[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

My guess: People who can be as competent with security as they need are very expensive.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

I'm reminded of something that Binding of Isaac does that I wish more games would do: If you're anywhere in the main menu (even drilled into it), if you just mash the B button/Esc key, it will keep backing out, up to and including exiting the game if you press it on the main menu. I hate games that make me click 3 times and say "are you sure??" when I just want to quit the dang program.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have heard that autism is a sufficient reason to be denied immigration to some countries, but I haven't looked up the details myself.

EDIT: Internet says Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are among them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_autistic_people#Immigration

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

There's glass everywhere. In a few places, there's street sweeping, but mostly not. So unless you want to go vacuum/sweep up every bike lane you use (which I've seriously considered), bike tires really don't last very long.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use it for all the reasons you've mentioned. I especially write down recommendations, ideas, thoughts that felt worth noticing, anything I think I'm going to forget that doesn't go on my calendar or somewhere else, and braindumping/processing my feelings.

I use an app called Logseq, because it combines the things I wanted from some of the other main apps in one place, which none of the other apps manage to do all of:

  • Outliner structure like Notion or Roam or Workflowy lets you have (my brain requires this format when taking notes)
  • Super fast page linking search, which Notion kinda sucks at but others are better at
  • Data is stored on my computer, like Obsidian; not in the cloud. It's stored as markdown (ish) by default.
  • Automatic daily page created for each day, like Roam
  • Mobile app is almost 1-1 feature parity with the desktop app, like Notion
  • Open source (mostly)

Logseq does have a moderate amount of rough edges, and has been frustrating from an open source perspective at times (I've had PRs linger for over a year before just getting rejected because they didn't want to bother with it), but it's still the one I like the most.

FYI though syncing between devices with it is still pretty shaky. They have a native sync for $5/mo that is getting reasonably good, and is in beta. Syncing files via other means is kinda risky/not-great UX.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

But with more walls around the garden

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Russian, but yeah

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

More discussion here: https://tildes.net/~comp/18h8/web_environment_integrity_a_google_proposal_for_general_web_drm

This shit keeps radicalizing me about the internet more and more. Ughh.

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Ever since the language puzzle in Tunic that got me to fill up 6 pocket sized pages of notes over multiple days while trying to puzzle it out as I tried to and, eventually, succeeded at translating the in-game "paper" manual, I've had a craving for games that force you to pull out a notebook and take notes/puzzle things out as part of the actual meta-gameplay mechanics, because the game doesn't just do that thinking for you.

What other games are like this, even a little bit, that you've loved?

And to be clear, I don't mean things like TTRPGs which are just inherently on paper. Those are cool and all, but aren't this thing. I want things that force me to engage my thinking beyond what the inputs of a controller and medium of a screen and my short-term memory alone can do for me.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I mean, Google does index and cache most webpages internally already. So yeah, maybe. But after reading the article it doesn't sound like they're doing that.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

We see the “cloud” as some bulletproof storage but long term it’s up in the air really.

A+ pun, intended or not

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I even found an old diary entry of mine today that linked to one of my own facebook posts, and that link had already rotted. Ugh.

[-] phoenixes@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hm. I wonder if you could write a browser extension to just kill gifs in their tracks and only show the first frame without hover or whatever. Maybe. Didn't find a solution after a cursory look (only malware called Gif Jam) but this certainly seems possible in principle...

Someone on StackOverflow found a thing that accomplished it; maybe this can be converted into a userscript. If this would be really valuable to you, and you aren't up for doing it yourself, let me know — I might make this just for fun. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818003/stop-a-gif-animation-onload-on-mouseover-start-the-activation

EDIT: I made one. Weirdly it works on all sites except beehaw, though, and it just breaks gifs on beehaw. Probably some content security policy on beehaw preventing the images from loading for the JS? https://gist.github.com/phoenixeliot/45f0c6a04fffd84998ac8bc526c901fe

But it does successfully replace gifs with broken images, so maybe still net positive for people for whom gifs are a health hazard?

Some parts that can be configured:

Which sites it applies to:

// @match        https://beehaw.org/*
// @match        https://*

How to select which elements are considered gifs:

  var gifElements = document.querySelectorAll(
    'img[src$="gif"], img[alt*=animated]'
  );
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