You can kinda get a similar experience to StumbleUpon with marginalia's explore mode - https://marginalia-search.com/explore
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I got a lifetime subscription for 2600 from my parents when I was in high school, and I subscribed to Eighty only a few years ago. My biggest gripe with larger magazines is all the ads, and uninteresting content throughout them; typically I only end up reading one or two articles and then the whole magazine feels like a bit of a waste. both 2600 and Eighty have very little/no ads, and feel more niche and content focused. Eighty is actually printed like a very nice paperback book.
Not sure if it's the same thing, but automatic high beams are a big problem in the US. In locations where there are lots of hills and curves, you are almost always briefly blinded by high beams for a second before your vehicle falls into detection rage. I'm not entirely sure why they exist either; rarely do I find roads are dark enough to require them.
I've also noticed when taking an Uber or Lyft that many drivers just turn their high beams on all the time. I once asked why my driver had them turned on, and the driver responded that he can't see without them. I feel like this is something that should be caught by a regular driving test and eye exam, but that's wishful thinking.
I feel like I'm overly sensitive because I have an astigmatism, but the bright headlights have become dangerous and unbearable.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499003/ [2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208654/ [3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290683/
The best non-Christmas morning memories were just random times I was at family Christmas parties or gatherings. Seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins dancing talking having fun. As a kid, we used to have the parties at family homes, which was always fun and super memorable. Later we moved to a hall as the family got bigger and cousins started to bring their children, in laws, and friends. I can't really point out any particular memory as good; just all the time spent with family, not necessarily caring about what else was going on in the world at the time.
I think the article is worth a read, but doesn't necessarily introduce a new concept. Its basically stating that there are many broken products that you can buy, and they simply do not work. Typical wisdom says you should buy something you're not specifically good at building, or something that you're not "supposed to" build yourself because you specialize in something else. This article basically says that wisdom can be wrong and that there is value in building yourself. There are some good examples, but its definitely a position that you'd have to push to management at some companies because its a very bottom up position that many managers would not agree with.
This is made by the MetaBrainz folks, the same people behind the MusicBrainz database (which is used by ListenBrainz).
That's not to say that fancy tools don't have their use; but people often forget how much you can do with a few simple commands if you understand a pipeline and how the commands work.
I think the bigger push should be to get people using FireFox mobile. In my experience, it is a much better, more customizable browser than Chrome. It works well with my browsing habits and general use of my phone (screen UI positioning, gestures, etc.). The most obvious benefit is the extension support, which makes browsing some mobile websites tolerable. Showing people the difference between browsing genius.com (lyrics website) with and without ads usually shocks them. At times on Chrome, the web page is completely unusable due to ads and pop ups.
Yeah, and implementing everything over https is just going to make things harder or impossible to filter. There's a reason that large corporations block certain things, so if they get reimplemented over http, that will just be a security hole. It would be nice if an actual encrypted DNS protocol was created.
I actually end up helping tons of random people in my company use conda, because they can't get the concept of virtual envs. They don't understand that the libraries are actually files on the disk, and your virtual environment is just a directory and some variables.
That's not to say all developers are like this, but I think the numbers that think like this are growing. Ultimately, I'm like you - they can pry the files from my cold dead hands, if I didn't know what/where/how files were used, I wouldn't fundamentally understand how a lot of different technologies even work.
I think that's the main thing we worry about when hiring. We do have HR do initial screenings, but we have our engineers do the rest of the interviews, so it's very costly for us. We've been bitten a few times because people wanted to use us as a strong stone. We aren't as big as a FAANG, but there are a lot of people who leave our company and go to one. If we spend months finding a person and they leave in 6mo to a year, it's very costly for us.
In my opinion, this kind of goes against what I would expect a browser to do as well. I don't like the idea that it just bypasses the OS settings. I understand that there are guidelines for enterprise users, and people who want to disable it; but I feel that a prompt when they globally enable the setting isn't enough. Most average users will probably just click "Yes" on the dialog that asks if they want it enabled.
The idea of DoH seems like a good one, but I would prefer if they figured out a better way to implement it. Probably a huge majority of people are just using their ISP's DNS servers, but I don't know that pointing them to Cloudflare's DoH implementation is necessarily better.
I also downloaded Firefox for Android recently to try it out... but I get the impression that chrome will always be king in the android space.