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The funniest part about WordPress is that you can usually achieve at least a 50% speed boost or more by adding a plugin that just minifies and caches the ridiculous number of dynam…

> And because that "someone" isn't a bigcorp (i.e. Microsoft) wanting to do a co-marketing push, but just FOSS people gradually building something but never quite "launching" a 1.0…

That already exists, it's called Common Crawl[1], and it's a huge reason why none of this happened prior to LLMs coming on the scene, back when people were crawling data for specia…

In the past, I've heard recommendations not to use remote Time Machine over SMB directly, but rather to create an APFS disk image on a remote server and then backup to that as if i…

That's really surprising to me. iOS has had pretty decent audio format support for a few years now: even though you can't directly import FLAC files to iTunes/Music, they are suppo…

This has been the advantage, and the drawback, of Signal's security model from the start. Everything on Signal (at least the "original" design from a few years ago, this has starte…

Okay so here's the argument I've heard: if arbitrary replacements of the lid sensor were possible, it would be feasible to create a tampered sensor that failed to detect the MacBoo…

Hmm…do you have the in-browser DNS over HTTPS resolver enabled? I personally can't reproduce this, but I'm using DoH with 1.1.1.1. I've noticed that both Chrome and Firefox tend to…

> What they're really afraid of is that people will read content using LLM inference and make all the ads and nags and "download the app for a crap experience" go away -- and never…

The infamous Dropbox comment[0] actually didn't even cite rsync; it recommended getting a remote FTP account, using curlftpfs to mount it locally, and then using SVN or CVS to get …

The desktop issue was an intentional change that happened sometime in like 2017 or so. The original functionality of the quality selector was to throw out whatever video had been b…

> The actual scary stuff is the dilution of expertise, we contributed for a long time to share our knowledge for internet points (stack overflow, open source projects, etc), and it…

This is why I believe that Bluesky and the AT protocol is a significantly more attractive system than Mastodon and ActivityPub. Frankly, we’ve tried the kind of system ActivityPub …

> Having to visit fifty personal sites would be a pain. Which is why RSS (and Atom, but I’m just saying RSS because it’s less to type) was such a brilliant invention, and also why …

No, it’s so much worse than that. Look closely at https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/pricing/ and note this line: > You also incur standard AWS data transfer charges for all data transferr…

This is actually an issue with their docs that I encountered a few weeks ago when I was first experimenting with this tool. They apparently added a Spanish-language version of the …

There's a version of that with video that Neil reuploaded a while back as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3ETgAvQrw The corporate PowerPoint visuals just adds so much.

The problem is that there simply wasn't a better option at the time. Ogg Vorbis was a novelty at best, and it was the only decently widely adopted open source competitor for any of…

> The best example I have is the massive infrastructure many people insist is required for a website. This is my biggest pet peeve, and I think a lot of it (among supposedly tech-s…

I stopped trusting Google Authenticator several years ago when I realized it had no syncing, backup, or even device transfer functionality whatsoever. A quick test made me realize …

Most of these companies seemingly were in a good place, and then started doing stupid pivots to try and make even more money than they already were. Reddit was doing fine as a text…

> The average YouTube content creator makes less than 0.02 per ad view The number I see tends to fluctuate between $1 to $1.50 per 1,000 views, or about $0.001 to $0.0015 per view.…

Some creators do put in fairly natural ad breaks, since there is an option to manually define where to run ads. RedLetterMedia is the best example that comes to mind; they get to a…

If I remember right, they’ve already said (or at least implied; it really seems like they had absolutely no implementation plans beyond “we want money now”) that RSS and JSON acces…

If there’s an option on whatever YouTube interface you’re using, try to select the “Related” section of the recommendations on a video. At least in my experience, that list seems t…