Deebster

I can see why you’d assume that, but it’s not what that formatting indicates. Coraline, for example, individually had a budget of $60M Source 1 Source 2

The top comment on that site says you can already disable all of these features from within the settings. Is this true?

Kinda weird experience to be reading textual descriptions of memes and having to reconstruct them in my head. They had enough to say to not need to pad out their word count that way.

I was going to quote this part as well - nice bit of malicious compliance.

If people want to ask something that they don’t want tied to them, they should use a throwaway account. Scrapers will probably grab the text quickly (especially if they’re using ActivityPub) so it’s a false sense of security to do it days later.

This is still what I think of when thinking about GTA. Multiplayer had the arrows pointing to the other players, and sometimes a player would be barrelling towards you in a tanker, crushing everything in its path. Sometimes you had a bazooka and could shot at the arrow before that player came on screen. Great memories.

It’s a meme format (a snowclone), of the form “It’s only X if it comes from the X region of France, otherwise it’s just sparking Y”. The original was talking about Champagne (and sparkling wine), which is why it’s France.

There’s lots of versions out there, of varying quality.

I have a bunch of identical-looking white USB3 cables that may or may not transmit any data at all, depending on what they arrived free with. I wish they had little colour bands on like fuses do.

And (for now) they still have postcards for sale - people take a photo of them and send that instead.

QR code menus seemed to really take off when COVID was around, which made sense, but I guess restaurants got used to saving on printing costs and now they’re here to stay.

Are you referring to the photo of a baby eating meat from a bone?

I was watching a video the other day that was showing WiFi sensing using TOMMY which uses channel state information (CSI) - something this article describes as the previous approach. That was already quite impressive, although not nearly as powerful as this teaser hints at.

We’ll have to wait for the hang on, the Taipei conference was last year so this is old news. Here’s the paper: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000185756

This might be too good to be a dad joke

Skip paywall: https://archive.ph/ka3wn

Scotland Yard are saying that unless they’re allowed to spend £50m on Palantir, they’ll have to reduce officer numbers? I can’t see their logic.

So I built towonel. In Rust, partly because I wanted to learn the language properly

This bit makes me a little wary.

or https://web.archive.org/web/20260521095433/https://erwanleboucher.dev/blog/towonel/

edit: it’s back up

Yup: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/04/public-disclosure.html

This Chaotic Eclipse/Nightmare Eclipse is the same one whose opening post read:

I never wanted to reopen a blog and a new github account to drop code…

But someone violated our agreement and left me homeless with nothing. They knew this will happen and they still stabbed me in the back anyways, this is their decision not mine.

I’m guessing there’s plenty more to come.

Kinda funny that they’re targeting Microsoft and yet using GitHub to share the PoCs.

Ah, the joke’s part of a quote - my first thought was you highlighting it might cause a po-faced editor to remove it.