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by aendruk 5y ago
Aimlessly flying though Dasher can create some pretty plausible new words. It’s worth playing around with if you haven’t seen it. It’s in most Linux package managers. https://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/
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First Update on the Vizio Lawsuit(sfconservancy.org)
32 points by aendruk 5y ago|9 comments
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by aendruk 5y ago
See also Amazon Sidewalk.
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by aendruk 5y ago
It came and went, sadly. https://searchengineland.com/google-finally-discontinues-the...
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Corne-Ish Zen(lowprokb.ca)
2 points by aendruk 5y ago|1 comments
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by aendruk 5y ago
Can you elaborate on it not scaling? Keeping a spare is a pretty common pattern; see tires, house keys, emergency supplies.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Did they misread the table? I see two distinct rows: - Cloud Storage - Internet/Web Browsing In the big picture it’s probably fine to conflate them but the technical aspects of each are going to be very different.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Interpreted literally it’s a reasonable question: “What process should I follow when I encounter a problem?”
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by aendruk 5y ago
The logic says yes, they are complicit to the extent that the government is powerful enough to intervene (granting this level of power is typically at odds with other values we hold) and to the extent that specifically politicians bear resp
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by aendruk 5y ago
To add to this, KMonad can give you these “QMK”-style tap/hold keys on your laptop keyboard too: https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad For example, you can put shift keys under your pinky fingers: (defsrc a ;) (d
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by aendruk 5y ago
ISO 8601 is proprietary and people can’t even read it without each paying a $170 access fee. Instead, prefer IETF RFC 3339 (mentioned in your link) which is a more practical open standard.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Having never been in the old days, the word scuttlebutt isn’t in my vocabulary, but I do know scuttle (scamper) and butt (buttocks). Scampering buttocks , the meaning I would surmise in the absence of your history lesson, is indeed an awfu
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by aendruk 5y ago
Somehow I expected that to be an archived copy of the working page. I feel like I got rickrolled, but it’s exactly as promised. Here’s one with text at least: https://web.archive.org/web/20210813192120/https:/
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by aendruk 5y ago
This educational video explores the thought experiment pretty well: Kurzgesagt: What if We Nuke the Moon? (9 min) https://youtu.be/qEfPBt9dU60
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Wikipedia Requested Photographs(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by aendruk 5y ago|0 comments
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by aendruk 5y ago
A virtual numpad via a modifier key can be the best of both worlds; no extra space is used and your hands stay in the center. Example with image: https://andrew.kvalhe.im/2021-03-19 With this method you can customize the lo
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by aendruk 5y ago
Twitter destroyed in myopic greed what was once a sensible service that shared in our vision of an open web. The “struggle” you refer to is protest.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Detailed location history for personal reference is one of the conveniences that I miss since having minimized my usage of Google products. Any recommendations of alternative solutions?
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by aendruk 5y ago
Screenshots: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbDxfJzA2ssBExRYDans3p9ef5...
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by aendruk 5y ago
Last time this issue came up there was some skepticism due to Twitter’s varying behavior. Here’s a screen recording for those unaffected: https://imgur.com/a/ze7IBg2
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by aendruk 5y ago
It should go without saying that you provide a fallback.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Screen recording: https://imgur.com/a/hjiNrfE
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by aendruk 5y ago
…which is a trick that just prompts you to sign up for Twitter.
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by aendruk 5y ago
It’s not a single top-to-bottom thread. Twitter shows the first two posts from the thread and then abruptly cuts to infinite scrolling of suggested third-party content.
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by aendruk 5y ago
It’s literally unreadable to me. Part 1 Part 2 “Show this thread” Spam Spam Spam “Show this thread” just opens a full page Twitter sign-up modal. Being subject to such games is degrading enough that I refuse to play along.
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by aendruk 5y ago
I typically browse in ephemeral sessions and Google has been flickering light and dark for a few weeks.
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by aendruk 5y ago
Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that […] provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. https://sfconservancy.org/
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by aendruk 5y ago
The actual announcement: - de https://datenschutz-hamburg.de/pressemitteilungen/2021/08/20... - en (auto) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3...
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by aendruk 5y ago
Here’s an example of statically hosting map tiles on GitHub Pages: https://seagl.org/maps/2019 Source: https://github.com/SeaGL/seagl.github.io/pull/148
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by aendruk 5y ago
I keep an eye on the RSS feed of new notes in my neighborhood. Responding to these is fun and satisfying.

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