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Re:Don't Use a gmail.com Address on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:27PM (#49593161)
i love my .town email, and ive had very few rejections from websites. maybe like 2 ever. plus i can make up departments for each site i signup for
I’ve been experimenting with windows 11 IoT enterprise this week. You can disable and uninstall a fair amount of cruft
The recurring events calendar spec is crazy powerful, but also crazy bc its just a flat text file. For a bit i was attempting to stream-parse a huge calendar on my esp32 lcd display board and went down the rabbit hole.
Re:Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP on Friday June 19, 2026 @12:30PM (#48600336)
I’m work on a platform for restaurant reviewing with your friends, and (after a few stumbles) MCP definitely seems the way to go. Normies will not hunt down their claude directory and paste a skill file. “Connections” is something they understand, and pasting the mcp or finding it in the marketplace is easier for them.

TBD if having agent access to places and reviews is helpful, hah!

Re:Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @06:58AM (#46203951)
Yes, just consistently line them up and it would be fine. There’s plenty of UX research saying icon+label improves recognition and task speed. NN Group is a good resource for this.
Re:Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @06:55AM (#46203926)
Google has been universally panned for using their logos as app icons. I think most people in this thread are talking about UI vs app icons (essentially avatars for apps at this point).
Re:Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @06:47AM (#46203848)
Surprised it took me this far down to see him mentioned.
Re:ASCII Silhouettify on Saturday June 08, 2024 @01:46PM (#40619152)
There’s always stuff these converters don’t do well. Check out ascii art for the past 30 years at the 16 colors archive: https://16colo.rs/