It's a Samsung product though
Samsung has already partnered with Microsoft in the past to make WMR headsets, and that did not prevent Windows 11 from dropping support for the device. The very same could happen to a Android-based headset.
Readit NewsJepacor commented on Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
Google thinks the same of me and I don't even edit the URL. I can have a session working just fine one night and come back the next day, open a new tab to search for something, and get captcha'd to hell. I'm fairly sure they just mess with Firefox on purpose. I won't install Brave, Chrome, or Edge out of principle either. Safari works fine, but I don't like it.
Google will captcha me on the second or third search if I try to use the "site":" advanced keyword to narrow down search
I'm sorry I know how to use your tool?? ? Didn't you put these keywords in to be used?
Jepacor commented on Why do some gamers invert their controls? theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/zdw
Like with the mouse scroll wheel, there is a reasonable logic to both directions, including whichever direction you don't like.
It's reasonable and natural to have a mental model that the control moves the observer. (move a control up to aim your eyes up)
It's also reasonable and natural to have a mental model that the control moves the object. (move a control down to "grab" the object and move it down)
Both of these are natural and everyone does both in real life totally automatically without thinking.
Everyone looks up and down. Everyone grabs objects and moves them to bring different parts into view.
Probably the preference differences are based on a subconscious/unconscious difference in how you imagine yourself in relation to a document. Whether you imagine yourself as being larger than the document like a person vs a paper, you move the paper, or you imagine the document as larger than you like a fly flying over a paper or like you are virtually IN the document, you move yourself.
And given how both mental models are reasonable, I think a lot of the preference is going to come down to what you're used to.
For me it seems to be tied to muscle memory too? Because I've noticed that when I play using a Gamecube controller I prefer the camera's x-axis to be inverted, but when I play using a modern controller I prefer not inverting it.
Jepacor commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
This is factually not true. For example: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=111000...
The top 1% of highest income in Canada pays 21-22% of the taxes. Their share of the income is about 10%. So they "rich" are paying for services everyone else is getting.
The top 10% pay 54% (!) of the taxes. Their share of income is about 34%.
The top 0.1% pays about 8-9% of the taxes.
So in Canada the rich are absolutely paying for the services everyone else gets. That's before accounting for their indirect contributions to the economy by running businesses, employing people, taxes paid by companies, etc.
Maybe some random billionaire has some scheme that reduces their taxes. But most of the the rich pay way more taxes than others.
The percentages really don't tell you that much. To illustrate with an extreme exemple, if the top 0.1% earns a million, and the government taxes a single dollar on them and nothing on anyone else, the top 0.1% would pay 100% of the taxes. But it obviously would not be enough to help people in need.
I don't know the particular situation for Canada, but I know that welfare benefits are getting worse in my country (France)
Same thing as with em dashes. Some of us have been using em dashes from before ChatGPT.
I think it's easier to just stop using em dashes, as much as I like them. People have latched on to this because it works a good amount of the time, so I don't think they will stop. I don't even think they should stop, because, well, it works a good amount of the time.
Jepacor commented on Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw
The “client-side problems” Siebenmann is talking about are the various anti-bot measures (CAPTCHAs, rate limiters, etc.) that operators put in place that make the end user experience worse. Operators feel that they have no choice but to keep their servers available, thus they “don’t care”.
He makes a statement in an earlier article that I think sums things up nicely:
> One thing I've wound up feeling from all this is that the current web is surprisingly fragile. A significant amount of the web seems to have been held up by implicit understandings and bargains, not by technology. When LLM crawlers showed up and decided to ignore the social things that had kept those parts of the web going, things started coming down all over the place.
This social contract is, to me, built around the idea that a human will direct the operation of a computer in real time (largely by using a web browser and clicking links) but I think that this approach is extremely inefficient of both the computer’s and the human’s resources (cpu and time, respectively). The promise of technology should not be to put people behind desks staring at a screen all day, so this evolution toward automation must continue.
I do wonder what the new social contract will be: Perhaps access to the majority of servers will be gated by micropayments, but what will the “deal” be for those who don’t want to collect payments? How will they prevent abuse while keeping access free?
[1] “The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web”https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebIsKindOfFrag...
> > One thing I've wound up feeling from all this is that the current web is surprisingly fragile. A significant amount of the web seems to have been held up by implicit understandings and bargains, not by technology.
This is something I've been pondering, and honestly I feel like the author doesn't go far enough. I would go as far as to say a lot of our modern society has been held up by these implicit social contracts. But nowadays we see things like gerrymandering in the US, or overusing the 49-3 in France to pass laws despite the parliament voting against them. Just an overall trend of only feeling constrained by the exact letter of the law and ignoring the spirit of it.
Except it turns out these implicit understandings that you shouldn't do that existed because breaking them makes life shittier for everyone, and that's what we're experiencing now.