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It's very easy to make websites without needing cookie popups in EU/UK. Every cookie popup is a reminder of how stale the thinking around tracking and data sharing is!

Not to forget, Embassy Cat, Julian Assange's cat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michi_(cat)

Read the post by gklitz: Agricultural practices are ruining the water supply. It's nice to have food security, but you also need drinkable water. Groundwater in Denmark is drinkabl…

It's a bit like saying: People climbing a mountain can solve their mountain-climbing problems by not climbing mountings. Also not unlike: It's not the destination, it's the journey…

What's your take on the UI of Gmail? Or this very website you're using right now?

Not unlike the change from Docker Compose v1 to v2: https://docs.docker.com/compose/migrate/#service-container-n... (generated container names went from using underscores to using …

Here's a great example of putting a bit of engineering into hanging clothes outdoors: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hills-hoist-iconic-ro... I've seen many great things in…

The cool thing about water is that evaporates all by itself. For free even. No electricity is required. So an alternative to making the tumble dryer "smarter" can be to simply not …

It's very interesting with this perspective of internet popularity of the concept. I remember the Wikipedia entry from a long time ago as much shorter than the current version, so …

It's only the second time in history that a lobbying entity is banned. Second time since Monsanto in 2017. That's not a "path". Source: the first paragraph of the article. This has…

Does GitLab have an existing Fediverse presence, for example on a Mastodon instance?

That's great - sounds like you're a tech person and can have fun with LMS :) I'm sure it's a lot of fun if you have a good use case/motivation. I belong to the group of people who …

I understand that there is a great community effort to run local instances of the open source version of "Logitech Media Server" (LMS). Where I get really annoyed is that Squeezebo…

From the article: > The GitHub.com repository is almost 13 GB on disk; simply cloning the repository takes 20 minutes. Their problem seems to be mainly this. Which I'm surprised th…