LimeLimestone

> entrances to Stanford's campus

Wtf?

I'm not from the US, so please bear with me, but does this mean that, if I were to study there, I wouldn't be able to enter the campus without being tracked by a private company?

omg, the DMG weighs 3MB and the installed app is only 9MB. Amazing

I tried messaging them and it says I'm not allowed to message them. Weird, never had that happen to me

Love it, I wish they added it as a theme I can turn on in Settings. I'd seriously use it

I'm even more outside the loop, what happens if on my personal blog I don't have any analytics and don't do any metering so I have no idea how many visitors I get?

I had a similar experience, I was a heavy Duolingo user between 2014 and 2016 (I used it for Spanish) and I still believe that back then it was actually a pretty good way to learn the basics and I had learnt enough to be able to get by in Spain, have casual conversations with people, even hang out with a group of natives (but I also was a member of a few WhatsApp groups with Spanish people so I had a bit more practice).

Then they dumbed down the phone app and soon enough they did a similar thing with the website. Tips & Notes section was gone (or they kept it but removed a lot of information? can't remember), the tree-style courses were gone and replaced with some kind of a Path, the exercises became too easy and they'd make you translate from Spanish to English most of the time, which is much easier than the other way around. Then they removed the ability to type with your keyboard, added the "match the word pairs" exercise (which sucks if you use a keyboard and yes, I know you can try to use the numbers on your keyboard), all of which made the whole experience even worse and less effective.

I lost my streak somewhere in the middle of this enshittification process and I've never really gotten back to using the site, other than maybe checking once a year whether it's still shitty (and it always is).

In my opinion, back in 2014 Doulingo used to be a learning website with some gamification aspect that made the learning process a bit easier and more entertaining. Now it's just a gaming app which tries to give you a false sense of learning a language but in reality you aren't learning anything. Just a waste of time.

When I try to zoom in (by pinching the touchpad) on one of the charts at the bottom of the site, Firefox crashes. I guess there are too many pixels in the black bar :)

MacBook M1 Pro, 32GB RAM, Firefox 141.0

Instead of CMD + X you can do CMD + C and paste with CMD + Option + V

What's next? Will New Mexico be called New America? /s

Press Option and it behave the way it used to. Or you can double click on the top of the app's window

What I miss is not being able to set the priority of WiFi networks

"July fourth" kinda sounds like there are multiple Julies this year and this is the fourth one :D

After looking at the photo, and before actually reading the post, I was sure it was a switch for retrofitted fog lights - they are not required in the US and you must to have them in Europe in order to pass MOT.

I have an almost identical looking switch in my Mustang (which I imported from America) and it does exactly that - turns the fog lights on and off :)

> But in North America, they only need to show the per-serving column.

As someone who is from Europe and tracks their calories, I find it appalling and it makes calorie tracking more inconvenient

Does it apply to non-citizens?

As far as I know, in the US you can politely decline a phone search if you are a US citizen. If you're a foreign tourist your only choice is either to allow the search or be denied entry to the Land of Freedom™

How does it work in Australia?

I used WAVE browser addon on the Airbnb website and it showed 37 errors, 1 contrast error and 98 alerts. And they want to talk about accessibility?

Accessibility aside, their website is an unusable, resource-hogging mess which doesn't even use proper cursor pointers for <a> tags and tries to mess with my scroll.