soapdog

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by soapdog 7mo ago
the law in the UK doesn't require any of that. It didn't even required Apple to do it. Ofcom is praising Apple for doing it even though it was not required. Social Networks need to do it.
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by soapdog 7mo ago
I'm the author, some of the tahoe issues can be seen in: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-... there are a lo
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by soapdog 7mo ago
Author here. Thanks for engaging is such gentle way, this is rare these days. Let me address some of your comments and maybe you'll understand my position a bit better even if you don't agree. > 1.Gatekeeping. OK, fine, but at
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by soapdog 7mo ago
Author here, didn't realise this was posted on this site. AMA.
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by soapdog 7mo ago
Well, maybe I want my docs folder to be useful for humans checking my code and don't care about LLMs at all..
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by soapdog 7mo ago
it is quite forward thinking, but for Apple, they are thinking you will need to upgrade.
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by soapdog 7mo ago
because all those prices are artificial, Apple is charging what they think they can get away with and also betting on making more money in the long run with subscriptions to iCloud and their other services.
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Building your own blogging tools is a fun journey(andregarzia.com)
2 points by soapdog 8mo ago|0 comments
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Hitex is a spam factory for tech books(laurent.le-brun.eu)
4 points by soapdog 9mo ago|0 comments
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by soapdog 9mo ago
That article almost made me cry. I was reading the NewtonOS 2.0 Human Interface Guidelines yesterday and it was so clear, so well-thought. The mess we find ourselves into in macOS Tahoe is impossible to excuse. I have no idea how that got o
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by soapdog 9mo ago
you can just post a message on bluesky and link it to your blog post at the end with some text saying "want to comment? Reply to this post." Personally, I prefer using webmentions. I got them back to my site using a combination of
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by soapdog 10mo ago
I wish someone would reimplement/clone Photon Micro GUI it was amazing.
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The Mozilla I want focus on people and not AI(andregarzia.com)
4 points by soapdog 10mo ago|0 comments
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by soapdog 10mo ago
Remember, companies get away with these over the top behaviours cause it costs them nothing to have one less customer. If this situation somehow escalates until they have to take action, they will already have made so much money that is not
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by soapdog 10mo ago
That is disgusting. Totally against the intention of whoever placed a captcha or login page in the website.
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by soapdog 10mo ago
You are the problem
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by soapdog 10mo ago
Not comfy with them either
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by soapdog 10mo ago
oh, I really dislike that. I don't want AI companies encroaching more in my development workflow. Used to really enjoy Bun, but don't want support Anthropic at all. Will switch back to another runtime.
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by soapdog 11mo ago
for those who need: https://archive.ph/ZOhMf
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by soapdog 11mo ago
You can achieve similar results by throwing your iPhone inside a £1 trail sock...
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by soapdog 11mo ago
I was unaware of that. Pity. I remember them very fondly. Thanks for sharing.
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by soapdog 11mo ago
SMS still manufactered and sold in Brazil. I had the original SMS and think that the Brazilian versions that came afterwards are sooooo good. Really recommend you folks checking it out. This video show some of it https://www.yout
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by soapdog 1y ago
Upcycling offloads manufacturing costs. Unless you're running something that consumes a boatload of energy, then it should be cheaper. Also, if you power it from renewables it is even cheaper and more sustainable.
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by soapdog 1y ago
and that is one of the reasons why I switched to Kobo.
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by soapdog 1y ago
it used to work like that. At the moment, the dynamic pages take miliseconds to rende and ship. Even though static files would be a an order of magnitude faster, we're talking about it already being fast enough for 99% of the time it i
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by soapdog 1y ago
My blog is yet to fail and I don't believe in premature optimization. I had 50k in a day once in the past and it was ok. If more than that happens in seconds and the blog fails, so be it. It doesn't affect my life at all, I fail t
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by soapdog 1y ago
Sad that my feed reader browser extension is not on the list. It is quite feature complete: https://blogcat.org The author says they only found one browser extension that was a feedreader, that is not the case. So I'm posti
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by soapdog 1y ago
Fengari has DOM interop. http://fengari.io/ It is a Lua reimplementation in JS.
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by soapdog 1y ago
He literally mentions google doing the same in the article...
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by soapdog 1y ago
WebMentions are the evolutions of pingbacks and they're a bit more powerful. https://indieweb.org/Webmention

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