I was curious about what percentage of people visiting my site had set preferences for light/dark mode, reduced motion, or increased contrast. I also wanted to know what percentage had HDR support.
I figured out how to do that custom tracking with @plausible and wrote a tutorial.
I have been writing at least an hour every day as part of #WeblogPoMo2024. I never intended to publish daily, but I also have not published nearly as much as I had hoped. This post was a result of 3 other related posts that are almost ready. Maybe I will meet half my goal of 5 published posts this monthโฆ
Today in โcommunity servers were a mistakeโ: I got temporarily banned from mastodon dot green for this gif, so I no longer recommend it as a community server.
I really, really wish Mastodon supported importing old posts from an old community server and the old community server responding with HTTP 308 Permanent Redirect for old posts to their new URL because #CoolURIsDontChange.
The hostility of governments towards tourists with ADHD who just want to take their medication is a true test of the effectiveness of that medication.
Within the EU, I must fill out a form with my pharmacist for them to file for each trip beyond Sverigeโs border.
For my trip to Korea, I must download 2 Word docs from a website in Korean, submit a copy of my passport, flight information, notarized English translation of my Swedish prescription, and email it all 10 days before travel.
@hehemrin@dfri Claesโs argument that fraud would be reduced by using BankID less is not convincing. The alternative to BankID would be a password in most cases. Most people still reuse passwords, donโt use password managers, and don't use MFA on their email account that can be used for password resets. Passkeys might save humanity from that if Apple and Google stop inhibiting them, but the same authentication fatigue attributed as a BankID weakness applies equally to Passkeys. ๐ค
Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflowโs ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.
@julian@MDN I agree that MDNโs embrace of ChatGPT is unfortunate, mostly because that model is not great at factual answers.
My objection to Stack Overflow+OpenAI is that itโs proprietary and power consuming.
In general, I think LLMs and other ML models can be helpful to people learning. If MDN had a Q&A site and used peopleโs contributions to train an open source model people could run locally, I think would be great.
~โthe ad says something about balance of power. Apple is a great tech company, but a legendary marketer. Its ads, keynotes, stores offer a vision of its products as tools that give consumers power. The commercial is a display of force that reminds us about this sleight of hand. We are not the powerful entity in this relationship. The creative potential we feel when we pick up their devices is actually on loan. At the end of the day, it belongs to Apple, the destroyer.โ
@aphyr I just sold all my $TSLA stock because of this decision. With the recent departures of brilliant people, I no longer have much long term optimism for Teslaโs dominance.