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23 votes
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Is the era of the $100+ graphing calculator coming to an end?
19 votes -
Coalition of charitable and peace-building organisations in Finland crowdsource for 'forgiveness' emoji
6 votes -
Twitch's latest crackdowns on 'sexual' content are leaving streamers baffled
13 votes -
Is it possible to reprogram a coffee maker?
Our new coffee maker moves the water too fast through the coffee grounds making the coffee weaker than we would like, and if we use a finer grain, overflows the basket. Is there a way to reprogram...
Our new coffee maker moves the water too fast through the coffee grounds making the coffee weaker than we would like, and if we use a finer grain, overflows the basket. Is there a way to reprogram the rate of... I don't know, flow? It's a Mr. Coffee if that helps.
10 votes -
Roll20 Blog - Conclusion of 2018 data breach investigation
11 votes -
Privacytools delisted Brave from their website
32 votes -
Call me crazy, but Windows 11 could run on Linux
23 votes -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina data center next year
3 votes -
Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of their ongoing investigation into data misuse
8 votes -
How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems
10 votes -
Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues
5 votes -
iOS and iPadOS 13: The MacStories review
5 votes -
Jack Conte, Patreon, and the plight of the creative class
11 votes -
Best cheap GPU for a Linux desktop?
I'm building my first desktop computer, and Linux is my operating system of choice. I know video cards sometimes can be a pain and wish to avoid any issues. Dollar-priced items are very expensive...
I'm building my first desktop computer, and Linux is my operating system of choice.
I know video cards sometimes can be a pain and wish to avoid any issues.
Dollar-priced items are very expensive down here, and I don't require playing the latest games on the highest configurations. Just something to “put me on the map”, so to speak, so I can have a somewhat current machine that doesn't give me much trouble. Any suggestions?
9 votes -
Samsung unveils new PCIe 4.0 SSDs that "never die"
10 votes -
More control over your conversations now available in Japan and the US
3 votes -
Recovering my account on StackExchange
Occasionally, I lose control of my account on StackExchange. I don't visit for a few months, I get logged out by some process during that time, and, when I try to log in, it tells me my password...
Occasionally, I lose control of my account on StackExchange. I don't visit for a few months, I get logged out by some process during that time, and, when I try to log in, it tells me my password is incorrect.
When I go through the "forgot password" process, get the recovery email, and reset my password... I then get told I'm about to create a new account on StackExchange. I actually did that once, many years ago, and trying to figure out how to combine the accounts was messy.
It's happened again.
How do I reset my password without creating a new account? StackExchange has always been a little bit like High Dark Magic to me. Its account structure seems more confusing than necessary.
7 votes -
Intel Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X CPU benchmarks hit Geekbench
4 votes -
TCL Communication announces the Alcatel GO FLIP 3 and Alcatel SMARTFLIP, the first flip phones with Google Assistant
5 votes -
A look inside Apple’s A13 Bionic chip and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology
6 votes -
Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
6 votes -
Safari 13 Release Notes
4 votes -
Automattic (owner of Wordpress) raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
5 votes -
We need an alternative to Medium, and it’s not Wordpress
Introduction I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief. What Medium Does Bad Medium is slow On Gmetrix,...
Introduction
I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief.
What Medium Does Bad
Medium is slow
On Gmetrix, medium.com has a
F PageSpeed Score
, with a 11.8MB Total Page Size and a Fully Loaded Time of 12.4s . A random article got a little better, with aD
scorePingdom gives Medium a
B
score, with a page size of Page size 12.4 MB and Load time 2.15s (much better). This is from San Francisco, USA.Probably because I’m closer, the results for São Paulo, Brazil, are marginally better. The
B
score remains, but Load time dropped to 1.68s.Tildes gotta a
C
on GTmetrix and anA
on Pingdom. On Google, Tildes got a98
and medium.com got a48
.What is probably more concerning is that builtwith.com’s lists 106 different technologies at use on a single Medium page, ranging from AngularJS to Subversion, Wordpress Grid (aren’t they competitors?), Microsoft Azure and AliExpress. Tildes list only 13 technologies.
Medium is annoying
I’m sick and tired of opening a random Medium article and being bombarded with an immediate call to action for me to subscribe or to sign into a useless mailing-list. No: I do not pardon the interruption.
It’s 2019: I don't wanna sign-in just to read a free fucking article.
Medium weakens your brand
On Medium, you’re not a content maker. Your a Medium contributor. There’s a great difference. There are little customization options, but you’re encouraged to strengthen the Medium brand instead of your own.
Medium does not support Markdown
In 2019, this is utterly ridiculous. I should be able to write my posts in Emacs, Vim, VS Code, whatever. Markdown is a universal format that simply works and not supporting it natively is unacceptable.
The Default Editor Sucks
It forces you to write in a certain (clunky) way and it doesn't work at all.
Too Much White Space
Medium uses space poorly.
Not FOSS
Wanna host your own? No can do amigo.
Your content is not (really) yours
Wanna export your Medium posts? Should be easy, like a single button, right? NOPE. And it can stop working at any time.
Most Content is Shit
I don’t wanna generalize, there are some good things on Medium. But most Medium articles are bellow 300-words, full of unnecessary subtitles with nothing more than obvious statements I could easily get from Google. Most Medium articles are from developers trying to leverage their status by showing knowledge of trivial technologies.
What Medium Does Right
A Social Network With Content Instead of Content With Social Networking
This is something no amount of Wordpress widgets will ever top. Medium is a social network. It gets views, it gets you “applauses”, it gets you validation. It’s the Instagram of text content. Medium makes you feel good about yourself, and give you the shot (illusion?) of exposure. Maybe you can be in a publication, which is just an assortment of posts within Medium itself! See, you’re growing! You’re reaching a larger audience! They might even read your stuff!
The Alternative
It is obvious that Medium does a lot of things right. It is an actual social network that engages people like no other current blogging tool. People that know better use Medium to their advantage. People use Medium to talk trash about Medium. So we need another Medium. One that is just as social, but that is faster, less annoying, less of walled-garden and respects your content. I’m not in a position to do such a thing yet. But I certainly wish it existed.
35 votes -
Huawei’s flagship Mate 30 Pro has impressive specs but no Google
4 votes -
Let’s go further and hope for every last drop of joy to be drained from the world
11 votes -
Popular Podcasts app Pocket Casts goes free, web & desktop app now subscription-based
22 votes -
Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
11 votes -
iphone 11 pro camera review: china
7 votes -
Hodinkee's review of the Apple Watch Series 5 Edition in titanium
7 votes -
ActivityPub: The “worse is better” approach to federated social networking
10 votes -
AI learning to play hide and seek
7 votes -
New Wi-Fi 6 certification is officially released, up to 3x faster than 802.11ac
11 votes -
Elon Musk spent $50,000 digging into Thai submarine critic Vern Unsworth’s personal life
15 votes -
Raising prices is hard
8 votes -
GitLab announces $268 million in Series E funding, at a valuation of $2.75 billion
13 votes -
Wi-Fi just turned twenty, but things could have gone very differently for the now ubiquitous wireless connectivity standard
8 votes -
Moving Firefox to a faster four-week release cycle
10 votes -
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
19 votes -
Remove Richard Stallman
51 votes -
Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, a $100 million fund to invest in reshaping the economics of the web
19 votes -
Russian propaganda stoking 5G health fears in Australia
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Would the internet be healthier without 'like' counts?
10 votes -
The awkward days of the Apple Watch are over
3 votes -
What's your cloud/syncing setup for files, pics, mail, bookmarks, etc?
So I've spent the last few days trying to sync everything up between devices, with the following thoughts in mind: how fucked am I going to be if a device gets corrupted/stolen/lost? how can I...
So I've spent the last few days trying to sync everything up between devices, with the following thoughts in mind:
- how fucked am I going to be if a device gets corrupted/stolen/lost?
- how can I easily access everything I need from a mobile device/device not belonging to me?
- how can I avoid using services from the big tech companies, and keep things open source, as much as possible?
I'm by no means an expert in the field, and I'm hoping in this thread to get a discussion going as to the pros and cons of using different services/setups, to get a general idea as to what others are doing to keep their daily lives simpler and more secure, and to perhaps see what are the future steps for me to take when I feel like playing around again.
Servers & Storage
I span up a 25GB VPS with Vultr for 'active use data', and also took out some 'deep storage'(?) from Wasabi for things which I need to keep, but not really access that much.Mail
Protonmail with custom domain. Using the ProtonMail app for mobile, and Linux ProtonMail bridge with Evolution mail for desktop.Pics/Vids
Nextcloud autoupload feature on mobile automatically uploads my pics to an 'autoupload' folder on Nextcloud server. Here, I categorise pics into folders and share what needs sharing before deleting anything I don't need and wiping the pics on my phone.Passwords
Nothing yet. Looking at getting KeyPass synced across devices.Bookmarks
Again, nothing yet. Had Firefox Sync running to connect Fennec and Firefox, but am looking for a more open approach which involves Nextcloud somehow, and allows me to tag and order things more effectively as opposed to dragging things around in the sidebar.Calendar/Contacts
Evolution calendar on desktop, simple calendar on mobile, hooked up to Nextcloud and all synced using davx5Programs and General Setup
Here, I'd like to somehow take an image/backup of my Ubuntu configs of importance and experiment with getting my setup and customisaitons replicated on another machine quickly and without taking up too much space in storage (i.e. don't need to bakckup all my files as they're already on cloud).Also, I am very curious as to whether anybody is using Syncthing across their devices? And if so, how are they finding the experience?
22 votes -
Kickstarter’s year of turmoil - Multiple employees involved with a "Kickstarter United" effort to unionize have been fired over the past week
13 votes -
University of Alabama uses location-tracking phone app to know who leaves football games early
8 votes -
What's a cheap laptop that works well with Linux and is available wordwide?
Because I'm in Brazil, highly specific brands that do not ship to my country are out of the question, and even the ones that ship usually cost more than I can pay due to currency exchange rate and...
Because I'm in Brazil, highly specific brands that do not ship to my country are out of the question, and even the ones that ship usually cost more than I can pay due to currency exchange rate and shipping costs themselves. What are some universal brands and models that I can probably find on my location, that won't give me much trouble running Linux?
I don't require playing games or top performance (
4GB8GB RAM, a nice/vibrant screeen and an i5 processor would be the minimum requirement. SSD would be nice, but for my budget it's a plus. Just something that is durable (with a good guarantee) and works reliably under Linux, especially when it comes to HDMI output, video graphics adapter support, booting from USB, hibernating, sleeping, power management etc.Thanks!
11 votes -
Configuring networks to disable DNS over HTTPS
8 votes