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  1. Comment on You make friends *HERE*?! in ~tildes

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    TIL tildes has private messages

    TIL tildes has private messages

    13 votes

  2. Comment on Podcast app recs in ~tech

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  4. Comment on Christmas present swap ideas in ~life

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    All year? Give me 5 days.

    Woah 200 would last me all year

    All year? Give me 5 days.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Medicine in Russia is barely regulated. Doctors often use outdated Soviet practices and prescribe homeopathy and other unproven treatments. Checking every single drug myself is annoying, so I...

    Medicine in Russia is barely regulated. Doctors often use outdated Soviet practices and prescribe homeopathy and other unproven treatments.

    Checking every single drug myself is annoying, so I built a tool to automate the job.

    med? is a website built with Elixir + Phoenix LiveView that allows you to enter a trade name of a drug, after which it fetches available research about it and summarizes it with Claude. You can see more information about how it works in the readme.

    I really enjoyed working on this, because this is my first experience with Elixir and LiveView, and also because the task itself is pretty fun and requires to work with different data sources.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript trademark in ~tech

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    They don't care about JavaScript, they care about Java. If they release the JavaScript trademark into the public domain, it could potentially be easier to make a case for them releasing the Java...

    Oracle doesn’t stand to lose anything.

    They don't care about JavaScript, they care about Java. If they release the JavaScript trademark into the public domain, it could potentially be easier to make a case for them releasing the Java trademark as well. That's why they're holding onto it.

    14 votes

  7. Comment on How do you learn to recognize your own emotions? in ~health.mental

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    Check out the How We Feel app. It's an emotion diary which presents you with an arranged grid of many different emotions and allows you to choose how you feel right now. I found it to be a great...

    Check out the How We Feel app. It's an emotion diary which presents you with an arranged grid of many different emotions and allows you to choose how you feel right now. I found it to be a great way to improve my emotional literacy and understanding of my own feelings.

    https://howwefeel.org/

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Private school - worthwhile/good idea for not rich people? in ~life

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    Depends on the quality of public education in your country. In Russia, 10k$/year private schools are MILES ahead of the public ones in every single aspect. I assume the difference is not as...

    Depends on the quality of public education in your country. In Russia, 10k$/year private schools are MILES ahead of the public ones in every single aspect. I assume the difference is not as significant in any country which actually cares about public education.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    The difference is that those American companies are promoting what they're promoting due to personal beliefs of their owners, whereas Yandex is promoting Russian propaganda because it operates...

    see Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A, Twitter/X, My Pillow, etc. If an American business started peddling propaganda a la Yandex, then yes, you can absolutely some to boycott.

    The difference is that those American companies are promoting what they're promoting due to personal beliefs of their owners, whereas Yandex is promoting Russian propaganda because it operates under the Russian government so it has no other choice

    7 votes

  10. Comment on Help with Email & Changing Name Servers/Webhost? in ~comp

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    Are those ever separate record types? I know that there are SPF records, but I've never actually seen them, almost all mail providers just use TXT Edit: Wikipedia says that SPF records are...

    Aside from MX, you'll need to copy the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records

    Are those ever separate record types? I know that there are SPF records, but I've never actually seen them, almost all mail providers just use TXT

    Edit: Wikipedia says that SPF records are discontinued due to the lack of support

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

  12. Comment on Help with Email & Changing Name Servers/Webhost? in ~comp

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    I don't know about BlueHost specifically, but generally, when transferring a domain name to a different provider, it has the option to keep your existing DNS records. You should make sure that the...

    I don't know about BlueHost specifically, but generally, when transferring a domain name to a different provider, it has the option to keep your existing DNS records. You should make sure that the records are transferred, especially the ones that have the type MX or TXT, as those are usually the ones needed for email to work.

    If you do that, nothing should break and she would be able to use her email through Google Workspace the same way she does. Domains and DNS are weird though, so while it should be fine, there may be a bit of downtime while the name is being transferred. There isn't anything you can do about that, DNS is a pretty janky system so it can sometimes be unreliable. Though most likely there will be no downtime, and even if it happens, it's going to be a few hours max.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    Kagi has always used Yandex as one of their search result sources IIRC.

    Kagi has always used Yandex as one of their search result sources IIRC.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Auto-mute mode in ALSA might be the reason you can't use your speakers with headphones plugged in in ~comp

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    The real issue is using PulseAudio instead of PipeWire. PipeWire is far better than it was a few years ago, and it generally just works.

    The real issue is using PulseAudio instead of PipeWire. PipeWire is far better than it was a few years ago, and it generally just works.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Tips for increasing online privacy (without going insane)? in ~tech

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    Check out https://privacyguides.org, it's probably the best privacy-related resource online! The website's co-founder is also on Tildes @freddy

    Check out https://privacyguides.org, it's probably the best privacy-related resource online! The website's co-founder is also on Tildes @freddy

    12 votes

  16. Comment on Img_0416 in ~tech

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    Isn't the entirety of Tildes just "random links" though? Here's the summary from Kagi Summarizer:

    I'm not clicking a random link

    Isn't the entirety of Tildes just "random links" though?

    Here's the summary from Kagi Summarizer:

    The GitHub post titled "IMG_0416" discusses the "Send to YouTube" feature that Apple iPhones and iPod Touches had from 2009 to 2012, which allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube. This feature significantly increased video uploads on YouTube, but was discontinued when Apple removed its app in 2012. The author reflects on the unique naming convention used for videos during this period (IMG_XXXX), which resulted in many videos being uploaded with obscure titles, often unintentionally.

    The post explores the surreal nature of these videos, which often capture unedited, candid moments from people's lives, leading to a unique social feed on YouTube. The author shares three specific videos, highlighting their content and the stories behind them. One video features a woman unboxing her book, another shows a woman playing a potash-themed card game, and the third depicts a humorous moment involving powdered sugar.

    The author also mentions a poignant discovery of a video where a woman films her partner reacting to her pregnancy announcement. The post concludes with a note about the potential for these families to reconnect with their past through these videos, emphasizing the authentic and relatable essence of everyday life captured in this unusual collection of uploads.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I use Telegram for all of my communication, and I want my chats to be safely backed up in case something happens to Telegram or to my account. Telegram Desktop includes chat export functionality,...

    I use Telegram for all of my communication, and I want my chats to be safely backed up in case something happens to Telegram or to my account.

    Telegram Desktop includes chat export functionality, but:

    • It requires you to press a button, you can't automate it in any way
    • You need to keep your computer running with Telegram open while the chat is exporting, which can take a long time if there's a lot of media to download
    • It doesn't export chats incrementally, so if you've already exported a chat a while ago and only want to export new messages without duplication, you need to manually select date ranges

    I wanted a solution that I could schedule to run on a server and have all my chats safely backed up. So I made one.

    https://github.com/flexagoon/ream

    I also made it fully compatible with TDesktop's export JSON. From the readme:

    It is a standalone re-implementation of Telegram Desktop's export functionality. The output from ream must be fully equivalent to the output from Telgram Desktop, and any difference in the resulting json (except for filenames) is treated as a bug.

    This was a pretty fun project as it required me to dig into Telegram Desktop's messy C++ codebase to figure out how it's export works, and learning more about the weird custom MTProto protocol that telegram uses for it's API

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Are Feeds - like RSS or Atom feeds - Really Worth It For A Personal Blog? in ~comp

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    For those that don't, see Kill the newsletter which converts newsletters to RSS feeds

    As a reader, I personally don't want to get email and would prefer RSS, but most websites that do email also do RSS.

    For those that don't, see Kill the newsletter which converts newsletters to RSS feeds

    8 votes

  20. Comment on Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design in ~comp

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    AWK is absolutely a programming language. https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

    can make a reasonable argument about why AWK and SQL are programming languages

    AWK is absolutely a programming language.

    https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster

    13 votes