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#Shareon v2.2.0 is out! This version added a share button for Microsoft Teams, as well as an overall “Share” button that uses Web Share API under the hood. Also, there now is the `data-hashtags` attribute that lets you set a hashtag for Twitter or Facebook. Huge thanks to Edward and Dimitrios, who made these changes happen! The only thing that irritates me about @thunderbird ‘Supernova’ is that the subjects of emails in the new list view have a slightly bolder-than-normal font weight (500 instead of 400), and now I always think I have a bunch of unread emails. Since the subject line is already bigger than the sender's name, there is no need for a separate weight. @thunderbird I hope the team will take this into consideration, but for now it's nothing a userChrome can't fix 😉 You know how some podcast players can cut silence from audio? I need this, but for voice messages 😏 @kytta I see the benefit of this, though it can also take away from the conversational aspect of it. Think intentional silence as part of communicating a thought or idea. This is used a lot in audio books and general storytelling. Edit: Of course maybe not as important for voicemail messages ;) https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110679027331714717 (the owner of the server thinks Fosstodon is ‘a haven for extreme toxicity and followbots’, so I can't boost this properly) @kytta It's really a shame that the Achille's heel of the Fediverse is feudalism, but it's a very accurate post that sums up the unseen forces shaping the web ecosystem and driving a lot of the churn. As expected, the comments descended into a JavaScript flamewar! The thing that many naysayers fail to understand is that *we* are the ones in the bubble. We, a small portion of the Web, who hates centralisation and big corps. The rest of the world, the normies, do not care and will never care. For them, ease and clarity of use is of much bigger importance than privacy and public good. Why think about the complicated technical caveats of Fedi, when there's an app "all my friends and idols are on".  @kytta I think we need to have a specific way of getting into Fedi where all you need to do is click and read, plus quick previews of the UIs and posts all in one website. Otherwise, lazy people wont get in here. I almost don't have any problems with Threads. It's data privacy policy is nothing new, it's data hoarding at its finest (classic Meta). Time will show whether it will kill Twitter (maybe even sooner, than we expect) or ActivityPub (I don't think it's possible). But why, WHY did they have to name it "Threads"? It's now impossible to filter it out or search for threads online. Poor parallel programmers / sewers 🧵 My laptop suddenly lost its Wi-Fi connection. It stopped receiving the IP address, even though the connection seemed to be intact. Several restarts of all devices (and a few mental breakdowns) later, I have noticed that my router banned my laptop for DoS. I guess I shouldn't mass-scan TCP ports while I'm at home 😂 My feed today consists of basically three things: 🤖 #Reddit API changes taking effect, 🐦 #Twitter requiring an account to view tweets, and 🇨🇦 #CanadaDay Speaking of birdsite: Is there a way to archive websites to any public archive using one's session? So, if I want to send someone a link to a tweet I can see while logged in, how would I do it apart from taking a screenshot? @kytta I no longer use Twitter or Reddit, but happy Canada Day... thanks for the reminder, must text my brother 😜 Can you recommend me a typing trainer? I have never learned how to type blindly, and I want to improve my speeds. Monkeytype is cool, but it's more of a testing rig rather than an actual trainer. I would like to use one that would tell me the fingers to use to type letters. A desired extra would be support for numbers and symbols.
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 @kytta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead 😅 That's where I learned the most! @kytta Back in the 90s my school used this to teach us the home row and which finger to use for various keys. https://www.atrtonline.com/index.html Me: *opens Google Play* No need to be that dramatic, Google 😂 Why the heck does #PixelTablet start with 679 € in Germany? It's 740 bucks, against the US starting price of $499. A markup of more than 36%! Interestingly enough, the markup on #Pixel phones isn't nearly as high: $499 ⇒ $555 for 7a (11%), $1799 ⇒ $2074 (15%) for the Fold. **EDIT:** I didn't consider the sales tax, which means the US price is different from advertised, for most states (thx @teezeh). Still doesn't explain the tablet/phones difference :/ For the record, the GDP (PPP) per capita is larger in the US, than in Germany, so I fail to see a reason for the markup at all. I wish it would be at least like in the old days, where the amount in dollars would become the amount in euros, only the currency sign would change.
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MKBHD: I'm just glad that [the dock] comes in the box and isn't an additional 130 dollars. Google Store Germany: Say no more! Why is it that I still haven't seen a single discussion about the network-wide strike on #StackExchange? https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/389811 Screw #Reddit, if #StackOverflow goes down, it will be the end of me 💀  Ha. Before StackOverflow, we had CodeProject and so many forums, like sources.ru and others dedicated to particular platforms and technologies. I was doing a lot of Flash back then, there were several forums about Flash development I constantly ended up on whenever I googled anything about it. Google Search Console: There is a problem with your site! This page <URL> got indexed even though it is blocked via robots.txt. Fix it! How tf is this my problem? From Google's documentation: If you *do* want to block this page from Google Search, robots.txt is not the correct mechanism to avoid being indexed. To avoid being indexed, remove the robots.txt block and use `noindex`. Ah yes, let's just ignore robots.txt altogether, good idea! I love Iosevka as a font. It’s very optimal when it comes to size (I can fit *three* split panes on my 14″ MacBook), and I find it aesthetically pleasing. I also dislike it, because it gets updated way too often. I upgrade my Homebrew packages once a week, and Iosevka seems to always have an update. Not that big of a deal, but its distribution is very big in comparison to the other packages, and it takes way too long :D First world problems, I suppose.  Why would you ever use homebrew for anything that isn't a command-line utility or a daemon or something else ported from Linux? I avoid it like the plague and only use it when there are no other options, but even then, libraries have versions in their fucking file names for some reason.  I feel like I get more allergic to stuff the older I get. Just went outside, and my nose is running nonstop 🤧 Never had any allergies before, I guess it's the age speaking 👴🏻 @kytta well if it's any consolation i went from no allergies my whole life to tearing my eyes out for a few years, to a few sneezes occasionally, to really nothing at all. No rhyme or reason to any of it, although moving across the country seemed to set it off. Well fingers crossed I suppose.
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You can hate #Microsoft as much as you want, but you can't deny how beautiful their #wallpapers can be 😍 |
@kytta Curious how DevTools detection works. (And consequently how it can be broken.)
@kytta I know this is mean, but I feel the need to laugh at the idea that to have a shitty user experience with a web site, one doesn't always need to use it over Tor (like I do) 😂
@kytta If any site does this, the domain gets blocked permanently