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Day: 22 April 2026

  • The Dungeon of Dark Patterns A comic in four panels Panel 1. The adventurer and his fairy are in front of the door of a nightmarish dungeon, it's dark, foggy, and the inside the door we can't see anything except a deep red light. > Dungeon: "Welcome adventurers, to the Dungeon of Dark Patterns!" Panel 2. In one room of the dungeon, a giant beautiful and inviting door with a red carpet, and on the side, in the shadow a too little door. Writing on big door: Go to the trap, on small door: Go to the treasure. The adventurer crouch and do a little sign to the fairy to follow him to the little door. > Dungeon: "Ha ha, you're good!" Panel 3. The aventurer is now putting some effort climbing on an old rope in the middle of a room with a beautiful luxuous stairway with a red carpet on the side. A sign tells "GO TO THE TREASURE but pass by the trap" in direction of the beautiful stairs; and "(other options)" in small and in the shadow in direction of the rope. > Dungeon: "Impressive!" Panel 4. Top down view on the adventurers shrugging in front of the fairy, they reached a dead end. A short path on the right has on the ground the word "Now", and a longer path "Later". Both lead to a giant pool of green acid where bones and skulls are floating. > Dungeon: "So, when do you want to jump to the trap?"

    The Dungeon of Dark Patterns

    The latest episode of webcomic Mini Fantasy Theater - The Dungeon of Dark Patterns - is just excellent.

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    WSL9x

    Hailey Somerville's managed to get something akin to WSL working on Windows 95. Who'd have even thought such a thing was possible?

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  • Image of an F1 car, half in a low, blocky resolution; half in full resolution.

    BBC News RSS... with full-size thumbnails!

    A user of my Improved BBC News Feeds reached out to suggest that I upgrade the resolution of the thumbnail images. Turns out this was a quick win: my noodles hadn't even cooled before I finished.

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