Ever seen the ChatGPT Mac app render text upside down? I traced down the bug through SwiftUI & AppKit, and wrote up my findings:
https://oskargroth.com/blog/debugging-strange-calayers-chatgpt#x
Dear OSS community on Mastodon,
Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:
“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"
or
“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”
or
“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”
… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?
So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.
Example:
We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.
Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.
Yours truly,
Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements
Po 24 latach zostajemy ze smutnymi wnioskami i z potwierdzeniem, jak bardzo politycznie opłaca się hodowanie strachu w obywatelach/kach i konsolidowanie władzy przy „silnych” politykach.
Widać też, co przyniosło nam wszystkim zarządzanie strachem w XXI wieku. O tym Krytyka Polityczna w tekście „Dlaczego potulnie zdejmujemy buty na lotnisku?”: https://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/dlaczego-potulnie-zdejmujemy-buty-na-lotnisku/
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
What was the worst connector ever made?
I know some people hate on the Apple 30-pin connector, but I always had a soft spot for it.
SCART, on the other hand – what a nightmare. I still sometimes remember how utterly unpleasant it was just to put it in or disconnect it. The sound and the feel were all dentist-office-grade. Absolutely dreadful.