OuterVale

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There are things I'd like to say on the web but which I haven't because I fear I could be arrested in some countries I am likely to visit in the future.

Really good. I use it frequently and haven't had any reason to switch to an external offering. It can translate the whole page or just a snippet that you highlight.

A clone of fsn, fsv (File System Visualizer) is available and works on modern Linux.

Quite a fun little tool to visualise your storage.

https://fsv.sourceforge.net/

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

She linked to it on her social media and got the word out to people that know her. I don't think she expected it to 'break containment' like this.

It is also a post located on her own personal website, which naturally contains information about herself and is focussed around herself.

I don't think there is any 'mistake' here.

Shutting down the stores on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, too.

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/an-update-on-playsta...

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745476

My personal take is that icons should conform to the squircle, but have a permitted amount of break out from the core shape. For example, Audio Hijack’s icon as presented in the article should be allowed to have the microphone extend past the border slightly. The squircle should be mandated as the core shape, but with just tad bit of flexibility and shape definition.

This keeps grids feeling proper, organised, and aligned, without feeling like the icons of Android Honeycomb.

The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy in early 2025 where he wrote:

> There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. […] I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

Separate projects. Niels Leenheer who made CSS Doom has seen Agustin Capeletto's CSS Quake.

https://bsky.app/profile/html5test.com/post/3mok5febchs2g

The common saying is 'Take only photographs, leave only footprints.'

Author here. I recognise you from LW. Glad you enjoyed it!

The author works at Google.

I don't think needlessly straining the Internet Archive's servers is any better.

The most fantastic video I've ever seen created in Microsoft 3D Movie Maker is 'Grandpa Found the Car Keys': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJKeESLBpQ

A very impressive use of the tool to achieve a pretty impressive amount of style within the limitations.

I'm making my jump over to Tangled, which is built on the AT Protocol (so it uses the same account as Bluesky and others). I'm finding it lovely.

https://vale.rocks/micros/20260511-0440

Thanks. That is really nice of you to say.

It is hardly a satisfying answer, but I haven't the foggiest what caused it. I submitted it the same as I've submitted many other submissions in the past.

Original poster of the thread here.

Doesn't appear to be negative anymore, but here is what it looked like: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260512-0652

Screenshot was taken at 06:50 UTC.

Do a get a biscuit or something for somehow managing this?

Interestingly on the Harmonic client on my Android phone it is claiming -10 points. Very odd.

There is no sign-up or anything, so you can see how it looks immediately by opening the web app. https://lookscanned.io/scan

Obligatory Fabulous Secret Powers (also known as HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7wOGyAzpw

That'd be the View Transition API. Specifically, it is a cross-document view transition. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...

Really awesome new(ish) feature of the web platform. It doesn't yet have full support in Firefox unfortunately, but is supported in Chrome and Safari.

I'm unsure why you think this was an LLM-suggested solution.

You're pre-emptive hostility seems rather unwarranted.

This article is my usual go-to and lists several reasons why JavaScript might not be available, and thus why you shouldn't take it for granted: https://piccalil.li/blog/a-handful-of-reasons-javascript-won...

Extremely glad to see Mozilla taking a stance here.

Interestingly, I've never noticed any stuck discs. I'm pretty observant of them as well, because I think they're so cool.

They've been slowly replacing the flip-disc displays on the buses where I live with LEDs and LCD panels which has been such a shame. There is a beautiful mechanical satisfaction to a panel of flip-discs inverting and I genuinely find them easier to read.

Unsung is one of the best little blogs around. Well worth checking out the rest of the posts.

Not quite the same form-factor, but they've gotten pretty close to a tablet with the Framework Laptop 12.

https://frame.work/au/en/laptop12

I use mine for all sorts. I volunteer at a second-hand shop so use it to set up remotes for donated media devices, I've used it to run scripts to apply the same changes to many computers that aren't on a group policy via BadUSB, I've used it for toys-to-life games, and very much more. There are plenty of genuine uses if you're cluey.