Where I’m from it’s spelt centring, but I think Randall’s referring to “doanate”.

Businesses like having an app on your phone because they can update it to fix bugs, add features, track your activity and send you notifications/ads when they have something new to sell.

A previous version of this claimed that it could distinguish between male and female mosquitos (the ones that bite). It used the different wingbeat frequencies, if memory serves.

It feels that a point-defence system is less harmful than gassing the whole area, which is what e.g. hotels do now.

This was mentioned in the article, although not the fact that it was faked.

I can believe that the tech has improved enough to not need faking this time around.

To ELI5 this, this happens when whoever made the webpage put a text layer above the image - probably on purpose to make it harder for people to download the image.

Some of this is paving the cowpath - the animated PNG stuff is 20 years old and e.g. Firefox has had support since March 2007.

APNG is what they’re using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.

* surely that’s easy, right?

FYI, you’ve added a link where the label is the URL and the actual link is empty. You can fix this by removing the [ and ]() around the link. If the link is there as plain text, it gets a hyperlink automatically: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/

I can save you a click by saying it’s a Discord bot that notifies when people join the voice chat, but it’s a nice read and not too long.

It seems reasonable given that space the atmosphere is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.

I thought that /dev/shm was strictly for shm_open() but it seems that all that does is open a file in /dev/shm anyway.

Ah, Randall is alive! I kept thinking my bot had broken as it’s so rare for him to miss an upload.

Has any other design project ever gone from “we can’t use that because it looks like a vagina with teeth” to “that looks like a penis with teeth but let’s go with it?”

Also, that timing’s terrible luck on the part of the artist.

OP’s link is just an incomplete summary of the real article

That source post has this Bluesky quote:

Vice President Vance’s account was briefly flagged by our automated systems that try to detect impersonation attempts which have targeted public figures like him in the past. The account was quickly restored and verified

Also, that it would have been heavily flagged by users was probably part of it.

This reminds me of Charles Babbage’s response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

I’ve been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.

I added banana (for scale) and it’s on the up and up: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,crap*,bastard,penguin,banana

This reminds me of those games where you start off with water, wind, earth and fire and combine them to make new elements, which you then combine to make new elements, etc.

I wonder how the code works on emojikitchen.

Seem ok to me, both in grammar and what it’s saying about the change. O(N²) to O(N) would be an exponential drop (2 down to 1, in fact).

Not using Lemmy, but there are other options that can do both thread/Reddit style and microblog/Twitter style like mbin. Personally, I find them so different that I’m happy to stick with different accounts on different sites.

Also there’s that a file on a cloud service might change. E.g. Amazon sometimes updates ebook covers to advertise that there’s a show - even for those who have paid extra to have the ad-free option.

E.g. the sticker-type graphic on this and that the title is updated to “The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time (Now a major TV series)”: