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Yeah, unionizing so your boss doesn’t get fired really is the most SF/US “labor democracy” thing ever

“websub” is what you are looking for: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

In the spirit of the OP: my gripe with Readwise/Reader is that it… doesn’t output RSS.

miniflux.app

funny you should mention that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

Fuji X100 almost checks all the boxes (imho that’s why it’s sold out all the time). Would they dare to make one without a screen? Guess it’s unlikely, unfortunately.

In so-called developing countries, the full ban of R-22 will be 2030, which is a full ban with an asterisk to 2040.

Not saying the phase-out isn’t happening, but there are, and there will be for quite some time, millions of units leaking climate pollutants (which was the question).

Sure, we only built gigantonormous infrastructures to measure about everything on every cm of this planet, 10s of thousands of highly qualified experts from all over the world work on this full time and have been saying the same thing for decades, but “there are people” who have “““legitimate doubts”””. Sure.

The phase-out under the Montreal protocol is an ongoing process, but we are far from there. The HFCs that replaced (H)CFCs in the 90s quickly turned out to be fastes growing category of short-term climate pollutants in many countries in the world [1]. The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal protocol from 2019 now covers HFCs too, and the EU limits them since 2015, but these things take time…

R-410A, commonly used in Europe, has a GWP of 2088. Worldwide, R-22 still is the most common refrigerant. That’s a HCFC, so stratospheric ozone depleting, and with a GWP of 1960.

[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1216414

There’s people for whom “slow, and every shot is expensive” is a feature [1] but I agree – especially the loss of (color) film diversity has been hard to swallow and made everything considerably less fun. I still enjoy it, but I don’t know what I’ll do once my stash of deep frozen film runs out. With Fuji most probably having left the game, there won’t be competition for a cheap, basic color film – which IMHO is the thing that’s required to get more people into shooting film.

[1]: e.g. recently https://www.404media.co/how-and-why-to-get-into-film-photogr...

It’s hard… What’s so fascinating about film cameras is that they are little mechanical wonder machines. Have you ever held an Olympus OM1 or 2 in your hand? Beautiful, and it’s insane what they managed to fit in such a small package. But “mechanical” is not where our world of solid state electronics is heading. Even if one of the camera manufacturers had an incentive, I imagine remaking their older cameras isn’t really possible. The tooling is gone, obviously, but so is the knowledge… like Ricoh/Pentax is rumored to have a new Film camera in development and they had to bring back guys from retirement. And they went for a less complex compact, not an SLR. Now that they all went mirrorless for their digital offerings, the manufacturing competence for the prism and mirror unit will dwindle fast.

Like you I hope someone manages it. Shooting film is so satisfying!

As an anecdote, an eternal rule for venting about insufficient language skills of damned foreigners on the Internet seems to be that it must be articulated by at least one demonstration of one's own inability to possess the very competence demanded (e.g., through absolutely careless spelling, grammatical error, etc.), which my contribution above was simply commenting on ironically— with a tangential spoof of U.S. exceptionalism of course.

I’m not American and don’t live in America (I presume by “America” you mean the United States?), but shouldn’t it be “… refuse to improve their English”?

The tool parent and sibling comment listed allows you to do basic subsetting [1], and generates the formats you need. If you do this more often, it is of course useful to learn how to do this yourself. A commonly used tool is pyftsubset, part of fonttools [2]. I am not sure, but afair Google is running this under the hood.

[1]: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/subsetting

[2]: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools

Same, I was like “wow the RSS FEED is in the NAVIGATION MENU”, and then getting ready to have Miniflux fetch full article content “oh wait it’s a proper full feed is this a config error?!!”

When Meta did not launch Threads in Europe, the Tech Media who had previously declared how Mastodon is a failure because its signup process is just too complicated for normie users (you have to choose a server!!) published helpful articles à la “Here’s how you set up a second US app store account, configure a VPN on your phone and fake your Insta-Account to US in 347 simple steps”

I mean I don’t know how serious you are, but I am when I say I have a list in my notes of “appliances I might eventually need someday and should buy when I have spare cash before they won’t be available without a computer anymore”.

glyphtracer [1] can help with this, but letter shapes are only a small part of what makes a typeface. (Typography is about whitespace, or as Miles Davis said, “it‘s not about the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play that matter”.)

[1]: https://github.com/jpakkane/glyphtracer

No, I just meant to say sourdough fermentation is slower than a quick rise enabled by commercial yeast. Though I do ferment rye breads longer than wheat, and with a rye bread, you would also usually sour more of the bread, like up to 50% of total flour amount.

That said, I think they cultivate newer rye varieties to be less rich with enzymes. I presume that is to meet the requirements of industrial baking.

You can use commercial yeast, but it will never be as light as with sourdough fermentation, but very dense and “soggy”.

There are more factors at play here but the tldr is that, other than wheat, rye flour contains a very high level of amylase, an enzyme that breaks starches into sugars. Amylase prevents bread from rising, and rye contains so much of it that it stays active even with the high temperatures of baking. Add that to the fact that rye has very little gluten to hold up the structure of the bread…

That‘s where sourdough comes into play. The acids produced during a slow fermentation slow down the reaction of amylase, giving you a lighter bread. For a good rye bread, I ferment for over 24h in three steps.

Also, shoot an email to noyb, they have several complaint cases pending with the Bulgarian Data Protection Authority already and they are good at what they do

https://noyb.eu/

“Can I work with my files locally in Fusion 360? Fusion 360 is a cloud-based 3D mode…” Ok bye, KiCad it is.

What I like about DEVONthink is actually not the “duplicant”, but the “replicant”.

My organization also evolved to a simple hierarchy over time, but the fact that files can live in several directories at the same time is very useful in some cases. When there is ambivalence where a file should go, it can just go in two places – but it‘s not a duplicate, so you don‘t run into uncertainties which one is the latest version, etc. So it’s a bit like tagging (which in DT you can additionally do), but also not quite…

A month or so ago, a screenshot of Snow-Leopad-era OS X standard UI controls made the rounds on the fediverse. One forgets so fast with incremental change, but when you take it in with some distance, it’s truly devastating how things have regressed since that time.

The Apple folk and adjacent circles like to throw around how “design is how it works™”, but design hasn’t been how it works in Macos for a while (and it’s not better anywhere else).

I highly recommend reading this article [1] re: Boeing. It's the ultimate parable of late-state technocapitalism; and Airbus has really nothing to do with it.

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-invest...

It‘s old, but my favorite way to think about it still is Git = MacGyver, Mercurial = James Bond. Seems you prefer the flexibility of "I get the job done with a paperclip and a lighter" over the bespoke Q-Branch gizmo— obviously, many people do!

I mean I don’t want to troll but Mercurial has existed all this time.

“Ian Hacking was a one-person interdisciplinary department all by himself” — true that. One of the greats.

Unfortunately, Cupertino endorsed the squircle and encourages to “embrace simplicity”, so indistinct icons are recommended in the HIG now

“In macOS, app icons share a common set of visual attributes, including a rounded-rectangle shape, front-facing perspective, level position, and uniform drop shadow.“ [1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

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