Nothing profound here, just need to vent: I haven’t used Facebook for several years now, but I just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2 and had to activate it by linking to my Facebook account. Just two days later I got a warning that the account will be locked because they detected that a child was using the Quest with an...
Is there any type of third-party certification for closed source software, similar to how we have ISO9001 for quality management? I’d prefer companies provide their software as open source, however I can imagine cases where the software genuinely doesn’t do anything malicious but might still contain trade secrets that the...
It’s a tarantula, obviously....
A few months ago I saw a funny story about a guy who added generics/templates to JavaScript (or maybe TypeScript?) by using runic characters that look like angle brackets to enclose the template parameter, then using a preprocessor to convert the runes, etc. to actual, legal types before compilation. I can’t seem to find it...
I need to adapt a Bluetooth headset (speakers + mic) to 3.5 mm, but the only adapters I can find will either transmit or receive, not both at the same time. Is there some technical limitation why this can’t be done, or is there just no market for such a device? Thanks.