waveymaus

kerning does not shift characters up and down, only left and right.

indeed you can do this. truly embarrassed that it took me as long as it did into my initial detox (2 months) to realize i could just reset my password! but as mentioned in this thread, that's fine if someone figures that out. not going to advertise it, and if someone uses it, then i'm sure they have a good reason.

thanks, i appreciate the question. right now just running regular backups, but i think a redundancy system would be better. will investigate, implement, and do a little write-up this week. :)

I'm the developer and would love to have folks join me in logging off for the start of the year. Built this after taking the last three months off of social media. It is pretty straightforward tech-wise, but the ritual of locking yourself out has proven really powerful for me.

came here to say just this. number one lesson from handstanding is the value of warming up and being kind to your wrists.

this is as wholesome content as HN will ever get.

UK sources are not reporting anything in line with what the politician in the referenced social media post is claiming.

Instead we have comments like this from the Independent:

[Cathay Pacific] said it would comply with a directive from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which ban any employees who took part in the protests from working on mainland China-bound flights.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/cathay-...

and from the BBC:

Last week, Cathay Pacific had told its staff it would not stop them joining the pro-democracy demonstrations currently sweeping Hong Kong.

But on Monday, Mr Hogg warned staff they could be fired if they "support or participate in illegal protests".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49367949

It is certainly possible this is true, but I find it troubling this story is at the top of HN without other reliable sources backing it up.

for me, a lot of it is simply not having to go in and add in console.logs to everything to see what props and state are, you can just explore around instead

I appreciate trackers are "well-known", but only to a specific class of technical individuals. "Nontechnical users" is basically everyone. They have a right to be outraged, especially when a technology is understood asymmetrically well by the class of individuals who exploit this asymmetry to their advantage.

Both the individuals visiting these sites, and possibly even the people making the decision to implement tracking don't know their browsing data is being used for anything other than analytics by the website provider, (if at all by the user, who likely feels safe behind a private browser).

there are a few on the topic of the attention economy:

- stand out of our light by james williams

- the attention merchants by tim wu

- the shallows by nicholas carr

and not on the attention economy, but nervous states by william davies is very much in the similar thread.

well i’m sorry to hear that. i understand your point about cliché. there is a good deal of tired arguments to be made about how to be more human, but i’ve still never read one that is as personal as this one.

as for being “useful”, it is not so cut and dry, which i think her philosophy wouldn’t allow. it isn’t a “do this” so much as it is an “i did this”. and for me, the subjectivity of attention is much better lent to that than some objective diagnosis of attention.

I'm currently halfway through Jenny's book of the same title, and the situated and the personal, with a strong philosophical grounding makes this such a refreshing read compared to the rest of the literature on attention. Attending is such a subjective experience, and the personal account of developing a different kind of attention (especially one that is situated in places relatable to myself) makes this so much more meaningful than other, still excellent, but more View From Nowhere texts such as Stand Out of Our Light, or The Attention Merchants.

Reading this post earlier this year stopped me in my tracks and would highly recommend the book if you enjoyed this!