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by yaky 2y ago
Google Chat has been redirecting every clicked link through Google's domains for a while now. Which is sketchy too, and I don't understand how this is OK with their business and corporate customers.
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by yaky 2y ago
The most unusual book I read this year is Radiance by Catherynne Valente. It's set in an Art-Deco "future" of our fully habitable Solar system (jungles and oceans on Venus, flowering fields on Pluto, etc), that started to be
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by yaky 2y ago
Red Rising is often recommended in lists such as this, and that is how I discovered it too. Worth noting though that the 3/4 of the first book is Hunger Games on Mars, with barely any significance to the plot started in the first part
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by yaky 2y ago
I chuckled at the "You scrolled!" popup. Slightly disappointed I did not see the ubiquitous "Sign in with Google" popup in the upper right corner, nor comments full of spam.
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by yaky 2y ago
Not as catastrophic, but during power outages in my neighborhood, I am usually left with a poor cell signal (no backups on cable internet boxes). Electric utility's outage map is hidden behind a login (!) and is rendered with fancy clu
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by yaky 2y ago
Discovering Gemini is what motivated me to finally set up my own site/blog (which is available on both web and gemini simultaneously) Gemtext line-based syntax is very pragmatic, easy to parse, and what I use as source for my pages.
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by yaky 2y ago
> First of all, I know it's all people like you. And that's what's so scary. Individually you don't know what you're doing collectively. - The Circle by Dave Eggers > In the course of her job, Resaint had met
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by yaky 2y ago
I also spent almost a decade at my first out-of-college corporate job. Had a great team, slowly shifted from company-specific ERP and niche client-server software to web development. It was very comfortable for a long time. I left after int
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by yaky 2y ago
Title is very misleading. I initially thought this is a high-tech prank. TLDR: Not just any "New Yorkers", but specifically "customers who want to buy a propeller hat". And hats are dropped not "onto", but &quo
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by yaky 2y ago
Design of Everyday Things has some interesting anecdotes and ideas throughout, but I found the style very long-winded and dull. Haven't finished it yet though. Similar book, The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski, was a bit m
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by yaky 2y ago
On the same theme, A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (of SMBC fame) is a humorous yet an in-depth pragmatic look at why space colonization will suck. Summarizing: space will kill you fast, moon will grind you down with the regoli
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by yaky 2y ago
Lyft's website used to work really well circa 2019, but stopped shortly after.
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by yaky 2y ago
To add to your list (I made very similar choices): Standard Notes was pretty decent for acessing notes between multiple devices when I used it. Now that I am back on Android, I use Syncthing for both pictures and notes, without a cloud inte
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by yaky 2y ago
This year, I started teaching basic computer literacy to adult students, and that put the current UI and design into another perspective for me. So many things are made "easy" instead of straightforward, which makes explaining the
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by yaky 2y ago
I believe this can be implemented via XMPP's presence protocol [0]. IIRC this is what WhatsApp did, and sharing your current status was the original purpose of WhatsApp. Messaging and calls were added later. 0: https://xmpp.
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by yaky 2y ago
FFMpeg really helped me out not too long ago. I tried KDenLive and ShotCut to edit some videos, which I rarely do, only to be overwhelmed and then discover that ffmpeg command can do everything from timelapses to trimming and brightness&#x2
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by yaky 2y ago
I have had the same thoughts. In my opinion, from the developer's perspective, there are two issues in the industry: 1. Conveyorization of development process. Developers write code, that's it. Most what I have done for the past
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by yaky 2y ago
Some old (pre-smart, pre-camera, chunky ones with small B&W LCD screens) cell phones had a side scrollwheel that was used for menu navigation. I think it was clickable too. The only more modern take on that that I know of was Marshall&#
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by yaky 2y ago
Along with an interesting story, the Russian-language flyer has fascinating Runglish words, phrasing and grammar. "Кливланд" (Cleveland) is spelled with "а" at the end, which makes the pronunciation "Cleev-lahnd&quo
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by yaky 2y ago
I would encourage it. A few years ago, I started a site/blog on both Web and Gemini. I mostly keep track of projects I build, books I read, some interesting events, and some cheatsheets and links I revisit a lot. Writing things down de
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by yaky 2y ago
After working in tech (and providing tech support and tutoring), this seems like a typical non-tech-savvy user behavior: Just do what is familiar. So they got a good deal on a car. It's a car and it drives, and you fill it with gas. It
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by yaky 3y ago
Not Europe, but around 2015, Russia passed a law requiring foreign companies to store data on servers in the country. Then banned LinkedIn in 2016 [0], and tried to get Twitter and Facebook to comply in 2017-2019 [1]. All of which were met
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by yaky 3y ago
Unless you write your text messages deliberately composed, in multiple paragraphs, and it takes days to send and receive, the comparison is very flawed. More long-form digital communication, like email, is a bit closer to letters, though. W
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by yaky 3y ago
I read your reply a while ago, but still can't wrap my head around "t feels like I am somehow less than myself if I don't remember them.". I forgot many things, and it's quite ok with me, so I'm trying to under
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by yaky 3y ago
If the message was something I found interesting, important, or funny, I would usually copy or screenshot it. Or remember it. Although I don't proactively delete old messages, I never intentionally backed up or transferred message hist
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by yaky 3y ago
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but this is slightly creepy. I never understood why people care to keep their private conversation history in the first place. IMO private messages (as opposed to public posts, blogs, etc) are supposed to be te
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by yaky 3y ago
First generation Chevy Volt (2011-2016) has a button at the end of the left stem that sounds an alternative polite (aka "pedestrian") horn. It's several very rapid, but somewhat quiet honks, that sound like "brrrap"
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by yaky 3y ago
As a Ukrainian-American (more so the latter, I've lived in the US for the past 20+ years), US corporate culture requires making any statement into a very polite, almost optional, suggestion ("would you", "it would be gre
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by yaky 3y ago
IMO the visuals were just... bland. Everyone wears grey and lives in dark grey dwellings. The color balance is so bad that Atreides flag that is green on Caladan becomes cyan on Dune. This greyness also ruined the supposedly-awesome scene w
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by yaky 3y ago
I highly recommend his book on Wolfenstein 3D (mentioned at the end of the article). Even though it's technical, it is not dry or boring. And there are lots of old-school tricks and optimizations, like 64 unwrapped functions for scalin

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