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by aendruk 4y ago
rejecting cookies ≠ giving them a short lifetime Cookies aren’t inherently bad. If a second party asks me to hold on to something while I’m actively engaged with it, that’s typically fine. At the end of the day, though, I’m deciding what to
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by aendruk 4y ago
The key insight for me was that persistence should be opt-in—when I want a website to remember me, I take action to express that—the opposite of the current norm. I sometimes wonder whether Google was strategically preempting this paradigm
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by aendruk 4y ago
FontForge, despite its antiquated interface, and liberal use of ligatures: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmVMS6LFUEqJJdnXDVuVZWRDSHT... The biggest challenge has been keeping it legible while dense. Ultimately I’d l
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by aendruk 4y ago
It’s just a silly font, still a work in progress. Inspired by https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Nifflas/109330930338202763
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by aendruk 4y ago
Sigh, yet another site that contorts into an absurd distortion of a mobile layout at a still spacious viewport width. Am I the only person with two windows up? Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmaovnEHiCo6kn
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by aendruk 4y ago
Yep it’s absurd. Similar issue with transferring music to the device; I can drop MP3s on it but the music player is oblivious to them. For photos I ended up scheduling a nightly SMB push to my NAS via a third-party app named PhotoSync.
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by aendruk 4y ago
> incompetence
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by aendruk 4y ago
We need a solution to this family of experiences, quickly. > Some toots are not shown https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3794 > Turns out, there's a lot more messages in the conversation,
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by aendruk 4y ago
> a way to set my own preferences across all the different servers by specifying it in one location https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10976
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by aendruk 4y ago
Is that what that is? My perception has been that approximately monthly Firefox decides to interrupt me with a full screen “welcome to the internet!” popup. I’ve been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and in 2022 it decides to start doing
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by aendruk 4y ago
If you prefer you can preserve those individually with command line arguments, but I’d say that takes us out of the territory of “clear out all metadata”. What I’m trying to highlight is that an image’s literal metadata may include some dat
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by aendruk 4y ago
Re the last example, is there a way to distinguish between functionally extraneous metadata and “meta”data that is used for presentation? I wouldn’t want to carelessly drop e.g. image orientation or the color profile.
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by aendruk 4y ago
Not sure why people are giving you such a hard time about this. My experience matches yours; born and raised in the US but I’m hopeless at talking about the weather in Fahrenheit, estimating hiked distances in miles, or converting tablespoo
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by aendruk 4y ago
Not sure what I’ve done to elicit that response. Care to elaborate?
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by aendruk 4y ago
None of the issues mentioned under the section about iMessage? iMessage would be great if Apple allowed cross platform clients. Until then as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t exist. Sent from my iPhone.
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by aendruk 4y ago
Do you run BitBar on iOS?
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by aendruk 4y ago
I think what you missed is this situation being described as “opt in”, a new low.
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by aendruk 4y ago
I tried this once and marketing latched on to my deliberately stupid code name and used it for the public release. My protest was unable to sway them.
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by aendruk 4y ago
Precisely, thank you. It’s not about Kibana, or telemetry, or telemetry being opt-out. It’s about exactly what I copied from the page for lack of a deep link: the opt-out setting is deceitfully named opt-in.
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by aendruk 4y ago
The submitted title was “telemetry.optIn defaults to true”, which is verbatim text from the page. The changed title has mislead readers into missing the point; top comments are now a generic discussion of telemetry itself and don’t even ack
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Telemetry settings in Kibana(elastic.co)
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by aendruk 4y ago
For years I’ve kept a dedicated key mapped to `xset dpms force off` and tap it habitually when temporarily taking my attention away from the screen e.g. during lectures or when conversing with someone, as a small gesture of respect to the o
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by aendruk 4y ago
You’ve misread that part; the rules are offered tongue-in-cheek as a critique of false reassurance.
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by aendruk 4y ago
Because you told it to write.
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by aendruk 4y ago
At my university the math department held an annual chalkboard circle drawing competition.
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by aendruk 4y ago
My favorite function key trick is to first move the number keys into a “virtual numpad” and then move the function keys down onto the unused number row. That way the function keys are easy to reach without looking and always available witho
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by aendruk 4y ago
Funny, RSI of a different kind is what pushed me to a minimalist keyboard. I pay the cost of increased complexity to avoid the strain of reaching distant keys.
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by aendruk 4y ago
It’s a recent and controversial change. Ongoing discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19571
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by aendruk 4y ago
Note that this exfiltrated via DNS queries so it may actually be your local resolver making the connection.
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by aendruk 4y ago
And then more recently it came back without explanation.

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