Interesting idea. Though probably a PC-in-a-dock would have been a better idea.

Keyboards (and mice) were always the most disposable parts of a PC - for a reason.

I mean, with this device, you now can spill coffee on your PC too.

Plus all the hygienic hazards. (I would never want to use keyboard/mouse of some of my colleagues.)

The correct title should have been "GNOME devs are still idiots". With "now joined by Mozilla Inc." added.

Why is this even news? These idiots had removed Alt+Tab from early GNOME3 by default. And it took weeks of debates on the mail lists by Ubuntu people to force the idiots to put it back.

What else did you expect?

The whole discussion feels weird.

Whole of Africa (1.5B pop) and Asia/India (4.8B pop) since the beginning were IPv6. There were never enough IPv4 addresses for them to begin with.

And here we have another tempest in a teacup whether IPv6 was/is success or not.

According to VGChartz the Switch has YTD sales of 12,477,026 compared to 14,233,301 for the PS5, which had six additional months of sales.

That's a lot of people who don't need to buy a Switch 2 for Christmas because they already bought one a few months ago.

In a web environment, yeah, my understanding is that there still needs to be some amount of glue code to manipulate the DOM.

I'm a backend developer, so that is less of interest to me than WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface.

AssemblyScript might count, but with a WASM target instead of Javascript.

Google's Gemini AI Is Coming To Your TV

I wish all the luck to Google - to locate my TV in a landfill (or a recycling yard) where I have sent it to several years ago.

The other angle/question I had for some time: How much closed source software is really "closed", when one could try to brute-guess the prompt that was used to generate it?

How much security benefits closed source software would still have remaining?

P.S. AI-powered reverse-engineer (to automate all those tedious repetitive 99% of work) may be a fun topic too.

I'm happy that the USB-A is being phased out. Mainly because there are still too many fancy over-beautified USB-A plugs that are (a) large and (b) block neighboring USB ports.

So far, this wasn't a problem with USB-C, since it's too small to be f*cked up by the marketing.

P.S. But I guess it's only matter of time before they find a way to screw over USB-C too. "Progress."

P.P.S. Let's not forget that some companies still insist on using "USB 2.0 Mini" connector. In the past we had to stack Serial<->PS2<->USB adapters for the mice and the keyboards. In future we might need to stack adapters to connect those few remaining USB-Whatever oddballs.

My personal experience with charts for long sets of data: Excel starts going slow after I cross the magic 16K lines threshold - LO Calc basically becomes unusable when I cross the magic 10K lines threshold. Delete few hundred lines - and performance is back. Put them back - and the slowness (Excel)/the unusableness (LO Calc) is back.

... OMG. Great idea for a MCU movie: avengers & co as congressmen and senators try to pass a bill.

Iron Man can filibuster as long as it takes!* while Tony sleeps in the suit and Jarvis speaks for him.

Movie goers are the alpha testers.

I haven't even had a mac in decade+ now, but from my vague recollections MacOS images are generally come with their own file systems. (I've tried to recall an image format for MacOS that is a plain dumb block device - and couldn't. There is no /dev/loop on macs.)

And from this follows: there is a ton of ways one could fuck up performance with a shoddily implemented custom file system for a particular disk image format.

I used Linux as my desktop exclusive for about twenty years. Jumped ship to Windows because I wanted a convertible laptop (specifically a Surface) and the Linux experience was pretty terrible. Didn't handle high-DPI displays well (it required making separate config tweaks for GTK+ and QT, and per-app for other toolkit), didn't handle multi-point touchpads well, didn't support the digitizer, didn't handle display geometry changes cleanly, etc, etc.

They didn't even have WSL at the time, but since the majority of Linux apps I needed were command line anyways, Cygwin and Putty accommodated my needs well enough, and WSL clinched it.

The level of integration with WSL2 now is incredibly slick, with access between the two platforms almost entirely seamless. I've thought about going back to Linux but honestly don't see the point on my main machine.

You really think that trying to port a thirty-year-old code base written for 16-bit x86 processors with no support for modern necessities like character encoding would have been easier?