Can somebody explain to me how a weapons system can fire three missiles off target by 600m, hitting and murdering a school full of children? Asking for an entire planet.
TIL By default #iOS locks Safari refresh rate to 60hz, even when your phone is capable of a higher refresh rate. You can enable higher than 60hz refresh rate by disabling a feature flag
Open the "Settings" app.
Scroll down and tap "Apps".
Tap "Safari".
Scroll to the bottom and tap "Advanced".
Tap "Feature Flags" at the bottom of the list.
Scroll to "Prefer Page Rendering Updates near 60fps" and toggle it off.
The picture, "The Fall of Icarus" reminds me of the opening line from Danny Boyle's 2007 movie "Sunshine"; an incredibly beautiful and underrated movie.
> Our sun is dying. Mankind faces extinction. Seven years ago the Icarus project
> sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached
> the star. Sixteen months ago, I, Robert Capa, and a crew of seven left earth
> frozen in a solar winter. Our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to
> Manhattan Island. Our purpose to create a star within a star...Eight
> astronauts strapped to the back of a bomb. My bomb. Welcome to the Icarus Two.
> I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person.
A scathing review of #apple's new design language by Nielsen Norman Group, #UX and #design experts.
> "..iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions."
The new Veritasium video on degrees of separation and how #graphs/ networks build, grow, and converge over time into “hub” nodes, is not too dissimilar to the convergence of a handful of large #fediverse servers representing homes to most of the fediverse. 🤔
> During their latest tour stop, Massive Attack shocked fans by integrating facial recognition into the show itself. Live video feeds captured audience faces, processing them through recognition software and projecting the results as part of the visual experience.
