pandoc. Converts markdown to html, latex, pdf, and Word.

It serves as the backend behind basically every program that support some kind of rendering of markdown, e.g. quarto, ipython notebooks.

Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide - https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html

AI: Actually Indians

Most things are logarithmically scaled, including our perceptions.

Having 1 -> 5 apples is a large and easily comprehensible change, but most people probably rapidly lose interest having beyond more than 5 apple.

Similarly the first few birthdays you experience are much more exciting, with the importance rapidly diminishing as you hit milestones. A lot of people start forgetting how old they are in their 20s; the ones that do are mostly due to dating apps.

The Gen Z stare is simply the rational response in dealing with customer facing situations where either 1. the customer is problematic, or 2. if the worker genuinely doesn’t know what what to do.

Responding or engaging to problematic customers (racist, homophobic, misogynistic) can only lead to conflict, reprimand, or lawsuits.

Responding with inaccurate information or simply saying leads to conflict, reprimand, or poor reviews.

Both have worsened as people have become more polarised, and management cuts funding and hours for training.

Everything reminds of him

can u get pergnate from swallowing???

I don’t see any keyboard where the “1” and “0” are right next to each other.

Sorry, had to

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🦐 Bug, sea: 🤤🤩🤑😋

Create a hit one person TV show/movie. Bonus if you’re millennial and messy.

E.g. Bo Burnham if you’re messy millennial man, Fleabag if you’re messy millennial woman, and Mae Martin if you’re messy millennial non-biney.

I hate this food gatekeeping.

This is REAL food, enjoyed by REAL food enjoyers:

Huh? Both hover to focus and click button in background work in macOS, though hover to focus usually requires an external application. There used to be a focus follows mouse that you could enable via a terminal command, but Apple removed it.

The top menu bar kind of seems to be more of a result of historical happenstance, and maybe some different philosophies regarding Fitts law.

Bill Atkinson, who designed the UX for the Apple Lisa recounts that part of the decision was to avoid the problem of menu items being possibly obscured. If the window of some application is near the bottom or partially off the desktop, the menu bar of individual windows can become obscured and inaccessible.

Historically the menu bar would’ve been easier for normal people to learn due to consistency, and also helped with limited screen estate.

Memories of Lisa - CHM - https://computerhistory.org/blog/memories-of-lisa/

Kaomoji render correctly across all platforms, whereas emojis looks different across different vendors.

There’s even been proper academic research done confirming the discrepancy.

Emoji Face Renderings: Exploring the Role Emoji Platform Differences have on Emotional Interpretation | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior | Springer Nature Link - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10919-019-00330-1

It never died though? The Devs just pivoted to different platforms. Itch, Newgrounds, and even the major app stores have endless content from indie devs.

Flash games were just never mainstream enough. And let’s not forget that the most popular flash games were those shitty FB games, like FarmVille and Candy Crush, or that the shitty mobile games all started off as clones/ports of already popular flash games, like Angry Birds/Crush the Castle.

It’s janky AF mess.

Internally the copilot key is hard coded to be meta + shift + f23. If you don’t recognise what the f23 key is, that’s because it was last featured over four decades ago on the IBM model M.

The fact that Microsoft has decreed that the Copilot key must send this exact shortcut of three different keys makes it very difficult to remap consistently.

Most keyboard remapping software (SharpKeys) work best at remapping single keys, not shortcuts. Windows users can use PowerToys to remap this three key shortcut, if you try to use it normally as a right ctrl, e.g. rctrl lshift p it doesn’t work consistently.

I suspect it might be because you’re essentially trying to send a whopping five keycodes for a shortcut, when most programs already struggle to handle 4.

Linux users were similarly out of luck until early last year, when most desktop environments fixed up the key codes.

Copilot key is based on a button you probably haven’t seen since IBM’s Model M - Ars Technica - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/shoehorned-windows-copilot-key-is-just-a-reprogrammable-macro-journalist-shows/

Microsoft Copilot Key : r/olkb - https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/193b5id/comment/kxqj1ve/

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops - Phoronix - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Input

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Google Translate’s backend has been moved to Gemini since December 2025, and is vulnerable to prompt injection. Have a foreign phrase to translate, then input some meta instructions in English underneath it, and it’ll follow the possibly malicious meta instructions.

Google states that this move was to introduce more features, such as conversational mode.

Google Translate’s Gemini Mode is Vulnerable to Prompt Injection - https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/10/google-translate-gemini-prompt-injection-vulnerability-xcxwbn/

Google Translate gets new Gemini AI translation models - https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/gemini-capabilities-translation-upgrades/

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