everybodyknows

kitchen things

Made in Japan: Gangy 300 can opener. No moving parts, just a handle of heavy stamped steel, with a stainless claw blade riveted on. Last opener I'll ever need. $12 online from the usual suspect.

seller is using AI to that extent

Useful info for any later negotiation. They've revealed they are:

A: Dishonest

B: Not too bright

Does buying through the Apple store also get you access to the web site (in case you're disloyal enough to also use non-Apple hardware)?

Recall that they're tax-deductible now -- so tips are the most efficient way to compensate employees. You're feeling the second-order effects of the inevitable business model change.

building a live portfolio

The portfolio grows -- "live", and faster than each of the businesses within it shrink. As they all do, by Bending Spoons' strategic design.

How is Codeberg connectivity from outside Europe, nowadays?

For any Europeans who've been tracking the issue: How much take-up have Mario Draghi's ideas for business reform gotten?

From 2024: https://commission.europa.eu/topics/competitiveness/draghi-r...

For business operators this can be done with a low-friction web page: https://www.onosm.org/

shrivelling state authority

Sure, but state authority alone is no substitute for cultural norms.

The great revelation of Google Street View for me has been that such is more or less the world norm. Neighborhoods of entirely unbarred windows and unfenced lots are scarce on any continent.

The tragedy is that so few, at least here in the US, see the liberating value in them.

Another CoMaps Search issue:

https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/4449

That's the monumental social question going unconsidered -- why has governmental regulation not somehow adapted to the new economic reality, so that all that real physical capital is put to at least some productive use?

slop sniff test

An unexpected challenge being that our sense of smell requires continual readjustment: Heavy use of em-dashes was formerly a "tell", but the AI-masters retrained them, and now they do the opposite. Indeed, there's a general scarcity of any punctuation other than the period.

Her coming-of-age short story or perhaps memoir of a few years ago in The New Yorker has stayed with me. Only after finishing and contemplating it does the tragedy of the young woman's experience really make itself felt.

Regents are selected by Sacramento. At bottom, it's a political failure.

Going to a separate website and (gasp!) sending an actual email or calling someone, those are strong filters for intent that FB Marketplace lacks.

Thanks -- that explains why anonymized email as an ad reply option has (silently) disappeared.

Gmail

We might all do well to remind F&F to print out account recovery codes, and then put some thought into where they'll be safe.

Linux users should watch for the release of new shims.

Where to look? Is fwupd involved?

Labor "shortage"? In a free market, wouldn't the price of labor, i.e. wages, rise to meet demand?

I support MDN by disabling UBO. This is not (much) of a burden: there is no animation, and the advertised products are always technical and possibly of interest. Only complaint is the occasional large light areas, which do not play well with dark mode.

When the East Entrance to Yellowstone National Park opens every year, Google Maps tends to insist it’s closed and redirects drivers several hours out of their way to the North Entrance in Gardiner, Montana.

FTA:

MDM, mobile EDR

Anyone care to ELI5 these?

syntax highlighter

This was critical for me, but I didn't see an easy way for Markdown to bring it to my Linux+Emacs home, so I went with Org-mode.

Custom Go code parses the Org-mode syntax into HTML, WeasyPrint turns that into paginated PDF. The latter step is a bit slow, so I proofread iterative content updates in the HTML.

WeasyPrint as a project is very much alive on Github. Filing a bug there might get your problem solved.

Web site built for the petition campaign:

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/

Direct link to its FAQ page:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dxdfw0gIE2UW9k5cqtf6FVMaclI...

And here's the slick 50-page, double-column manifesto from the UC establishment, unsigned of course, on the subject -- giving us a sense of the scale of the bureaucratic blob that the petitioners are up against:

https://www.ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-plannin...

some institutional sucker will buy the company

What sort of institutions would try to take on operating such a business? And when does word get around, and the pool of suckers dry up?

... markdown to HTML to PDF/X-1a processor using Python, WeasyPrint, and ghostscript.

I've been converting HTML to PDF by running WeasyPrint (latest version) with options I hoped were sufficient to satisfy the X-1a rules -- can it not quite do that? Is that why you need ghostscript?

A downside to this technique is that there's no guarantee that every commit will compile, which might be a dealbreaker.

To some of us, that's an essential structural criterion. Passing unit-level self-tests may be as well.

2023.

How does enforcement work? The article does not say.