Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

When someone comments "this is just like xkcd N", I don't look up the number or consult my memory. I just imagine the most appropriate xkcd comic for the situation and assume I'm right.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Choosing a Mastodon instance is easy once you understand each instance’s values, customs, belief systems, and inter-instance alliances and feuds dating back 1,000 years.

Researchers from the MIT Wearable Computing Project in the 1990s.

Sadly it all went downhill from this Borg-like aesthetic to - checks notes - smart watches

#Tech #technology

If you're interested in helping out an #OpenSource project and use a desktop OS, try out these OS native window tabbing options and let us know whether they're fun to use and work with Agregore.

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/issues/243#issuecomment-3254758148

Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again... No, try again... You must verify you're a real person."

The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be an attractive human but is in fact a bot"