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aspect0545··on Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
I think it makes sense that in a country where the majority is not white the yellow emoji is picked to represent the majority.
aspect0545··on Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT
In German en dashes are more common than em dashes. I’ve been using them regularly for at least 20 years, both in German and English texts. I never liked it when people just threw in ordinary hyphen instead of an en dash, but few people note the difference.
aspect0545··on WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser
It’s a German company behind it, probably a one man show: https://docs.weblibre.eu/Legal/Imprint
aspect0545··on Open models by OpenAI
But was it reasoning or did it solve this because it was parting it‘s training data?
aspect0545··on “Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
How is reading different from doing. This is about encouraging children to read, it’s a very active process. Maybe I‘m missing something?
aspect0545··on “There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”
Super interesting. I recently learned that a lot of foreigners moving to Germany find that Germans are staring. It’s called the German stare. I wonder if staring is a Germanic thing.

https://www.zeit.de/campus/zeit-germany/2023/01/culture-face...

aspect0545··on Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
That would also fit because the image on the top is very clearly AI generated. I find that quite off-putting to be honest.
aspect0545··on Magically remove ads from any recipe website
No, it‘s about preppear. A very different service.
aspect0545··on The death of the middle-class restaurant
What are some of your favourite places to eat out in Berlin? I wouldn’t call the Döner places a kebab restaurant by the way, but maybe that’s being picky
aspect0545··on 'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised
I doubt the guardian and npr use Wordpress
aspect0545··on How to prepare to flee your country?
Can you elaborate on your pension? How do you achieve that?
aspect0545··on OpenAI O3-Mini
It’s always a game changer, isn’t it?
aspect0545··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Now people complain about the pardon, back then people complained about the sentence. People love to complain.
aspect0545··on Copywriting in 4 Minutes
Kill me if I ever have to use this website again. What’s up with this horrible navigation? It irritated me to the point that I wasn’t even invested in the content anymore
aspect0545··on Show HN: Edit Photos with Just a Prompt
1. uploaded image 2. entered prompt 3. click on result 4. registration required 5. register 6. click on result again 7. blank page
aspect0545··on A feature-rich Hacker News client
The features might be nice but I really dislike the visual design.
aspect0545··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
What can you do to prevent automatic confirmation in that case?
aspect0545··on Ask HN: Bluesky Accounts Worth Following for HN Enthusiasts
I didn’t know about this, thanks for sharing!
aspect0545··on Using drones to terrorize a city [video]
This is an annoying, not very informative format. Fuck this.

Would be nice to have more objective reporting.

aspect0545··on The best browser bookmarking system is files
Could you create a Firefox plugin? Then I’d love to test it
aspect0545··on Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner
What’s your thought on the approach adjust.com takes? They say you can claim legitimate interest
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