Mastodawn

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Mar 13

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Glyph Mar 13

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Mar 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116212591064170171

This. So much this. What happened? Why are people so incredibly self absorved?

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Feb 20

This isn't new but I just got reminded of it: turns out that our world is a bit like Mr Burns.

Just like Mr Burns is alive thanks to a fragile balance of drugs that keeps him alive somehow, so our planet is potentially hanging on thanks to the specific balance of pollutants we pump into the atmosphere atm.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/emission-reductions-from-pandemic-had-unexpected-effects-on-atmosphere/

Emission Reductions From Pandemic Had Unexpected Effects on Atmosphere

Earth’s atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Feb 16

Firefox for Web Developers Feb 16

HTML might be getting a new type of tag, which… hasn't happened this millennium. Here's the new syntax, and how it works.

And here's the explainer on HTML patching https://github.com/WICG/declarative-partial-updates/blob/main/patching-explainer.md

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Feb 16

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

"But AI is getting better at fixing these issues" 🙃

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Feb 6

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Feb 6

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Feb 3

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly/116006051081305175

This shouldn't have needed public outcry to happen but it's good that it does exist.

If only other tech companies did the same.

That said, address bar autocomplete is still completely broken for me (especially on Android) since Mozilla started messing with this modern crop of "AI".

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Feb 2

ebalsa Feb 2

♻️ rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/

Luis "Dextro" Nabais Jan 30

It's not yet ready for prime time but it's good enough to get more people to try it out.

Over the christmas break I made a small guessing game for JRPGs (since that's a gaming genre I appreciate).

I have a lot of ideas to expand it still but time is a limiting factor (and no, it was not vibe coded :) )

https://jrpguessr.com/

JRPGuessr

Quest unlocked: put your JRPG knowledge to the test in this daily quiz game

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