crashingintoyou
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Comment · 6 months ago
The Vivaldi build I have locally explicitly mentions "Extended Stable channel (may also include additional security patches)" on its "About" page.
Comment · 7 months ago
Reading the github blog post "If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retained—your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in."
Comment · 9 months ago
If you're worried about prep time, I've been taking the approach at https://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-oatmeal-h... of cooking steel cut oats pot-in-pot in my Instant Pot.
As a single guy, I just cook the oats in the bowl that I intend to serve them in and, since it's basically water just water in the base of the instant pot, there's not much cleaning required. The oats cook without manual intervention during the cooking process.
It takes a bit of time, but in theory you could set up your instant pot on a delay timer and wake up to freshly-cooked steel-cut oats.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm eager to see this become more widely available, at least once such spaces can be shared. Not yet available to me, but hopefully soon.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are they? Where have you heard that?
Recently Calibre was updated to convert things to kepub when loading to Kobo devices - see https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/calibre-update-convert-k... - but I haven't anything about Kobo itself doing anything to improve this.
Comment · 1 year ago
Have you never gotten an error about something being unavailable in your region on Youtube?
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if 3rd party camera firmware will become more of a thing - e.g. https://www.magiclantern.fm/ or https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK
Comment · 1 year ago
> A working-poor friend also used to buy steel-cut oats, to eat breakfast for pennies.
Weirdly where I live steel-cut oats are the pricey ones even thought they're processed less than, e.g., rolled oats. That said they do need to cook longer than rolled, so wondering if energy cost might make those a bit more expensive.
Comment · 2 years ago
Don't have access to the published version but draft at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.09423 mentions ping RTT at 0.23ms.
As someone frequently at 150ms+ latency for a lot of websites (and semi-frequently 300ms+ for non-geo-distributed websites), in practice with the latency QUIC is easily the best for throughput, HTTP/1.1 with a decent number of parallel connections is a not-that-distant second, and in a remote third is HTTP/2 due to head-of-line-blocking issues if/when a packet goes missing.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been hoping to Spotify to go out of business since they went and took Rogan's podcast and a few others as Spotify-exclusive. Not always a Rogan fan, but he's occasionally had some interesting guests. However the Spotify experience was so bad I abandoned podcasts that required me to use their client.
(Suppose I should think of dialing back my Spotify hate a little now that apparently in the renewal they're no longer keeping Rogan as Spotify-exclusive)
Comment · 2 years ago
> (Netflix, Spotify and YouTube all blessed me with "all your downloaded content is gone" experience on long flights).
I've definitely had Netflix region-lock most of my content when I made the mistake of briefly switching on wifi to find my connecting gate at some airport. Apparently even though the content was available at my starting point and at my destination that didn't apply to the connecting country.
Have yet to hit that with Youtube, and I really hate Spotify so avoid using it.
> - Doesn't randomly disappear after 6 months when I started watching the series because some license expired.
A few days back Prime lost both of the two series that I was in the middle of watching at the start of February. Super-annoying!
Comment · 2 years ago
There's always stuff happening in the world of flight - It's occasionally interesting to peruse the Aviation Herald (https://avherald.com/) to see just what's happened recently.
Comment · 3 years ago
One thing to note from https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/the-gender-pay-gap-is-no... is this when comparing same-sex and opposite-sex couples:
"the impact on earnings for the birth mother is [almost identical in both family types](https://www.ifau.se/globalassets/pdf/se/2016/wp2016-08-does-...). Meanwhile, the nonbirth mothers in the lesbian couples show a similar earnings pattern to fathers in the heterosexual ones"
Comment · 3 years ago
Am I the only one who saw almost-exclusively-vertical-format video and thought "I'll pass"?
Comment · 3 years ago
Thus far I've been using Namecheap and wasn't aware that Cloudflare even operated publically as a registrar.
Even now, after googling, I found https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-cloudflare-r... but am still unclear, e.g., what I'd pay for it. Moving to cloudflare does seem to require using their DNS server for the domain in question according to https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/tran... but would be nice to be able to get a quick answer to a question like "what do you charge for a 1 year .com or .net registration?" without having to sign up for an account.