Notices by djinn & juice (ieure@retro.social), page 3

@craigmaloney @keithzg Loved how X11 is "30 year old" tech, which they've been trying to replace for 15 years. Sounds like it's time to start replacing Wayland to me.

@mntmn Doesn't have the web/sync/merge bits, but VisiData is awful close to the rest.

@foone @dosnostalgic Not to paint with an overly broad brush here, but "reading and understanding a book" is a thing I've noticed many Christians are very bad at.

Nobody wanted to listen when I said "the blockchain is fucking stupid" and "self-driving cars will never work," so I expect nothing out of this, but:

LLM based "AI" is godawful and will never truly work and will harm people with its brokenness. You can just... not build it, and not use it, and the world will be a better place. You can do literally nothing and have a positive impact.

Pro tip for the #NoJS folks out there:

Open uBlock Origin.
Click "My filters."
Add this line: substack.com###nojs-banner
Never see that Substack JS nagbar again.

A podcast I enjoy is LeVar Burton Reads, and this story is one of my favorite episodes.

https://www.stitcher.com/show/levar-burton-reads/episode/climbingnation-by-kim-fu-208324491

Pro tip for podcast listeners: A lot of shows have dynamic ads now. In practice, that means the show gets recorded clean, or with short bumpers before/after the ads. When you download an episode, the podcast ad provider dynamically inserts ads into the audio.

And most of these services include the URL for the clean audio in their own URL. Which means that stripping all the crap out gives you an episode with less (or no!) ads, and podcast adtech shitheels have no idea.

Recommended!