Notices by royal (royal@theres.life)

This shouldn't be necessary.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/

This is terrible stuff. Have your projects been affected?
https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
#ai #enshittification #foss

One of these is the Wikipedia main menu.
The other is the Atlassian main menu.
The Wikipedia main menu button is called a "Hamburger Button".
What shall we call Atlassian's? The "Sloppy Hamburger Button"?

#ui #ux #hamburgerButton
#wikipedia #atlassian #design #webDesign

If you want to write something that endures, publish a book.
https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture

#writing

@fuat2mb Hah! 😁

What would you call a Christmas Eve service that alternates between reading selections from the Christmas story and communal singing of hymns? (One song per reading.) What name would you give that format?

#christmas #christmasEve #worship #liturgy

@spaceraser @fuat2mb And then there are the places with paper towels but zero labor spent on maintenance. So you can have both.

Are hand blow dryers really more efficient?
I'm sure it's not really comparable, but I always ask how many paper towels one would have to burn to produce this much heat and air movement.
#green #ecological

@youronlyone The first time I heard "sus" was in connection with the game Among Us. "I suspect" a certain character. I also hear it used to express dismissal due to suspicion.

WFH bonus: you can set the thermostat to any value you want.

Your colleagues will never complain.

#wfh #workplace #hvac #climateControl #airConditioning #heating

Difficult conversations.
https://youtu.be/K0nS3EtD0x0

#thanksgiving #holidays #advice

No... No... No... Yes!

@grammargirl

https://youtu.be/zEaqySLiAck

@golemwire @CharismaticBatman I think it would be interesting to ask: if this is what MacDonald is saying, what might his biblical basis be?

@CharismaticBatman @golemwire Ah, my mistake. Non public scope.

@CharismaticBatman @golemwire Here's my guess.

I think MacDonald sees hell as a process, not as a destination.

What if God saw sin less as actions we do that offend him because he has high standards, and more as an affliction that ruins our lives that he wants us to be free from?  Have you ever known a sin like that, something you knew was bad for you and for others that seemed beyond your power (or theirs) to overcome?

God might use any means necessary, even very unpleasant ones, to remove and even destroy sin and its hold on us.

If we trust God, that sounds like salvation.

If we cling tight to the sin, preferring it to God, that might feel like torment.

Either way, God will have his way. Much better to agree with him from the start.

@golemwire Check out the rest of the thread.

#Love

Why is printing out web pages still so insufferable? Yes, I know, web pages weren't designed to be printed. Yet, there must be some way for browsers to offer better formatting options.

A gigantic intro image makes sense on the webpage, but not on the printed page. I should be able to embiggen or shrink text in the print preview view, much as I do when viewing on-screen. But we can't even get browser printing to stop splitting lines (top half on one page and bottom half on the next). There must be a better way.

#printing #printers #webBrowsers #browsers #unsolvedProblems

@youronlyone Does "bagyo" apply to any storm, or just a typhoon?

Lots of Windows users will find themselves in an unsupported state in October 2025. There needs to be a Linux distribution that really helps Windows users switch.

It needs to discover the username of the primary user from the registry or file system. It needs to install on ntfs (or alongside it). It needs to discover the profiles and bookmarks and cookies and stored passwords of local browsers. It needs to port over the Steam library. It needs to discover the SSIDs for local networks and join them automatically. It needs to discern what the user believes he already needs from his existing Windows install and insert free equivalents.

The current advice of "erase everything and start over" is impractical for the majority of computer users, especially those who don't have a second computer.

The delta is too big for normal folk, not because Linux is hard to use but because computers are hard to use.

I'm picturing something that generates a KDE Plasma panel that imitates the Windows Taskbar, down to where the various pinned items were. Or the Cinnamon equivalent I guess. Most people don't care what OS they run; they just want as little to change as possible.

#linuxDesktop #yearOfTheLinuxDesktop #windows #switchingToLinux