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You can kinda get a similar experience to StumbleUpon with marginalia's explore mode - https://marginalia-search.com/explore

If you have the files downloaded, picard is also useful - https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

I heavily use android's focus mode to keep myself from being too distracted. Originally I tried using app timers, but I found myself just constantly bumping them to the point where I wasn't getting a benefit. Whenever I notice an app being noisy with notifications (even if I appreciate them when I'm not busy), I add it into the list of distracting apps. I have a daily focus timer that enabled when I get to work and ends when I (generally) leave work. This keeps me focused during the day, but I also occasionally enable this when I want to focus on other things, or if I find myself spending too much time on random apps. Because of the way that the breaks work, I have to keep asking for 5/15/30min and I'm very aware of how much time I'm wasting. I also enable flip-to-shh mode, which disables all notifications when my phone is face down on a surface. I realize that focus mode and flip-to-shh can seem extreme, but I noticed this works well worked for me.

https://blog.google/products/android/android-focus-mode/

I subscribe to 2600 (https://www.2600.com/) and Eighty (https://www.readeighty.com/).

I got a lifetime subscription for 2600 from my parents when I was in high school, and I subscribed to Eighty only a few years ago. My biggest gripe with larger magazines is all the ads, and uninteresting content throughout them; typically I only end up reading one or two articles and then the whole magazine feels like a bit of a waste. both 2600 and Eighty have very little/no ads, and feel more niche and content focused. Eighty is actually printed like a very nice paperback book.

He said Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) or glare-free high beams — a system that automatically dims a person's headlights when other vehicles are nearby — is common in Europe and other parts of the world, and has been for 15 years or so. That's not so in the U.S. or Canada.

Not sure if it's the same thing, but automatic high beams are a big problem in the US. In locations where there are lots of hills and curves, you are almost always briefly blinded by high beams for a second before your vehicle falls into detection rage. I'm not entirely sure why they exist either; rarely do I find roads are dark enough to require them.

I've also noticed when taking an Uber or Lyft that many drivers just turn their high beams on all the time. I once asked why my driver had them turned on, and the driver responded that he can't see without them. I feel like this is something that should be caught by a regular driving test and eye exam, but that's wishful thinking.

I feel like I'm overly sensitive because I have an astigmatism, but the bright headlights have become dangerous and unbearable.

There were quite a few I'll never remember the name of, but there were a lot of different renditions of A Christmas Carol with unknown characters on Cartoon Network or some other kids channel. I definitely remember Christmas Comes to Pac-Land[1], 'Twas the Night Before Christmas[2], A Jetson Christmas Carol[3], and one of the Flitstone Christmas episodes where they were acting in a play.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499003/ [2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208654/ [3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290683/

Some of my favorite memories are the times I got video game systems. Most notibly the Sega Genesis and z scale trains I got in '94/'95/'96 (not sure the exact year, I was very young) and GameBoy Color in '99. I got a Xbox in '01, Xbox 360 in '05; but they didn't quite have the same "magic" that they had when I was young. Also as a young kid, watching the Rankin Bass stop motion movies on the days leading up to Christmas. Then talking with my brother and sister while we tried (failed) to sleep on Christmas Eve, watching more and more obscure Christmas cartoons and whatever else would come on TV late on Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning.

The best non-Christmas morning memories were just random times I was at family Christmas parties or gatherings. Seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins dancing talking having fun. As a kid, we used to have the parties at family homes, which was always fun and super memorable. Later we moved to a hall as the family got bigger and cousins started to bring their children, in laws, and friends. I can't really point out any particular memory as good; just all the time spent with family, not necessarily caring about what else was going on in the world at the time.

Its not clear to me how much this will help; but based on how tags work, it seems like it should help at least somewhat. I use Privacy Badger on both Firefox on PC and Android and haven't run into any sites that break, other than maybe something like Ticketmaster? I'm sure it makes less of a difference on an Android device, where Google has other hooks to track me, but any little bit helps.

I imagine its mostly just familiarity if you want to tweak it in the future. There are also a lot of static site generators, and they can be an easy tool to create or modify yourself. Just as an example, I build my own because I didn't like the ones other people had: https://gross.sh/static-site-generator

Agreed - the edge-to-edge text can seem daunting and be a bit of a pain to read, depending on your display. I used reader mode to make it a bit more managable. Also worth noting the last ~30% of the page is two appendixes.

I think the article is worth a read, but doesn't necessarily introduce a new concept. Its basically stating that there are many broken products that you can buy, and they simply do not work. Typical wisdom says you should buy something you're not specifically good at building, or something that you're not "supposed to" build yourself because you specialize in something else. This article basically says that wisdom can be wrong and that there is value in building yourself. There are some good examples, but its definitely a position that you'd have to push to management at some companies because its a very bottom up position that many managers would not agree with.

ListenBrainz Radio can be decent - https://listenbrainz.org/explore/lb-radio/

This is made by the MetaBrainz folks, the same people behind the MusicBrainz database (which is used by ListenBrainz).

I was considering switching over to Tuta, but haven't spent the time on it yet. Did you end up moving to another provider or hosting your own?

Common command line tools are often the best for analyzing and understanding HPC clusters and issues. People have often asked me for tools and web pages to figure out how to understand and figure out issues in our cluster, or asked if we could use some tool like Hadoop, Spark, or some Azure/GCP/AWS tool to do it faster. I've said that if they want to spend the effort to use those tools, it could be valuable; but if it takes me 10min to use those tools and <1min using command line tools, I'll always fall back to the command line.

That's not to say that fancy tools don't have their use; but people often forget how much you can do with a few simple commands if you understand a pipeline and how the commands work.

I've used Firefox on desktop for years, even through some of the bad times. Today, FireFox is a really great experience and works well everywhere for me, except for some very specific use cases like internal company websites where some employees have deemed it "not suitable" for their web app (even when proven it works), and to use web apps that utilize APIs that I don't entirely like (namely, WebUSB - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/USB). But I keep a spare chromium around if I really need/want to use those apps. 99.9% of my browser use is Firefox.

I think the bigger push should be to get people using FireFox mobile. In my experience, it is a much better, more customizable browser than Chrome. It works well with my browsing habits and general use of my phone (screen UI positioning, gestures, etc.). The most obvious benefit is the extension support, which makes browsing some mobile websites tolerable. Showing people the difference between browsing genius.com (lyrics website) with and without ads usually shocks them. At times on Chrome, the web page is completely unusable due to ads and pop ups.

Yeah - not the OP but I investigated containers and they didn't do what you're asking for. I ultimately ended up installing Simple Tab Groups to get similar behavior to chrome. It would be nice if this functionality was actually built into the browser.

To me, if you compare an interaction with friends as feeling like bribery, I question the friendship a bit. Maybe its just me, but spending money/time/whatever in any way with/for friends shouldn't feel that way..

I think this is especially great for controversial topics/problems too, if it doesn't end with some long term bad result. Coffee is good, and as long as you aren't getting hooked on needing the caffeine, its a bit of a luxury. Its good to enjoy some things in life.

We racreset our iDracs monthly. Seemed stupid when I started, but I'm grateful after working with them enough. Newer versions seem to be a bit better than 11th and 12th gen iDracs; but I would never rule out a racreset, even on the newest gen.

I love Rotring pens and pencils - I used a Rapid Pro mechanical pencil throughout college. Nowadays I use a Rotring 600 or 800 with Ohto ballpoint refills. The knurled grip is great, the the overall weight of the pencil is much better than your average plastic pen.

This whole situation makes me really angry; but I suppose I should be happy that enough of the ops left and formed libera ~a month ago. I think it is something about the snark in root/rasengan's messages, portraying this as "saving FOSS," and "doing it for the users." It's upsetting to see (what seems like) one person with a lot of money and control destroy something that has existed and helped so many for decades. RIP Freenode, and thanks for the memories.

The argument that HTTPS is always available and not filtered is just wrong, anyone who has experience working with large corporations knows that clients use local * certificates and everything is decrypted by the firewall and then re-encrypted. Making HTTPS slow af and sometimes plain broken.

Yeah, and implementing everything over https is just going to make things harder or impossible to filter. There's a reason that large corporations block certain things, so if they get reimplemented over http, that will just be a security hole. It would be nice if an actual encrypted DNS protocol was created.

I'm often able to mystify people by fixing something by dropping to a shell and modifying files.. even some developers. I think the one thing that this article points out is how unaware some developers about what they're doing. The author had an example where he used NPM to download dependencies and said "websites were made of files; now they are made of dependencies." While that is not wrong, its too often how people think, and they forget that the dependencies are actually just a bunch of files.

I actually end up helping tons of random people in my company use conda, because they can't get the concept of virtual envs. They don't understand that the libraries are actually files on the disk, and your virtual environment is just a directory and some variables.

That's not to say all developers are like this, but I think the numbers that think like this are growing. Ultimately, I'm like you - they can pry the files from my cold dead hands, if I didn't know what/where/how files were used, I wouldn't fundamentally understand how a lot of different technologies even work.

I agree - I feel the "post-happiness world" that they're talking about is really just people attempting to find happiness through money and possessions as defined by other people/groups, and validation of that happiness through social media. The most happy times and happy events in my life may get a mention on my social media; but the truly happy memories and feelings come from things outside of what I expect to post publicly. I think what people need to focus on is what has made them truly happy, without direction from others (NYT or otherwise) and without any public validation of their happiness.

I'm involved in a few different areas at my company, but when I get involved in hiring DevOps types, I try to look for the person you described as a "Platform Engineer." There are far too many times where I talk to people who know what tools are, but its just a black box that they plug things into, and they only know to use it because that's what someone at their local DevOps meetup group said was cool/useful. I want people who can help devs, not just deploy their code, or give them a system to run on. They shouldn't be afraid of learning a new language (or just looking at it), and should have competency in one already.

In that instance, where an engineer can easily leave your company, it makes sense to want to ensure they really want the position since interviewing and onboarding are very expensive for a company as well as having someone leave with a bunch of institutional knowledge built up over the years.

I think that's the main thing we worry about when hiring. We do have HR do initial screenings, but we have our engineers do the rest of the interviews, so it's very costly for us. We've been bitten a few times because people wanted to use us as a strong stone. We aren't as big as a FAANG, but there are a lot of people who leave our company and go to one. If we spend months finding a person and they leave in 6mo to a year, it's very costly for us.

That's the kicker for me - when I talk to people who are complaining about open floor plans, they typically work in a place similar to the one pictured in the article. Now, that's not to say that more space necessarily makes it better for productivity, but it will certainly make some difference (at least, to me). Where I work, we have an open floor plan, and we have a good amount of space around our desks. I personally like it, but I can see how its not for everyone. If I were crammed in a tiny space, I would definitely be clamoring for an office.

I suppose its good that DoH is addressing the privacy issues with DNS, but I think I agree with the point this article is making overall. If its only one vector of privacy, making it a default this early on (less than a year old?) seems a bit presumptuous. If someone is looking for your DNS traffic, but you're using DoH; they'll likely find what they're looking for using another method.

In my opinion, this kind of goes against what I would expect a browser to do as well. I don't like the idea that it just bypasses the OS settings. I understand that there are guidelines for enterprise users, and people who want to disable it; but I feel that a prompt when they globally enable the setting isn't enough. Most average users will probably just click "Yes" on the dialog that asks if they want it enabled.

The idea of DoH seems like a good one, but I would prefer if they figured out a better way to implement it. Probably a huge majority of people are just using their ISP's DNS servers, but I don't know that pointing them to Cloudflare's DoH implementation is necessarily better.

I almost made the switch to chrome a few years ago when firefox was seeming slow... but never brought myself to it. At the office I've always used chrome because there was something weird about Firefox for some internal pages, and because I was stuck on some older version (I didn't have admin rights to my desktop when I first got hired and was stuck on the version the helpdesk would push). Today, I'm way happier with Firefox, and I'm glad I didn't make the switch at home. I'm currently in the process of trying Firefox again at work (now that I can install the latest version...), and will probably ditch chrome entirely. It hogs too many resources, and I don't really get any noticeable benefits from using it.

I also downloaded Firefox for Android recently to try it out... but I get the impression that chrome will always be king in the android space.