Seceded

Automation meets ersatz automation

I use Waistline. It pulls food data from OpenFoodFacts and has support for meals and recipes as well, although I mostly track weight not nutrition.

“Mongrel” is the word, but I’ve barely heard it used.

Pretty confident “domestic shorthair” is the “John Doe” of cat breeds.

I desperately want to play through it but they seem to have made some weird technical decisions with the sound system and I don’t get half the sounds on any of my devices.

They’re trying

Hah. Our textbook market isn’t quite as captured. They run from $50-$350. I have about 100 textbooks and a bit under 200 books total.

I have a physical book collection worth thousands of dollars. The only party that has profited off me is Elsevier.

Clickspring [YouTube] [Patreon] has an ongoing project producing a replica with era-appropriate tooling. He’s actively contributed to research on the design and functioning of the device in furtherance of the project as well.

Note that there are actually a bunch of rules. “There’s just one rule” is itself a meme derived from it’s historical antecedents.

Some of this is the fault of the design of Word. Even modern versions have direct formatting in the Home tab, to the left (chronologically “before” for people used to left-to-right paradigms) of the styles box. The styles box itself becomes rapidly less accessible if the window is not full sized.

If they moved direct formatting to a formatting tab, had a more focused concept of styles, and possibly repurposed some of the direct formatting buttons for quick style application, people would use them a lot more reliably without any training.

Material from breaches shows that during a portion of this period, she used the same password across multiple email addresses and online accounts, in contravention of well-established best practices for online security. (There is no indication that she used the password on government accounts.)

This is… not interesting

• ❓Phone
• ❌Beeper (Messenger)
• ✔️ IronFox (Browser)
• ✔️Aves (Photos)
• ✔️OpenCamera

the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known

What’s this in reference to?

This is exactly the conversation that happened in Parliament over the Australian social media ban and its absurd.

There is a broad recognition that in a regulatory vacuum corporate social media created toxic and addictive “engagement”-maximising algorithms that harm all facets of society exposed to them.

So a solution is proposed: ban it for children.

When exactly, did it become fine for corporations to actively and deliberately harm people as long as they were old enough? How about preventing the harm?

It would be just as easy for a government to ban opaque and engagement maximising feed algorithms. But they went with the option that allows “tech” giants to keep harming the less marketable 80% of the population.

How about Usenet (1980)?

Every character there is working class, so I’m imagining in this case “regardless of class” is implicitly “regardless of perceived class”

I do use Voyager primarily, but is there a single FOSS app that remembers where you were in a comment thread when you go back into it? IMO that’s Boost’s killer feature, and literally the reason I ever used it.

Boost has a payment option. It’s super cheap and one-time so it’s not much of a hurdle. I use voyager now because Boost got weirdly inconsistent when loading lemmy images and videos, but I’d kill to have that UI and persistence back.

It was. It used to just work. This is what they took from us, those monsters.