Arty-chan (Cynthia)

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Even if it’s no longer a small form factor, at least the new #GooglePixel 10a is a lot cheaper than #Apple 16e. Specs might be better but it’s just having a mid-budget priced phone available.
Mildly regret not buying the SE 3rd gen.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/googles-pixel-10a-arrives-on-march-5-for-499-with-specs-and-design-of-yesteryear/

Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear

Google's new budget phone is here, but don't expect a big upgrade.

Ars Technica

BC Gov website presents you with their take on a checkbox.

#UIUX

Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.
I don’t understand why the #CBC #FigureSkating commentators have simply stopped actually commentating. All they’re doing is exclaiming and talking about feelings.
#Olympics #Canada #PairsFreeSkate

A note that "confidently incorrect" is not just an LLM problem. It is also a human problem.

I see it all of the time, particularly in nerdier spaces like here on the Fediverse, Reddit or Hacker News.

Marshall McLuhan wrote about how a communications medium _biases and shapes_ the messages passing over it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I suspect that the modern web generally biases towards engagement. And being confidently wrong on the web means engagement.

How do we incentivize humility?

Pakidge :3

Does anyone have opinions on a good HDMI in, Display Port out adapter cable? I need to trick this monitor into running its own adaptive sync, which it can only do when it's connected via DP, and my 4 port KVM is HDMI because I'm only made of so much money.

(and also macbooks have an HDMI port, not a DP port)

Some people don't know about Pouding Chômeur, and that's such a shame! It's a French-Canadian classic! This is the recipe I use:

https://youtube.com/shorts/KEYYdKHrOCI?si=Jo0s8EN0uZnnu_SW

One of my favourite desserts 🤤 Pouding Chômeur Recipe

YouTube
OH: "I can tell when you're writing from all the swishes"