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>Let me share my slightly unusual definition of “effort”: it’s the felt experience of expending energy beyond what an activity requires How about finding a word that actually captu…

>Addresses of buildings aren't private, and they're somewhat analogous as with many computing concepts. Buildings are analogous to domains, not email addresses.

>Raising wages has an inflationary effect on the prices in the restaurants/bars That implies consumers spend differently if they know the actual cost ahead of time, otherwise servi…

Snapcast https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

Last year the UK ATC system crashed when it "encountered an extremely rare set of circumstances presented by a flight plan that included two identically named, but separate waypoin…

>they'll claim they are "Security related barriers" and therefore exempt? Why would it be exempt? The obvious cynical ploy is extending the EULA idea and apple becoming a phone lea…

>don't have large enough decoupling capacitors Is this something you can eyeball to guess at quality?

>It's like saying all music in the world consists of some form of "lower note, higher note, lower note, higher note" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre... >Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: >There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does n…

Sometimes the full content is available - but only if you navigate to it via a Google results page, and you don't have existing cookies implementing a "free article limit".

Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn't necessarily trust Johann Hari's writing out of hand - ie other things in the book. https://en.wiki…

Ridesharing - arguably it's Google Maps who're ignoring it.

>Maybe someday humans will get that. That's what the litigation is .

Ironic to link to a website doing a similar thing - illegally using "legitimate interest" to justify data processing.

>Can anyone make out if songs like this are specially mastered with separate vocal channels ... or if Apple is applying ML to do voice isolation "Coupled with an ever-expanding cat…

I've been blocked from an Akamai fenced website because I used Firefox for Android. Not great when you have a plane ticket you need to change.

JMAP is a replacement for IMAP. Unlike IMAP it has immutable IDs[0] but not much support[1]. [0] https://jmap.io/#faq [1] https://jmap.io/software.html

>Maybe self-hosting could be made more common through selling a (cheap) appliance with self-hosted services pre-installed. Mastondon-as-a-service exists eg https://masto.host/ . on…

https://www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/fuel-consump... >The external noise emitted by passenger cars has been controlled since 1929 when the Motor Cars (Excessive Noise) r…

>Outlook Express format http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Outlook_Express_Data...

GDPR Article 16 gives you the right to have inaccurate personal information amended, taking in to account the purpose of the information. A phone number used for this purpose would…

In the EU (and UK) you would have rights under GDPR to have your data corrected. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-16-gdpr/ >Art. 16 GDPR Right to rectification >1 The data subject shall ha…

https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf >6 Conclusion >In this paper, we decided that sometimes it’s more fun to do things the hard way, and then did so. Using several differen…

If you zap enough elements on Twitter the scroll bars come back anyway - so !important must be unnecessary for that site. https://nitter.net/about offers a better experience IMHO, …