Manoj Kasichainula

Ah, Turnitin, thank you so much for telling me that the incriminating phrase "Page 1 of 7" has been stolen from the OUP website...

Principal Skinner: Am I out of touch? No it's the children who are wrong.

TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk-o...

Last Week on My Mac: Why Spotlight can’t find some files In macOS Mojave, Apple changed the way that Spotlight indexes the contents of plain text files. That introduced a bug that prevents indexing of any of the contents of files starting with certain ch…

This is a fun bug. MacOS Spotlight can't index files starting with the word "Draw". eclecticlight.co/2025/10/26/l...

Notably, I only see Google denying doing anything illegal and that "this" (article?) was falsely implying something. I see no straightforward denial of any "winking" agreements. Lawyers have called me overly pedantic though, so make of that what you will.

Sadie White female, 25 Show personal views - 1. Favors 'Allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally' 2. Favors Tougher laws and regulations to protect the environment even if it raises prices or costs jobs' 3. Thinks abortion should be Legal in most cases' Who do you think Sadie voted for? 2 3 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Donald Trump

Sadie you fucking moron.

I'm getting no value, so I'm done after this.

I replied to a post about review bombing about price. That's my sole topic. That article doesn't discuss this.

And Capcom also built brand equity, which is one reason Wilds sold so well initially. Yes, many things affect price, including that.

I can't tell what you're arguing against. Did you read my 2/2 ?

And besides, I'm not saying prices don't matter. Prices matter a great deal (see the early Nintendo 3DS!), but complaining about review bombing for prices is NYT centrist columnist thinking. The internet being mean to big companies is the cost of doing business. 2/2

- Nintendo isn't shielded as well as many claim. See the Wii U. I'm citing Nintendo because they are mascots of price increases.

- According to the article you cite, Wilds sold very well (at a high price) but then crashed. Reading Steam reviews, it looks like sentiment about the game itself. 1/2

Tears of the Kingdom was $70, set off a whole round of Discourse, and did fine.

www.metacritic.com/game/pokemon... 3.5 user score, 27 million copies sold.

The companies can deal with the very online.

(And there already are $100 games as "early access" and "special editions".)

I'm worried that it's so easy to DDoS a site that anything controversial will have to hide behind the few big players (Cloudflare, AWS, Google, etc.) that can sustain the attack.

(Sometimes this is because the website is ridiculously inefficient, but not always)

Yeah, often sites won't loudly tout their RSS support, but it'll be there. For example, (critical support, etc.) Substack supports RSS.

More of a sandwich than a hot dog at least (especially if the hot dog has ketchup, which makes it no longer food)

Macarons on a plate with a first place ribbon

Macarons on a plate with a third place ribbon

First in the uncategorized cookies and 3rd in sandwich!

Yeah, though AFAICT he only apologized on the National Guard bit, not on supporting Trump's other policies (and ducking the ICE question), and it took a week to even get that.

And the headline is even being too generous. AFAICT, he only apologized on the National Guard bits, not the Trump praise in general.

How did you find my vibe coding prompts?

if you never get a taste for the money they're paying you, they won't be able to pay you for anything you don't want to do

BioShock bungled its best chance to make play meaningful The tragedy of the Little Sisters

In case you didn't know, this wasn't the original intent, and saving the Little Sisters was supposed to actually deprive you of ADAM: www.polygon.com/2016/9/19/12...

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

www.theverge.com/news/793362/... Google decided giving the user malicious information isn't a vulnerability. How's that mission statement going?

They've made the underlying problem unsolvable. Still, they should at least fix and reward findings when users have even less hope to protect themselves.

Or what Mastodon already is?

The clearest explanation of the new US COVID vaccine rules I could find. I rushed to get my shot today just before finding this, but it matched my experience.

Hey Europe, can you put off your authoritarianism crisis until we're finished in the U.S.? Thanks!

YouTube video by Android Developers Android developer verification

I watched their podcast (www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DE...). They claimed throughout that the success of identity checking on the Play Store was what led them to this and they weren't adding new verification requirements for Play Store devs. developer.android.com/developer-ve... says the latter too

CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than BFI - Blur Busters Who Is this for? CRT Enthusiasts, software & hardware developers, emulator authors, all of who wish to reduce display motion blur of 60 years of legacy 60fps 60Hz content with softer flicker than BFI....

blurbusters.com/crt-simulati... is cool. Motion clarity by imitating a CRT as hard as you can

The 120 Hz demo (www.shadertoy.com/view/X3ccDN) works in Chrome+Android after I disable chrome://flags/#throttle-main-thread-to-60hz . But on Mac, I get pink smearing (Chrome/Safari/Firefox)

Google Play already requires identification to publish on their store. Their ineffectiveness at getting rid of malicious apps is *with* this kind of policy.

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...

Not to mention they're breaking the model of F-Droid: f-droid.org/2025/09/29/g...

Let's talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Whatever they claim, Google is still taking away the freedom to install what you want in Android without their permission: android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets... . Killing anonymity will allow/force them to block some devs like Apple does: www.macrumors.com/2025/08/27/a...