThread, SetWindowsHookEx, etc...

Like every other *online* digital assistant.

The offline ones just haven't been made yet.

Scanned photos of real-life toy guns and sculpted clay and Latex Demon models perhaps?

Start over again, and then a browser will rise from the ashes like a ... Phoenix?

AI upscaling and denoising works best on line art/anime art, because it's much simpler than actual photos, so it's easier to predict how the lines and curves will extend.