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Yaky

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  • Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

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  • Another fantastic short story is The Sleepover. Most of humanity is in hibernation and is being haunted by ethereal lovecraftian entities.

    Turquoise Days was the first short story I read by him, and I think it could make a fun movie.

  • What did you stupidly believe as a child?

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  • ... and Fjöhurs Lykkewe

    (Portlandia skit)

  • genius

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  • IIRC that entire plane was a DIY plane from a popular kit, not a commercial vehicle.

    (not clicking on a Google shortlink)

  • The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

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  • TBF, specifically for games, enemy behavior has been called "AI" for decades.

  • This is a joke, but it's honestly not the worst idea.

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  • Just train it on StackOverflow answers! Kidding, of course, although it probably could pick up a few hostile non-responses such as "what are you even trying to do here?" and "RTFM"

  • I'm there!

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  • More of a self-directed way, but check out eBird for submitting bird observations and iNaturalist for almost everything else. The cool part about iNaturalist is that your observations also get identified by other people, so you know the submissions have been reviewed. And you could help identify others' observations too.

  • Books I've read in 2025, with brief mostly spoiler-free reviews

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  • These are great reviews. Some of the books are on my to-read list for this year, so I appreciate the lack of spoilers. Do you keep these on a blog or anywhere else? I'd be interested to follow.

    I've been keeping a similar list: https://yaky.dev/reads/

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Unfun fact: I taught computer literacy for about a year. The students struggled to see or find the hamburger menu on many pages. Understandably so, because it literally does not look like anything.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Google cranks this up to stupid level by changing the corner radii of active or enabled elements within the same set (e.g. pull-down quick actions on Android)

  • Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results

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  • Absolutely. Somehow, Apple and Google convinced people (even more tech savvy ones) to want constant app and security updates as if the world would end otherwise. I've seen complaints about gemini (the protocol not Google's AI) browser not being updated (protocol has not been updated since 2022), and someone asking if it's safe to boot up an old Android 7 phone.

    And Apple dev license consting money does not help the situation.

  • Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results

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  • Now up the challenge: In App Store, find a simple app that is not a "solution", "ecosystem" nor a "lifestyle", does not have ads, and does not require a subscription for basic functionality.

    (Years ago, I tried about 10 RSS readers, News Reader was what I finally found, way down the list)

  • Android 16 QPR3 introduces over 160 new emoji: Here’s every single one of them

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  • Truly important. Read about it in Big Whoop magazine.

  • Removed

    When both say “I love privacy”

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  • This was posted by Proton on Proton subreddit, so yeah, it's an ad.

  • Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it?

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  • this is some sad shit

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  • Just an anecdote, but recently, there have been many "crochet" 3D models posted to 3D printing sites. (Many of those are marked as AI-generated, too) Those look nothing like a crochet toy would look like. These models have a yarn-looking "V" pattern applied to every surface of 3D model, but this pattern comes not from crochet, but from hand-knit blankets (as far as I can tell).

  • WhatsApp status and channels now showing ads: Here's how to hide and manage them

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  • Snikket is an all-in-one XMPP server-client that supports calls.

    But yes, in its current state, Matrix calls are pretty broken as there is no feature parity between Element Classic and Element X apps.

  • Latin names suck

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  • IIRC the "migratorius" part is only partially true, they migrate, but relatively short distances, so their year-round range is still pretty much the entire continental US.

    They do gather into flocks in fall-winter and then split back into pairs in spring-summer, which is interesting.

  • Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

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  • Heck, my first smartphone ran Android 4.0. Compared to current Android 16 more than a decade later, the only practical change I could think of is granular permissions.

  • English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?

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  • I have to perform a context switch between "v" and "w" sounds, so words and phrases that contain both (e.g: "very well") sometimes end up with only "w" sounds. (My native language does not have a regular "W" sound)

    But even after 20 years speaking it, English pronunciation is complete nonsense. Most of the time, you just need to memorize the words. Because trying to figure out how to say something, you also need to know if the word is borrowed from any other languages that use Latin alphabet, and then pronouce it pretending to speak that language. Simplest example: Mocha (moh-ka) and matcha (maht-cha). But there are countless borrowed words that don't change spelling in English.