It'd be interesting to see the logs or data on how the physical movement falls out of sync. It probably even correlates with temperature and humidity.
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accrual commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
Someone bring back AOL instant messenger! >:(
Jokes aside, I've played around with Campfire and it's very, very simple, but pretty nice to use and easy to set up: https://once.com/campfire
> Someone bring back AOL instant messenger! >:(
There's an actively developed open source server that allows the clients to connect!
https://github.com/mk6i/open-oscar-server
I wish Smarter Child was still around so we could see how LLMs interact with it.
accrual commented on AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You' macrumors.com/2026/02/09/... · Posted by u/geox
What? Where did you get that from?
I suspect it could be due to Japan requiring that cameras play a sound when taking a photo or video. Here's some background:
https://japandaily.jp/why-you-cant-turn-off-the-camera-shutt...
> Japan’s requirement for an audible camera shutter sound isn’t just a quirky design decision — it’s a deliberate policy meant to prevent secret photography.
accrual commented on AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You' macrumors.com/2026/02/09/... · Posted by u/geox
It looks like these cameras are infrared and intended to see gestures from the wearer. There are some more details in the linked article:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/30/new-airpods-to-feature-...
> The IR cameras can detect environmental image changes, facilitating a broader range of gestures to improve user interaction. For example, if a user watches a video using Apple Vision Pro and the new AirPods, and turns their head to look in a specific direction, the sound source in that direction can be "emphasized to enhance the spatial audio/computing experience."
I wonder if the signal could be integrated into AR glasses or headset to provide a wider FOV to the wearer.
accrual commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
Hard no. Reality is that this push is everywhere. Authoritarian governments are cracking down hard on dissent, they're not going to leave huge platforms for communication untouched. We'll need open source decentralized alternatives.
Indeed, the article basically says as much in more pacifying terms:
> driven by an international legal push for age checks and stronger child safety measures
accrual commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
The sad thing is that I think many people will en masse pony up their ID or snapshot without a second thought. I'm not sure if enough people will refuse to actually force Discord to back off this decision (unless their idea is to grab as much data as possible at once with the understanding that they are going to back off either way).
Especially if it's presented as a pop-up upon launching the app that suggests the user won't be able to talk to their friends/servers without showing ID. Carefully worded language would could spur some % of users to panic at losing years of history and immediately show ID. Folks with less privacy discernment hear "jump" and reply "how high".
accrual commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
Here's the October 2025 Discord data breach mentioned at the end of the article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo
> Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.
However, their senior director states in this Verge article:
> The ID is immediately deleted. We do not keep any information around like your name, the city that you live in, if you used a birth certificate or something else, any of that information.
Why they didn't do that the first time?
accrual commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
It is not really obvious to me that happiness should be part of the social contract.
Happiness is very slippery even in your own life. It seems absurd to me that you should care about my happiness.
So much of happiness is the change from the previous state to the present. I am happy right now because 2026 has started off great for me while 2025 was a bad year.
I would imagine there was never a happier American society than the year's after WW2.
I imagine some of the most happy human societies were the ones during the years after the black plague. No one though today gains happiness because of the absence of black plague.
To believe a society can be built around happiness seems completely delusional to me.
Agree targeting happiness is the wrong approach. Happiness comes and goes. We should raise the baseline, not the ceiling.
> That is curated search done right.
Adding keywords in the relevant .desktop files should be enough to make this work in other DE's too. I just tried it in KDE (by adding a 'comment=... (like notepad)' line in ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop), it works as expected
New to KDE and .desktop shortcuts were something I really liked coming from Windows. I can enter in whatever terms I want to use for an item to appear in search, no relying on filename.