Kari Söderholm

Senior Front-end Developer, gamer, dad. 3D printer hobbyist since 2018 (English + Finnish)

[Framework @FrameworkPuter]

SteamOS 3.8 runs great on Framework Desktop. You can drop into desktop mode to use it as a general-purpose workstation too.

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

CSS field-sizing is newly baseline, meaning you can make various form fields size to their contents, without needing JavaScript.

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

What if we just prompt user interfaces and streamed them in via video?

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

[Kari Söderholm @Haprog]

@hakkerit @varjodotcom Kyllä teidän pitäis tietää että avaimista ei kannata julkaista kuvamateriaalia kopiointiriskin takia (vaikkakin tässä videolla nuo ei erityisen hyvin näy). 😉

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

CSS style() queries landed in Firefox 151 making them newly available across engines. Here's how they work:

[Josef Prusa @josefprusa]

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it?
There's something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️

So maybe their hand is forced as their "network" is too valuable already? Each law on its own, interesting, okay... Read them together, and add any Chinese company with big reach to the mix you get the complete picture.

1) National Intelligence Law (2017)
All organizations and citizens must "support, assist, and cooperate" with intelligence work. The same law makes it illegal to disclose that cooperation happened. Cooperation is mandatory, and silence about it is mandatory too.

2) Cryptography Law (2020)
Commercial encryption must be state-approved and state-reviewed. When authorities request it, companies must provide decryption keys or plaintext. The state on both sides of that equation is the same one.

3) Data Security Law (2021)
Article 2 gives the state extraterritorial reach over data that touches Chinese national security or public interests. So EU/US data hosting does nothing to make it safe, because jurisdiction follows the company, not the server location.

4) Counter-Espionage Law revision (2023)
The general definition of espionage was expanded to cover "documents, data, materials, or items related to national security and interests." Industrial data is one of the intended targets since the revision.

5) Network Product Security Vulnerability regulation (2021)
Any company or researcher that discovers a software vulnerability must report it to MIIT within 48 hours. From there it flows to CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database of Information Security), operated by the 13th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security. Microsoft's threat intelligence team documented Chinese state-hacker zero-day usage rising after this took effect. Shows the willingness to use the “tools” China built.

Together they describe a system with no neutral exits. Cooperation is required, encryption is real but the spare keys live at the ministry, jurisdiction follows the company across borders, industrial data is in scope, and discovered vulnerabilities flow to an intelligence agency 😬

3D printing became strategic for China in 2020 and joined the “Made in China 2025” plan soon after. Why does 3D printing matter so much? 1/x

[Firefox for Web Developers @FirefoxWebDevs]

sizes="auto" landed in Firefox 150, making responsive images simpler and more reliable. Here's when you can use it, and how…

[Zolden @ZoldenGames]

Some of the experiments I do in my physics engine end up on the absurdist side.

[Kari Söderholm @Haprog]

@ZoldenGames This looks fun! Could work as a basis for many different kinds of games.

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@KingTunde_SZN Upside down 56

[Kari Söderholm @Haprog]

@SuGaR_Babbyyy 10:48 is the only possible answer assuming the hands were correctly positioned before the clock fell and the fall didn't disturb the hand positioning. The hour hand is exactly 1/5 of an hour (12 minutes) before an even hour mark so the clock needs to be rotated accordingly.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«Reverse engineering»
https://t.co/PnA2M2gMoD

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

Mass surveillance and censorship are escalating in many countries right now. There is a global attack on secure encrypted communication. Often, authorities, politicians, and tech companies work together to push for new laws. One example: when Ashton Kutcher (yes, the actor), through his tech company Thorn, tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens through undemocratic and corrupt methods.

First, Ashton Kutcher convinced the EU Commission that they could scan everything on an EU citizen’s phone or computer (messages, photos, emails, phone calls, all of it) for child sexual abuse material without, at the same time, looking at the content of other types of communication.

And then?

And then EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson presented the legislative proposal called Chat Control, which aimed to scan everything on all EU citizens' phones and computers (including conversations in end-to-end-encrypted messaging services). The message from the Commission was: we will only search for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

And then?

And then experts from all over the world explained to her that the kind of scanning she was talking about (as Ylva described it: a drug-sniffing dog that can detect illegal content in a message without reading the message) simply cannot be done safely, and that Chat Control would mean the end of privacy and pose a security threat to all Europeans. Ylva responded with: “what about the children?”

And then?

And then it was revealed that Thorn, the organization founded by Ashton Kutcher and which had been lobbying for Chat Control from the beginning, was selling the kind of scanning technology that could be used for Chat Control – despite being registered as a charity organization in the EU’s lobbying registry.

And then?

And then it was revealed that Thorn, together with the EU Commission, had also started and funded “children’s rights organizations” that had supported the proposal. What appeared publicly to be charitable organizations were in fact lobby groups.

And then?

And then it was revealed that Europol wanted unlimited access and wanted to use the scanning for more than just child abuse crimes, saying that all data – also unfiltered and innocent material – should be stored because it “could at some point be useful to law enforcement”.

And then?

And then it was revealed that employees at Europol had joined Thorn, to lobby their old colleagues.

And then?

And then politicians in Brussels wanted to exempt themselves from the scanning.

And then?

And then the European Parliament, in an almost historic consensus, voted against the proposal and called Chat Control nothing but mass surveillance. As one of the members of the parliament said: “The Commission wasn’t focusing on protecting children but wanted mass surveillance.”

And then?

And then The Council of the EU (law proposals must go through both the Parliament and the Council), after three years of negotiation, finally reached a common position on Chat Control. The requirement for mandatory scanning (including end-to-end encrypted messaging services) was removed, which is a major victory, but several problematic elements remain in the Council's position. For instance, the Council wants to demand ID Control to use messaging services (including end-to-end encrypted).

And then?

And then, in 2026 the final negotiations began, between the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU. At the same time, the European Commission is working on a Plan B, through the initiative Going Dark/ProtectEU, where they once again try to force total surveillance (this time organized crime is the excuse) on the citizens of the EU.

And then?

https://t.co/2uxBeeNr3p

[✧ @cessonmute]

For three months, I was convinced my coworker secretly hated me.
Every time I walked into the office kitchen, he’d go quiet. He’d close his laptop when I passed by. He never laughed at my jokes. In my head, it became a full series: Season 1 The Workplace Nemesis. I replayed every interaction like evidence.
One day I finally asked him if I’d done something wrong.
He blinked.
Turns out he thought I didn’t like him. He said I always looked “intimidating” and serious, so he tried to stay out of my way. The laptop closing? He was embarrassed about playing fantasy basketball during work hours. The silence? Social anxiety.
We both spent months starring in completely different dramas… in the same room.
The stupidest part? Nothing was happening.
It was just two overthinkers building entire plotlines out of eye contact and bad timing.
That’s when I realized: half of the tension in our lives is self-written fan fiction.

[Kari Söderholm @Haprog]

@1GamewithDave1 Chrono Trigger

[Kari Söderholm @Haprog]

@cb_doge Would be nice to know more about this specific case. Mario Kart 8 which is shown here has auto-steering and auto-throttle built in as options (for example useful for kids who are still learning to play). At least auto-steering is enabled here (small antenna with blinking light)

[Kari Söderholm @Haprog]

@Mishi_2210 042, easy

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@GamewithDave Donkey Kong Country

[Mathonymics @Mathonymics]

A demonstration of an additive and subtractive mixture of monochromatic lights.

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