MrDOS

Doubtful. Doom was fully software-rendered. Quake, maybe?

All the numbers were under 256. Surely they did.

I imagine, too, that as better encoders become available, we'll be able to losslessly recompress existing JXLs, much as mozjpeg's jpegtran can losslessly recompress existing JPEGs.

Right. Although the article demonstrates the changes by making requests of a public web server, I would imagine this change has been primarily motivated by a desire to reduce overhead and latency on internal communication between microservices, which very often uses unencrypted HTTP/1 traffic.

Once upon a time, AliExpress had a really bad reputation for missing packages. I imagine they ramped up the notifications to help repair their reputation.

Right. The “correct” way for a service to handle this is to disable password logins for any account that has enrolled a passkey. A few services do this, but boy howdy is it ever unfriendly to users (or at best, difficult for them to get their heads around).

And the frequent delivery status updates make sure that I am very aware how much time the parcel sits around waiting to clear customs, too.

Nah, it's Firefox, not the ad blocker. I run into similar problems all the time, and disabling my ad blocker never solves it. If you pop open the developer console and look for errors, it usually boils down to Firefox having stricter policies about cross-origin requests. Even major web properties simply don't bother testing for even the most superficial functionality on browser engines other than Blink any more.

I think it's extremely likely that all these major websites are built specifically to work with Google Chrome, and I would call that “broken”, yes.

> AMD designed Bulldozer with a very long pipeline, betting they could sacrifice efficiency per clock cycle in exchange for extraordinarily high clock speeds

It blows my mind that AMD watched Intel try to do basically the same thing only a few years prior with NetBurst, and fail so badly that they had to scrap that entire evolutionary branch and start over – and AMD still went and did it again themselves anyway.

> so I gave that all to Claude

Damn. I have really enjoyed reading Doug Brown's past reverse-engineering and repair work (e.g., Chumby resuscitation). Shame to see another one fall to brain offloading.

Parent is thinking iOS/iPadOS, not macOS. Older devices that are not capable of running iOS 26 are still receiving security updates for iOS 18, but any device supported by iOS 26 is not. It's a real hard push by Apple to get people to swallow Liquid Glass by withholding security updates.

I had one of those to charge a bicycle headlight. I gave it away with the bicycle, but in the span of time I had it, one visiting guest borrowed it to recharge a portable generic USB battery pack. So there you go, two product categories known to use that sort of cable!