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Same for the kindles, but the buttons used to be much better. I'll probably buy a used (they are discontinued) oasis some day just to get buttons.

Not just for children, many "narrative style" TTRPGs encourage exactly stuff like this. If the item is not majorly important (a sausage), then you can just assume you have it on you (though a GM might want you to do a short explanation why you have a sausage with you).

The paragraph following that explains what I mean. It’s technically not always all on Friday, as Japan doesn’t join in, and smaller labels or non-labels sometimes also pick others days, but the bulk of releases happens every Friday. For tomorrow I have 9 albums on my list, plus an extra one that releases on Sunday.

A lot of old stuff was also encoded way worse than one might think from the alleged bitrate. A while ago I went through a ton of old files, and everything that sounded shitty (or, far more commonly, stuff I downloaded but didn’t care about) got yeeted.

I loved OiNK (and had the t-shirt), but neither What.cd nor waffles ever were a proper replacement for me.

What got me that feeling of discovery again, decades later, and even surpassed it, was doing release Fridays and just listening.

I mostly know what (sub)-genres I like, I go through upcoming release lists for the next week, open every bandcamp link in a new tab (or for those that don’t have bandcamp, I see if I care about the genre enough to search for a single on YouTube), and then I have maybe a hundred links, I sample everything for a few seconds and decide on yay or nay, and about 10 - 20 % go onto my excel sheet. Then on Fridays (up to Sunday, depending on how busy the release day is) I start listening to all those albums to see which of those I’ll buy (usually 1-2).

It’s some effort, but my appreciation for music was never this high.

But bandcamp is only 128 kbit MP3 for free streaming, now that’s not a mystery, but probably also not worse than whatever YT offers.

That is what keeps confusing me when people hype wero. It essentially (I think some limited trials?) doesn't exist for B2C, and sending money to friends is a very minor use case.

So once it has really broad support and can be used as merchant, is when it'll maybe become interesting.

No, please do keep using them if you use any requiring puzzles (like hCaptcha) at all. It’s the easiest captcha to solve automatically, with many extensions available.

I plan to eventually get there, just need to find the time. It’s a lot of code, and a lot of it is not set up for testability.

I work on a codebase from the early 2000s, a lot of it using webforms, a long abandoned .NET technology. A rewrite preserving all behavior and making no observable changes whatsoever would be amazing. But it’s also tested exactly as well as you’d expect from something like that so I’d rather not let AI go wild.

I’m not a huge AI fan, and was ready for some Schadenfreude. But with every paragraph I thought "so, just like modern human-created websites?"

Personally, I like the elastic (and similar) license… as long as, as you did, it’s chosen upfront. Being open source as a marketing strategy and later switching to source available licenses is what I find highly [0] problematic.

[0]: With a bit of an understandable carve out if it turns out no one else ever contributed anything of significance.

Still looking fondly back to when I was studying back in ~2006, and my C program on some (I think?) ATMega device (probably not the latest version of the compiler? I really can’t remember the details anymore) device didn’t work the way I thought it should. Called the professor over. He looked at the assembly and realized the compiler was modifying a variable outside the loop for some reason that was modified inside with the C code. So before I even heard of "It’s never the compiler", I learned that sometimes it actually is the compiler ;)

what requires the internet or becomes tedious if we opt not to use the internet

Listening to music

Isn’t that just their choice? The most tedious it can get is if you want to stay completely offline, then for acquisition you have to buy the CD or Vinyl in person, which makes it about exactly as tedious as it used to be before the internet. Listening offline? Extremely easy. Works the same way it always had, but the software is better.

There are a lot more examples like this, where the tedious part is simply how it used to be, and using the internet instead is making it easier.

It doesn’t become tedious, it always was, and the internet simply offers an easier alternative. Granted, there are some other examples on there, but not that many.

They shortly after say "joking aside", but that seems like a lot of text for a "joke".

This is not choosing between different models, really. You should check the (interesting, yet sadly very slop-padded) readme. It’s about trying to make a binary decision: Is this a hard or easy question, and about making that decision extremely fast. They suggest putting another router that chooses the model behind it. I’m not sure how well it would work, but the idea is interesting and different than other routers.

I don't think forbidding that is legal in Germany

OTOH, that’s probably how they got rich, and why I’ll never be.

We are a very small company, and have always had far more Firefox than Safari users. And though they get by via dominance, IE style bundling of the browser to the OS is toxic, so good riddance.

Depends on the region, no one where I work has an iPhone or a current Mac, so stuff gets tested on FF and Chrome, and Safari gets thoughts and prayers. We would test on Safari if it were simple, but alas.

Sample size of 1, but my primary connection is my state (SH) in Germany, then European. I feel less of a connection to my country.

There was a map some time ago about who had what connections on the regional, country, and EU level. Iirc EU was almost never number one, but got quite a few second places.

Reading the Wikipedia page (including the originally projected end date of 2026), it sounds a bit worse. Probably not Germany bad, but I wouldn't bet on the 4 years either.

Being missing means they haven’t been tested, not that they don’t work. Generally they probably only don’t work if they require the google play verification thingy

Clearly inspired by HN, there are few sites where I have to zoom in to get any kind of readability ;)

The vast majority work, check this list for details: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

He got called out several times

Good point, WP [0] has some details, looks like pretty credible call outs.

I did read about that when I watched the show, but proceeded to forget because I didn’t actually care that much ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Adelstein#Career

Thought the name seems familiar: Jake Adelstein got his 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice turned into a (fun to watch, apparently very dramatized, though that was already criticized for the memoirs) 2 season HBO series in 2022.

Iran, Haiti, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Argentina have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight.

Unless I’m completely misunderstanding things, it’s "better for the party". Our new Nazi party in Germany (AfD) even said something like that openly.

My wife is black and has sensitive skin. She once tried zinc oxide sunscreen. If one wants to be protected from the sun while cosplaying as purple monster, it's a great choice.

They do? Arch exploded in popularity, but the forums were full of warnings.

My favorite Aur helper (pikaur) also asked you to check the PKGBUILD on every install or update, back when I used Arch.

My guess: A lot of fastmail fans here. And people often upvote stuff from companies they like.

FM often(ish) posts blog posts that are very low key, sometimes they make it on HM, sometimes they don't.