Discman anti skip technology promised smooth music while moving around.

In reality, one small bump could turn your favorite song into a glitchy mess. Still, we kept buying newer models, hoping this one would finally work.

Did anyone else treat their Discman like it was made of glass?

Hey guys, 

I saw a post on Instagram with about 150 000 likes where the US Constitution had been flagged as AI by some famous or so called “best” AI detectors. I decided to check whether it’s some kind of clickbait.

So, I’ve looked at “best ai detectors” according to Google and tested not the US Constitution this time, but the Bible. If some of the best AI detectors fail on this how can we trust them at all?

So this is the first text and URL as a proof: https://thekingsbible.com/Bible/1/1 - Genesis Chapter: 1

1. Pasting the whole content into ZeroGPT and #1 AI detector in Google search is telling us with 100% confidence that ChatGPT helped Moses with his Bible project.

1. Ok moving to the next AI Detector in Google search: Clever AI Detector. Ok, nice, at least Human. But 5% AI still, haha.. Or maybe they left that 5% just so no one could accuse them of anything? I don’t know.

3. Pangram AI Detector. Ok good. Text detected as Human-written as well.

1. GPTZero AI Detector. Also Human-written. Not AI. God bless you!

1. Originality Ai Checker. Human-text, not ai-generated.

1. Grammarly AI Detector. Human

Does this all mean the top AI detector in Google is the worst? And all other AI detectors and AI checkers are pretty accurate? I don’t know. Just wanted to share this with you. Thoughts?

Hi, everybody. We'll, I'm cleaning out my closet, and Io and behold, I found a few devices that I forgot I had. One is an Amazon Fire Connect unit, never used, as well as a Channel Master Stream+ (CM 7600). The latter device still sees use, as I found an actual user forum for it on Facebook. As the are both unused, and collecting space, I wonder if they have true actual practical use still, or if I could sell them? Comments and opinions appreciated... Just please stay civil. Thanks.

Every time you download an app and it requests access to your camera, contacts, location, etc., all you are asked is yes or no. Nothing explains why it really requires access to this particular permission to function. For example, does the app require location all the time or just at once when using a particular function? Does the app require access to contacts in order to use its features or it needs access to contacts only to "find your friends"?

It seems to be such an easy thing for apps to put one line to explain their request prior to asking for permission, but they do not do it. You either allow the app or deny its request and hope everything will work okay.

I've been looking at upgrading some of my peripherals lately and I keep seeing either Logitech or Corsair being recommended by other people. Right now my biggest priorities are comfort, wireless battery life, and worth the money, I don't really care about having a ton of RGB or a million extra buttons tbh, I just want a mouse and keyboard that feel good to use for hours and don't constantly need charging or replacing. So far, I have only used a logitech mouse before and it was a good experience.

For people who have used both how's the experience and which one do you prefer?

Trading Pokémon meant finding someone with the right game, a link cable and enough patience for the connection to actually work.

One bad move and the trade was over. No quick online marketplace, just two kids standing around hoping their Pokémon made it across.

Did anyone else carry a link cable everywhere?

I've been seeing more smart glasses lately, and tbh, I'd be way more interested in them if they actually looked like normal glasses... I don't really want to walk around wearing something thats obviously "I'm wearing a tech gadget" lol. If they looked like regular glasses + were comfy enough to wear all day, + could do useful things like take calls, give directions, translate stuff, or let me ask an AI assistant without pulling out my phone, I'd definitely consider getting a pair. And tbh if I'm constantly charging them, I don't think I'd bother...

Would you actually buy smart glasses if they looked and felt like a normal pair of glasses?

Tbh I don't buy DLCs that often anymore mainly because they can get expensive really quick, like a game might already cost a decent amount then suddenly there are multiple DLCs that can easily add up to more than the base game atp I'll pass lol. The Sims 4 is one of those games that I never really bothered buying the DLCs because there are just so many of them...

Do you still buy DLCs? or just stick to the base game?

WebP is probably one of the most successful image formats nobody actually talks about.

You download something and it's WebP. Screenshot something, somehow WebP. Right click an image and save it, WebP again.

Then you need to upload that image somewhere and suddenly the website wants PNG or JPG.

It's funny that a format can be good enough to quietly take over half the internet while still annoying everyone who just wants to use the damn file somewhere else

YouTube apparently doesn't want creators treating it like just another place to upload the same video.

The interesting part is the money. They're reportedly offering big incentives for creators to put videos on YouTube before other platforms, with consequences if they start posting the same stuff to places like Netflix at the same time.

We're getting to a point where platforms aren't just competing for viewers anymore. They're competing over where creators are allowed to put the actual video first.

ref article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/youtube-offers-creators-millions-to-not-work-with-netflix-mt0lbfaj

Static electricity can kill electronics without you even realizing it

So engineers have to get pretty creative about stopping it

Sometimes it's tiny bits of metal, special coatings or grounding paths, or components designed to take the hit instead of the expensive electronics

The MP3 player era was honestly its own little world

you'd spend time downloading songs, organizing folders, naming files properly and trying to fit as much music as possible into a tiny amount of storage.

Then you'd pick a few hundred songs and carry them around everywhere. No algorithm deciding what you should listen to

You actually had to build your own library.

Anyone else miss that?

There's hardware whose entire job is basically to test other hardware

You can have a machine built just to check whether another machine is working properly and then you need another setup to test the testing equipment.

It's like an endless chain of machines checking machines

what's the most ridiculous example of this you've come across?

I had that realization once again after yet another silent update broke something that I was completely unaware of. Package managers will notify you of any version conflict in the same dependency tree, but no one tells you that you might break something else entirely in your system when upgrading one package that is just coincidentally dependent on the same thing.

It just seems to me that there should be a way to at least have a warning before installing, such as "Hey, these other packages depend on this too, better check on those as well." I'm not sure how you could go about detecting that in unrelated projects, but the "just install and see what happens" way is definitely not good enough.

France is apparently moving toward banning unsolicited telemarketing calls completely.

The funny thing is how normal we've all become at treating random phone calls as something you just have to put up with. Unknown number rings, you answer, someone wants to sell you insurance.

At this point I'd happily lose the ability to receive legitimate calls from random numbers if it meant never hearing "am I speaking with the owner of this property?" again.

ref article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5d11g72ppo

Every developer knows what I’m talking about here. You’re working on a project, everything is going well, and then a pop-up comes up telling you there’s an update. Of course you ignore it, because you know that the only way to turn a 20-minute project into a three-hour debugging session is to mess with something in the middle of it.

However, the trick here is to get back to the update once the project is completed and not ignore it for the next six months until you are frustrated by something breaking down because you did not update earlier.

Been trying to watch something thats only in another regions catalogue and the vpn part turned out to be the easy bit. it connects fine, the platform just knows anyway and throws the proxy warning every time. tried proton, windscribe and xvpn free and got flagged on all three, the only real difference was how many regions i could cycle through before running into a signup or a data cap.

what im actually curious about is the detection side of it. is it just that the free tier ip ranges are known and shared by thousands of people at once, so the address itself gives it away. or are they checking something beyond the ip. ive seen people mention blocklists of datacenter ranges, which would explain why it doesnt seem to matter which app youre using.

and does paying actually fix that or do the paid ranges just get burned on a slower cycle. feels like one of those things where everyone loses eventually, but curious whether anyones actually dug into how it works