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Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time
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Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time
A Microsoft blog post about "vibe working" broke me.
https://www.spacebar.news/excel-ai-twenty-percent-of-the-time-it-works-every-time/
2 days ago
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Corbin Davenport
11 days ago
Techathon 2025 is this Saturday, September 27th, 2025! I'll be raising money for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with a bunch of tech journalists, creators, and other cool people. We're gonna play games and talk about tech stuff for 12 HOURS. Get ready!
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Techathon: Starting September 27, 2025
Charity livestream by the tech community, supporting Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières).
https://techathon.live/
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I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser
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I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser
You can use custom IT policies to turn Microsoft Edge into a decent Chrome alternative.
https://www.spacebar.news/debloated-microsoft-edge-chromium-browser/
26 days ago
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We hate AI because it's everything we hate
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We hate AI because it's everything we hate
Tech companies wanted "AI" to represent a bright future. Now it represents every annoyance in our daily lives.
https://www.spacebar.news/we-hate-ai-because-its-everything-we-hate/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font : FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS.
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Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS.
https://www.spacebar.news/apple-history-hiding-in-mac-font/
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I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust
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I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust
Servo was supposed to be Firefox's future. Now it's an independent effort to make a fast and secure web browser engine.
https://www.spacebar.news/servo-undercover-web-browser-engine/
2 months ago
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Engineer Brains
3 months ago
Apple don't believe in legacy support & will regularly strip frameworks they deem too old (macOS 26 Tahoe finally drops FireWire, for example) but there's one place in current macOS where the past still lives - the 'Apple Symbols' font.
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3 months ago
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Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
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Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS.
https://www.spacebar.news/apple-history-hiding-in-mac-font/
3 months ago
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How to download audio-only media files with yt-dlp
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Yt-dlp: How to download audio-only media files
You can download videos and audio as MP3, M4A, OGG, or other audio formats with the yt-dlp command line tool.
https://www.spacebar.news/how-to-download-audio-only-media-files-with-yt-dlp/
4 months ago
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Boon aka Hwee-Boon Yar
4 months ago
I remember using Opera Mini on my little Ericsson candy bar with an incredibly slow connection; reading news on a text-optimized site while on the train.
www.spacebar.news/the-flip-pho...
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The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started to fade out of relevance once smartphones entered mainstream use. Opera
https://www.spacebar.news/the-flip-phone-web-browsing-with-the-original-opera-mini/
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This is every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper
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Every Ubuntu Linux default wallpaper (download)
The default wallpapers from over 20 years of Ubuntu Linux, from Warty Warthog to Plucky Puffin, in full original quality.
https://www.spacebar.news/ubuntu-linux-default-wallpapers/
4 months ago
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Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game
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Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game
John Madden. John Madden. Aeiou. Aeiou.
https://www.spacebar.news/moonbase-alpha-nasa-video-game/
4 months ago
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The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024
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The worst tech event ever: looking back at Google I/O 2024
Put some glue in your pizza, while you do vibe home renovation.
https://www.spacebar.news/worst-tech-event-ever-google-io-2024/
5 months ago
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Data hoarding is more important than ever
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Data hoarding is more important than ever
The destruction of public data and media is reaching critical levels. You can help stop it by downloading literally everything.
https://www.spacebar.news/data-hoarding-more-important-than-ever/
5 months ago
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What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?
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What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to find factually-accurate information online in 2025.
https://www.spacebar.news/real-information-ai-slop-seo-spam/
6 months ago
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Why can't we go back to small phones?
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Why can't we go back to small phones?
The iPhone SE is dead, and with it, the compact smartphone as a mainstream product. What happened?
https://www.spacebar.news/cant-go-back-to-small-phones/
7 months ago
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The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
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The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
Opera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started...
https://www.spacebar.news/the-flip-phone-web-browsing-with-the-original-opera-mini/
8 months ago
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I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR
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I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR
The golden era of 3D home movie releases might be over, but community workarounds have brought them back in VR.
https://www.spacebar.news/3d-movies-back-in-vr/
9 months ago
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This is the perfect 'retro' Mac
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This is the perfect 'retro' Mac
I grew up using Mac computers, and for a long time, I've wanted something that would allow me to use all those old applications and games in a more convenient setup. I now have the perfect 'retro' Mac,...
https://www.spacebar.news/the-perfect-retro-mac/
11 months ago
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New slop just dropped, from OpenAI
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New slop just dropped, from OpenAI
How many wings does an airplane have? OpenAI's video generator doesn't know.
https://www.spacebar.news/new-slop-just-dropped-from-openai/
12 months ago
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The Mozilla Graveyard
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The Mozilla Graveyard
A look back at 20 dead Mozilla and Firefox products, from smartphones to VR games.
https://www.spacebar.news/the-mozilla-graveyard/
about 1 year ago
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Game consoles are now smartphones, and that's okay
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Game consoles are now smartphones, and that's okay
You don't need to upgrade every time.
https://www.spacebar.news/consoles-are-now-smartphones/
about 1 year ago
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These repairable phones still aren't built to last
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These repairable phones still aren't built to last
HMD's "sustainable" phones don't have software built to last.
https://www.spacebar.news/repairable-phones-problem/
about 1 year ago
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This is the best way to download videos and audio
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How to use yt-dlp: The best video and audio downloader
You can use yt-dlp on to save and convert media from YouTube, SoundCloud, TikTok, Reddit, and many other sites.
https://www.spacebar.news/yt-dlp-best-way-to-download-videos-audio/
about 1 year ago
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What is Firefox supposed to do?
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What is Firefox supposed to do?
Firefox now collects data for advertisers. It's not actually scary, but there is a bigger problem.
https://www.spacebar.news/mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-attribution/
about 1 year ago
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