@Zenith said in Do people actually like poor quality user interfaces?:
These are all easily solved problems. Yet, somehow, they persist. Does somebody out there like it this way or what?
the market doesn't care enough
@Zenith said in Do people actually like poor quality user interfaces?:
These are all easily solved problems. Yet, somehow, they persist. Does somebody out there like it this way or what?
the market doesn't care enough
Status: wrist is mostly healed so the doctor said I could ride again
@Tsaukpaetra said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
If they allowed just anyone to publish whatever... It's not that hard to imagine.
@hungrier bummer, try it with the root domain:
http://ai./
@_P_ said in In which millenials realize maintaining open source stuff is hard:
You must think that nobody was predicting global warming back in 1997.
How can someone predict a lie?
Biking on an exercise bike is depressing. Only a month or so left until I can get back on the road, woo
@Luhmann thankfully, the only damage seems to be on some plastic at the end of the handlebars, plus scrapes on the seat 😃
@Tsaukpaetra I like using my tan as an indicator of how active I've been, when the lines start fading then it's time for another ride/hike
@topspin nah, my bike just kinda hit something and threw me over. I actually have no idea what it was. Probably a bump in the bike path
the command line is a shitty UI because if you hit the wrong key nothing works
My favourite one-shot session was the 300 wands story. Tl;dr the players are given a barrel of wands which each trigger one out of 10,000 random spell effects, but the effect isn't known until they use it. Tons of fun, and the nice thing is that many of the wands trigger effects that can be used to keep the campaign going (e.g. spawning monsters, destroying villages, summoning gods).
Went for a ~8mi hike at 11000' in CO
At the top it started hailing
Multiple lightning strikes within a mile
Ran our asses down
Sliding through snow banks
Altitude sickness
Ow my head
My school bought an off-the-shelf system that had each student buy a remote with buttons on it. Then during class, the professor would show a multiple choice question on screen and you'd connect your remote to some base station in the class and vote.
I guess this sort of stuff is only needed for freshman classes? By 3rd/4th year I don't think my teachers cared that much about whether or not you came to class, if you knew the material then you knew the material
@admiral_p said in Ubuntu has decided to no longer support Steam:
Still, I can't imagine the distros that are currently based on Ubuntu carrying on with their dependency from it. I predict a huge shift to a Debian base (as it should be after all).
I bet there will be 6 such debian bases within a year. I think steam might just say 'fuck it' and only support steamOS or something
@Tsaukpaetra except with a 500% higher chance of bleeding out by the side of the road after a fall until someone drives over you!
@Zenith said in Chrome to limit ad blocking to 30k rules, prevent request blocking for non-enterprise users:
Also, Chrome is the worst browser for tabs. After about 30-35, it starts making them too small to see the icons.
@Polygeekery said in Chrome to limit ad blocking to 30k rules, prevent request blocking for non-enterprise users:
PiHole
FWIW pihole and hosts based blocking won't be as effective as URL based blocking (eg I believe YouTube serves ads from their own domain) and will also leave blank spots on pages
E: also you can just use http://someonewhocares.org/hosts instead of adding latency to all your DNS requests
The spec for Manifest v3 was released for comments in January, however someone from Google recently updated it and added a note related to the webrequest API:
Chrome is deprecating the blocking capabilities of the webRequest API in Manifest V3, not the entire webRequest API (though blocking will still be available to enterprise deployments).
V3 removes the ability for extensions to block requests, instead requiring extensions to send a declarative static blocklist to the browser and rely on the browser to block requests. This new API also limits the number of blocked entries to 30,000 (half of EasyList's length).
Raymond Hill (uBlock, uBlock Origin creator) replied:
I don't see myself needing this but at least it's finally here
@admiral_p existing integrations with other services is handy I guess.
I don't like Slack's client, but I kind of prefer using it over 'just' spinning up a server and 'just' firewalling it and 'just' setting up ZNC and 'just' setting up an SSL cert.
@topspin I found that it often lost track of my HR when I was running, but for weightlifting etc it might retain accuracy
I think this speaks more for the size of mastodon than anything else
@Zerosquare from the source blog post:
…Frustrated, one of the lawyers asked “Why did you have to put Chrome first?” Confused, I explained that we did not give any priority to Chrome. Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done. As luck would have it, these two lawyers still used IE6 to access certain legacy systems and had both ended up with random seeds that placed Chrome in the first position. Their fear was that by showing preferential treatment to Chrome, we might prick the ears of European regulators already on the lookout for any anti-competitive behavior…
how things have changed
If you live an apartment then you probably know that turning your radio to news at max volume at 0230 is going to wake up other people right?
Did I somehow piss off my upstairs neighbour??
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
"Debian stable never crashes! Because it's so stable! You get old versions but they work!"
This is one of my pet peeves. Yes packages never change but their bugs are frozen in time. For example, if you change any time settings on XFCE the clock disappears. This is a known issue with that version and will probably not get backported to stable.
@Tsaukpaetra this video is too high-res for my computer