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Re:Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:06AM (#48672759)
thank u for Hydra, its great!
+1024. what the FUCK, Anil. We solved coding-is-for-everyone by throwing up our hands. please crush my body under the heaviest layer of abstraction yet and have the llm read my eulogy because who could possibly know me better than the code I spend all day talking to as if it were a human
Re:Remarkable Pro Colors on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:58AM (#46899692)
Re:Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:31PM (#46166855)
I'm playing with this and wondering if this is an actually good way to identify dominant colors and other features of a garment/product when using a photo where the item is styled and not isolated from the model or other garments
Re:Open Sourcing Kinopio on Thursday June 27, 2024 @01:07PM (#40812675)
I love that Glitch and Kinopio look like they were designed by someone with their own personal style/way of doing UI. Contrast with nearly everything else on the web.
1990s: just exploring, finding something cool on an FTP server

1997: you could make a web page about a subject you were interested in, list it in Yahoo etc, and people would come visit it

early 2000s: micro communities of friends and strangers visiting and commenting on each other's blogs

Re:FILE_ID.DIZ Description (1994) on Sunday May 26, 2024 @10:10PM (#40487032)
Sometimes there'd be a bunch because BBSes the zip passed through would add an nfo or .bbs
Re:Everything I know about SSDs (2019) on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @04:19PM (#39910432)
For NVMe, if you get the SMART data with smartmontools/smartctl, you can inspect Percentage Used.

"Percentage Used: Contains a vendor specific estimate of the percentage of life used for the Endurance Group based on the actual usage and the manufacturer’s prediction of NVM life. A value of 100 indicates that the estimated endurance of the NVM in the Endurance Group has been consumed, but may not indicate an NVM failure. The value is allowed to exceed 100."

for SATA/SAS SSDs, there is "Media_Wearout_Indicator" which hasn't been a particularly reliable indicator in my experience.

little warning for others - i tested it on a jammy box with kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 0 and it froze up good
> But maybe I missing the point?

maybe! coding can be playful and computers are for everyone.

https://github.com/whymirror/why-archive/blob/master/shoes/n...

https://imgur.com/a/GeZUEh6

Re:It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:09AM (#39397195)
yes!!
Re:Notes on my Remarkable tablet on Sunday February 11, 2024 @04:39PM (#39339032)
Offer a big canvas for writing and drawing while weighing 400 grams

(I have both)

Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:25PM (#39283716)
I had forgotten but I am still a "Brave Creator", but I disabled the thing that lets Brave serve ads to people visiting your site because I thought it was yuck

So little amounts of BAT from Brave users who are doing the micropayments thing are still coming in, 5.46 in total since then ($1.18 USD)

Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:15PM (#39279913)
I operate a website and I earned $70 in BAT during the most recent month (Aug 14 - Sept 14 2023)

September is the most recent month because I turned the Brave stuff off after that.

Re:Acme Klein Bottle on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:17PM (#39255935)
i've just noticed the truly teeny tiny size that you can buy as a pair of earrings!
Re:Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match on Thursday January 18, 2024 @09:07PM (#39050773)
Oh, scale in terms of team size. Yeah that is why React. I was thinking scale like you can build the hey.com mail client with htmx and be happy about your choice.
my kids and I have tried a bunch of the 2d options and we'd recommend Bloxels for making platform or top down 2d retro style games.

It's very fun to use and it includes everything you need - sound, pixel art editor.

We started playing with it in 2020 and my kids still pick it up and make new little games themselves, without my help.

Downsides: 1) there is no coding at all so you are limited by the features it offers 2) another monthly subscription

Re:Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:17AM (#39041294)
Everyone using modern Rails/Hotwire (including 37 signals) is using basically the same architecture, does that count?
Re:37Signals Launches Hey Calendar on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:51PM (#38960613)
I switched over to using it for my day to day just to check it out and I really like all of these things * a lot *.

I also like simple time tracking that displays tracked time as a bar on the border of your day or week view.

I think it's pretty nice as a personal calendar. For getting through my days and weeks, I was previously using Google Calendar + Microsoft To Do. I like this a lot more. I hope they do something better with the vertical text and make the habits more flexible.

Re:A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:21PM (#38932273)
this is a short story (the audio version is 4 hours long) and i'd recommend it to anyone who is feeling lost, rudderless, burned out...
Re:"Bit-Banging" Bluetooth Low Energy on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:58PM (#38931158)
a fun BLE device that i have is a Furby Connect (2016)

https://github.com/Jeija/bluefluff ("This project aims to reverse engineer / "hack" Furby Connect's Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, graphics and audio format and eventually find a way to execute own code on Furby")

Re:Fixing Macs door to door on Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:09AM (#38890125)
If you liked this, you might like the novella "Laserwriter II" by Tamara Shopsin.

https://www.theverge.com/c/22713440/the-worst-thing-on-earth...

Re:Hamlet: A type-safe Haml template engine for Go on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:38AM (#38840574)
there is a better side by side of the syntax here https://haml.info

(i've been using haml for 17 years lol. if I'm going to need a template language, i find it more enjoyable to read and write than everything else)

Re:The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:24AM (#38026826)
i wish that "Compact" and "Comfortable" options for spacing were as common as dark/light mode
Re:4-Track Tape Recorder Made Me Fall in Love with Music Again on Thursday October 12, 2023 @09:06AM (#37856645)
I'm still trying to relive the good times that I had recording with a Fostex 250 4 track in the 90s. Maybe I just need to set the DAW aside and try one of those little Tascam 6 tracks.

pic of the fun 80s design: https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/pck8xkwntfldgcx9x7eo....

this exactly the type of platform where community ownership makes a tons of sense but I don't know if we've seen many examples of it actually working and resulting in something sustainable

there are people working on questions like "what if the owners could have exited to their community instead of Epic"

https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community

wow this is so nice! somebody tell the bogleheads. they'll let you know if anything is missing ;)
Deleting a now viral post is kind of a weird move from a spam site that is probably desperate for traffic
Re:PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:35PM (#36515244)
I ran into this problem and it seemed to be triggered when 1) shipping addresses are not needed/collected and 2) the receiver account has any kind of sales tax calculations set up (deep in the PayPal settings)

I reported the issue via Merchant Technical Support on the 22nd and got this response yesterday:

"Unfortunately, the problem you're experiencing appears to be caused by technical issues within the PayPal system.

I added this account to our existing engineering ticket so that when the problem is resolved, you will be notified of its completion right away.

Our engineers are already working diligently on a solution to this problem. This ticket will remain in a "Pending Fix" status until you're contacted about the resolution.

I apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!"

Re:Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, and OpenJourney on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:25PM (#36409978)
If you have an apple device, there is free GUI for Stable Diffusion called "Draw Things. It is nice and it just works. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/6444050820

screenshot of the options interface: https://stash.cass.xyz/drawthings-1687292611.png

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