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If you want to play locally on macOS, here is a build. If it fails to run, it is likely the error "The requested video mode is not available" and can be run if connected to an external monitor (then you can disable fullscreen and launch without an external monitor).

https://drodin.com/extremetuxracer/ https://github.com/drodin/extremetuxracer

Bondi_Blueon Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser

https://drodin.com/extremetuxracer/ https://github.com/drodin/extremetuxracer

Bondi_Blueon Apple introduces a universal design across platforms

It is weird that they acted as through the design system hasn't changed much since iOS 7. They've overhauled and tweaked it every year since 2011- increasing font weights, using slower floaty/bubble animations, increasing corner radiuses and adding more negative space, adding depth and shadows to icons, etc. Control Center, for example, looks nothing like it did in iOS 7. iOS 7 was much more minimal, the least skeuomorphic, and a bit more geometric than the "neumorphic" changes they've made since then.

This updated design language seems to have similarities to Microsoft's Material/Fluent design system that brought more of that same glass material to Windows 11, with the more 3d-looking edge outlines on ui elements. So the glass metaphor seems to be a trending metaphor in these UIs, for better or for worse.

Bondi_Blueon Show HN: Terminal Flower Garden

I love this. If you like terminal art, (even though the author describes this as being a game) I’ve started aggregating some programs here:

https://github.com/mcthomas/awesome-terminal-art

Bondi_Blueon Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Reuter's timeline: https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-russia-war/trump-zelen...

To state the obvious, the Trump administration is more interested in profiting from a minerals deal than supplying any actual security guarantees. The Russian Federation has proved time and time again that they will breach any peace agreements (as occurred with the current invasion which breached agreements bartered after the annexation of Crimea) made with Ukraine for piecewise annexation of their neighbors, at any price to their own soldiers and people.

True lasting peace, is avoiding further steps to another world war. It takes hardly a high school education in history to recognize those preliminary warning signs in Russia's behavior. A common talking point that the Trump administration seems to use, is that they are doing precisely that- preventing a world war- by refusing to further arm and protect Ukraine with weapons and security guarantees- however this refusal does just the opposite, and this minerals deal really has nothing to do with Ukraine's security or interests. The devil is in the details, and the Trump admin refuses to detail how the minerals deal would protect Ukraine or how they would respond to further territorial incursions if the deal were to be signed.

Aside from all this, of course there's a lot of topical nonsense in how Trump and Vance conducted themselves, with shouting and lecturing at Zelensky, but these are all distractions, and they have almost no substance or details to back their broad claims about how or why this conflict started and what would end it. Scapegoating and bullshitting seems to be their game, but luckily Zelensky both asserted himself where possible and kept a relatively calm, but brutally honest, demeanor.

Because the security threats to America would come a bit later, likely in the form of Russia marching into a NATO country, Americans will believe what they want about the conflict. Trump makes this especially easy with his false and misleading oversimplifications. It is sad to think that a proportionally small sacrifice by the American taxpayer to help a country like Ukraine has been sized up as unworthy collateral for saving lives and fighting fascism.

Bondi_Blueon The ecnomist global democracy index: how did countries perform in 2024?

https://archive.is/6ursF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Inde...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

Bondi_Blueon Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox

Since this lacks support for Firefox on Linux, using the built-in password manager with a Firefox account still feels like the easiest cross-platform solution.

Bondi_Blueon Germany's far right stirs up culture war over Bauhaus legacy

https://archive.is/e3XF0

Bondi_Blueon Three Aesthetically Classic Braun Products You Can Buy Today

It has a tick, though it is very quiet. Even in silence, I rarely notice it- but of course others may. Thanks for reading!

Bondi_Blueon Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator

You can try submitting a bug report with Feedback Assistant.app or apple.com/feedback, but there’s no guarantee they will see it.

Bondi_Blueon Lightweight HTML games made for the DSi and 3DS system browsers

The limitations of the system browsers on the DSi, 3DS, and even Wii U are so restricting that they’re sort of interesting. I would love to see if they’d run on the Opera browser for the original DS (which was sold separately and required a memory expansion pack).

I imagine these games would run well on other outdated platforms and browsers as well.

Bondi_Blueon SuperTux

This binary runs on latest macOS: https://github.com/drodin/extremetuxracer/releases/download/...

src: https://github.com/drodin/extremetuxracer

Bondi_Blueon Accessing Unix cmds in iOS using system() – (pre iOS 11)

- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1039207/running-bash-scr...

Bondi_Blueon Every default macOS wallpaper

A few photographers recreated some of them:

https://petapixel.com/2019/09/16/this-photographer-trio-recr...

They also created one for Monterey since it didn’t ship with exclusive landscape photography:

https://www.techradar.com/news/photographers-make-their-own-...

Bondi_Blueon Henry Kissinger Has Died