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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Feedback so far: * either don't require the ` http:// ` or ` https:// ` prefix for the server URL, or add a note informing users that they need to add it themselves. Technical users can usually figure it out, but ot
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
TIL about 3)! That's fantastic to hear. Password managers sort of do this already, though. So if you're a competent password manager user, only 1) matters. Passkeys really do seem like a bigger deal to your average user, since 2)
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
My understanding is that it's coming at the end of October. So it should be out soon. I've also been waiting with bated breath; I simply won't adopt passkeys until I can use a cross platform tool that doesn't try to lock
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
A well reasoned article. Though I think Eben (aka Bike Snob NYC) has a tendency to jump straight into his core arguments without necessarily getting all his readers on the same page (hence the heat in this thread!) I've done a lot of b
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I own a Subaru Crosstrek from this same era, it definitely has the Starlink bits in the cockpit ceiling. There must be more to this story. I've parked that car in an underground parking garage with absolutely no signal on any carrier f
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I'm curious if other Americans have any advice about how to make friends. I find it obnoxiously and unnecessarily difficult, and I don't think I'm alone. I don't enjoy any of the community or volunteer events in my area
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Why the RP1 is the most important product Raspberry Pi have ever made(hackaday.com)
3 points by vanilla_nut 3y ago|1 comments
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
One more reason I'm glad I connect my phone with a headphone jack. Just an analog connection carrying audio. The car doesn't even know what it's playing, as far as I know. Though some cars do seem to extract track names and
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Indeed. Sidewalks (and on large roads, cycle/ped shared paths) are incredibly common in the UK. Not everywhere, of course. But considering the fact that even in US city centres you frequently can't find a sidewalk, it's a lar
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
There are places in the UK where you can catch a ferry round-trip to Europe for less than 100 quid. There are places in almost every European country where you can catch a train to another country for less than 100 euro. Unless you're
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Maybe those riders live on that street, or need to use the larger road briefly to access a turn that isn't safe to access via the bike lane? Or maybe they're riding faster than is comfortable on a shared path (kudos to them -- rac
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Notably, Europe doesn't just accommodate bicycles in cities: it's also much more comfortable to bike on rural roads, thanks to lower speed limits, smaller cars, better drivers, and more conscious design when it comes to designatin
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I have heard that bicycle commuting has dropped significantly in Portland since 2020. And I've experienced enough of an increase in broken glass, aggressive driving, tents, and trash in bike lanes in other US cities to be a bit worried
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Long support (5+ years), physical first-party stores for support every 100ish miles in the USA, compatibility with Apple's proprietary iMessage and FaceTime protocols. An OS that's generally considered easier to use, with more wal
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Good question. I've read a lot of local news here in New England in the last year that recommends freezing, but looking up formal sources... it isn't so simple. Seems like freezing means you still end up using tweezers for the rem
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
No strong reason, but Mastodon allows various goverment officials and agencies to create accounts on the same server and probably has more functionality baked in than most self-hosted alternatives. It's got a better interface than a CM
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Meanwhile, I find NYS's inundation of billboards downright depressing. It's just ugly, even in places that ought to be beautiful upstate. When I cross the border into Vermont, which bans ads on roads except for simple business sig
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I'm astonished that the Memmy app is this good after just a week or two of development. Very curious how the dev will monetise eventually; as far as I know, they don't have significant overhead costs beyond an Apple developer acco
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
And don't forget that Lemmy and Kbin federate, so you should also check Kbin for 'magazines' (their term for subreddit) that interest you.
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
I am continually astonished at the lack of monetary discipline in the USA. For your average american, saving is a substantial amount of effort. Investing, diversifying, etc is 5D chess. It's easy to forget that a lot of us exist in a
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
IIRC the recommended approach now is to freeze them off with those wart removers you can find at drug stores. Even the special tweezers were hard enough to use properly that it's no longer the recommended approach.
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Doubtful that it will kill it. But if it can jumpstart some alternatives and normalize video hosting outside of YouTube, we'll get a healthier market of options for watching videos. Like you, I probably watch a single-digit number of
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Exactly. Snow Crash explores the idea of a "mind virus", which seemed a little silly when I originally read the book. But nowadays, it's clear that most ad campaigns are exactly that: hacks of the brain. Just think about th
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Nothing wrong with those. But if you buy great meat you can grill a steak with absolutely nothing on it and it comes out fantastic.
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Steak has only one ingredient, meat. That's why I make it so often, it's impossible to mess it up.
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Most states have something like this: - at ~16, you become eligible for a driving permit which allows for supervised driving only - getting the permit requires you to "pass" a pathetic 10ish question exam for which the literal q
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Reddit coasted for a long time on goodwill from the early 2010s, even though the current site and company seem pretty poorly run and stagnant. This latest debacle killed that goodwill for a lot of us. Why bother contributing -- through mode
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Same in my experience. The tech scene, as with Twitter, has changed the most -- all of the tech subs I used to follow have slowed down considerably in the last couple of weeks. I suspect that we'll see another big hit July 1 when the
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Sounds a lot like the folks who claim that AI will replace music and literature. What makes you think that LLMs will make the jump from mediocre creation to high-level abstraction any time soon? I'm sure you can tell that I'm skep
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by vanilla_nut 3y ago
Maybe once we figure out how to reliably prevent hallucination, LLMs can displace the most banal docs. As far as long-form tutorials, information architecture, and concept doc? I'm not concerned about the future of technical writing fo

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