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robinoh··on The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better
> You can find all our data, visualizations, and writing related to biodiversity on this page. It aims to provide context on how biodiversity has changed in the past; the state of wildlife today; and how we can use this knowledge to build a future path where humans and other species can thrive on our shared planet.

https://ourworldindata.org/biodiversity

robinoh··on Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
I keep being amazed how `Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions` gets so little love here.
robinoh··on pass – the standard Unix password manager
Just add any second or third (sub)key to .gpg-id inside the password-store dir. I use pass with two separate gpg sub-keys loaded on 2 separate Yubi keys. To unlock passwords, I must have one of the yubikey or my backup master key that's on a encrypted usb. It also works over ssh without cloning the pass repo to a separate machine.
robinoh··on Top Hacker News commenters of 2021
366 min read !
robinoh··on Cloudflare’s Pace of Innovation
Yet their interface has been on a downhill with regards to responsiveness.
robinoh··on The most underused browser feature: reader mode
reader mode shortcut on ff: ctrl-alt-r
robinoh··on Link shorteners: the long and short of why you shouldn’t use them
I guess this is what they refer to as red tape?

> `How to request a short URL*

> Submit a new feature request using the support form.

> You’ll need to tell us:

> - the reason you need a short URL

> - the content or page the short URL will link to

> - how your short URL will be used in marketing and promotion

> - the channels you will be using, the number of users who will be targeted

> - what the main message will be in your marketing and communications

> - how many government departments or organisations will promote the short URL

robinoh··on Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
> On 22 May 2019, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution [...] demanding that the United Kingdom unconditionally withdraw its colonial administration from the area within six months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians#2...

robinoh··on Cloudflare Analytics review
Cloudflare Analytics is not there yet then. I guess it currently resembles more like their standard analytics overview page, which currently rather looks like a summary of a server access log.

I actually use Clicky and self hosted Matomo for most of my properties. I would love to use something like Plausible but to me (SEO pro) the most important feat is lacking: landing pages and average amount of actions and/or time spend per visitor per landing page.

robinoh··on Material Shell – A modern desktop interface for GNOME
> As a result, I'm back in Firefox on my primary monitor (as expected) but now I have an unwanted random Firefox window that I forgot was even open on top of Teams on my secondary monitor!

The idea here is to also use the tilde while alt-tabbing. Also shift comes in handy to wheel back through the applications.

robinoh··on Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
> There seems to be no way to contact an actual human, and since nothing on the site has changed, I can't think of anything to revert.

There are some Google people on Twitter responding to concerns such as yours. @JohnMu is one of them. You can send a private message to him about it.

We've experienced similar issues, but possibly with a different cause, see https://seotool.ee/indexed-not-submitted-in-sitemap

Once Google doesn't like your site, it's not easy to get it back. It involves being patient and trying to understand what's wrong. Sometimes though, there is nothing to be done and your site just comes back up. Google is a big black box in this regard, and doesn't give any message in search console about what may be wrong.

robinoh··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
hear hear!
robinoh··on Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz
Forky?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forky
robinoh··on Writing Is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16422166
robinoh··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
>why do I have to dig so deeply to add new containers?

It is actually easy... once you found the option: Long press the "+" / new tab button, and on the bottom of the container list is "manage containers".

robinoh··on I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier
Let's ask Reddit to allow moderators to manually change the algorithm and apply different rules for jokes/ images/ self. i.e. in order to rank, a joke would need 5x as many up votes than an original content/ discussion/ post.
robinoh··on 2018 Stellar roadmap
According to some guesses, the author is cofounder of OkCupid and has a track record of humorous blog posts. His writing even made it to the NYT. See https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7s7b1l/new_blog_po... for the source.