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He's one of my main recommendations for anyone even vaguely interested in sci-fi. Sad news.

Null comes to Rust!

Well, nul-byte terminated strings, anyway.

Well GoT was good until they ran out of source material and the 3BP books are all out so maybe we'll avoid it falling off a cliff.

I read the books back when they came out and I'm pretty fuzzy on the details now, so I'm not going to be able to complain about what they've changed.

I haven't had one in years but I hear they've changed the recipe (less cocoa, more sugar or something?)

But yes, pervert-style for me too.

That was given in the original question along with Pythonistas.

I like the idea of having more "intent" markers; /s seems to be the only one people recognise (and I've seen some on here push back against it as a Reddit thing).

With a VPN you could watch it live: https://www.channel4.com/now/C4

Otherwise, Youtube's only a day later, so it's only a minor inconvenience.

You have other options. You can use the separate search box. You can use smart keywords to only trigger searches when you want.

Why should it be relegated to a plug-in? It is a feature everyone would find useful because no-one speaks every language. Also, since Chrome has this feature, new users would expect to have it work without having to research which plug-in to use.

You might not want to use it, but some people don't use Firefox bookmarks and you don't hear them demanding that bookmarks be moved to a plug-in. It's been a very long time since a browser was solely an HTML renderer, and while people were also against CSS and scripting at first, we've moved on.

"AI" has been used for many things for many years. The fact that the news is full of machine learning and generative AI doesn't mean that it's sensible to condemn anything using it.

Are you saying you've disabled searching from the address bar and instead load up whatever.com and then type your search into there? I don't understand what you think you're gaining by enforcing this extra step.

Are you informed about what they're using AI for? One example is in-browser translations, which allows it to work offline and be privacy-respecting (no calls to Google, etc).

Which is why we shouldn't have phonetic spelling!

For me it's more like
/wɒts ʌp? wɒz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz bɹʌnʧ. nɜːʔɜː dʌgz stʌk kʌz ɒv ə tʌnəl əbstɹʌkʃən. ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn ɒv ʌnjənz. əχ./

(Gimsonian, anyway, I like the newer, more logical style that would have nurse be /nəːs/)

Thanks. I was wondering if these were puzzles, but I suppose that some users are encoding their nick or motto in the image, and others are just making an attractive design.

Can you explain a bit more, please? And by a bit, I mean I have absolutely not the foggiest idea of what's going on here.

The article is talking as if the total number of domains on Cloudflare is an important metric. In terms of Cloudflare traffic, this drop will be lost in the noise.

Clever work, well done to the researchers.

So, they're just going to add a QR code? Of course, you could already do that, but having it built in and be the default process would probably help.

It starts out as ridiculous as you'd expect from the Onion, but it's a serious legal filing as a amicus curiae ("friend of the court" - a person or group who's not a party to the case but is interested and wants to give advice).

I've been using a dedicated Lemmy plugin, but I'm not 100% happy with it, so I might give the userscript route a go.

There's some here: https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy?tab=readme-ov-file#userscripts--browser-plugins