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VS Code had an extension for this earlier, but it’s a built-in feature now. Thanks for pointing out you can customize the colors, the defaults don’t work well with some color themes.
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Re parking apps — I do wish these people had usable websites. But also, iOS has this mini-app thing called “App Clips”, which were meant to be useful for parking type scenarios. Guess that never caught on?
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Win+Home seems *very* useful — thank you!
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Then there was this super old feature of adding “.LOG” as the first line in Notepad: superuser.com/a/217014
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Swap their left and right mouse buttons, duh
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The real AGI test will be AI doing our taxes.
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This was just added to the latest update! You can now block from the “…” menu.
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Netdata? www.netdata.cloud/open-source/
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I’m really keen to see how this works out. Tools like Datasette are popular for deploying data apps today, and WASM feels like the natural next step.
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Then there’s the office suite formerly known as Office…
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Poetry and now uv have made life a bit better. I have a script that sets up 3.12 / 3.13 without touching macOS’s Python — useful for restricted environments (eg no brew, no admin access, limited downloads).
For less restricted environments `uv python install 3.13` works really well for me.
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Facebook deserves a special callout here.
Threads’ deprioritising of posts with links (leading to “link in comments” type posts) is particularly icky.
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I wonder if “Copilot, turn yourself off” will work 😀
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I believe it might be an “anticyclonic gloom” (not in France but slightly above it)
www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-w...
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This message from Lasse in June 2022 may provide some context:
> …my ability to care has been fairly limited
mostly due to longterm mental health issues… Recently I've worked off-list a bit with Jia Tan on XZ Utils and
perhaps he will have a bigger role in the future, we'll see.
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Are there rural-focused US ISPs? Where I live there’s a bunch who’ll wire up a village with Gigabit fibre if a certain number of houses sign up, eg gigaclear.com/about-us
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I have concerns about orthographic embiggification, storing more characters on the intertubularinternetwork isn’t kind to the landwaterairosphere, all it does is boost the mercantilexchange values of companies that sell permastoredevices, not to mention making internetpostings run afoul of word limi
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Start your own Mastodon server. Even better, team up with other media orgs and start one. Deutsche Welle and the BBC are already doing this.
Do you really want to be at the mercy of Meta?
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What happens to authors (or songwriters, or…) who die young? Also does “copyright bounded by life” disincentivize older authors?