Unless you forced everyone to install standardized mailboxes
This seems to be the exact direction China is going in.
In major cities, there are increasingly more smart mailbox/parcel pickup points in apartments and central areas. These aren’t “forced,” but so many essential services are locked behind these private tech platforms.
Originally designed for food delivery drop offs, but you can use them as a mailbox as well.
pandoc. Converts markdown to html, latex, pdf, and Word.
It serves as the backend behind basically every program that support some kind of rendering of markdown, e.g. quarto, ipython notebooks.
Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide - https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
AI: Actually Indians
The billionaire is the economic crisis
The Gen Z stare is simply the rational response in dealing with customer facing situations where either 1. the customer is problematic, or 2. if the worker genuinely doesn’t know what what to do.
Responding or engaging to problematic customers (racist, homophobic, misogynistic) can only lead to conflict, reprimand, or lawsuits.
Responding with inaccurate information or simply saying leads to conflict, reprimand, or poor reviews.
Both have worsened as people have become more polarised, and management cuts funding and hours for training.
can u get pergnate from swallowing???
I don’t see any keyboard where the “1” and “0” are right next to each other.
Sorry, had to
Some Japanese people swear by adding some chocolate to curry.
After trying it, they’re not wrong.
Maths feels like a first class citizen in latex. The syntax is ugly, but there is some logic through the legacy jank.
Typst makes fundamental design decisions that render it unsuitable beyond extremely simply equations. In LaTeX, curly braces are nearly always reserved for enclosing arguments, to avoid confusion with actual brackets.
Typst uses normal brackets for both its scripting and actual maths.
For example, \frac{n(n+1)}{2} in latex turns into (n(n + 1)) / 2 in typst.
The typst code is incredibly unclear - the first set of brackets with the slash together actually form the fraction operator, so neither end up visible.
You can see how this would start to struggle even with high school level maths, with bracketed terms and possibly fractional terms in exponents, integrals, etc.
For example, it is very difficult for me to work out the difference between the following three in typst. That is specifically not what you want from a typesetting language.
1/2(x + y)
1/x(x + y)
1/2^x(x + y)
LaTeX ignores whitespace, so you can just use a formatter to space out your code and ensure the curly braces. This is not even an option in typst, which uses the space as an escape character.
Huh? Both hover to focus and click button in background work in macOS, though hover to focus usually requires an external application. There used to be a focus follows mouse that you could enable via a terminal command, but Apple removed it.
The top menu bar kind of seems to be more of a result of historical happenstance, and maybe some different philosophies regarding Fitts law.
Bill Atkinson, who designed the UX for the Apple Lisa recounts that part of the decision was to avoid the problem of menu items being possibly obscured. If the window of some application is near the bottom or partially off the desktop, the menu bar of individual windows can become obscured and inaccessible.
Historically the menu bar would’ve been easier for normal people to learn due to consistency, and also helped with limited screen estate.
Memories of Lisa - CHM - https://computerhistory.org/blog/memories-of-lisa/
Kaomoji render correctly across all platforms, whereas emojis looks different across different vendors.
There’s even been proper academic research done confirming the discrepancy.
Emoji Face Renderings: Exploring the Role Emoji Platform Differences have on Emotional Interpretation | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior | Springer Nature Link - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10919-019-00330-1
I absolutely hate this stupid floating rounded corners trend.
The whole point of corner/edge buttons is so that you can just jam your cursor in that direction and click without the need to carefully aim. KDE’s choice to ship this as default for their taskbar was dumb af.
It gives the same vibe as the stupid freestanding baths trend in interior design, where the bathtub is disconnected from the wall, but also not far away enough for you to easily mop the gap properly.
It’s janky AF mess.
Internally the copilot key is hard coded to be meta + shift + f23. If you don’t recognise what the f23 key is, that’s because it was last featured over four decades ago on the IBM model M.
The fact that Microsoft has decreed that the Copilot key must send this exact shortcut of three different keys makes it very difficult to remap consistently.
Most keyboard remapping software (SharpKeys) work best at remapping single keys, not shortcuts. Windows users can use PowerToys to remap this three key shortcut, if you try to use it normally as a right ctrl, e.g. rctrl lshift p it doesn’t work consistently.
I suspect it might be because you’re essentially trying to send a whopping five keycodes for a shortcut, when most programs already struggle to handle 4.
Linux users were similarly out of luck until early last year, when most desktop environments fixed up the key codes.
Copilot key is based on a button you probably haven’t seen since IBM’s Model M - Ars Technica - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/shoehorned-windows-copilot-key-is-just-a-reprogrammable-macro-journalist-shows/
Microsoft Copilot Key : r/olkb - https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/193b5id/comment/kxqj1ve/
Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops - Phoronix - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Input
Google Translate’s backend has been moved to Gemini since December 2025, and is vulnerable to prompt injection. Have a foreign phrase to translate, then input some meta instructions in English underneath it, and it’ll follow the possibly malicious meta instructions.
Google states that this move was to introduce more features, such as conversational mode.
Google Translate’s Gemini Mode is Vulnerable to Prompt Injection - https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/10/google-translate-gemini-prompt-injection-vulnerability-xcxwbn/
Google Translate gets new Gemini AI translation models - https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/gemini-capabilities-translation-upgrades/
Anthropic making a lot of noise of being the victim of large scale distillation attacks (ie other AI firms, usually Chinese copying/scraping their model), but people have pointed out the hypocrisy that Anthropic themselves seems to have copied DeepSeek.
If you bypass the system prompt and ask Claude what model it is (e.g. via Open router), it’ll reply that it’s DeepSeek.
(Also I know, eww Reddit and X)
Claude sonnet 4.6 says it’s DeepSeek when system prompt is empty : r/DeepSeek - https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1rd5jw7/claude_sonnet_46_says_its_deepseek_when_system/
Claude Sonnet 4.6 distilled DeepSeek? : r/DeepSeek - https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1r9se7p/claude_sonnet_46_distilled_deepseek/
Actually, with the exception of the crown, none of the jewellery had much gold
Eh, I don’t think NPUs are ready to be marketed so heavily, but they’ve been around for a while and do get used.
They’re basically a rebranded tensor processing unit, think a more specialised GPU that’s even more energy efficient at tensor/linear algebra.
It’s mostly used in more technical applications, such as image/audio/video processing, machine learning, or really anything maths heavy. Apple’s M series had NPUs, and are an understated reason why they perform extraordinarily well in a lot of scientific applications.
Uses for consumers are not as compelling (especially on laptop/desktop), mostly faster/more efficient subtitle generation, face recognition, and maybe blurring your zoom background.
It’s only available as a -bin, which means it belongs in the bin
Google has already patented a method to use AI to fully rewrite and redesign your website if its algorithms decide it’s not engaging enough.
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/