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New comment by sheept in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

sheept — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:35:39 +0000

Any page can silently trigger an additional multi-gigabyte download for Chrome users by just calling this API:

    await LanguageModel.create()

Since the model is installed once per browser, LanguageModel.availability() could probably also be used for fingerprinting.

New comment by sheept in "1k Words: A Writing Contest"

sheept — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:28:00 +0000

It's relatively easy to write many words, but it takes more skill to express the same message with fewer words, like how video compression needs more time for fewer bytes and same quality. As Pascal once wrote, "If I had had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

New comment by sheept in "Road to Elm 1.0"

sheept — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:19:09 +0000

In Elm 0.19, they removed the ability for third party packages to provide native bindings for JavaScript APIs that the language or its official packages didn't yet support.[0] The only alternative proposed by Evan is to use ports, which are about as ergonomic as calling a function in a web worker.

[0]: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/native-code-in-0-19/826

New comment by sheept in "Road to Elm 1.0"

sheept — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:06:34 +0000

When I worked on an Elm app in 2020, my users reported compatibility issues with various browser extensions (e.g. Grammarly, 1Password). I personally would prioritize making my apps usable for my users over making the DX usable for myself, so I stopped using Elm for future projects.

New comment by sheept in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

sheept — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:29:36 +0000

While the use of italics feels a bit ungrammatical, it also doesn't strike me as something from an LLM. An LLM would've tried bolding it if it could, and it wouldn't have written a comment this concise.

New comment by sheept in "The HTML element"

sheept — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:36:10 +0000

Another reason why this is problematic is that their proposed standards follow Google's priorities for its own products, particularly Google Meet.[0][1]

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/element-captu...

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/document-pict...

New comment by sheept in "The HTML element"

sheept — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:29:54 +0000

At the very least, Firefox's position on the similar element is positive.[0] I would assume their position for other permissions elements would be the same.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1288

New comment by sheept in "The HTML Element"

sheept — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:24:10 +0000

The similar element has clickjacking prevention enforced by the browser[0], and even if the website finds a way around it, it still shows the normal permission prompt.[1]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLGeoloca...

[1]: https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/geolocation-element/basic... (requires Chromium)

New comment by sheept in "Flavor Graveyard"

sheept — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:01:17 +0000

It replaces the YouTube embed, so they're just doing you a favor

New comment by sheept in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

sheept — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:35:20 +0000

Yes, and they can do that if they wanted to. The Supreme Court has the power to interpret the Constitution.

New comment by sheept in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

sheept — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:30:19 +0000

I believe OP is referring to how immigration is the only known working solution to a decreasing population.

The US fertility rate is already 1.6 births per woman[0], and the population is only not decreasing because it still receives far more immigration than, say, Japan or South Korea.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr038.pdf

New comment by sheept in "Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To"

sheept — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:21:59 +0000

What you're doing is essentially what Zod is designed to avoid. If you tolerate needing a separate build step more than having to define types with Zod's syntax, then it makes sense not to use Zod since it's not made for you.

New comment by sheept in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

sheept — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:07:26 +0000

On Windows and Mac you can input an em dash anywhere with shift+windows+hyphen / shift+option+hyphen, respectively

New comment by sheept in "Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking"

sheept — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:18:17 +0000

It might be related to the liquid glass imitation in the color scheme picker

New comment by sheept in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

sheept — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:03:40 +0000

It highlights the Gemini models blue since that's what the article is about. The bar heights seem consistent with the values.

New comment by sheept in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

sheept — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:30:22 +0000

It would be nice if there was a swipe typing keyboard that was similar to Chinese/Japanese IMEs where you can swipe out a full phrase and the keyboard can use it to fix short/ambiguous words based on context. Today, when I'm swipe typing sloppily, it can be hard to distinguish between pairs like on/in, of/if/I'd, it's/its, etc

New comment by sheept in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

sheept — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:27:39 +0000

I can't speak for this keyboard, but at least on Gboard, if you type out a word a few times, it'll be stored in its suggestions dictionary and you'll be able to swipe type it.

New comment by sheept in "Deno Desktop"

sheept — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:09:20 +0000

That is true. I wonder if it could be possible to let the user supply and wrap the app around their own, trusted installation of Deno (rather than the one bundled in the app) to specify permissions.

New comment by sheept in "Deno Desktop"

sheept — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:19:53 +0000

I was wondering how this integrates with Deno's permission system, which is one of its biggest strengths especially for letting agents run amok on your device.

The CLI reference page[0] notes,

> The permissions you grant at compile time are baked into the compiled binary:

I think it would be nice if this could be surfaced to the user somehow, like letting the user know and decide which permissions they want to give access to.

[0]: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/desktop/#runtime...

New comment by sheept in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

sheept — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:19:02 +0000

You can use the favicon cache as storage too, by redirecting users across domains. It's been proposed as a potential fingerprinting risk[0], and if a browser naively reuses the cache for incognito mode, it could be used to track users across browser profiles.

[0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/browser-track...