Just change the flag every time the pool changes color

blindfold

I wonder if you could find bright shapes on a black bacground. But Braille haptic devices and speech synthesizers did exist back then so that’s not a practical visually-impaired aid.

Fake. Windows 95 devs couldn’t have guessed I’d be seeing this on an OLED screen. The screens they targeted tingled when touched. /s

I like that the biggest smile is in the last panel. Great attention to detail!

KDE Connect is also a control option

Not necessarily modern. I remember a children’s book my mom had with very similar mildly exxagerated painted borbs.

The closest I can find are by Mirko Hanák, still very realistic though.

When 19th century criminals rather than horny medieval peasants get to name birds

The Technical Difficulties team still does stuff together but I think the contestants realized the articles from later, better seasons all come from the Unusual Articles list, spoiling the surprise and ending Citation Needed. Also, Matt has since come out as transgender and accepts any pronouns but doesn’t want to talk more about it: no wonder since (s)he’s British.

The non-secret and repetition-loopholed voting sounds like the crux of the issue, not being able to buy alcohol

Power-button-on-keyboard problems

Middle manager in call center reading this: “Apparently you’ve been lazy bums giving your 50% at best”

Technically, Piped is not just a frontend… How about setting up a redirect? I used to provide links to piped.video like the annoying bot but then I realized it’s decentralized and everyone using Piped probably has a redirect (or link-handling app) set up to their preferred instance.

BTW, there’s an Internet Archive mirror of the video available as a plain file or in their online player The reference is at 9:57 but the whole thing is worth it.

If you ask them, they’ll either say they’re being generous 🤥 or antitrust is forbidding vertical integration 🤡

Or they’ll try, like with Grokipedia, a “very successful” competitor to Wikipedia that totally didn’t just recycle content and sloppily rewrite it to match Musk’s opinions

Touch buttons usually work via capacitive coupling: they don’t check for decreased resistance but impedance (AC resistance), which means alternating voltage (often single-polarity, e.g. a 0/5 V square wave, to avoid the need for a negative voltage rail) is applied to them. While conductivity (inverse resistance) allows DC to flow or AC to flow in phase with voltage, capacitive admittance (inverse impedance caused by capacity like a nearby finger) allows only AC to flow, 90° behind sine voltage (proportional to change in voltage, which is 0 for DC voltage). A short to ground is the lowest resistance or impedance possible so if the system just checks for current flow (usually by monitoring voltage drop over a resistor) at any phase, like most touch sensors do, it will see a big current flow (maybe too big for some badly designed ones, so careful!) and register a touch. Some touch sensors use the body’s capacitance to complete an LC or RC circuit, in which case a short won’t work.

Alternatively, the touch button’s module already contains the touch-detecting electronics powered from DC, and pulling a signal line to ground to indicate touch detection. That requires 3 wires to the button board though and active electronics on it.

Maybe it could scavenge parts of machines like some kind of a computer bacterium.

Look at this anti-communist agitator drawing flags of Austria

Also, in the Czech Republic, two red lines are used by foresters to mark nature reserves or other areas where logging is restricted, while hiking trails use a single colored line or symbol on white 10x10 cm background, as shown in the photo (except multiple line symbols share the same background, separated by a white line, to save space). Of course, birch, light-colored rock and reverse side of traffic signs (heavy-duty stickers) use a dark green background painted on them to make the white stand out.

It’s the lowest-tech device that can do this with sufficiently low running costs to make it free to use. Much better than the more common infrastructure of QR codes and a server of audio files (or worse, app!)

And there are hiking trails with information panels that have this technology (the button switches narration languages or bonus tracks) for accessibility to the visually impaired built into the post. It does not need to be this big (you know how tiny an exercise bike generator, 10W power regulator, MP3 player, amplifier and speech-capable speaker can get) but the tall-human-sized bent pipe is an artwork by itself.

And a row of LEDs. And capacitors that last as long as the longest track so you crank it up in about 1/20 of the duration and don’t have to keep turning.

Relevant Oglaf (NSFW)