Or pictures of Gabe in his yacht giving the camera a thumbs-up

Interesting quote at the bottom of the article:

A 2023 study found that 11% of U.S. adults (roughly 23 million) pirated content in the previous year. The NFL says it does not track illegal viewership of its games, though the league believes that new legal avenues to consume its broadcasts—such as direct-to-consumer streaming services, in addition to traditional TV packages—are lowering the reliance on unauthorized methods.

I can’t decide if 11% is higher or lower than I expected, but also insightful that the NFL in particular doesn’t seem to think this affects their bottom line much? Hard to believe since a sports streaming package can easily be triple digits and only go up year after year.

All the Astro Bot games have phenomenal soundtracks, Kenneth CM Young (of MediaMolecule) is brilliant and knows how to write really catchy earworms. Really got stuck listening to Trapped in Time and Papa Tree.

Here’s a link to the study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10491. TL;DR, they ran tests on various LLMs with different personalities based on sex, ethnicity, migrant type, and other (human, AI, etc) and posed a question followed by multiple choice answers and tallied the results.

What idiot gives chmod 777 permissions to an AI. I think programmers’ jobs are safe for another day.

The age verification process is performed by Persona, a third-party provider that won’t have access to users’ Reddit data or retain photos for longer than seven days. Reddit says it also won’t have access to uploaded photos, and that it will only store birthdates and verification statuses so that users don’t need to re-verify their account.

Uh huh. You’d be surprised how many people still think once a snap on Snapchat is deleted, it’s gone forever and no one can view it again. Wonder how long it will take before the “oops a data leak revealed all the stuff we said we weren’t going to retain wasn’t properly deleted and now anyone with a magnet link can grab it” event happens.

I understand the convenience, but I don’t like it. All my data is on someone else’s computer, and I have to enable activity trackers for the privilege of accessing my data? Heck nah.

getting TV remotes to work over HDMI CEC is still untested

Ah, bummer, but I’m glad a project like this exists and is getting some new life breathed into it. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the toolbar at the top but I’m sure ricing will be fun on a platform like this.

Not sure what the use case is here but Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) works great.

Personally I’d blame parents more than the schools, especially in America. Parent involvement is nearing all-time lows and it seems a lot of them are expecting all learning to be done outside the home. I learned more about computers from my dad than any class or teacher.

Christian didn’t seem super pumped about the tribute imo, which is a shame

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/17rmqys/comment/k8ks5mx/?context=3

Ditto, it’s very capable and easy to use

1. The Babadook (2014)
2. An artist named “Special Meme Fresh” on Facebook

Someone unplugged the Mac mini

TL;DR:

• State of PHP 2024: Insights from a survey of 2,660 PHP developers worldwide.
• Demographics: Predominantly mid-career developers, with a significant portion from Japan, China, and the US.
• Gender Imbalance: Majority male respondents; minimal female and non-binary representation.
• PHP Versions: 86% using PHP 8, lower adoption compared to PHP 7 in 2020.
• Popular Frameworks: Laravel remains the most popular PHP framework.
• Development Tools: PhpStorm is the leading IDE, with VS Code gaining popularity, especially among beginners.
• AI Adoption: ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are the most used AI tools among PHP developers.
• PHP Foundation: Focus on improving the language, security, and maintenance, with new features and tools introduced in 2024.

Exactly this. The second you utter the word “federation” you can see people’s eyes glaze over in real time. The email explainer is good but it really needs to be a short sentence and that’s it

Sorry about that, the wayback machine didn’t have a version without the paywall unfortunately :/

Was making sure this had a mention. This was brutal to read in 6th grade at 10 in the morning.

Unrelated but the additional padding at the bottom of each page is an unexpected QOL feature I didn’t know I needed.