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MultusSalus··on The User Always Loses
> how many blog posts can the average person write about their feelings on the Iraq War?

A books worth: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/deepdish/ebooks/i-was-wrong/

MultusSalus··on 27-inch iMac gets a major update
I think that went away with the jump to 5k. I remember some intent to readd it when possible, but I haven’t seen it yet.
MultusSalus··on How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down
I think that exists, or at least that’s the impression I got from this product being discussed on Hello Internet.

https://www.aarke.com/

MultusSalus··on The value of Tor and anonymous contributions to Wikipedia
Equally, everything on bulbapedia was within the scope of the project initially, so stats of Pokémon in each gen are now feeling excluded, just as programming languages are. This piece is pretty good on the topic: https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-Of-Inclusionism
MultusSalus··on Community open letter against renaming Wikimedia to Wikipedia
> The outreach and feedback KPIs were satisfied. The consultation was shared to 122 affiliates, of which 52 responded. While it's impossible to accurately measure the number of community members that were contacted, the consultation was presented on email lists and web pages with thousands of readers, and 144 community members replied. > A key performance indicator was that over 20% of affiliates support this change, and that was met, with 38% of the 63 affiliates that responded supporting the change, and 10% opposing. > There were two KPIs that measured community support, which required less than 20% of the community oppose the change, and over 20% support it. Neither performance indicator was met, as 40% of the community opposed the change and 14% supported it. From: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_bra...

Does <40% of respondents, where most polled don’t care enough to respond, seem like an awfully small show of support to anyone else? And that’s on the metric which seems stronger.

MultusSalus··on Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors
Depending on what exactly you want, nitter.net is a fairly good twitter client, although you need to use an rss reader to follow particular accounts.
MultusSalus··on My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks
I’ve been using this for a few things, and while it’s a little more unwieldy than Sublime’s it works fine for most of my uses so I’d definitely recommend giving it a go.
MultusSalus··on A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier
That’s assuming they both get to work full time. The article mentions $215 as a McDonalds paycheck. Assuming that’s typical, and they’re both working two jobs, you get $1720/month.
MultusSalus··on Apple pulls all customer reviews from online Apple Store
They’ve managed that courage for their keyboards now.
MultusSalus··on WARP is here
As a guess, people who are invested in games are more likely to consider themselves techy people, the competition makes everything a bit tenser and elicits more excitement, and games are explicitly online only.
MultusSalus··on Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine in Rust
Nice.
MultusSalus··on Earbuds are bad for your hearing
I think iOS has a compressed audio option under Music/eq.
MultusSalus··on GNU Audio and Video
That’s GNU for you.
MultusSalus··on Switch from Chrome to Firefox
This is a very powerful JS blocking extension I used for a while: https://jsblocker.toggleable.com/
MultusSalus··on Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
As I understand it that’s how articles look when a major organisation establishes SEO as a primary metric.
MultusSalus··on U.S. Firms Are Helping Build China’s Orwellian State
I don’t think that Wikipedia article is about the same topic.
MultusSalus··on Reddit Protests and China’s Control of American Culture
That’s what I don’t get. Tencent in particular has seemed like a fairly benevolent investor in Western companies so far, and I don’t see why that would change.
MultusSalus··on Exwm – Emacs X Window Manager
The answer is that they didn’t. If emacs freezes up, you just have to wait.
MultusSalus··on Don't hold users hostage, facilitate their exit
It stuck out to me too as something which didn’t really add anything to the content, and certainly seemed to entail some culture war signalling. Maybe something like keyboard warrior would have been more suitable.