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by voussoir 3y ago
I pulled a fuse out of my car to disable the onstar module because they were sending me "monthly diagnostic report" emails. I had never made an onstar account, and I even declined the free trial. If they hadn't sent me those
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by voussoir 3y ago
I just recently re-read David Foster Wallace's E Unibus Pluram (1993), so this is fresh on my mind: > Audience gets trained to respond to and then like and then expect trite, hackneyed, numbing television shows, and to expect them t
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by voussoir 3y ago
I've been using purelymail.com since July 2021 with no problems. My monthly cost is around $0.40.
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by voussoir 3y ago
There is a so-called "35mm Grindhouse Edition" of 1138 discussed on originaltrilogy.com https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/THX-1138-1st-Directors-Cut...
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Slightly Obsessed with GPX(voussoir.net)
1 points by voussoir 4y ago|0 comments
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by voussoir 4y ago
I bind ctrl+space to make the current window stay on top of others. Sometimes it is a commandline or file explorer or notepad that I want to keep visible while I click something else behind it, without rearranging the windows side-by-side.
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by voussoir 4y ago
One of my favorite youtube channels at the moment is Not Just Bikes. And, it's right in the name: it's not just about bikes. It's about trains, busses, pedestrianization, mixed-use zoning, more options for housing density bes
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by voussoir 4y ago
US suburban sprawl, enormous parking lots, and generally inefficient land use is what puts everything 10 to 15 to 25 miles away from home. It didn't have to be like this. Check out Not Just Bikes on youtube: https://www.yout
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by voussoir 4y ago
I don't think I could trust anyone who can afford to buy a domain name like you.com. They're either so rich they've got money to burn on dotcom-era domain names, or they're misallocating what money they have... it doesn&
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by voussoir 4y ago
> How high is the unicorn flying? Is the unicorn even flying, or on the ground? For what it's worth, I think you have mixed up unicorns and pegasus!
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by voussoir 4y ago
Yes, this issue with multi-item listings is so prominent and long-standing that I simply must assume it is a deliberate anti-user decision by ebay, though I can't think of a good reason why. I just know that if they wanted to fix it th
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by voussoir 4y ago
Sure, it must be possible. You just need to give the right voltage to the +/- pins, and most phone batteries have at least one or two additional pins which you'll have to reverse engineer. Usually a thermistor for temperature repo
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by voussoir 4y ago
> automatic updates This is one of the most important points of the conversation. The other most important point would be the difficulty / impossibility of reverting to an older version of the application on mobile systems. When you
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by voussoir 4y ago
For what it's worth, I feel the same way you do and very carefully chose the word "assembling" instead of "building" when I blogged about putting my keyboard together.
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by voussoir 4y ago
If you're using youtube-dl, you can tell it to download only the audio track in the first place. Try `youtube-dl -F video_id` to learn what formats are available, then `youtube-dl -f format_number video_id`.
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by voussoir 4y ago
The Logan's Run novel is similar, with the chapters counting down from ten to zero.
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by voussoir 4y ago
Oh I see. This requires the overlay to have enough extra black space on all sides, right? Like this: #blackout { position: fixed; z-index: 1; inset: -100%; background: radial-gradient(circle at ce
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by voussoir 4y ago
Great idea! This seems to work: background: radial-gradient(circle at var(--lightx) var(--lighty), transparent 0, transparent 100px, black 110px);
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by voussoir 4y ago
Shopping on Amazon is like shopping on AliExpress, but in denial. Nowadays I just go straight to AliExpress and embrace the whitelabeled keyword soup that doesn't pretend to be anything else. At least it's an honest experience.
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by voussoir 4y ago
Haha, that's great! The accent color picker is a cool touch, too. Bug report: I can see a tiny pixel of the tip of the cat's ear when the flashlight is out of his frame: https://i.imgur.com/XBWYLDI.png
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by voussoir 4y ago
That's a beautiful effect too, thanks!
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by voussoir 4y ago
dsmmcken has shown that making a full blackout with CSS is possible with clip-path, but at the time I wrote this, I didn't know that. The CSS comes in the form of the mix-blend-mode divs, "grayscale", "bright white"
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by voussoir 4y ago
Yes, good idea. For the purpose of this article I want the reader to encounter the features as I talk about them, but for other applications I would fix the controls. Plus, inlined controls add to the suspense -- you might truly get lost in
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by voussoir 4y ago
Wow! That's perfect, thanks for your help. I'll add that to the article soon.
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Browser in the Dark: flashlights with CSS and canvas(voussoir.net)
151 points by voussoir 4y ago|20 comments
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by voussoir 5y ago
Windows user here. I feel that the computer should work for the human, not the other way around. I use whatever unicode characters are appropriate for the file, except the minimum set of disallowed characters: colon, slash, asterisk... Any
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by voussoir 5y ago
Even if they aren't consciously aware of it as a rule, it almost certainly helps people who put the mouse over what they're reading, and then try to click the checkbox. Higher chance of success.
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Night Light(voussoir.net)
1 points by voussoir 5y ago|0 comments
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by voussoir 5y ago
There are plenty of rabbit holes to get into when it comes to web archiving, but for blog authors that just want to preserve a page referenced by their text, using a tool like SingleFile is a great first step. https://github.com&
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by voussoir 5y ago
Same here, this was one of the reasons I cancelled ATT and picked an mvno carrier. They need to wake up.

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