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poglet··on My Pebble mood tracker app from 2016
I miss physical buttons interfacing with apps. There are many apps that would benefit from this, as mentioned in the article.
poglet··on Man who mistakenly received entire town's Covid-19 relief money vanishes
None of this makes any sense. Next step, get the mafia to recover the money.
poglet··on Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet
If someone has access to your account I assume they can read all your messages and possibly impersonate you.
poglet··on Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels
I clicked on a few and assumed they were ripped from the original game, it is really that accurate.
poglet··on Baldur's Gate 3 has been released
Although for the most part I prefer GOG games, there are some cases where Steam integration provides a better experience. For example, modding via the Steam Workshop and some multiplayer functionality.
poglet··on Japanese words of Portuguese origin
I was always curious about why tabaco was written in hiragana but this article explains it.

> Many of the first words which were introduced and entered the Japanese language from Portuguese and Dutch are written in kanji or hiragana, rather than katakana, which is the more common way to write loanwords in Japanese in modern times.

poglet··on It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
Thanks for the post, I will attempt a similar thing using PowerShell.
poglet··on It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
> just edit it online in the Github UI

I do the same but I wish there was a easier way to make a blog post as it's still a bit fiddly. It would be great if it was as simple as sending an email or writing a message in a messaging app.

poglet··on Quake's lightning gun bug explained [video]
He mentioned QuakeC. Maybe this part of the game was coded in that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuakeC

poglet··on Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground
Wouldn't the equatorial mount prevent star trails? I guess you could compensate with a shorter exposure time, and perform the rotation in post. I assume it's only possible to do from some angles of the sky.
poglet··on Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset
I think there are a few reasons for this:

The Apple Pencil is only available for the iPad devices:

iPad navigation relies significantly on gestures that require multiple fingers, which is frustrating when holding the pencil.

The iPads are much larger in size then phones and it's often awkward to use the pencil as a primary input.

The pencil is kinda annoying to keep with the iPad, it magnetically sticks and is prone to falling off. My previous pencil fell and hit the nib, immediately breaking the tiny sensor that sits behind it.

They onscreen keyboard is too big to use with the pencil, and although you can use (a multi-fingered) gesture to make it smaller, it still isn't great.

For reference, I loved using the stylus as my primary input device for my Samsung Note. There were a bunch of quality of life features built around the stylus and you could stick it back in the phone to keep it safe.

poglet··on iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on
It was released 2 days ago in a public beta.
poglet··on Achieving 20-day standby time on iPad Pro by disabling Apple Home
Is this how you turn it off? Settings > Home > Use this iPad as a Home Hub

Mine wasn't on, was hoping to get some more battery life.

poglet··on A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says
Any idea why so many lines end in ooooooo?
poglet··on A medieval comedy act has been discovered in first-ever find, researcher says
If you take a screen capture then paste it into google image search then select the text or translate button - it also detects the English characters, but still makes very little sense to me.
poglet··on The metaverse was never alive in the first place
GTA V appears to be a very popular multiplayer game, so if a metaverse could have GTA V graphics and multiplayer performance then surely some GTA like activities could be implemented.
poglet··on Google Pixel Fold
Went from a Note 8 to iPhone. Lack of stylus bugs me all the time. One of my favourite features was being able to hover over foreign language words and it would translate them, even if the word was in image or a button on an application.

On iOS if you wanted to translate the text on a button you have to take a screen capture, then translate the screen capture.

This was possible partly because of the stylus hover feature, but also because the Android permission model allowed for applications (translation service) to 'see' the screen of other applications. Something I don't think iOS allows.

If you enjoy using foreign apps, learning languages or living in an area with a different language the Samsung Note series was fantastic.

poglet··on GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J
Silly question, how does this differ from ChatGPT?

Edit: Other then offline functionality.

poglet··on ChatGPT spitballing fundamental physics theories
Are you referring to ChatGPT Plus?
poglet··on Customizing the startup chime on a 1999 G3 iMac
As a kid I used to change the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" message. From memory it was just an image file so you could put all sorts of funny messages there.
poglet··on The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
Not comparable but NextDNS has been working well for me on iOS.
poglet··on Hyundai, Kia to update security on millions of vehicles after TikTok challenge
A password or PIN might work if sharing cars.
poglet··on Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane
My reasons are:

* Use multiple email addresses from different providers

* Have a standard interface across all accounts

* Be able to adjust the interface to how you like

* For some reason webmail makes it hard to sort columns, add or remove columns, filter emails etc.

poglet··on How to make YouTube less distracting
Android has already been mentioned in the comments.

iOS: AltStore + uYouPlus

https://altstore.io/

https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus/releases

poglet··on Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M paid subscribers
I like to find a new genera of music and if I like the song I will choose the radio option. Spotify says "Get a collection of songs based on any artist, album, playlist, or song, with Spotify Radio." but in my experience the radio playlist is not (only) based on the song I'm playing because it also mixes in a bunch of recently played songs that are normally unrelated to the song genera I'm listening to.
poglet··on Broider: Pixel Art CSS Borders
Sea theme: https://i.imgur.com/DZrrXnM.png
poglet··on LastPass breach gets worse
Yes

"that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data."

https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-...

poglet··on LastPass owner GoTo shares more bad news about November’s security breach
"may include account usernames, salted and hashed passwords, a portion of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) settings"

What does MFA settings mean in this context? Does enabling MFA protect users from these type of attacks? Is MFA used as a part of the encryption key used to protect data?

poglet··on The Quest for a Dumber Phone
It looks like palmtop or haldheld pc's are the formfactor that is being described.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_300LX

poglet··on 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (2001)
If you get as chance give AOE2:DE a shot, I feel like it's what you are describing. It's impressive how many randomized game parameters it has... they even included a randomize button.

https://i.imgur.com/xbbXKdq.png

Additional you can add mods such as 'Random Costs' where units and buildings have random costs so standard build orders are impossible. Because the game is still being updated, people are making new maps and mods, there are often new strategies being discovered frequently.

But to me, the best part of the game is playing with a group that are all a similar skill level. Fortunately the game has a match making system letting my mates and I get paired up with others.

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