Steve Roy @steveroy@mastodon.social

The search results I've been getting from DuckDuckGo lately have been noticeably less reliable. I keep having to !g it because the DDG results are not heplful. Feels like something changed. Is it just me?

I think Apple forgot that they have an app called FileMerge that comes with Xcode and that it badly needs some TLC. The copyright says 2018, it doesn't always open with the correct font, and it doesn't support dark mode.

I'm looking for a way to block blocks on web pages that contain words of my choosing. Like a word blocker, but that removes the whole block containing it. Anybody knows if such a thing exists?

That Apple Design Award cube logo _is_ awful, isn’t it. Hard to believe more than 15 minutes was spent designing it. Unless they had an elementary school design contest or something?

The Climate Strike license is "a software license that developers can use to prohibit the use of their code by applications or companies that threaten to accelerate climate change through fossil fuel extraction".

Via Kottke.org

https://github.com/climate-strike/license

Over the last 25 years I've heard first-hand from Americans how bad they think the Canadian healthcare system is. Always to my surprise. Especially with the Affordable Healthcare Act that is a step in the right direction but such a drop in the ocean. Good to see one of the peddlers of these lies coming forward with how they purposely wanted Americans to believe this.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/this-former-u-s-health-insurance-exec-says-he-lied-to-americans-about-canadian-health-care-1.5631874

Even if everybody took their trash home with them, that’s still 5 tons of trash generated just by hanging out at the beach enjoying the sun. Mind blown.

The amount of trash left behind by people on a typical UK beach is measured in *tons per day*? I never would have guessed that sitting in the sand and catching a few waves was that heavy on the environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/28/park-staff-in-england-tell-of-litter-chaos-as-super-saturday-looms

Glad to see Unilever pulling away from Facebook, but it’s appalling that the batshit craziness dial had to get to 11 times 10 for something to happen. Unilever pulling back is not even a good thing, it’s just a bare minimum, if even.