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wildrhythms··on YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report
Sounds like you just want an endless feed of traditional TV. I suggest you talk to younger people because this is not how they generally consume content anymore, and that is the target audience for YouTube and why the traditional content on YouTube is corralled into a small walled section sandwiched between vast swaths of algorithmic suggested content.
wildrhythms··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
Irish people, Jewish people, Polish people... the list goes on. 'Whiteness' was manufactured to exclude entire groups of people for political purposes.
wildrhythms··on YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video]
People should be allowed to remove their persona from the internet.
wildrhythms··on ChatGPT went berserk
This user asked it to format Jira tickets, and it returned "An open essay to the pinch of travel". I wouldn't consider that that prompt jibberish.

https://twitter.com/umjelec/status/1760080088614175068

wildrhythms··on Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
Why do you assume that would that stop it spying?
wildrhythms··on AI your home on street view
The site is: https://www.panoramai.xyz/

The site you posted is mentioned in the article but only as a related project.

wildrhythms··on Dark UX doesn't work in the long run
I think it has to be some kind of ethical void in the brain of decisionmakers who think they can trick their customers into paying them. Some kind of perverse manufactured business survival tactic driving their "close at any cost" mentality.
wildrhythms··on CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
As another more modern and 'serious' (but still fun) game in this genre, I recommend Project Hospital. You manage building, hiring staff, addressing difficult diagnoses, and so on.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/868360/Project_Hospital/

wildrhythms··on The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits
America's Army was wild. An online FPS PvP game where you only ever play as the 'good guys'. It swaps the enemy models to always appear as insurgents so you're never shooting at, or being shot at by, American soldiers.
wildrhythms··on Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
Gmail nukes zips if they contain an executable or some other 'prohibited' file type. Most email providers block executable attachments.
wildrhythms··on Companies causing 'massive disruption' by mandating office return, says expert
It's the tax breaks.

>Of the billions in tax incentives granted to US companies every year by cities and states, many agreements require workers to come into the office some of the time, or at least live in the region. For companies receiving these incentives, relaxing in-office attendance could be costly.

>The contracts were crafted in a pre-pandemic era, at a time when commutes to the office were a given. Now governments are deciding whether to crack down or rewrite the rules entirely. In some states and cities, policy changes have already been proposed to account for the new reality of hybrid work.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...

wildrhythms··on Portal (2021)
This site can't be reached.
wildrhythms··on Investors in Airbnb arbitrage business allege they were defrauded in scheme
MLMs have been targeting young people long before Instagram, I remember somebody handing out flyers for Amway at a high school graduation. And the peddlers of these scams always sell it as "Start your own business", "Be your own boss" and so on. And when it's not a MLM it's some kind of dropshipping scheme. I agree social media has given those schemes a much wider audience to capture.
wildrhythms··on Finding a new software developer job
That's one of those questions I simply could not answer on the spot. My brain would immediately go into needing to know how long it takes on average to connect, why it takes so long, if the user's connection is bad, if we could load the content from the connection async, and so on...
wildrhythms··on A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald
From reading the article it seems the authorities won't or can't figure out the perpetrators. A California judge denied the victim's request for Cloudflare to unmask the blog owner under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and even forced the victim to pay the blogger's legal fees. Seems like the current system is not only unprepared to protect people from online abuse, but even punishes the victims.
wildrhythms··on A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald
Because our congresspeople are tech illiterate and can't wrap their minds around this problem. Combine that with general anti-regulatory lobbyists padding their pockets.
wildrhythms··on OpenTTD
I found the UI in Simutrans to be near incomprehensible.
wildrhythms··on CSS Is Logical
>Selectors are evaluated by a specificity score.

This is where most of the 'logic' breaks down for me. The specificity scoring is a system of weights that trips up a lot of new front end developers. It's not straightforward. Different selectors have different weights you need to know about. There are 'hacks' you need to know about when you find yourself needing to override particularly heavy selectors. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity

And conveniently the author doesn't mention !important.

I think nowadays I find myself using CSS variables and calc() more often to establish some system of logic in my CSS. I can have --spacing: 120% variable at the root of the tree, and all its descendants can consume that and use calc() to multiply that by a unit value to have consistently scaled spacing. The author doesn't mention this, but it's great!

wildrhythms··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
You thought they would feed internal user data handling policy to a public facing LLM?
wildrhythms··on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced
I always wonder how much societal progress has been thwarted by internal warring factions like this.
wildrhythms··on Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
Our representatives can't even comprehend that Google doesn't make the iPhone, so I personally wouldn't expect any federal legislation any time soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmuROTmazco

wildrhythms··on Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web
No they don't; they only offer 'dark web scanning'. https://one.google.com/about/security
wildrhythms··on Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web
I always wonder how much data these companies have taken down that isn't their client's.
wildrhythms··on Working in the Vision Pro [video]
I struggle to use multiple monitors for this reason. I see my colleagues on multiple monitors constantly swiveling their neck, isn't that uncomfortable? Instead, I use a 4k monitor and tiling window managers like i3 or swaywm that lets me have unlimited desktops that I can instantly switch between with a keystroke.
wildrhythms··on LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices
What is this plethora of options people have for banking, paying rent, getting documents from their doctor... And this isn't just an issue with phone apps either.

When I visit my bank account online I'm met with full page advertisements for other services from the bank and I have to hunt around to find the tiny gray 'No thanks' text before I can even get to my accounts. And from there, I'm met with constantly changing UI patterns and abstract hieroglyphic icons instead of plain text like it should be.

wildrhythms··on 'There is no such thing as a real picture,' says Samsung exec
I think about that Reddit thread where a user's Samsung's night vision feature 'helpfully' added a ghost man standing in their kitchen. I will never buy a Samsung phone.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/11jvwy4/after_years...

wildrhythms··on Google's CEO faces employee questions about layoffs
Wait until these LLMs start eating the garbage they output; training themselves on their own hallucinations. I think soon people will be seeking out verified human-created, human-curated content.
wildrhythms··on Tailwind color palette generator
1. The user picks a desired hex color.

2. At runtime, I use the material-color-utilities library[1] to generate a whole color theme based on that one root color. The applyTheme method puts the theme into CSS variables on the body like --md-sys-color-primary: #c72320; and so on for each color token.

3. In tailwind.config.js I set the colors to point to those variables, for example "primary": "var(--md-sys-color-primary)", and so on for the rest of the colors.

Using this approach I can remap colors at runtime for whole subtrees by simply overriding the CSS color variables.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@material/material-color-utili...

wildrhythms··on Tailwind color palette generator
This is a nice tool. As another approach that I use in my codebases is I define the color palette with CSS variables, so my Tailwind config just points to those. Then at runtime I can plug in different color themes.
wildrhythms··on Ask HN: Could we just re-invent original Google?
I haven't tried Kagi yet but I'm curious how does Kagi combat SEO spammers?
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