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by aendruk 5y ago
I live in a world overrun by capitalism and inundated with ads. The inescapable consumerism is sickening. That it’s the norm to run ads on practically every consumer product is absurd, and I feel gaslit that apparently everyone else is comf
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by aendruk 5y ago
> Who's using <abbr> without `title`? I use it when setting acronyms in small caps. Their spelling can look like screaming otherwise.
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by aendruk 5y ago
The most frustrating part is that I want no logo. It’s the worst of both worlds; no brand reputation, yet still covered in ads.
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by aendruk 5y ago
At one point you could get a whole keyboard like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard Apple has a patent on the concept; maybe there’s still one in our future: https://patents.google.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Pull request: https://github.com/Lissy93/personal-security-checklist/issue...
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by aendruk 5y ago
> curious how you got a list of emails of people who have starred your repo No mystery there; “stargazing” is one the public [1] social networking features that GitHub provides, and the email address that you write to your Git commits [2
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by aendruk 5y ago
Friends and family publish via Instagram but I don’t use it myself. Scraping allows me to follow via “RSS” feeds so I’m not left out. (Remember when Facebook and Twitter had this built in?)
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by aendruk 5y ago
> Because I have three logical registers on a good day. That’s a fun way to put it. When encountering the usual brain–computer metaphors, I’ve always felt like I relate more to the Turing machine scanning over its strip of tape.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Can someone explain what I’m looking at in the crazy plot [1] at the top of Sine Curve? It’s just captioned with the expression that generated it: ContourPlot[Sin[x Sin[y]] == Cos[y Cos[x]], …] Simply pretty or is there some signific
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by aendruk 5y ago
To add a data point—I’m in this demographic and for unrelated (but maybe not uncorrelated) reasons have never elected to receive a call back from customer support (being “on call” is almost as bad as being on a call) and have never had food
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by aendruk 5y ago
Gemini sets a good example, but what I’m specifically advocating for is an incremental improvement to how we use the existing web. Fixing e.g. [1] (falling back to plaintext) should be trivial, and with that obstacle removed there would be
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by aendruk 5y ago
This is how I imagine browser support for markdown could work. Plain text comes in over the wire and is rendered to taste.
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by aendruk 5y ago
I just wish existing browsers would render `Content-Type: text/markdown`.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Or unstick it with a uBlock Origin filter: substack.com##.main-menu-content:style(position: relative !important)
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by aendruk 5y ago
About a year ago I moved Enter to the middle of the keyboard. It feels nice but I still occasionally press it when going for the letter that used to be there, and that can be a harmful typo to make.
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by aendruk 5y ago
No love for HTTPS-Only Mode? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs
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by aendruk 5y ago
> I have no plans to eat raw cultivated meat :) This could actually be one of the new doors it opens. Perfectly sterile sashimi can travel farther.
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by aendruk 5y ago
I’m surprised to hear it’s not just using the native HTTPS-only mode now.
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by aendruk 5y ago
No need to imagine; we used to be able to buy a second battery before manufactures started gluing them in.
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by aendruk 5y ago
For the rhetorical “you” (unspecified ordinary citizens of wealthy nations), yes, unfortunately that is often how it works.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Yes; it would provide me and my elected representatives with tangible evidence of economic damage to point to in support of our case against the invasion.
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by aendruk 5y ago
The linked page lists thirty of them. Chalk isn’t on the list, but it used to be: https://github.com/jcs/no_color/commit/98857d0
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by aendruk 5y ago
Yes, i.e. Wunderlist (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderlist
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by aendruk 5y ago
I left LinkedIn the day I received one of those endorsements. It’s such a disgusting red flag that I want nothing to do with the place.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Ideally. But life is short, so choose your battles.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Google Maps may not have progressed to “dread” yet, but it’s solidly at frustration/wariness as a result of its incessant attempts to manipulate me. It used to be just a tool, but it’s become an adversary.
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by aendruk 5y ago
I’d say the problem is that Apple reserves this as a privilege for themselves. On Android you can set Signal as your SMS handler and use it as a similar dual client. I miss that feature when using iOS.
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by aendruk 5y ago
I’d be okay with using the new pronunciation for this new meaning. - GIF /dʒɪf/: Graphics Interchange Format - gif /ɡɪf/: short looping silent video
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by aendruk 5y ago
Just wanted to highlight this since it’s pretty far down the list: > Added read support for HEIF/HEIC file format. I’ve been using a Nautilus script to convert these on the fly before launching darktable. Nice to finally be rid of t
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by aendruk 5y ago
Tracked on Mozilla’s end at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966856#c8

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