squaregoldfish @squaregoldfish@mastodon.social
Software developer for ocean scientists. A little interest in a lot of things.
Woohoo! In a huge victory, the European Parliament has voted 318-278 against #Article13 and #Article11—the disastrous #CensorshipMachine and #LinkTax copyright proposals. That means we’re close to stopping these terrible proposals—and we’re gaining momentum.
Sadly when it comes to figuring out the implementation I'm on my own...
There's something very pleasing about talking through a design problem with someone and coming up with a solution that neither of you would have found alone.
When will #Apple give in and concede that the Home/End keys are supposed to move the cursor to the beginning/end of the line?
Last night saw the genesis of a brilliant new idea. This morning I'm going back over it to find all the places where it's not as good as I thought it was.
Finally bought a table for my main PC so I can unpack it. Moving into an unfurnished flat is an expensive business.
Of course, now I've lost the excuse for not doing a bunch of work...
#DuckDuckGo is profitable since 2014 without tracking people. Instead they sell plain #advertisement slots based on keywords. I think other webpages and news site could do the same. Using advertisement to fund you online presence isn't bad in general. It is just a question of how to do it. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-revenue-generation-model-for-DuckDuckGo/answer/Gabriel-Weinberg
Interesting mental conflict in data processing - there's the correct, hard-to-follow-and-reproduce way, and there's the easier, slightly-incorrect-but-within-the-uncertainty-so-it-doesn't-matter way. Everyone else does it the easy way, but I can't yet bring myself to follow.
2:30am, and everything is back to how it was before I started.
I have to wonder what possessed me to try reconfiguring my network at the end of the evening. Perhaps I wouldn't be downloading new firmware for a bricked router at midnight...
Looking at sofas online. I wonder how tall that room is?
Sometimes text patterns can be beautiful
Ground-level rainbows by Daniel Mercandante #lightpainting
https://www.designboom.com/art/daniel-mercadante-light-painting-03-01-2018/
How to keep people on your mailing list: have an unsubscribe link that takes you to a page with the text:
"You are not a subscriber to this newsletter."
Confusing times in the quest for mobile broadband.
In-store people said I couldn't have it because I don't have Norwegian ID. Phone support were quite happy to send me a router and SIM card without said ID, and then didn't ask for any payment.
Having held on to my old Nokia brick for years and years, the screen finally gave out. RIP.
Replaced with a Nokia 105, because snake in colour is about as far advanced as I can cope with in a phone.
Apparently I'm moving to a place where the only internet option is mobile broadband.
This is completely new to me. Are there any good resources out there on the various options (PAYG/monthly, data use control etc)?
I'm in the European market.
Another good reason to move out of the city is to escape the Sunday morning church bell cacophany
It's impressive that after all these years, top still has bugs like this in it. (Or the underlying memory reporting)
