antonyh

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by antonyh 7mo ago
From experience there's a motivation, almost a compulsion, to follow the instructions to build the cool thing. Then... they sit there, those bricks never taken apart. That compulsion doesn't seem present in freeform building, and
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by antonyh 7mo ago
True, but at least it's not single use. Is there a viable alternative? A non-petrochemical plastic that has the same qualities? It's not like they can whittle them out of wood or cast them with metal so it'll always be some f
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by antonyh 7mo ago
Less no, different yes. Instead of dodgy meds and dating sites we'd have games and cosmetics and whatever other junk folks are punting at adolescents. If anything, I suspect there would be more ads.
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by antonyh 7mo ago
Changing this to save elsewhere is the #1 improvement to Emacs. It bugs me whenever any software creates backups in the same location as the original. That said, Nginx is also wrong and shouldn't do that.
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by antonyh 7mo ago
Aside from the concept of adults masquerading as non-adults, nothing so long as those spaces are moderated fully. I have no problem with skipping the verification, but I do question the moderation of most services. The problems start when t
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by antonyh 7mo ago
My next rebuild is likely to move from Debian to openSUSE Tumbleweed or FreeBSD. They fit better with what I want in an OS used for development purposes (needing newer versions than provided by Debian stable). However... the lack of Docker
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by antonyh 7mo ago
As someone who dislikes being tracked, I find it disconcerting to have this level of data stored in 3rd party services, but joining up multiple services to give one coherent picture is cool. How cool is questionable, trying to correlate hea
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by antonyh 7mo ago
My default reaction to the introduction of any age-verification for any service is the closing account. Goodbye Discord, account closed out of protest. The second option is ignoring the verification request. Goodbye online-gaming-with-stran
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by antonyh 7mo ago
My daughter simply cannot write without joining the letters, finds it impossible. Time will tell if this remains true. Everyone is different in the best possible way.
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by antonyh 7mo ago
I bounced for a while between Magit and Tig, then ended up just using whatever the IDE provided combined with the CLI. I'm a frequent-but-not-daily Emacs user, so it boils down to the friction of switching tools. I should give up the J
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by antonyh 7mo ago
Conversely I don't know anyone who doesn't write in cursive. It's still taught in schools in the UK, and I still write with it and actively aim to improve.
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by antonyh 7mo ago
Joplin is open source but isn't half of Obsidian, it's slow and grouchy, a fairly poor Electron app, but at least I can turn off the plugin that does freehand drawing. It's also has self-hosted sync for free. If Obsidian was
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by antonyh 7mo ago
My accountant, being myself, insists that I justify subscriptions. Prices rise, value drops, and I hate paying for unused feature bloat.
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by antonyh 7mo ago
It's named vi because when it was made in ancient Rome there were only 6 users.
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by antonyh 7mo ago
Yes, for some definition of OS. It could build a DOS-like or other TUI, or a list of installed apps that you pick from. Devices are built on specifications, so that's all possible. System API it could define and refine as it goes. Gene
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Revived might be too strong a word, it's still a shadow of what it used to be. Besides, wasn't it Smugmug that introduced the 1000 photo limit for free users? I too could be misremembering here.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
A rather deceptive title, given that 'innerHTML' isn't going away.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Flickr was a hero, then yahoo/smugmug killed it. It's still there, but along the way all changes reduced it to an also-ran. It's still a nice tool, but I just don't see myself using it again. The URL scheme, as neat as i
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I do hope Gibson/Chibson make that guitar with the inlays at the 11th/13th positions.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
This was why I canned a potentially useful image project a long time ago that could resize and manipulate images from any URL to optimise for mobile use. It's also why I've not dipped my toes into the murky pool of self-hosting an
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Same on desktop, it's broken by design on all devices.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
As facebookexternalhit is listed in the robots.txt, it does look like it's optimistically rechecking in the hope it's no longer disallowed. That rate of request is obscene though, and falls firmly into the category of Bad Bot.
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I got no such email, was this for VPS or dedicated servers?
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by antonyh 8mo ago
On one hand this is not good but predictable. I'm on longer-term commitments with OVH, so it will be interesting to see how they follow. I'm still keeping Hetzner on my shopping list, even with the increase the bare-metal offering
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Imgur self-blocking is nothing to do with propaganda, but it does make the internet worse for it with all many image now not showing. In any case, why should I go to bat for Imgur if they are mishandling the PII of children? The fact that s
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by antonyh 8mo ago
Money is the smallest concern here. It could easily replace the content with state-approved versions and the majority would never know, or at the least redirect to other sites/pages as needed. After all, it's being described as a
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by antonyh 8mo ago
This is why I don't mix work and play and have a dedicated machine for games, but this only solves half the problem. It really needs it's own VLAN or to use 'guest' wifi to keep it isolated, but that only solves half the
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by antonyh 8mo ago
I'm in the UK and can't access https://imgur.com/ - an American service that now refuses to serve content to Britain because "On September 30, 2025, Imgur blocked users from the United Kingdom in response to
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by antonyh 8mo ago
As a Brit/European, would I notice or care if fbi.gov was blocked via consumer internet providers? I'd probably not notice if *.gov was blocked. I'm fairly sure government-level internet provisioning has a very different set
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by antonyh 8mo ago
It's not possible to login to the web-based banking without the app. It's a hard requirement to access the account.

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