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If you use any kind of ad blocker, switch to FireFox

Chrome is deliberately crippling ad block extensions via manifest v3

It haunts me in my dreams

We kinda do, with GPS satellites that have to correct their clocks due to the effects of gravity and speed

And communication with space probes

I use 24h clocks and ISO 8601 dates almost always

Honestly, I’m better at organizing code than I am my actual life

Timezones make intuitive sense for humans

UTC / Unix timestamps make intuitive sense for computers

The issue is bridging the gap

There’s a reason I run Linux, and root my Android

Because it actually feels like my device now

(And fixing issues is significantly easier, if you know where to look)

I’m so glad i can use Linux on my work PC

It’s an explicit “opt-out” by the OP, such that their content cannot (legally) be used to train LLMs or such (Chat GPT, Github Copilot, etc)

Well, that’s what I assumed until i read the license terms. It doesn’t explicitly mention AI or LLMs, but it does say

You may not use the material for commercial purposes

Which i assume has the same limitations for AI training, for commercial AI

(I am not a lawyer)

While i also disagree with python’s tendency to use exceptions as control flow

Python is a pretty stellar scripting language. I wouldn’t use it for app dev, but it’s quite handy for the odd automation or CLI task

I’ve gone full linux both at home and at work. Thankfully, most of the tools we use are cross platform / FOSS. But in the odd case, I use KVM (the linux equivalent to Hyper-V) to spin up a windows VM

It has it’s issues (like graphics card pass-through), but it works pretty well

Use a spectroscopic app on your phone

It’ll help you identify the source of high pitch sounds

I once noticed an external HDD was making a high pitch noise intermittently, as the LED turned on and off. It was bizarre

Edit: spalling

I wonder how tough it would be to set up an “open source” style news media / investigative journal. Ideally using crowdfunding

Something without an incentive for metrics chasing

I recently broke the networking stack by uninstalling ca-certificates

I was using a slightly risky command to delete unneeded packages, and for some reason ca-certificates was on the list

At least the fix was simple. Boot the rescue iso and reinstall them

I spend a lot of time in the r/furry discord server

It’s a wonderful place to just chat. Imo, discord is fine as a chatroom

I only use DDG for searching. I use Google for things like checking business hours or directions (you can use !g to search google)

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs