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by kixiQu 4y ago
The rabbit hole is fractally deep. Stuff like https://betterwebtype.com/web-typography-resources/ (so https://betterwebtype.com/articles/2018/08/15/guide-to-combi... though I'l
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If one of the things you wanted to "take away" was page margin, then sure. Even at a time when the physical costs of production were far, far more significant than today's, people thought it was important to give a text block
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I'm curious how the performance / writing experience is relative to the high-end e-ink tablets people are falling in love with these days (remarkable etc.). I don't feel the need to write on my kindle enough to justify it unl
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There's an interesting variant: older Christian denominations emphasize communion, which means you can go off into the wilderness ("the green martyrdom"), but there's also pressure to be close enough to a priest to celeb
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The Cloud of Unknowing is my favorite monkly advice, though possibly because it's been given a very nice modern English translation (other stuff might be just as good if treated with as much interpretive freedom?). While you'll fi
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Hmm. I would say that the things to look up are the midday demon - you will see that later writings psychologize "acedia" more (another useful term; sort of represents executive dysfunction, though often especially the kind you ge
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You know who wrote a ton about attention in the past? Monks. Reading about how medieval monks conceived of attention and distraction in both functional and spiritual contexts is useful to ground the conversation in how technology (here, oft
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Tampermonkey scripts combine well with this kind of thing, IMO; I use bookmarklets for stuff I only want to happen on command ( https://maya.land/bookmarklets/readable/ ) and Tampermonkey to automatically or conditi
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Mold is extremely variant in where it shows up due to * climate (ambient humidity and temperature) * ventilation (both HVAC systems and habits of leaving windows open etc., but also draftiness in older houses)
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I adore it, and as someone trying to avoid non-biodegradable fabrics, I lean on it, but its care needs are quite different to all the other clothing I own. An absence of wool perpetuates itself because then people aren't comfortable
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This is also talked about in Nguyen's work, as the difference between "epistemic bubble" and "echo chamber". It's worth checking out https://academic.oup.com/book/39388/chapter/33
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Why should I have to use a different "profile"?
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Author isn't a man ( https://github.com/Xe )
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> no one is out there advocating for plain text websites. The gemini folks (gemini.circumlunar.space/) basically are, but I think it's a similarly niche / reactionary take.
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Ah, well, just that if you include "I lost my device" or "I left my bag at a cafe and someone took it", as the comment to which you were responding did explicitly, the "attack surface" gets a lot more realistic
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No, I do not agree with what the original poster stated. I think it's possible to get too abstract in discussion with an idea of "documenting a system" since that can of course shoot for a level of detail that can't be m
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by kixiQu 4y ago
For anyone wondering: > The Tjapwurung, an Aboriginal people in what is now southern Australia, shared the story of this bird hunt from generation to generation across an unbelievably large slice of time—many more millennia than one migh
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Have the destination be localhost and you're golden.
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> through loss
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it might be the "most secure", but if you could see the amount of lint that's built up inside computer cases in my home, you couldn't call it the safest
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On a spectrum of ridiculousness vs. necessity running from "enumerate where cutlery was used for the past one hundred years" to "keep tabs on the radioactive material we have in storage", it is a choice to vacuum up us
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I mean, sure, security is complicated, lots of judgment calls, but within this mindset, if a team/org/company said "we have no idea where we're using log4j" it was then their job to have someone working around the c
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They do have a burden. Following the law is table stakes . Now, are the laws relevant to a business the same across industries and around the globe? No. Does enforcement have its shit together equally everywhere? Obviously not. But makin
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I work for a large long-living tech company. Where legal compliance and security are concerned, "it is just layering and organic growth" is not something you get to say. If we were speculating about such a thing on a coffee break,
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by kixiQu 4y ago
> That could have been a 2 hour movie or at most two episodes. https://hobbitfanedits.fandom.com/wiki/Hobbit_Fanedits_Wiki :)
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Which is pissier: the filter, or the complaints about it?
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All of this is correct! I use an instance I host myself that only has one other user on it. I've found that in such a case you have to follow very aggressively (to get content federating over to your instance; X who I follow RTed somet
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There is a move feature so you can transfer your account and its following relationships to a new server, without your followers having to update anything or any key signing at all. You can't use it if your account has been nuked, but
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Yup, pretty much just this. I make lists of folks in certain groupings to be able to fake being able to see posts-from-the-subset-of-people-I-follow-from-yesterweb.social and similar (and hooo could this functionality use some ux polish), b
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> a combination of Twitter’s chronological feed with the community-driven spaces of Reddit Eugen's product vision is fighting the "community-driven spaces" idea as hard as he can, as far as I understand – to the extent tha

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