AnAmericanPotato

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This is how Arc behaves by default, and it drove me crazy. The cons of it appearing when I don't want it far outweigh the pros of saving me a single click when I do want it.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A simpler, less ambitious alternative is Clickbait Remover: https://github.com/pietervanheijningen/clickbait-remover-for-youtube

It replaces thumbnails with stills from the video. You can select between beginning, middle, and end.

It doesn't change titles but it lets you force capitalization to lowercase, titlecase, or sentence-case. Keep in mind that this has no logic to retain capitalization of proper nouns no matter which option you choose. I set mine to lowercase just to have some kind of consistency, because I got sick of random ALL CAPS TITLES.

I haven't used DeArrow myself. Crowdsourcing titles sounds interesting but I appreciate that Clickbait Remover behaves exactly the same way with 100% of videos.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

All temperature scales are arbitrary, but since our environment is full of water, one tied to the phase changes of water around the atmospheric pressure the vast majority of people experience just makes more sense.

But when it comes to weather, the boiling point of water is not a meaningful point of reference.

I suppose I'm biased since I grew up in an area where 0-100°F was roughly the actual temperature range over the course of a year. It was newsworthy when we dropped below zero or rose above 100. It was a scale everybody understood intuitively because it aligned with our lived experience.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 60 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who do we arrest if a crime is organized via phone call on T-Mobile’s network

I guarantee you, T-Mobile does not hesitate to hand over any and all data they have to the government. And they don't encrypt shit, as evidenced by their many many data breaches.

or via mail?

The postal service is from a different era, and has legal protections I wish online equivalents had. Logically they should. Realistically they probably never will.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not all use-cases require a high speed:capacity ratio.

I mean, I have an 18TB USB hard drive, which sustains transfer at about 50MB/sec in practice. It is nearly full, and its level of performance has never been a show-stopping problem.

It's hard to imagine a use case where a NAS would be a viable alternative to an SD card.

It's incredibly annoying, but it gets easier over time as you fill out you whitelist.

One of the big advantages to something like NoScript is that it lets you enable scripts only from certain domains. So you can enable the functionally-required scripts while still blocking other scripts.

But yes, it's a giant pain in the ass. It's absurd that the web has devolved into such a state.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Switching to another Chromium-based browser is a half-measure. Other Chromium-based browsers are on borrowed time.

As time goes on, it will become more difficult for them to maintain v2 support. Nobody has the resources to properly maintain a browser fork with more than minor modifications. And you can bet Google will go out of their way to make this difficult for everybody else.

I mean, sure, use what you're comfortable with if you really can't use a non-Chromium-based browser for some reason. But it means you're likely going to have to jump ship again sooner or later. Why not just jump once, to something with better long-term prospects?

Then again, the folks behind Arc Browser have expressed interest in becoming engine-agnostic, so perhaps there will be a Chromium-free Arc version in the future. That would be very cool.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't know about strictly "unable" but there are a million contexts where it is a bad idea and simply not done. Like a spreadsheet or financial document. Or anywhere you want your text to behave like text — with a consistent font, color, style, etc. The difference between $ (text) and 💲 (emoji) is pretty stark in most contexts.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago (10 children)

This will likely be rejected for one the same reasons that they decided they would not add any new flag emojis. Flags come and go. Bitcoin hasn't even been around for 20 years yet, and its future is highly uncertain.

Also, considered as a currency, it would be better as a regular text character, not an emoji. Like $, €, ¥, £, etc.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give it time. This is Microsoft we're talking about. Look at GitHub or Skype.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Monocultures are bad. Popularity very rarely tracks quality. And once something is overwhelmingly popular, it usually goes to shit, because the momentum is enough to keep it successful.

See: Windows. Outlook. Reddit. CrowdStrike.

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

everyone and their mother uses VS Code

This is usually a good reason to avoid something. Especially if that something comes from Microsoft.

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