Notices by Simone S (m2m@sonomu.club)

"Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it."

My position about Substack is very transparent, always has been: I don't touch it. Everything that's on Substack is inaccessible to me. By choice.

https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

Can anyone recommend small independent source of information/news, either about tech, world facts, or both, that are in a similar ballpark as kottke and 404media, but they're not US-centric?

Anything interesting in Europe or elsewhere?

@chris updated on macOS, still don't see the icon. I guess it's due to how I customised the UI?

@chris then I’m utterly surprised I don’t have any copilot icon around. I should triple check. Maybe it’s there but I failed to notice? Weird because I have it on both windows and macOS. I’m syncing the settings so it might be that I’ve enabled that parameter already and forgotten about it 😂

@chris Ah fantastic. I'll check my version at work later today. I knew I did the right thing when I bookmarked this post of yours :D

@chris I’m on 1.92.x are you on a beta channel?

@chris weird, I don’t have any copilot icon.

Pushed a few changes to my website over the last couple days. One of those was a print CSS. Despite the trope that 'nobody prints anymore', I wanted to cater for whomever does, and that includes myself in the first place.

I might not print on paper much, but sure I print to PDF an awful lot, and most websites are utter shite at that.

<rant>
Keep going towards tons of javascript, while forgetting the basics. Good strategy.
</rant>

@kel @chris I've been on Ventura for a while. Tried Sonoma, not my cup of tea, went back.

@chris unfortunately my experience is in line with your comment.

While I agree with Chris' sentiment, my solution was more drastic: I erased the page from my website, and now systematically ignore other people's /uses pages.

Why do we always have to end up with similar site structures, it's beyond me (and I'm one of 'we').

I'll probably get rid of my /now page as well sooner or later.

Uniforming websites, whether they're corporate, personal, independent or whatever, is never good in the long run.

https://sonomu.club/@chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com/113300399959801344

@chris I wanted to edit the post and mention you, but I'm currently unable to edit my own stuff. Have no idea why.

Has anyone tried Zen Browser? It's based on #Firefox.

https://zen-browser.app/

@chris imagine one with a trillionaire.

@grueproof its mind boggling

Okay, if you build a mini website for someone — 4 pages, mostly copy and a couple images — and you decide to use WordPress *and* Elementor, you should not be working in the web development industry. Leave now, and don't look back.

I can't see these things and keep quiet. These folks are part of the reason why I had to pivot to something entirely different. Since it still hurts, I'm going to mug you off for a while.

/rant

#WebDevelopment

@chris for me vscode + git bash

@chris 108 dB in close proximity are seriously dangerous to your ears. I take it you're wearing protection?

@chris god, those printing subscription plans must be the most fucked up ideas that I've ever heard in the tech world so far.

I'll never tire of saying this: growth at all costs is a metastatic disease.

What's wrong with being content with what you have? Plateau isn't a bad thing, it's wonderful, it's sustainable, it's sane, it's healthy.

Stop fuelling companies or individuals who are involved with metastatic products.

#degrowth