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I have had first.last since the beta data and firstlast always comes to me when I test it out.

could it be that something changed after the beta? but something also changed much more recently I'm sure of it because it's become a huge problem for me recently!

people are using my email as their recovery email which I have no option to 'unsubscribe' from. someone signed up with chime (a US money sending service) which unless your in the US there is absolutely no way to contact them about removing your email. I ended up going through the bug bounty programme as a last resort because I was receiving all their transactions and even had their address! I've had graduation photos, blood test results, shipping confirmations, beautician appointments, wedding planning (I had to email the vicar in the end and let him know I wasn't the bride being rude!) I get emails from a primary school and I'm invested in the receipts from a garden centre every few weeks though, they have quite a few rewards points now, they're working on their lawn at the moment and the other month they bought two jellycats!

At first I thought it might be someone whose email was at ymail.com but I'm not sure anymore it seems it's not linked to any one country or person either.

I'd been looking for a codebreaker game recently so cypher lock was fun to play for me! https://minigames.world/en/feed/cipher-lock

in my own organisation quest I found similar results, my "stick stuff to other stuff" box (it's real name has more swear words!) is the box with glue, tape, scissors, string, glue dots etc

I also keep a pair of scissors in there since there's no reason to look in two places at once.

my collection isn't quite the same categories since it's a hash of craft, electronics, DIY and just general household stuff so my categories are more about size and actions vs likelihood of use. I have "very tiny things", "smart devices", "covers, cases and stands", "cables modern", "cables ancient", "adaptors & extenders".

the best two boxes we've ever implemented: "gribbins: known use" "gribbins: unknown use" for the leftover bits at the end of a project or the spares for something you bought online all labelled in the known box and thrown into three unknown box. if your looking for something in our house its in one of these two boxes!

sometimes things are sub-bagged and labelled in IKEA sandwich bags because free colour coding others it's a free for all because we use it often

does this apply in the UK as well? I'm a fan of dandelions but everyone is determined to pull them out of our lawn but me!

but then I've also been told by a local bee keeper that the whole plant flowers for the bees policy isn't a good idea since that's how mites and other nasties can be transferred between hives?

One half of me is fascinated by this as spiders are such amazing creatures. So long as they don't break our house rules they're welcome to stay, especially the spindles! The other half of me didn't scroll far enough down and a a slither of the video played at the bottom of the screen making me think a spider was running across my arm and made me jump!

my partner and I have a long running joke that I as the techy person who pretty much just uses the camera, WhatsApp and Safari on my phone has so many bugs and issues while my partner who bought the same phone on the same day as me has none of these issues but has and uses every app plugin etc under the sun. and let's face it iOS isn't really that 'customisable'

I just want Safari to work again. The rest I'll wait. I'm checking for software updates daily. it's gotten so bad that I looked up how to report bugs to Apple but I can't submit screenshots!?

I'll settle for just being able to enter data into a form in Safari without needing to reload the whole page.

just to add I had to cut this comment, reload the page, paste it in in order to be able to submit it

This is one of those things that you don't really tend to think about (pun not intended!) until you experience a change in your thinking or meet someone who thinks like you do!

> If we can avoid the compression step, and do the manipulations directly in the high-dimensional, non-linguistic, conceptual space, we can move much faster

With my neurodivergent brain I've always conducted my thoughts in an "uncompressed format" and then eternally struggled to confine it all into words. Only then for people to misinterpret and question it. They might get caught up in the first sentence when the end of the paragraph is where you need to be!

That's why when you meet someone who thinks like you the depth of conversation and thinking you can achieve together is vast and also incredibly liberating! Your no longer limited by words in same way.

Since becoming ill I've suffered badly with brainfog. The cutesy name for a cruel experience. Sometimes there's no memories to draw on when your thinking, the cupboards are bare. You can't leap from thought to thought because they disappear before you get there or after like a cursed platformer. You might be able to grab hold of the thought but you can't reach inside or read it. It's all wrong somehow like when your suddenly convinced a word is spelt wrong even though you know it's right. You can't maintain focus long enough to finish your train of thought.

Even that subconscious processing is affected I used to prime my brain with information all day and instead of waking up with the solution I'll wake up frustrated but not knowing why. Just the vague notion that I failed at something that used to come so easily.

and here's me still ctrl+r-ing for my commonly used methods

this is incredible! I've managed to get an error in one of my attempts though. I'm on mobile so unable to look at the console, it would be great to be able to mark it as broken

an application to create a database and API of Sylvanian families and track which ones you own and want: https://lush-swan-w7nqsq.manyminiapps.com/

interesting to see that the first app I created allowed user submissions and within seconds there was a slur submitted but now that submission has been removed!

fwiw I (a YouTube premium subscriber) recently enabled restricted mode myself due to the app showing me completely unrelated and 'scary' videos in searches.

After some searching I found a few threads where others had encountered this and restricted mode was the only thing that seemed to stop these videos and honestly they're jarring and unwanted enough for me to warrant enabling restricted mode and all the features it disables - YouTube please please stop these unrelated 'jump scare' videos!

as an example I'm scrolling through videos on how to fix a leaky tap at 10pm I'll come across a thumbnail 5 videos down with a ghostly face or trypophobia type thumbnail then another 5-10 videos down. in no way are they highlighted as sponsored and I find it hard to believe that Google with it's search skills and other far more relevant videos in the results can be returning these videos as results!

TV channels have been forced to produce TV shows that will draw the biggest audiences. they've not innovated online either.

Streaming services make great shows then stop them after one season or force one episode a week. they also drop then pick back up shows constantly.

YouTube let's people watch the kinds of shows they want to watch and let's people create the kind of shows they want to create. everyone wins, including YouTube! plus they do music, smaller artists, bigger artists and mashups in between. it's all just there fairly reliably and it works on every platform.

so did I until I found myself using YouTube music over Spotify more and more. it has all the standard music but also includes more remixes and smaller artists. the most important thing is that it doesn't mix podcasts in with music and you can easily view your own playlists!

haven't used Spotify in any meaningful way in a few years now.

I'm wondering why accessibility isn't listed as one of your goals when your building a "standards first" library? It's not even mentioned as a feature.

I do realise your using the term standards to refer to web standards but inclusive design should be a core part of any standard so I feel it should be highlighted more somewhere!

I have a slight y different issue on Spotify and YouTube music. during the day I listen to lo-fi and at night sometimes as background music. this has lead to my entire suggestion list being 4 hour long tracks and nothing related to my actual music I like! I guess most of that lo-fi stuff is now AI generated as well.

I tend to agree with you there, admittedly there was a skill in not being accidentally radicalised but you watch one 'lo-fi' video and accidentally fall asleep to four more and that's all YouTube shows me now!

I feel like they have a plan, get the backend up to scratch to appease the tech people and they're leaving the ways to interact with it purposely vague and incomplete for those non-tech folk.

They don't want to scare any part of their audience away from future uses of Apple intelligence. Their audience is tech and non-tech folk alike.

If the tech folk say it's safe and the non-tech folk get comfortable with the basic AI features then they're onto a winner.

How many people's parents/grand parents have iPhones because they're simpler for them to understand who are also scared or don't understand this 'AI thing'. I think Apple have been quite savvy in introducing it slowly and are probably watching the metrics like a hawk!

I suspect image playground is so creepy in an attempt to mark the images as clearly AI generated when they get posted to social media?

The always on display has kind of mitigated the not knowing which way is up problem (though I disabled it because of battery life and I kept thinking I had a notification!) but I still have a small sticker on my iPad to tell me where the power on/finger print button is and I still curse the thing every time I accidentally turn it off when changing positions whilst drawing.

The new phone control on the new iPhone is irritating as hell as well my partner constantly switching to camera mode when picking up his phone. I use a pop socket on my phone which grips either side of the phone and slides down which covers that feature thankfully as it can't be disabled in settings yet (usual for apple) and the new Apple watch software I can't get used to the new controls but it also keeps opening up or scrolling to the widgets for some reason so I can't always just glance at the time anymore!

Have definitely noticed a drop in usability in Apple products over the last few years.

I've been playing around with dokuwiki recently but this looks promising.

The irony I'm having is that I store some single file html documents alongside my notes and none of these engines (or obsidian) will render them!

When I went I wanted to buy souvenirs that weren't just cute and sat on a shelf so I focused on low cost but cute homeware.

It brings me so much happiness each time I use my daiso rice scoop or getting a tealight out of the bag I bought my fountain pen in! and ofc chopsticks because they really do the best ones.

If your buying pens don't forget to stock up on ink!

If I'd had more money at the time I would have bought better quality but the fact that some things were from the 100y store and are still better quality than stuff bought here says a lot!

I've noticed it too but as an actual front-end dev I find it very frustrating because you can tell when someone's not a frontend! Then another not-frontend joins and it gets rewritten and again and again - might explain the cycle your seeing!

A lot of the brick and mortar stores have started joining up with third party sellers now that you can do same day click and collect on. Places like the range, b&m, b&q etc that you might have thought you were 'safe' from the cheaper low quality products but they hide it behind a lot of dark patterns that the average consumer wouldn't know!

IKEA sandwich bags and sharpie, I found the colours helped me find some cables.

I grouped them by type usb a, USB b, usb micro b etc then extensions, adaptors, plugs, power, chargers (known and unknown) then audio.

I bought one of those plastic drawers off Amazon with lots of little drawers and put them all in there (labelled with chalk pen)

Then I took out a few of each, our "favourites" and put those in a small box on top.

The ones we don't often use like ribbon cables, VGA etc go in another box nearby.

All of this will be pointless if they can't fix the UI of Google. Gemini, gems etc it's not even started yet and I'm already confused about what they're offering and how I'd use it.

Do I get any of this with my Google one account or do I need a business account or a Google one plus ai?

Just needs OCR for the perfect meme searching solution!

I’ve had the exact same gdpr training at two jobs (word for word it didn’t change in 3 years!) and it never ever covers the details, it’s all geared to in-office environments and skips over the fact that some systems might need to have these export tools built for them or that they have export but not all the fields.

I have had to use gdpr to get data a few times now and while it’s amazing that we can so easily do that now 30 days is never enough because i can tell that the export is being done manually then converted to pdf. Which means my data is no longer inside the system its in bits and pieces in someone's (usually non technical) downloads/desktop folder which feels way less safe to me!

JavaScript (react/nextjs/eleventh) if it's a small project and I want to get it up and running quickly.

CSS or SCSS depending on complexity

If it's something that needs logins or more common features I'll usually switch to rails it just gets all the tedious stuff out of the way!

did they find who actually committed the crimes?

I can't help but feel for the victims who believed they were getting justice who now have to deal with the reality they they weren't safe all these years. that their attacker was still out there the whole time. Finding this out is almost another attack. If they do find the real culprit what reason do they have to believe this time.

A solution like this would be perfect for me. The problem is I know enough about networks to set this up but not enough to be sure that it would ever be secure!

> Sometimes I’m not in the mood to look at a certain celebrity’s third carousel of vacation photos so I scroll without hesitating

This is also a key point. on tiktok the algorithm is very good anyway but you can ‘train’ it whilst using it to get it to show you what your interested in at that point in time.

If i want more silly videos i simply watch those and skip others and it very quickly gets the message. The next time i use it it resets and i can choose longer form informational videos that time.

On Instagram it’s the opposite and I’ve found myself having a mix of accounts to ‘trick’ it into showing me very different content types.

For example there’s no way that Instagram would ever show electronics or developer content my main account explore page I’ve tried! So i had to create a separate account for that kind of content.

Interestingly i get no sexualised content on my other accounts but where I’m following interests that are typically very male oriented i get the overly sexualised content. I never see any of that on tiktok and it covers all my interests sometimes without me even telling it!

In my mind the zune only came out a few years ago and I'm ready to buy mine but I just haven't gotten around to it.

I have a 'to find' list which is currently a brown zune, a very specific Mickey mouse shaped MP3 player sold in disney, a purple hong Kong edition Gameboy advance and a type of tamagotchi called a nekotcha in green which I actually recently found by accident on a Japanese gaming store!