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... and then they go on to say there's no subscription involved.

At $99 every 2 years it might as well be a subscription.

I've played it!

Back in the 70s a campground near Mandeville, Louisiana had a Killer Shark machine in a small arcade next to their pool, I spent the entire vacation (and way too many quarters) in there much to my parents' dismay :)

SOCKS proxy over SSH?

amen to that! I started using a Logitech MX Vertical mouse a few years back to deal with wrist pain. It helped with the pain immensely, but the switches in the mouse failed after ~6 months of use.

I replaced the Logitech mouse with an inexpensive vertical mouse from ProtoArc and haven't looked back.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'd expected a match on the section heading :\

Thanks for providing these instructions. My usual way to get to some setting in Firefox is to use the search box but it seems that Mozilla is actively hiding this one by excluding it from search, ie if you type "advertising" into the settings search box then there are no results.

Love the logo, the reverse checkmark as a "step" is a great concept.

Currently self-employed with a web hosting company started with some former colleagues when the company we used to work for was bought out and shut down. We were fortunate to be included in a list of alternate providers that the old company gave to their customers and had an early influx of a couple thousand customers. As a result we've got a ton of customers who we've been working with for 16+ years.

I handle the customer-facing stuff, ie service and support. That sort of work has the downside of dealing with occasional negativity, but for the most part our customers are happy and capable of producing complex problems that are fun to solve :)

And yet after like 50 emails to parents with yahoo email addresses they are giving me errors because of "unusual volume of emails from your domain"

Scandalous, it's almost as if the established major providers have a financial interest in making it difficult for smaller providers and individuals to send mail using their own domains!

T-mobile: (data breach noises)

Also T-mobile: Give us your bank account info.

Yeah, no.

It looks like status updates on https://status.stripe.com are tweets.

The most recent updates are available on that page, but for anything older than that you'll need a Twitter account to read stripestatus on Twitter. Even their Atom feed is a useless river of "A status update was posted" titles with truncated tweet content and t.co links.

It's such a shame, Twitter used to be so useful for stuff like this.

Oatmeal: tastes like chicken.

Surely you mean tuna.

+1 for Acorn, my image editing need are pretty light and Acorn does everything I need.

Every time I see a question like "Why doesn't Apple build $THIS?" I assume the answer is "because they'll make more money selling 3rd-party $THIS in the app store".

The Society for Creative Anachronism has a heraldry group on Facebook there that might be able to help you (if you're on FB): https://www.facebook.com/groups/SCAHeraldryChat

I got my first set of noise-cancelling headphones in June 2022.

I work from home in a small open-floorplan house and being able to mask the sounds of everything else going on has been a welcome change :)

Pixelfed is the droid you're looking for. You can find a server to join at https://pixelfed.org and then support the project via Patreon for $1/month (or more).

Came here to say the same thing, except Bruegel.

The only new Thunderbird calendar feature I'd like to see it the ability to turn off calendaring in Thunderbird.

On Twitter I've seen a lot of criticism of the whole idea of "choose a server" when joining Mastodon (and the fediverse in general).

Instead of lists of servers, I wonder if a better onboarding workflow would be...

- What username do you want?

- What are your interests? (click, click, click)

- Backend checks availability of username on matching servers

- Pick one of these: @username@abc.social, @username@def.org, @username@xyz.social (with a description of the community associated with each result).

In my opinion this could make the process feel more like choosing an email address which, again in my opinion, could be more familiar than "choose a server".

You use the hashtags that match your interests, eg I wanted more Python content in my timeline so I typed #python into the search box at mastodon.online and followed the tag. I didn't need to use an external site for this, just the Mastodon site.

Now I'm seeing posts from people discussing Python stuff which gives me a pool of people to choose to follow. Now that I've got some people populating my timeline I can unfollow the tag if I decide it gets too noisy.

Also Discovery is a huge problem: how do I discover people I know? How do content creators who want to build an audience (and so create content that would attract users to the platform) get discovered?

Hashtags play a huge role on Mastodon - discover people by following hashtags and include hashtags in your posts so that people can discover you.

I served as a kingdom herald when I was active in the Society for Creative Anachronism a few years ago. Learning blazon (the descriptive language of heraldry) was a lot of fun - the rigid syntax with its DRY goal of describing armory with as little repetition as possible reminded me somewhat learning a programming language.

My own arms: Per bend azure and argent, a rabbit's head erased counterchanged.

Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving

The wretched hive of scum and villainy that is my postfix quarantine begs to differ.

LaunchBar[0], which predates Alfred but is similar in function, also has a fantastic searchable clipboard manager which includes a feature that I've not been able to find in any other clipboard manager: a push/pop stack.

With this feature you can, for example, copy a bunch of different items from a web page on to the stack, then paste them sequentially in a web form and pop them from the stack so that they're no longer in the clipboard history. With this workflow there's no hopping back and forth between pages, you do all of the copying at once in one place and all of the pasting at once in the other. It all happens via keyboard shortcuts, no interaction with the LaunchBar UI at all.

This feature is what's been keeping me on LaunchBar for almost 15 years now. Alfred looks great, but without this push/pop feature in the clipboard manager I'd have a hard time switching.

[0] https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

Thanks!

Hmm, valid now but with a self-signed cert. Was the original self-signed?

is that you, oh-heck?

No, sorry - that doesn't work. Results in "Parse Error: Expected HTTP/".

+1 for Dsri Seah's tools!

Their Emergent Task Planner kept me on track for years, and I still go back to it when I feel like my day is spiraling out of control. It's a great companion to my existing digital productivity tools.

https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/

(edit: name correction)