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by ttepasse 2y ago
If only we had something like automated calculating machines which can query a library of tax dats and calculate the amount through arithmetic and then display it.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
It seems Lomography is back. Again. Back in the 90s some artists discovered the LOMO LC-A (Lomo Kompakt Automat), a soviet era cheap film camera which they used for self-expression. The distortions of the cheap camera were the preferred fea
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I'm currently in the same position, upgrading from an iPhone 6s (2015) to an iPhone 16. The thing is, it is mostly not the apps which forced me to upgrade. I can't get newer ones, of course, but the old ones still work. (Except a
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by ttepasse 2y ago
The main German postal service for a time manufactured their own e-vans, which where rather boxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Tangentially there is room for optimizing for non-american keyboards. The accent grave (backtick) you're using in a Markdown-inspired way is utterly annoying to type on keyboards where accents are implemented as dead keys, to be combin
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by ttepasse 2y ago
How do you evaluate respectability in this case? The icon that meant verified on Twitter now only means that someone paid money to X. (And of course you can't read it if you're not logged in.)
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by ttepasse 2y ago
humans.txt is a small scale initiative: https://humanstxt.org/
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by ttepasse 2y ago
ActivityPub seems better for POSSE than the badly named At Protocol: Hosting you own data/integrating in your own CMS is of course possible with both, in Atproto that would be PDS. But getting other peoples reactions in you own website
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I just installed* it. It run well, although I don’t recommend playing it with a Magic Mouse. * I first installed Whisky, a Wine/Game Porting toolkit/app thingy ( https://getwhisky.app ). Then I installed Steam for Window
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by ttepasse 2y ago
In Upper Michigan there is an underground laboratory by a military shower curtain supplier in an old salt mine. Ever since the congressional hearings on missing astronauts there are rumours that they are researching more than just shower cu
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by ttepasse 2y ago
It sadly doesn’t help you, but inside the Apple ecosystem that feature is builtin and called Continuity/Handoff: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102426 Most of the time I'm using that from the Cmd-Tab-Switche
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by ttepasse 2y ago
The historical dictionary is the Deutsches Wörterbuch with a long history: The Brothers Grimm started working on it 1838. Wilhelm died around the letter D, Jacob at the entry for "Frucht". Afterwards other Germanists started conti
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Some other stuff martians will need: - Replacement rubber caskets for airlocks and the kilometres of plumbing. Synthetic rubber seems petrol based; natural rubber trees seem to need a lot of space. - A source of fabric for clothes and other
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by ttepasse 2y ago
> I imagine that American stuff will be quickly replaced with European made stuff. I am in the process of (very slowly) decluttering my life. One weird observation that I had, is that I have very few hardware from the USA, even when I
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I'm always surprised that people see multilayered identities as something that you have to divide into first and second or prioritise among them. In a smaller context: Being German and NRW'ler and in the Ruhr area are not a hierar
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Something I learned: One of the last logos Paul Rand designed was the logo of Enron. I really like his redesign of the Ford logotype; although Ford doesn’t seem to have used it.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I'm a little bit envious. Reading such a great book for the first time. I recommend re-reading it in a few years. Ecos books grow with you; the more you learn about the world and history, the more you'll find in nuance in that boo
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by ttepasse 2y ago
> Some of us take it personally if we cannot do everything using only the keyboard. It doesn’t help your 1password problem here, but there is a changeable shortcut to put focus on the Dock which then can be navigated with the arrow keys
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by ttepasse 2y ago
You'll find the ancient interpretation that the new day starts at sunset still in religions. Sabbath starts on Friday evening, Easter and Christmas day start on the eve of the day before. Possibly the Eids of Islam too, but I'm un
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by ttepasse 2y ago
I find I do like that idea. Back in the early HTML5 days some elements, mostly presentational, had to prove their usefulness to the WhatWG/Hixie to be included. So <b> was bold in HTML 4.01 but now is "text, to which attenti
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Apart from static reasons some romanic churches also were fortified and look a little bit like a medieval bunker with very small windows. That's because it was. Compared to those I think of gothic cathedrals as more light and airy and
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by ttepasse 2y ago
You can take your existing network with you, Mastodon has Accounts redirects and follower migrations. Your own content not yet. While Mastodon-the-software has an export function, there is no import as yet. But that is a solvable problem.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Atom has even three variants of the content model, one where the content is XHTML. As pure text <atom:title atom:type="text">E = mc²</atom:title> As entity-encoded “HTML”: <atom:title atom:type=&quot
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Queen Elizabeth II still got horses as a present. For those ancient animal gift exchanges I always wonder about the practicality. Travelling overland and over the Himalayas with lions does not seem like the best thing to do. Also: Back in 8
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Frustrating that MiniDisc was always a niche thing - those were cool looking physical artifacts and even practical. Of course real hipsters do FLAC on Iomega ZIP drives.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
You may be interested in the early 90s BBC series The Wartime Kitchen and Garden , a series somewhat reenacting the homefront gardening effort in WWII Britain. It’s on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxMUY_E07w T
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Apart from chance HN seems rather time dependent – those posts seem to be posted still early in the day (I assume UTC from the timestamps) when the mostly US-American visitors doesn’t seem yet in the slacking-of mode.
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Me too. I switched to Overcast when Castro had its huge hiccups, but followed the new owners and the updates with great interest. The forward momentum seems great. I can see myself switching back home, when my new iPhone arrives. My ideal p
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by ttepasse 2y ago
Apple some years ago proposed a string format for password rules – to be used in password managers and also an HTML attribute for that: <input type="password" passwordrules="minlength: 8; maxlength: 12; required: lower
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Freedom 0 (2004)(web.archive.org)
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