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Comment · 4 months ago
I'd be curious if any prosecutions are a real deterrent - it seems not. YouTube has to follow the DMCA but also enforces its stricter content ID, with popular creators getting hit (and being vocal) and YouTube seeming to "fix" the issues (until next time).

Ultimately the whole system needs reform now where it's easier than ever via LLMs to send off these notices.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Mine is https://www.neilgrogan.com blogging very sporadically since 2004.
Comment · 10 months ago
I never had a good experience with mercurial from memory. Docs and examples weren't as good (not that Git was hugely better, but network effects had more resources available). I remember the CLI commands being a small bit more intuitive but as someone new to DVCS at the time (as most people would have been) - it didn't really do anything special to help new users get a handle on the mental model for how it works. I remember Facebook publicly using / backing it, was surprised they didn't do more to promote it.
Comment · 10 months ago
I'm a big fan of plain text accounting also. Like the author - I started 10 years ago (mine from 2015). I use hledger mainly and also wrote converters for bank I use (xlsx to csv).

It's crazy to see just how much money I've paid Netflix since 2015 (and I'm a sub since 2011). Or Starbucks (which I rarely go to). But it's very powerful. One thing I've long wanted is better visualizations.

Comment · 10 months ago
Interesting, do you think game devs in future will just target windows/proton and not bother with native Linux ports?
Comment · 10 months ago
It may be that they have no choice since it's their biggest source of customers. I spoke to a hotel receptionist before and she said the order of upgrades was: booked direct, booking.com, Expedia and all the rest after. The hotel couldn't afford to piss off booking as they would suffer a lot in occupancy, the other platforms couldn't match. I think it's worth giving the feedback to the restaurant direct and see if they can fix it. It's always a delicate balance depending on time and the app may penalize them.
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Comment · 2 years ago
To be honest I'm not a fan, time is cumbersome to do any sort of addition or subtraction to get exact days/hours/minutes (not to mention timezones etc).

Compare to metric units, always base 10 and always easy to convert mm to cm to m and so on.

Now that we live in a digital world - why do we consistently reinvent date/time libraries? To me that's proof enough the concepts are just hard to work with and over a long span of time verify your calculation is correct.

Comment · 2 years ago
Fascinating use of HomeAssistant. He mentioned uptime monitor in the next section - I wonder what he uses to ensure it stays online? I would guess some sort of UPS or battery backup.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://www.neilgrogan.com - I'll be 20 years [sporadically] blogging in 2024 (originally started it on blogger as a way to get a gmail account)
Comment · 6 years ago
I've done various versions of this myself, would you mind sharing your code?
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Comment · 8 years ago
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