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Yes, changing the user agent is a possibility. Luckily I do not have to work with Apple's Business Manager any longer.
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Yeah, the zoom, that almost needs to be customized per website, sigh. But one of the worst misfeatures for old (and maybe not so old) eyes, is the gray text on some "pastel" background. Contrast helps readability (as does a carefu
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Sustainable? Yes, in theory, but no in practise. That's my gut feeling because I doubt that wood (or lignin producers) will grow as fast as our travel (and heating) will use them up. Just skimmed some studies (in German) describing the
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If you want to (or have to) use Apple Business Manager (web portal to remotely manage a number of IOS devices) Apple explicitely requires you to either use Safari or Edge, Firefox doesn't work. So much for the web as the "OS agnos
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While I agree that textual links and qr codes aren't the best solutions for certain tasks, the workflow you describe appears a bit too complicated. What I do: - scan a qrcode with a qrcode app (I use a version from f-droid) - choose &
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Superfoods. Marketing. Chia for example was imported as chicken food first, but producers soon realized that chickens fed with chia produced eggs with smaller yolk. So importers had seeds which they couldn't sell anymore. The solution
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That might be realistic, cf. a female's view of the autobahn: https://ww3.cad.de/foren/ubb/uploads/NoIdea/perscheid32.jpg by the late cartoonist Martin Perscheid. What irritated me a bit instead, wh
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Very nice! I instantly recognized the tune but from a completely different event, namely https://youtu.be/wkF9w86XXKU That's the cover by band London Grammar and TIL about the original one. Didn't know about the m
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It would definitely fit into xscreensaver's collection, yes.
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Quite a number of apps allow you to easily copy/paste between Android phone and computer: - BlitzMail, via email - Joplin, via desktop client - Nextcloud/Owncloud - Termux, e.g. via ssh, rsync, ... Various messenger apps with desk
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One upon a time (or long forgotten concepts?) there did exist a window system with full client-side scriptability, .i.e. it implemented what nowadays is "the browser as a thin client" with Javascript for client-side rendering: Gos
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> As I get older, I also find my body acting more and more for me. Maybe your theory of "me" is a bit off from reality? I think Marvin Minsky's book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind is a
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Teach your kids the love of books and when they reach school age, they will be sitting in a cosy corner and read books. I started reading at the age of six and "plundered" the local library with eight or nine. That allowed my pare
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Hmm, instead of 12 pages per day, that's just 84 pages per week. Nothing to "tone down" IMHO, because that's easily managable. We have about 5K books at home (not pages, books) which we bought and read over 40 years (not
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Nice. The first Lisp interpreter whose source code I was able to dissect (as a student, source code generously provided by my professor), was the Lispf3 interpreter written in (gasp ;-) Fortran. http://www.softwarepreservation.ne
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And Kodak built the first two versions of Apple's QuickTake digicam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_QuickTake I still have some grainy images taken with either a 100 or 150 model somewhere in my archives. B
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I loved "Apocalypse Now" as a statement of the idiocy of politics and war, which forces humans to shed the thin layer of culture and humanity. Sone interesting tidbits I learned after watching the movie (many years ago): The movie
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More than half of the French nuclear power plants are shut down due to maintenance right now, cf. https://m.dw.com/en/french-nuclear-plants-break-a-sweat-over... And they have problems with excessive heat in the summe
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> I'm just not sure how this would work with SSL. Hmm, you can terminate the SSL connections on a proxy. Some colleagues at work (but at a different location)maintain such a setup (i.e. I never set it up myself) but the relevant sea
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I never understand these complaints about parenthesis, my editor takes care of them. Interestingly people never complain about the inconsequences in mathematical notation, i.e. infix operators like plus or minus (e.g. 3+5), postfix operator
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Browsers track visits in their history, Firefox for example in a file called "places.sqlite" which you could copy and use as a base log. If you don't mind a bit of tinkering and are a Linux user, you can start with a squid pr
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Yes, del.icio.us, and something similar still exists at pinboard.in, but sadly without the full social sharing features which where available at del.icio.us
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Yes, been there, done that: tinkering (or yak shaving) makes it easy to forget about KISS. And sometimes results in too many open tabs in one's browsers ;-0 But even the best of us are prone to fall for it, and sometimes they even prod
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Wikipedia, or in this case wiktionary, is your friend: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
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Thanks, I did guess that it might be some specific format and not just a screen recording, but all these TLAs are hard to memorize. BTW, it's a really nice example of the possibilities of Lisp, which reminds me to refresh my memories a
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> You're absolutely correct. IMO, the reason is, to a large degree, ineptness of software engineers. Hmm, software engineers? IMO the culprits are "greedy" managers who didn't like (and still don't like) common l
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Surely not "something equivalent" that you are expecting, but my smartphone can do screen recordings, so here's a cropped version of what's displayed in its browser: http://www.cynix.net/2022/scre
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>Has anyone ever typed so much on a keyboard that the switches wore out? Sure, somewhere in my collection of "stuff" there still rest two Cherry keyboards (mechanical, gold contacts) where certain keys stopped working reliably,
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The international paper size standard is ISO 216. It is based on the German DIN 476 standard for paper sizes. This standard was designed by the German engineer and mathematician Walter Porstmann in 1922. Cf https://de.wikipedia.
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Cool animation, as almost always by CGP Grey. Reminds me of the book "Powers of Ten" by Philip and Phylis Morrison, published in 1982 ("Scientific American Books")

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