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Nikita
Hey Fedi, I need help tracking down a website I yet again forgot to bookmark 🙄 It's a collection of badges to mark whether your content is AI-generated, made with the help of AI, or not touched by AI at all. It was CC0, and the logos features three points that would interconnect in different ways based on how much AI was used. EDIT: I found it! https://ai-label.org/
Nikita
This year, I didn't finish #100DaysToOffload, I haven't finished a single book, and I didn't build anything worth forking. And still, this was an incredible year for me. I've graduated from my university (still waiting for my certificate...) and got an incredible job. I've been a guest on a podcast! And, most importantly, I've been the happiest I've ever been. 2024 will bring in a lot of new challenges and opportunities, and I'm looking forward to them. Happy New Year! Frohes neues Jahr! 🎄🍾
Nikita
Today's idea: Detect if people visiting my website have an ad blocker enabled, *and if they don't*, show them a popup saying why it's a good idea with a link to install uBlock Origin
Григорий Клюшников
I had a similar idea a while ago except it's a hard block, i.e. "I noticed you don't have an ad blocker, please install one to view this site"
Nikita
Given how popular Logitech MX mice are, also amongst developers, how come nobody has still made a *usable* version of the ‘Options’ software? Reverse-engineer the drivers, make a lightweight daemon and native UI. Are the projects that currently are or have tried tackling this?
rugk
@kytta #Solaar should support it or could need some helping hands for more. https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/ #logitech #mouse #mice #inputdevices
Ian Wagner 🦀 :freebsd: :osm:
@kytta the awful Options software seemed like an increasing security risk and the quality of the mice has gotten worse. That led me to ultimately discontinue my use of Logitech mice about two years ago. The problem is real.
Nikita
I already have enough unfinished side projects, but I am freaking pissed by Logitech adding AI to their mice (and software). So, I hereby announce that I have started reverse engineering the Logi Options+ software. My plan is to bypass the installer, re-implement the drivers and daemons and add simple text-based configuration (to begin with). I’ll focus MX Master 3 + macOS + Apple Silicon first (I’ve nothing else to debug on). The licence will be GPLv3-only. PSA: This will take me ages (:
Nikita
Fediverse, I need your honest opinion on my next crazy project idea. I am envisioning a CLI app that would give you contact details for people based on their nicknames/homepages. Here are some loose thought about how it should work: https://codeberg.org/kytta/reachout/wiki/Project-idea (~2 minutes; please read before voting) I want to keep it as ethical as possible, and I want to know whether you think it’s creepy or not, and whether you would use it :D Anonymous poll
Poll
It’s fine, and I’d use it
3
27.3%
It’s lowkey creepy, but I’d use it
2
18.2%
It’s fine, but I won’t use it
5
45.5%
It’s creepy, so I won’t use it
11 people voted. 1
9.1%
Voting ended 8 Dec 2023 at 8:59.
Dave Pearson
@kytta Seems like a neat idea, kinda, but I think if it were me thinking about building such a thing, I’d have pause for thought as I’d worry about how it might add to to things like this: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/
Nikita
Screw Spotify Wrapped, let's share our podcast statistics! My numbers are not correct though, because I used Pocket Casts for the first half of the year 😅 (see alt text for translations)
Nikita
Remember when Play Store app awards were fun? Yeah, they're nothing like Apple's, but there also were some gems inside, and they showcased quite some apps that cleverly and beautifully used Material Design. The "best app of 2023" in Germany is a damn streaming platform. 🙄 And it doesn't even have a good app!
Jan-Lukas Else
@kytta I often use Aurora Store to get updates for automatically disabled apps (to save battery) and today I encountered a banking app that wasn't happy to be installed from Aurora Store and forced me to uninstall, reinstall from Play Store and reconnect it. 🙄 (Hanseatic Bank Secure)
Qoyyuum
@kytta Welcome to #Fediverse ! Your latest blog post says that you've just started working. Congrats on the job! :)
Nikita
New blog post! In this one, I am over the moon about the full-time job I’ve picked up a month ago. https://www.kytta.dev/blog/one-month-full-time/ This is post 009 of #100DaysToOffload. (don’t mind the date — I’ve finished this post earlier, but have only now got to publish it)
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Данила Горелко
> How tired and unsatisfied I was with university and its endless mix of classes, exams, and homework assignments. I couldn’t even imagine how I needed the monotony that a job brings with it. Instead of 5–10 different topics/technologies I had to think about at all times, it’s just one or two — the ones I work with. So true!
Nikita
#Westfalenbahn tip: the last carriage is usually the best one. — It's a bit further away, so less people are in it Follow me for more #Pendeln life hacks /j
Nikita
For a long time, I was looking at all the endless IDE plugins and extensions, "must have" configs, Raycast, and I used to wonder: Why is there so much hype around snippets? Even when writing #Django views, I never really felt the need for them; I was fine with typing a few redundant lines myself. And then I started learning and working with #Angular. I take my skepticism back.
Nikita
TIL that Microsoft Outlook, when it encounters a quote of the original email in the reply, will hide not only it, but everything below it, making bottom-posting effectively impossible :(
Nikita
New blog post! In this one, I express some thought on a very topical (/s) subject of foreign languages on Mastodon. https://www.kytta.dev/blog/language-on-mastodon/ This is post 008 of #100DaysToOffload
Joel :void: :casio:
@kytta I get you, it's very annoying to have posts that are "English" when they're not, if auto detection is implemented I will be very, very happy—such a feature needs to exist.
Adam
@kytta Well said indeed. I find myself not wanting to filter out the language of a post. I want to see it all, but I suppose in reason. I says this because I've found some really interesting discussions or recommendations in other languages. I rely on the translation. Though I do admit I cannot assume it is correct, yet I still find it beneficial.
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@kytta So I'm not the only one! I thought I was going crazy. I keep seeing posts in my feed that aren't English, though I've specifically told #Mastodon that I only want English content. I'm so frustrated by all the posts I can't read that I've taken to muting any profile that I come across with non-English content. It's not that I don't want to read them, it's that I literally can't (and no, I don't like using 'translation'). So I really hope they give an option to filter the home feed too...
Nikita
Does anyone here remember the Aviate launcher? It had an æsthetically pleasing home screen that would adapt to different use cases based on your location, time of day, and connected peripherals. I loved it so much. Until Yahoo bought it, made it worse, and then sunset it.
Nikita
The picture also made me remember using Foursquare back in the day. I used to feel like I possess some secret knowledge, since it was not popular in Russia, and barely anyone used it :blobcatgiggle:
Nikita
I have downloaded 50 MB worth of files and wanted to move them two directories deeper than where they were located. So I just, y’know, drag-n-dropped them in Finder. A window appeared, saying “Preparing moving” (?), and the files started to move one by one. The whole process took FIVE MINUTES. Why does a 50 MB move between two directories on the same NVME drive take five minutes
Nikita
I checked the Activity Monitor during this, and it didn't show anything writing to disk, really. Moving any other file anywhere else is instant :blobcatgooglyshrug:
Nikita
Working in a different city Cons: My everyday commute takes 3 hours! Pros: My podcast queue has 70 hours worth of unplayed episodes 😅 |