smilingsun

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by smilingsun 11mo ago
It's very easy to make websites without needing cookie popups in EU/UK. Every cookie popup is a reminder of how stale the thinking around tracking and data sharing is!
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by smilingsun 1y ago
Not to forget, Embassy Cat, Julian Assange's cat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michi_(cat)
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by smilingsun 2y ago
Read the post by gklitz: Agricultural practices are ruining the water supply. It's nice to have food security, but you also need drinkable water. Groundwater in Denmark is drinkable and most people wanna keep it that way. But unfortuna
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by smilingsun 2y ago
It's a bit like saying: People climbing a mountain can solve their mountain-climbing problems by not climbing mountings. Also not unlike: It's not the destination, it's the journey.
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by smilingsun 2y ago
What's your take on the UI of Gmail? Or this very website you're using right now?
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by smilingsun 2y ago
Not unlike the change from Docker Compose v1 to v2: https://docs.docker.com/compose/migrate/#service-container-n... (generated container names went from using underscores to using hyphens)
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by smilingsun 2y ago
Here's a great example of putting a bit of engineering into hanging clothes outdoors: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hills-hoist-iconic-ro... I've seen many great things in photos where laundry lines
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by smilingsun 2y ago
The cool thing about water is that evaporates all by itself. For free even. No electricity is required. So an alternative to making the tumble dryer "smarter" can be to simply not use it for most of the time, thereby cutting the l
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by smilingsun 2y ago
It's very interesting with this perspective of internet popularity of the concept. I remember the Wikipedia entry from a long time ago as much shorter than the current version, so went back in time. In 2018, the article was much shorte
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by smilingsun 3y ago
It's only the second time in history that a lobbying entity is banned. Second time since Monsanto in 2017. That's not a "path". Source: the first paragraph of the article. This has nothing to do with "show trials&qu
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by smilingsun 3y ago
Does GitLab have an existing Fediverse presence, for example on a Mastodon instance?
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by smilingsun 3y ago
That's great - sounds like you're a tech person and can have fun with LMS :) I'm sure it's a lot of fun if you have a good use case/motivation. I belong to the group of people who wouldn't run a home server to
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by smilingsun 3y ago
I understand that there is a great community effort to run local instances of the open source version of "Logitech Media Server" (LMS). Where I get really annoyed is that Squeezebox Radio devices are rendered either really hard to
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by smilingsun 5y ago
From the article: > The GitHub.com repository is almost 13 GB on disk; simply cloning the repository takes 20 minutes. Their problem seems to be mainly this. Which I'm surprised that they don't fix, but invent a workaround for.