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Replying to everyone who said to use Google Authenticator. I in fact did fall for the devious wording that implied no other Auth app would work but never fear, even that is not an option for my account now that I'm checking. The only available options are physical security keys (which I lack), phone numbers (which I won't disclose), and tapping a notification on an Android phone (which ties me even more into the Google ecosystem and I'd rather not pick). I'll appreciate any comments if anyone knows how to get a TOTP going with Authy for Gmail, don't assume I know everything and I'm willfully ignoring it!
Amen. Google is asking me to add 2FA to an account for work, and there's no way to do so except from phone numbers or Google Authenticator which I'd rather not use. It's the only service that doesn't let me use something like Authy for OTP.
Yes, they're still so prevalent in Italy and Italian-descendant cultures that I thought they'd be self-explanatory since they come to me so naturally. The one on the cover of the book for example, is literally just a question mark, with all of the various connotations a question mark might have (even as a single sentence by itself "?"), and is used so often I can't believe other cultures don't have any hand gesture for it nor adopted it.
Incidentally, I recently remembered about Rebecca Black and went looking to find out she did continue singing and now has a legit established pop career with tons of songs. I heard a few and became a big fan, they're pretty good if you like pop!
I guess it's a good idea to use a viral moment to gather those few fans who'll appreciate the art you'll like to make continuously.
With the decline of Instagram, and Facebook's like of vision and product, I wonder if it's time for a new site to share pictures (and specifically not video since it seems to be cursed) with friends.
I see people uploading pictures to Instagram less and less each day, where they'd have over a hundred at once before, but it's not that they don't want to, it's just that the app feels too complex and repelling.
Have you looked at Tumblr lately? It always sounds just like what people say they miss nowadays from social media. Its feed is chronological by default (for now), and it does allow you to customize your own page in a lot of ways. I feel it's inevitable that it'll become a soulless ad space like all others eventually, but it's not there yet.
They're trying to monetize it with different approaches at the time like being able to boost a post's visibility without giving you any targeting tools, tipping, or giving another user a button to spawn crabs on the UI for a day.
Will it last? Probably not! But it's not a terribly awful dystopic place yet.
Yeah, likely you won't get as many tools to help with structured GUIs and expected hooks to the operating system commands that your user will want to use, but if what you're looking for is unstructured, quirky, or artsy content, possibly the way old school flash sites wanted to be, then it's certainly a fun option for cross platform apps.
It's a nitpick but I wish everyone stopped spelling it like that and call it Actually Portable Executable at least. That kind of spelling really messes up with my reading comprehension, and I think it does for many people.
What motivates me is having a clear large goal (like say, adding a new core functionality to an app), and then break it down into small tasks that can easily be done in regular days of work.
You end up with an ever increasing list of "completed" tasks until you eventually reach a shipping point and you can have a celebration party or whatever.
The hard part is then managing deadlines and expectations from then on with whoever wants the product, where good managers can make progress feel very present and visible, which in turns makes speed feel predictable and everyone can plan with realistic expectations.
It took me a while for no good reason but I finally got an unofficial extension to add a "block" button to search results. It immediately improved my experience, I can't recommend it enough. No more Pinterest, SO clones, useless Quora spam, with very little work. I can't believe I didn't do it sooner.
There's a library called rematch that's been implementing most of these ideas for a long time, but sadly it didn't get popular enough and it seems to be somewhat lacking maintenance. It was such a pleasure to use (in comparison) that I just can't believe how people ever work with those massive switch statements.
I'm sure this is already happening. I've caught some acquaintances' kids running around watching YouTube on their phones and the funnel gets them watching the most bizarre, awful, poisonous content you can't even imagine. It's absolute nonsense that has got to be generated by AI narrated by computer generated voices and featuring loose knockoffs of popular characters running around in weirdly random directions (mostly farm animals).
It's very scary how violent these kids get when I take it away from them, who are otherwise the sweetest. I'm afraid of how their generation is going to turn out after being so attacked by the media they unwittingly consume in their childhood.
This sucks because it also means no one is making add-ons for mobile, it's more of an accident that we even have ublock. There's use cases that the Firefox team will not work on for decades that could be filled by add-ons if they just told people to go wild, absolute top of the list being text reflow to prevent having to scroll sideways to read long text. Opera is still the only browser that does it for some reason years on, but it gets worse every update.
At first Facebook seemed to eat up Fotolog because of novelty and being able to do just a bit more than uploading pictures, but right as it did it decided to bloat and destroy the feed so people had no way to share pictures and be seen. That's when Instagram became huge and then got acquired by Facebook - because you had a place to share pictures again. Then they felt threatened by Snapchat so they added disappearing content and now they feel threatened by TikTok so they're mainlining video. The end result is that there's no active social network for pictures anymore - it feels like a good time for a Fotolog to come back, to make an attempt at memory permanence and small community connection instead of massively reaching disposable video.
Not necessarily, there's some examples in that thread where the stairs are in such plain view that you'd feel exposed to the whole room. But even then, you'd need to confront people playing dumb hanging out below such stairs, which is not easy for most people, particularly women being preyed on like that.
Coming from a very cashfull society, this comment terrifies me about Sweden. Everything can go so wrong with electronic systems in everyday usage, it sounds very limiting.
> Finally, how are you going to support the 10k users? Is that 0.5 FTE going to answer all the support requests?
I know I'm cherry picking but the outsourced solution is taking 11 days to say "try again" so maybe whatever that employee takes is an improvement, heh
I'm not able to tell you why it is that way, but idioma (as well as the similar sounding idiota, and the similarly ending bioma) is a masculine word, so it'd be "el idioma". I wish it were easier to rationalize.
And with no roadmap to reopen for the rest of the year at least, and considering they've always treated immigrants and descendants of immigrants a second class citizens, it does look like they just don't want foreigners at all and not because of health concerns.
It is what it is but it's so awful it's actually illegal to make contractors work as employees in most of the world. I'd wager it's got to be illegal in at least some American states.
My first thought was that the "novel about footbal" TFA was talking about simply _had_ to be 17776. And that whatever else had no chance of even being close to how mind blowing that story is. And lo, turned out to be a regular novel but by the same author. I'll go ahead and read it now, the man's brilliant.
That's awesome to hear! If you could share any working Hello World repos or similar using Gluon and SQLite I would massively appreciate it. About 5 years ago I developed a GUI desktop app with TornadoFX, Spring Boot and SQLite and it turned out to be incredibly solid, and I've always wanted to go back and try to find out a quick template repo with Gluon to try and do more small desktop apps again.
I once suddenly couldn't log in to a paid bike renting service app because it wouldn't accept my (valid at sign-up) email on login as it had a '+' symbol. There was basically no way to contact the developers and it was impossible to get the support people to understand what my problem was so I literally never used the service again. Don't try to parse email with regex, it's just not worth it.
I felt literally forced to leave Google on mobile by AMP. DDG's results are often worse and I end up having to !g, and it's always a punch in the stomach having to see two screens worth of poorly marked ad-results, SEO spam and AMP - all of those getting worse every month. And even then, their indexing of sites like Stack Overflow, Reddit, and other major players with good content is still miles ahead than DDG when I'm trying to find the solution to a problem.
That would certainly change things. Did they fire him pettily because they felt he didn't appreciate the party enough since he left? Or did his panic attack cause him to, say, punch someone in the face? There's so little detail in the article that one could imagine a scenario where firing the employee doesn't sound like a 100% asshole move.