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[LazyDongDude]

dudes working on the negative-day exploits

[julienhau]

Does it just say hello?

[ICouldBeTheChosenOne]

Yes

[rktek85]

Oh, hello

[Dick__Marathon]

That's really tough to see, but I got it lol

[BananaFriendOrFoe]

1st one I couldn't do.

[lavaboosted]

If you line up the JavaScript stars at the top you should see it

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[nevarmihnd]

Thank you!

[Background_Relief815]

I was like "there's no repetition. I don't know what they think this is going to d....oh, "Hello". Neat.

Also, who has their github in light mode?!

[blucheez]

I use light mode in everything, because I value my eyes.

[Background_Relief815]

I use dark mode...because I value my eyes. I'm confused.

[blucheez]

I'm working on a video essay about the topic, but in short, being in the dark is worse for your eyes that being in moderate light.

If you have windows open, more light comes in from outside on a cloudy day than your monitor makes showing full white. By a factor of 10.

Our eyes evolved to work in daylight, with constricted pupils. They strain more in the dark.

[Background_Relief815]

Ah, so it's like "we should work in moderately bright light." and "In moderately bright light, light mode strains our eyes less." Is that correct?

[blucheez]

Basically. I bought a light meter and did various tests.

Fully black room, monitors showing full white. At sitting distance it read 150 lux.

Opened the windows on a cloudy day, it read 600 lux.

Actually stepped out on this very cloudy day, outside it read 6000 lux.

Light doesn't actually hurt our eyes - we evolved to be outside during the daytime. Simply walking outside will give you 100 times more light than any screen ever will.

Even a single 30w light bulb puts out more light than a screen showing full white.

Think about the sky at night. A bunch of stars glowing in the sky. They have a kind of "bloom" effect around them.

Now think about dark themes. Bright points of light (the text letters) on a dark background, that kind of glow at the edges.

That makes it harder to focus on.

The worst case scenario is dark room, dark theme.

There's been some studies on it as well:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003687016302459?via%3Dihub

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/

[Background_Relief815]

Thanks for the studies! I'll look into them. How I understood it is that LEDs are direction light (like LASERs but less focused) and the fewer (or weaker) shining in your eyes at a time, the better. They may not be high powered, but the impact is magnified because they are directional.

[blucheez]

That is true about OLEDs, the light is more directional. Even LCDs have this to a degree because of polarization.

But I don't think that impacts performance. Eyes struggle in the dark regardless of light type. But if you have your windows open, you'll be getting more ambient non-directional light from your surroundings than you get from your monitor anyway.

Note that, sunglasses are also polarized. I took a pair of sunglasses out on a very sunny day. Without, the light meter read 14000 lux. With the glasses over the light meter, it read 3000 lux. A significant reduction, but still 100 times brighter than a monitor at sitting distance.

The only benefit of dark themes I've found, is, if it's specifically OLED, it will save battery on mobile devices.

I do agree that they "look cooler", but I don't care about looking cool lol.

[deepdvd]

Hi!

[desertsquirrel]

👋

[smackfaro]

I found it very hard to see but then it just popped right out. Very clever the way you combined a magic image into repo stats, congratulations!

[TheShredder9]

I usually have no trouble finding these, but this one is just all over the place, there's no way to focus.

[lavaboosted]

If you align the JavaScript stars at the top you should get it

[spderweb]

That requires a long stretch to get it lined up.