โจ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Iโm part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, Iโve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in design. I want to tell you about idiomatic design, emphasize the importance of homogeneous interfaces, and suggest that weโve lost something important.Suppose youโre logging into a website, and it asks: โdo you want to stay logged in?โ There are many ways in…
๐ฅ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: AI (artificial intelligence),Books,Culture,Technology ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: IIn 2026, it will be easy to see why generative AI is bad. The Internet called his secretion โramp.โ CEOs of AI companies wander around the stage like supervillains, bragging that their products will eliminate large swaths of work. Generative AI requires sacrificing the world's water to feed hideous data centers. All over the world, chatbots are stimulating schizophrenic delusions and urging teens to kill themselves โ all while turning users' brains into mush.Who could have predicted this? Artists, that's…
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**What Youโll Learn**: I just spent 1h+ debugging why my locally-hosted gitlab runner would fail to create pipelines. The gitlab job output would just display weird TLS errors when trying to pull a docker images. After debugging gitlab and the runner, I realized after a while I could not even run "docker pull " on my machine as root:> error pulling image configuration: download failed after attempts=6: tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate is not valid for any names, but wanted to match docker-images-prod.6aa30f8b08e16409b46e0173d6de2f56.r2.cloudflarestorage.comFirst blaming tailscale, dns…
๐ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,British identity and society,Immigration and asylum ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: TThere is no shortage of creative ambition in the play by Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray, Tommy Ross Williams, and Joanna Nastare, which explores the experiences of Latina women in modern London. In the style of a pop concert, four mysterious figures stand on the pulse of techno beats mixed with selections from the UK population. โWhite, black, Asian, mixed,โ as the phrase goes โ Latinos are noticeably absent.Then comes the clash of identities within what…
โจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inboxSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterSign up to our free IndyTech newsletterSeven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures.Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also revealed…
๐ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Asha Bhosle,Bollywood,India,Film,Music,Culture,South and central Asia,World news ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Indian singer Asha Bhosle, whose voice defined Bollywood music during the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 92, her family said.The two-time Grammy nominee was admitted to hospital in Mumbai with complaints of โextreme fatigueโ and a chest infection."My mother passed away today (Sunday). Her last rites will be performed tomorrow at Shivaji Park in Mumbai," her son Anand Bhosle told reporters.Bhosle's voice has resonated across film-obsessed India for nearly eight decades, during…
โจ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: No one owes you supply-chain securityApril 11, 2026 LobstersIn case youโre unaware, Iโm not a developer. Iโm actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming. Crucially, it also includes discussing foundational technology with people behind the scenes, and apparently that makes me more aware of social aspects of this sphere.So, I have opinions about criticism of crates.io for supply-chain attacks. After a dozen similar articles, I have some select words to voice about why itโs…
๐ฅ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Theatre,Arcola theatre,Relationships,Dating,Stage,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: TIts epistolary story of two people looking for love is the complete antithesis of a modern-day dating app. Set in a time when letters were not as fickle but slower as the postal service, this is a delightful romantic comedy through letters. The film features Jack (Preston Nyman) and Louise (Eva Weiler), who begin writing to each other because family members think they might be a match. It's 1942, Jack is a military doctor treating burns and amputations while Louise…
๐ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: In yesterday's post I briefly mentioned Claude Shannon, founder of information theory. It occurred to me that even most Oxford students wouldn't know who he was, despite his work being crucial for the subsequent development of the "Information Age". How many other intellectual revolutions in obscure fields haven't become common knowledge yet? Perhaps the best way of finding out is just to start listing the greatest and most influential intellectual achievements ever, and seeing if anyone else has more to add - particularly in the…
๐ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Brian Cox,Science,Astronomy,Culture,AI (artificial intelligence),People in science,Physics,Space,Technology,Social media,Music,Paul McCartney ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence?It came from a book I've loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is best known for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little book about New Year's Eve in 1609, when he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague in the middle of a snowstorm. He was going to his benefactor's house and…
