Jeremiah

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to webdev

TIL MDN wants to not have the unnecessary and W3C recommended-against trailing slash on void HTML elements in its documentation examples, but can't because Prettier is broken and won't fix it because React ruined everything.

https://github.com/orgs/mdn/discussions/242

(This is not a request to inform me of any disagreeing thoughts.)

#webDev

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to random

In March, Apple will allow people in the EU to install apps from outside its app store, use less expensive payment processors to pay for services, and get better integration between first- and third-party apps and features.

I just changed my Apple App Store-managed subscriptions to all expire this summer so I can switch my App Store country from the US to Sverige to get these benefits.

Changing countries in the Apple App Store results in losing some purchases, which is why I hadn’t yet.

#DMA

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to random

“So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/coretta-scott#:~:text=So%20today%20capitalism

#MLKDay

Jeremiah, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

My 2024-01 /now page update is 7,200+ words and 130+ photos because it covers over an entire year. This is not how ‘now’ pages are supposed to work. I will do better in 2024.

👨‍💻 Leaving Big Tech for humanist tech
🧠 2e ADHD diagnosis
🧳 5 countries visited
🥰 friends & family fun times
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 15 years married & turning 39
🏋️‍♂️ fitness progress
🌻 so many plant photos
📺📚🎥🧑‍🎤 media I loved

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/now/

#NowNowNow

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to random

“I can’t believe I did negative self-talk in front of my new therapist and got called out for it in just my second session. This happens every time. I’ve worked on this. I should be over this by now. I never learn.” —me to myself moments before noticing the thought, managing the thought, replacing the thought… #CBT

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to investing

I was so confused by the Bitcoin ETF. Why not buy actual Bitcoins?

https://www.coindesk.com/learn/2024/01/11/bitcoin-etfs-explained-what-are-they-how-do-they-work/

And then I learned there are single currency ETFs. Why not buy actual currency?

https://www.schwab.com/etfs/types/currency-etfs

The abstraction layer of a fund manager provides no protection I can identify. Is it just easier buying/selling/trading?

#investing

Jeremiah, 4 months ago to UI

This short documentary about the Apple Lisa showed how much iteration and innovation happened on desktop GUI conventions after Xerox PARC.

https://www.theverge.com/23669728/apple-lisa-macintosh-ui-design-history

#UI #computerHistory

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Search engines are hard. I used Mojeek all day today because I like its approach. Unfortunately, it did not return what I needed within the first 10 results even once successfully.

DuckDuckGo remains my default with occasional Google use for local shopping.

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Unless you work in Zurich, you are underpaid as a software engineer in Europe compared to your US peers.

Demand more. ✊ 🌹

https://www.levels.fyi/2023/

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to linux

My only regular experience with desktop Linux is Raspberry Pi OS.

The GUI is buggy. Today, the taskbar disappeared when I turned on the monitor. As I dragged a window, the taskbar reappeared. I released the mouse, but the window kept dragging offset from the cursor.

I feel like I cannot rely on it because if there are that many visible bugs, there likely are more invisible bugs.

I am sure I could spend time researching and tweaking, but I have better things to do than fix a default.

#Linux

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Governments creating a mandate for non-anonymous Internet access gated by authentication with a government-issued id is a bad precedent regardless of how you feel about pornography.

https://www.404media.co/north-carolina-montana-pornhub-blocked-vpn

Jeremiah, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Earth’s 24-hour rollout of the 2024 release went well. It added millions of people every hour without a single incident. Personally, I love the new year and welcome the upgrade.

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Before responding to someone online:

• ask yourself what emotions you feel and examine if they are valid

• ask yourself what outcome you desire and examine if your response is likely to achieve that outcome

• ask yourself if you would consider the response truthful, kind, necessary, and helpful if roles were reversed and you received what you wrote

• ask yourself if you would be ok with your response being the last thing you ever posted online

#netiquette #feditips

Jeremiah, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to firefox

I want Firefox to succeed more than ever and I support Mozilla finding better revenue sources than search engine default sales, but I do not support a $7M salary for its CEO.

I canceled my recurring donation to Mozilla because I need that money more than Mozilla’s CEO needs that money.

If there is a direct funding option of developers working on Firefox, I will happily reallocate that money. Send me links.

Source: Form 990 https://stateof.mozilla.org/

Edit: Replaced commentary with direct source

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Merry Crimbo! God jul!

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

My sexy Texy doing his best Johnnie Walker impression unintentionally

Man wearing red cowboy hat with white fluff and lights on the rim, a green scarf, a black coat, and black pants standing on a snow covered pier at Finnboda.

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Cortana’s Revenge would be great name for a Windows virus.

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

After 3 logicboard replacements over 6 weeks, my Samsung washing machine seems to be working again.

Getting it reconnected to my Wi-Fi so that I get the push notifications when it’s done instead of the awful 60 seconds of Samsinging was nearly painful enough to make me start an open source smart home appliance company.

Jeremiah, 5 months ago to random

Shepard⁠ Fairey released a new artwork based on Belal Khaled‘s photo of a boy crying in pain from injuries as blood runs down his face. It is free to download and encouraged to reshare in order to increase awareness of the estimated 18,000 Palestinian civilians killed by the Israeli military in response to Hamas’s attack.

https://obeygiant.com/unmute-gaza/

#UnmuteGaza #StandWithPalestine #streetArt

Jeremiah, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

I missed in November that Apple announced it was adding support for RCS (Rich Communication Services) next year.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/

RCS is the successor to SMS and MMS that brings cross-platform read receipts, typing indicators, high-quality images and videos, and possible end-to-end encryption.

This likely is a concession to the EU, which is trying to force iMessage interoperability, but Apple is fighting on a technicality.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/apple-imessage-set-to-avoid-eu-s-digital-dominance-crackdown

Apple today is the 90s Microsoft.

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

I am now learning about breaking news here at a speed once exclusive to Twitter.

That’s an encouraging success metric for the social web.

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

Me and 3% of Sverige are in the Ticketmaster queue for Eurovision 2024 tickets apparently.

#EuroVision2024

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

I just invested in Talf Solar to increase its solar installation in Bhārat (India) via a €100 microloan on Trine using repayments from other loans supporting electrification in Nigeria.

Affiliate link where we both get an extra €25 if you use it: https://trine.com/just-invested/273572

#microloans

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to privacy

Firefox v120 brings a preview of good privacy features pioneered elsewhere probably because they were too high risk for it do first.

Firefox users in Deutschland can soon enjoy

1. Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows to auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites

2. URL Tracking Protection by default in private windows to remove non-essential URL query parameters often used to track people across the web

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/

#privacy

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

5 years ago, Sveriges Radio interviewed me about the absurdity of “Black Friday” outside the US. (My anticonsumerism comments didn’t make the edit.)

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7095879