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Major Hayden 🤠

I stumbled upon Standard Ebooks last year, and they're awesome! If you have a common type of e-reader for books, you can pick up books from them that have gone past their copyright dates.

I read some Voltaire and Herman Melville from them last year and their formatting is fantastic.

standardebooks.org/ebooks

#books #reading #kindle #kobo #ereader

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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

the EU privacy regulators are going ham on adtech folks right now, it's fuckin' glorious.

"users must consent before you can target ads at them or track them in any way"
"ok but what if-"
"DID WE FUCKING STUTTER"

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Any e-signature services out there that charge per document instead of a subscription per month / year? I don't think I can justify 200 dollars a year for the 5 or so I need and I don't think I can keep making new accounts for the free trials :P

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Gonna start pasting the entire bee movie script whenever a marketing chatbot pops up while I'm trying to read a page.

For reference: pastebin.com/raw/e90ZUNtD

Hopefully they get billed per word.

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Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified:

@eevee silver lining on devving for :linux:

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Low key wish Github would stop adding features. The changes this year have made things way slower and more buggy. Now I have the pleasure of the "submit review" button not working anymore which is a pretty big chunk of my job. :P

It could be related to my ad blocker not letting them log every single action I take to their analytics though.

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Ralf Bendrath

A German court has just declared a "Do Not Track" #DNT signal from your browser as legally binding, pursuant to Article 21(5) #GDPR. vzbv.de/urteile/gericht-unters

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Useful bit of code I keep handy in my devtools buffer:

```
document.body.parentElement.style.filter = "invert()"
```

This will apply a color inversion filter on an entire page so that you can force a dark mode on sites that don't ssupport it. (e.g. Google's suite)

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Robert McNees

In fact, Banach later proved that differentiable functions are a "meager set" of all continuous functions.

Differentiability is a fairy tale we tell our students to protect them from the horrible fact that most continuous functions are monsters.

Mathematically speaking, monsters are everywhere.

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Caught a cold when I went to an in person work thing and now I gotta cancel my halloween party 😭😭😭

Last year I missed it because I was at a conference so I'm really feelin the pain of not being sufficiently spooked.

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mcc

The nature of life right now is that you can wake up on any given day and discover that a giant corporation or maybe just one very rich man has taken something important away from you,

and there's nothing you can do about it,

and there will be no consequences for them at all

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अनीश

i finally got the xreal airs working on my 2017 laptop (through an adapter) and now i can lie down and comfortable use my computer, and this changes everything

i really like this tech

making this setup mobile will be devine (the internal battery on my laptop is fucked so i can't actually close the lid or move it around easily)

lying down is the best way to use a computer and i don't think you can change my mind. up next is a foam mattress in my study room for comfy computer usage :^)

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Mx. Aria Stewart

@jalcine @ajroach42 So! I helped operate one of the _early_ wireless ISPs (1996) and I have thought about this a _lot_.

I think it looks like a discord, more or less. That's the right social shape. Possibly several discords, since towns are too big to have cohesive _single_ social structures.

It looks like a library, too. Or a shared network drive. Or a simple web page. Maybe that looks like dropbox.

You need more radios than that if you're using wifi. The blind client problem is a _huge_ problem over larger-than-building-size distances: wifi nodes will talk all over each other if they can't hear their peers (which if you add distance or directional antennas, becomes true)

But it's still a small enough problem now that a single person with a tech salary giving up their Xbox habit would not struggle to fund the whole thing without difficulty.

The biggest problem now is getting people to use it, instead of centralized services. You have to either have it be a network of last resort, a hobby project with interested nerds being the main users, or lucky enough to make it compelling socially so that people abandon Facebook etc for it.

But it's such a worthy project. And a hell of a lot of fun.

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Andrew (Television Executive)

With the technology that is available today, we can build a network that spans a neighborhood wirelessly, without infrastructure.

We can adjoin nearby neighborhoods with nothing more than the thoughtful placement of an antenna (and a radio, of course, and perhaps a solar panel and battery if required for the thoughtful placement.)

We can *easily* cover our small town. I'm betting we can do it with 3 nodes, but it might take as many as six. That's fine, every participant can be a range extender (and vice versa).

We can cover our community with a free to access network, all you need is a radio, and we should be able to build those for $30 or less.

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Andrew (Television Executive)

We live in a world of seamingly endless technological marvels, of massive potential, of immense beauty.

And so much of that potential, those marvels, and even that beauty, is locked up in the name of profit.

How many of the world's current horrors are being carried out in the name of profit?

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Ramsey Nasser

apple complaining 

not to yuck anyone's yum but, as someone who builds web-based experiences: apple mobile devices are garbage from a toilet ✌️

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leyrer

STOP DOING OFFICES

Edit: Apparent creator of this image, Pavel Samsonov: bsky.app/profile/spavel.bsky.s /via @jsit

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geet

damn i need to study for the turing test

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Jeff Atwood

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

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Schmrrrlex

feeling stressed, time to veg out on my phone

*checks the news* oh no

*checks twitter* jesus this is even worse

*reads Wikipedia articles about different kinds of apples for three hours*

crisp, very sweet, and a little tart. see that’s what I’m looking for in an apple

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