Interop 2026 has launched by announcing the focus areas for this year! The year-long cross-vendor coordination effort on improving web feature interoperability will include a bit of HTML, a dash of JS, a handful of CSS, and perhaps a surprise or two… https://www.igalia.com/news/interop-2026.html

Just unsubscribed from 9 (!!!) RSS feeds because the writers recently posted a variation of this:

> Sure, this slopcoding tool is unethical, a vulnerability generator, exists only because of deep and unsustainable VC subsidies and externalising its costs onto other people and the environment, and doesn't work most of the time, BUT....!

Nah, no buts there. I'm out. You're no better than the blockchain spruikers five years ago.

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Update: Muting this thread because the inevitable “echo chamber” replies have started.

@thomholwerda I have the non-Pro cylindrical one, and it's still working wonderfully, we mostly watch streaming services with it. Granted, I've replaced Google's awful launcher with FLauncher (just a grid of tiles for each application, doesn't push ads and content on your face), and disabled a few packages. We have a few extra things installed through F-Droid like NewPipe (the UI is janky, but YouTube without ads worth it), and we even use it Lemuroid on it with an 8BitDo controller to play SNES and Megadrive games.

Maybe it's the debloating and avoiding the default launcher what makes a difference?

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

I just opened a datasheet and I've been violently catapulted back into the 2000s

Here is another one, by Linear Technology. I love the tail of the “R” letter converting into a long horizontal line... Got it? It's “linear” :thinkgoing:

@idiot noice! Full link to the their site English, for those curious: https://www.jrc.co.jp/en/

And the company is over 100 years old! 💯

@aperezdc they're still around and using the same logo (no longer New) at jrc.co.jp

#electronics

Sometimes I look at data sheets for old #electronics components, and find it delightful to look at old company (or product) #logos.

Today I give you “New Japan Radio Co., Ltd.” in a pretty handwritten-style script font, from https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/NJR%20PDFs/NJM2268.pdf

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager team

@arroz @dmitriid @zeank

Have you seen https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

IPv6 is so old that its use would normally constitute retrocomputing.

When I grow up, I want to write like this:

https://iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

(Fun fact, Apple’s autocorrect has never heard of the word fascism.) 🤷‍♂️

@aperezdc @javierm @1ace @Aissen I mean it makes sense... why emulate hardware (with all the policy issues that brings) when you can just do stuff in userspace?

It's the same with everything else (nobody uses alsa loop when you can just use pw-alsa, uinput is superseded by libei for desktop mouse/keyboard use cases, etc.). Kernel virtual devices were always kind of jank for this...

@eniko @thephd this, a hundred times. Thanks!

@thephd thank you for fighting for people who want to write C like it's no longer the 90s

@javierm @1ace @lina TIL about vcam, hopefully either that or something similar ends up upstreamed to have an in-tree alternative to https://github.com/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback

@chergert best of lucks with the upcoming changes 🤗🙏