Amazon subscribe and save is THE biggest scam.
Big price fluctuations mean you're almost certainly paying way more than your 10% saving next time the order rolls around, and you don't even get notified when the order happens!

Remember the new @mozilla CEO whose first action was to post a link to her Linkedin profile?

Some said I was harsh that we should let her the benefit of doubt.

So here are the first true actions: firing 60 people working on useless products to focus the company on its true mission.

The useless products?
- Relay (privacy, protection against spam)
- VPN (privacy)
- Mozilla.social (Mastodon)
- Monitor (privacy)

True mission to focus:
- AI (???)

You can’t made that up

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

I added styling to my RSS feed. I think it looks great and it was surprisingly easy. https://vladh.net/index.xml

How the first gen ipod was reverse engineered to run #Rockbox:

1. Someone figured out that when loading a particular HTML page (for viewing on the device), the device would reboot. It crashed. A buffer overflow in the HTML viewer!

2. The device remembered what it did before the crash, so it would reload the HTML page again after boot. Unless you connected to it over USB and removed the HTML file it would stick in this cycle.

(continues...)

@asahi95
this took me one hour please kill me

Me: Alright, did we get shit done this weekend?

Brain: No, not really.

Me: Okok, so then we feel super relaxed now and pumped for another week of work?

Brain: Somehow also no.

This week I also built the excellent Precision Clock by #mitxela

It took about 3 hours, and my rusty soldering skills got a bit of a refresher. Thankfully improving with each one of the 299 through-hole solder joints (plus redoing ~5 cold joints)

Now I have a millisecond accurate GPS-powered ISO timestamp on my desk, and the girlfriend is not in the slightest bit impressed by this.

https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iii

#gps #clock #diy #hardware #opensource #timestamp

Tried out Kagi for 100 searches and am largely impressed.

Felt weird to have to ration my searches this week for the trial, but I still averaged 30 a day until I hit the limit. I felt no hesitation in subscribing for a year afterwards.

The lenses feature is an interesting idea to get a different perspective of the web.

The ability to weight or block domains is extremely useful to tailor my search results.

My only concern was limited number of searches, and the new pricing structure has solved that!

#kagi #search #searchengine #degoogle #privacy

Must .. resist .. urge .. to buy another Raspberry Pi

#Pi5 #RaspberryPi

I was very delighted to discover there’s an active and thriving #BelieveInFilm community on Mastodon a while back. There’s a whole cluster of hashtags where you can find lovely analog pictures, like #FilmPhotography, #35mm, #MediumFormat and more.

750 million thingies per month. Also known as less than 300 thingies per second.

WHAT!?

Where is "single-threaded WAL replay"? The Mariana Trench?

Last Wednesday evening @nova had a climbing accident and died.

All of us that loved her are heart broken and stunned. She was an amazing person that lived out loud and built connection and community wherever she went. She will be horribly missed.

I really did give Kubernetes/helm/et al. a good honest try today...

It's still gonna be a 'no' from me, dawg.

"The Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.06376v1.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ris_UxYMn_Y

#adhd #programming #programmers #ide #jetbrains

24 years on and Office Space is still as relevant as ever.

#OfficeSpace #DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangsta

No YOU broke #reddit

Break the impulsive habitual tab opening with uBlock filters!

https://reddark.untone.uk #reddit

You know something has gone really wrong when an IM platform needs to add a Kanban style workflow to dealing with messages.