Sqaaakoi :flagEnby:​

i still think social media with linear timelines should have like a "incase you missed it" mixed in that is solely based on how infrequently an account posts

monday rhymes with book

user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor

I saw a post that reminded my once more why I hate microblogging. It's based on the idea that anything you post is broadcast to anyone with little you can do to stop it, and this leads to a whole lot of problems. I wrote about my misgivings in the past:
- How it fucks up our interactions with […]

do remember: "will be open sourced soon" and "will be upstreamed soon" are both shorthand for "fuck off you aren't getting source and we'll shut it down before then"

tom scott used to be wild

https://web.archive.org/web/20110426103554/http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/

ive heard people say stuff along the lines of "adblocking is an essential security tool", but i havent realized just how fucking _true_ that is for normal everyday people until now. in the back of my mind i interpreted it as sort of true but exaggerated, to defend the use of adblockers for just […]

Reddit comment thread: *deleted user*: "On 2023-07-01 Reddit maliciously attacked its own user base by changing how its API was accessed, thereby pricing genuinely useful and highly valuable third-party apps out of existence. In protest, this comment has been overwritten with this message. I apologize for this inconvenience." *obfuscated username*: "As a bisexual, this is sadly true."

we need more just ad-hoc networks and computer systems on the net
people just having a VPN into their computer, a public user that can read some project files and blogs, and tunnels into other machines and such
a dispersed network of loosely connected systems that are off the net; you can ask […]

I might be burned at the stake for this but people making Obsidian plugins for everything remind me of people living inside emacs

You can only choose one, but never both:
1. A footer at the bottom of your site
2. Endless scrolling which appends new content when you reach the end of the list

Lego part 41685pb01 - White Pixelated on Plate 2x2 with 2 Studs in Center with Molded Transparent Orange Fire Pattern, sat on a desk.

The official Lego fire piece for Lego Minecraft in specific

BFDI now has a wikipedia article. in other news, hell has frozen over

Visual Studio 2010 window, where the code editor would regularly be is an embedded copy of Microsoft Word 2010, the text "Hi :3" is written in the editor, and the context menu for bullet styles is open

Visual Studio 2010 window, where the code editor would regularly be is an embedded copy of Microsoft Word 2010, the text "Hi :3" is written in the editor, with a button below it labelled "button1", under Solution Explorer now is the Windows Forms property editor

Visual Studio 2010 window, showing a very Windows Forms like code editor with a MessageBox.Show call in a button event handler, with the text "hi there! :3"

Microsoft Word 2010 window with an open document showing the text "Hi :3" and a button now labelled "my cool butt[on]", in the foreground is a standard Windows 7 dialog box with the text "Hi there :3" and an OK button.

you used to be able to make interactive word documents with C# in visual studio

the worst part about signal is that i can't mess around with reflashing my phone as long as I'm using signal and i need to keep that single point of trust alive

open: 0 (issues in the curl repo on GitHub)

Probably the first time since we switched to GitHub back in 2010.

it's weird how you can buy a video game for $25 and get thousands of hours of content and a decade of free updates or you can buy a video game for $120 and get eight hours of content

QR Code with Aztec in the middle

My friends bullied me into making an aztec/qr code barcode fusion.... yes both decode correct!

in Nix, a store object can depend on another store object at runtime. this means two things:

a) the store object contains the path to the other store object. usually, in the form of a symlink, or as an absolute path to a binary in a shell script, or in the library path of an ELF executable […]

IONITY charging park with roughly a dozen connected EVs

@whitequark
And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's […]

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Advent of Code will be running fewer puzzles per year from now on, due to the effort involved being unsustainable.

It will also be removing the global leaderboards (private ones remain). People were definitely always super toxic about the global leaderboard, but I have to assume that people […]

Graphic showing each of the available corner-shape CSS values, the CSS code needed to create them, and the visual effect it has on a button. From top to button, the button has: square corners, rounded corners, ‘squircle’ corners (the button is effectively an ellipse with flattened sides), bevelled corners, notched corners (square cutouts on each corner), ‘scooped’ corners (rounded cutouts on each side), and a manual ‘superellipse’ function example that creates a more subtle scooped effect.

I think some of y'all might appreciate the aesthetics this new CSS property unlocks, so I whipped up a super quick visual guide.

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today in ADIF:

> The information shown in every ticket will be encrypted by means of AZTEC codes.

hearing signing being encryption is something, but a _barcode_ being encryption is quite something else

wiktionary database dumps not existing really sucks

your TTY driver has configuration you can see how it’s configured by running: stty -a for example it print out the current window size! Ctrl+S by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default) ###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u” stty intr u this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program! other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page) the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings” for the gnarly details: man termios but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver panel 6 smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!

stty

https://wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/)

AUTISM ANOUNCEMENT:

Personally I really hate how phones are handled. Why should they be treated differently from desktop and laptop computers when they are capable of doing basically the same things? Why should corporations have the most control out of every phone while desktop computers have freedom a-okay? And if […]

This is a Dystopian timeline: My wife was let go after 25 years working for the same bank this morning. In an apparent oops, the bank's IT department hard wiped ALL her IOS devices remotely, while she was on the road driving, relying on the GPS function.

The screw you cherry on top? Our […]

"Voice commands" have been embedded into our vision of computing for a long time: Star Trek did it and it does the whole anthropomorphization thing that tech loves.

But from a practical standpoint it's a bad interface: Think of a handful of people sitting in an office yelling at their computers […]