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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

One of the strategies that changed my sleep quality for the better is to stop taking coffee after 9 AM; after learning that caffeine has a half-life of around 6-7 hours[0], but a quarter-life of around 12 hours. If you have a cup of coffee at noon, a quarter of that caffeine can still be circulating around your brain at midnight.

[0] https://youtu.be/k5BMGmf1ai0

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Slightly related, but I use age[0] for most of my non-automated file encryption tasks; and one of the neat features it has is the ability to encrypt to a GitHub user's pubkey[1].

[0] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age#encrypting-to-a-github-us...

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

I imagine when the branding is complete we'll get the following gem:

  <meta property="og:title" content="Meta">
  <meta property="og:site_name" content="Meta">
  <meta property="og:url" content="https://meta.com">

Joking aside, in my view the branding (and branding ability) of the name change to Meta is impressive given their long term vision.

However, I do get the feeling that Meta will aim to eventually become a household proprietary name and thereby water-down what can be considered one of the broadest, most abstract terms we're all familiar with.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

In terms of traffic, my website received about ~24,000 visits in the span of about 3-4 weeks, with the majority of the views (~16,000) occurring in the first week, but the effect continued for quite some time after due to back-linking, social media sharing, and whatnot.

For reference, my site averaged less than 50 visits per month in total before my blog post hit the front page (in April 2021).

Only in the last month as of writing this comment (October 2021) have the numbers trickled down gradually from the hundreds to the tens.

In terms of performance, I have a static site (built with Jekyll, hosted on Netlify, BunnyCDN for media, and proxied through Cloudflare) so the traffic spike didn't affect the site at all. Not even a little bit.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Thank you, I've been made aware of this and have amended the post to clarify that it's ineffective w.r.t. FLoC; for the technical reason that you mentioned.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Bootstrap and Jekyll for all of my personal sites and side projects; with HTMX and/or vanilla JavaScript when needed. Same stack as well for clients who need static sites.

For other clients (that need a CMS) it's WordPress.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

It’s worth noting that HTTP itself has unparalleled performance for the Web due to the protocol itself (and web servers that deliver it) being optimized over the years to support compression, transfer encoding, encapsulation, etc.

Gemini also transmits a mimetype that’s text-based (text/gemini) but it runs on port 1965 — as opposed to the usual 443 (HTTPS) or 80 (HTTP) that Web browsers usually connect to by default. Gemini therefore needs customized “browsers” that will read the protocol and parse the data that’s received from a Gemini server, however there are Web Proxies that do this as well [0].

In that sense, it’s an alternative to the Web inasmuch as it’s an alternative to HTTP; but (importantly) without any maturity, performance, or scalability whatsoever.

Now to be fair, Gemini doesn't claim to replace HTTP in any way; being a niche, small-web technology.

But in my opinion it's pretty pointless since it uses a strict subset of the HTTP spec which makes it feature-delimited by design.

Using HTML sans CSS/JS will give you a similar yet better experience.

[0] https://proxy.vulpes.one

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

> Meanwhile, temporary exceptions will be granted to dedicated banking and digital wallet apps so that they can “obtain broad visibility into installed apps solely for security based purposes.”

I'm sorry but why does a banking app need to see a list of system-wide packages? And for what security-purpose? If all apps were tightly sandboxed in the first place then this wouldn't be a problem that requires edge-case solutions.

Either way, based on the same quoted paragraph, my prediction is that Facebook will now roll out a dedicated wallet app; along with regular wallet functionality it will gleefully take advantage of this exact loophole.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

This is amazingly useful. I've always had to settle for a tradeoffs between widths and alternates when choosing a terminal/IDE font; I've just created the perfect combination that fits my readability needs.

Storing the configuration in URL query strings is also a nice touch. Thank you for making this.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Great article, thank you for sharing.

I use Flatpak extensively and I fully agree with you and the author of the response that there is a need to balance practicality vs. idealism when it comes to (fully auditable) FlatPak apps, as well as FlatHub's overall approach and continual work within the desktop Linux ecosystem.

What's more, the fact that an entire domain was devoted to what could have been a blog post gives credence to the responder's notion that this is FUD which, while valid for discussion, is most certainly not beneficial to the FOSS community writ large.

Either way, from the article you linked TIL about Flatseal[0] so I'll be taking that for a spin!

[0] https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

This is a really cool concept.

I'm not a fan of Tailwind's approach if I'm being honest, and while at first glance they look similar, from a practical standpoint Turbo is something I can actually see myself using to create landing pages and design systems without having to conform to Tailwind's insane naming scheme. The conditional styling also looks very intuitive.

To that end I appreciate the Turbo vs Tailwind page, and I'll definitely take this for a spin at some point (not having to explicitly exclude Sass or remove unused styles seems like a refreshing way to handle performance).

The in-browser compiler is also something I've never seen before, and from what I'm understanding that makes it extremely portable; no package manager necessary.

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il y a 5 ansdiscuss

Tangential, but I saw a film sometime back called "The Lighthouse" starring Willem Dafoe[0] that was beautifully shot in monochrome; and exuded age-old themes of isolation, loneliness, and eventual paranoia.

[0] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7984734

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