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  1. Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk

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    neighborhoods site, add city button; show table like diskprices validate/publish relative poverty data yatzee-like gambling / social media site (regex-sort) use audio.db and video.db as sync/...

    Notes about my notes:

    1. half of my notes are links I need to read
    2. regex-sort is a not well named sorting program thing but I haven't come up with a better one yet. It's basically a way to cluster similar sentences together in different ways. It's not very scientific.
    5 votes

  2. Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk

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    It still exists: happn

    It still exists: happn

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Post something from your notes app in ~talk

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    Great food for my RNG composter! Oscar the Grouch ____ ___________//__\\__________ /___________________________\ I___I___I___I___I___I___I___I < ,wWWWWwwWWWWw, > < WW( 0 )( 0 )WW > < '-' '-' > <...
    Great food for my RNG composter! 
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    9 votes

  4. Comment on Libby on a phone -> Kindle Paperwhite without WiFi. Possible in ~comp

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    Which generation of Paperwhite? It might not be necessary to follow all these links but they might be helpful. I'm pretty sure I just used USB (MTP) to copy files to my wife's paperwhite:...

    Which generation of Paperwhite?

    It might not be necessary to follow all these links but they might be helpful. I'm pretty sure I just used USB (MTP) to copy files to my wife's paperwhite:

    It looks like MTP is compatible with OTG so as long as you have a USB cable that connects your kindle to your phone you could use something like Total Commander or MiXplorer to copy files over

    3 votes

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

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    Completely agree. This is the only reason why I don't use Rust everywhere. If there is a benefit to this, at least people more rarely overestimate their understanding of the code. It's interesting...

    The biggest shortcoming is the complexity

    Completely agree. This is the only reason why I don't use Rust everywhere. If there is a benefit to this, at least people more rarely overestimate their understanding of the code.

    It's interesting to look at mature Rust projects like https://github.com/sharkdp/fd to see all the edge cases that should be handled in a simple-but-widely-used tool (including performance optimizations)

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Said The Whale - Resolutions (2013) in ~music

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    I hadn't heard of Said the Whale before but it sounded pretty good a couple hours ago and I wanted to share that feeling. It's really as simple as that! After hearing this song a couple hours ago,...

    I hadn't heard of Said the Whale before but it sounded pretty good a couple hours ago and I wanted to share that feeling. It's really as simple as that!

    After hearing this song a couple hours ago, I took a listen to the rest of hawaiii and it was pretty satisfying. I agree the track Resolutions is pretty weak in retrospect--especially the ending: a fade-out but it is not even the last track and the fade-out doesn't even sound completely intentional. Terrible.

    But in isolation... it is a nice short introduction to Said The Whale. It got me listening to the rest of the album.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on McCorry's Memoirs - Era 5: Blasts From the Past (1987-1992) in ~humanities.history

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    I could never write about my own life in such detail--not out of concern for my own privacy but just that many mundane things in my own life don't seem worth notation--but it is interesting to...

    I could never write about my own life in such detail--not out of concern for my own privacy but just that many mundane things in my own life don't seem worth notation--but it is interesting to read how other people experience life. I find the work done here impressive in its consistency. Looks like he is still writing too with this entry in his weblog dated three days ago.

    I hadn't heard many of these series before but looks like they can be watched on the Internet Archive:

    1 vote

  13. Comment on How US neo-Nazism actually works - from a former neo-Nazi member in ~society

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    This is a great find! Thanks for sharing

    This is a great find! Thanks for sharing

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Pixel Buds Pro 2 help - frequent disconnects from phone in ~tech

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    huh... that kind of information helps narrow down the problem. Sounds like the problem is likely a phone setting--maybe energy savings/battery saver related. Have you restarted the phone recently?...

    huh... that kind of information helps narrow down the problem. Sounds like the problem is likely a phone setting--maybe energy savings/battery saver related. Have you restarted the phone recently?

    I guess you could try returning it and seeing if the hardware was defective but it really sounds like a software problem.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Pixel Buds Pro 2 help - frequent disconnects from phone in ~tech

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    you could try toggling it on then. If it is connecting or disconnecting to other devices it should stop making noises at least when it switches. Even if you don't use multiple devices with it,...

    you could try toggling it on then. If it is connecting or disconnecting to other devices it should stop making noises at least when it switches. Even if you don't use multiple devices with it, turning it on could use a different code path where the "idle" mode has less bugs... it's worth a try anyway

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Pixel Buds Pro 2 help - frequent disconnects from phone in ~tech

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    I don't have a pixel nor pixel buds but you can find the settings location here :) Settings > Bluetooth > Tap cog wheel next to PBP2, More Settings > Multipoint...

    I don't have a pixel nor pixel buds but you can find the settings location here :)

    Settings > Bluetooth > Tap cog wheel next to PBP2, More Settings > Multipoint

    https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1fv6688/pixel_buds_pro_2_multipoint/

    https://support.google.com/googlepixelbuds/answer/12319417?hl=en

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Pixel Buds Pro 2 help - frequent disconnects from phone in ~tech

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    That sounds really annoying. I had a stereo that would do that when using an AUX to cassette adapter. I empathize with you Maybe you could try disabling or enabling multipoint bluetooth? That's...

    That sounds really annoying. I had a stereo that would do that when using an AUX to cassette adapter. I empathize with you

    Maybe you could try disabling or enabling multipoint bluetooth? That's the only other thing that I can think of which might help

    2 votes

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  20. Comment on US President Donald Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act for the first time against Venezuelan criminal organization in ~society

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    https://ground.news/article/judge-blocks-trump-admin-from-deporting-5-venezuelans-amid-plans-to-invoke-alien-enemies-act

    2025-03-15: Judge blocks Trump from using Alien Enemies Act to deport five Venezuelan men — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport five Venezuelans, implementing a temporary restraining order for 14 days. Judge James E. Boasberg noted that the ruling was to preserve the status quo amid concerns about the emergency powers invoked under the act. The Trump administration appealed the restraining order, arguing it would hinder presidential power before the act was officially announced. Litigation over the Alien Enemies Act raises concerns due to its previous use only during wartime, requiring a formal declaration of war.

    https://ground.news/article/judge-blocks-trump-admin-from-deporting-5-venezuelans-amid-plans-to-invoke-alien-enemies-act

    22 votes