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nilslindemann

434 karma · joined October 26, 2021

https://github.com/nilslindemann
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nilslindemann··on SVG Path Editor
Useful! I like that it does not produce crude floating point numbers, but keeps the clean integers.
nilslindemann··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Interesting, that was what I had on Win 10. Seems they still have not fixed it.
nilslindemann··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
The windows 10 or the Windows 11 Startmenu?
nilslindemann··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
The Start menu now allows me to do what I have been doing since, like, XP, using shellinks and folders in the taskbar: Sort the Program icons in categories (like "Coding", "Sys", "Tweak", "Web"), to find them easier. This is not totally buggy any more (On Windows 10 the start menu became unusable at some point).

In the taskbar I only have the most used icons. And the opened program instances are separated from the icons. That was doable on Win 10 and I think Win 7 too, using 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, which is now dysfunct. But the same author has created Windhawk, which does the same plus some other cool things.

The Explorer is useless as ever. I am still using Total Commander with its filter-as-you-type, rename tool and button bars.

What I still miss is a tool like Timeshift on Linux Mint.

nilslindemann··on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
That's terrifying, as I currently have no boot stick. Does someone know a reliable free system backup tool for windows, in simplicity comparable to Timeshift on Linux Mint, which I can start from an USB Medium to restore a broken system? (I need to able to exclude some folders, like Steam games)
nilslindemann··on Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex
Also interesting: Start with an empty board and let the players place their pieces and pawns however they want in their half of the board, as long as the piece does not attack an enemy piece.
nilslindemann··on Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex
> Chess960 would also be better if both sides were asymmetrical and there were novel positions for both players in every game.

Yes! I never understood why people are so much into Fischer Random when there is also e.g. Benko's Pre Chess, where the players just place their pieces on the first and eight rank at the start of the game. Every player can decide to break the symmetry or not. They can even set up the normal chess position if they desire to do so. But for some reason today only Fischer Random is played, probably because Fischer was more famous than Benko. But Benko's version is more elegant, the players have full control and there are more start positions.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess960-chess-variants/pal...

nilslindemann··on CSS Optical Illusions
33 - color fan: There is another interesting optical illusion here: The fan seems to rotate faster when not directly looking at it.
nilslindemann··on jQuery 4
Yes, okay, some can. Vue, petite-vue, Alpine, ...
nilslindemann··on jQuery 4
JQuery is cool because it does not try to replace the HTML. Progressive_Enhancement / Graceful Degradation is possible with jQuery, something which the new Frameworks, Svelte, React, etc., have forgotten / never learned.
nilslindemann··on Self Sanitizing Door Handle
I guess my "I still don't care about cookies" add-on prevents the pop-ups, but one of the other add-ons prevents the video from playing. Or the site is just broken.
nilslindemann··on Dead Internet Theory
Nothing if you fix its errors and it fixes yours.
nilslindemann··on Dead Internet Theory
That said, there need to be some new laws regarding miserable people using AI in a miserable way, like, claiming something real happened that never did, just to get attention and money. Also, the fact that AI is used has to be documented, so that people consuming it have a choice.
nilslindemann··on Dead Internet Theory
My answer to this blogpost is this: https://share.google/aimode/nrO2drR4YsCNKr1f9
nilslindemann··on Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025)
Werewolf mouses?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K9mO5QzOIQ

nilslindemann··on World War 3 Map Simulator
Meanwhile, it makes sense. It did not have a start battle button before ;-)
nilslindemann··on Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1821042778609819
nilslindemann··on C Is Best (2025)
Good point.
nilslindemann··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
Great, so this terror framework keeps existing and I keep pulling my hairs when I want to userstyle unusable sites using it.
nilslindemann··on World War 3 Map Simulator
I don't understand it either.
nilslindemann··on Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago
Sad that this was flagged. I am a noob but nevertheless a perfectionist. I am not afraid of using AI, because I proofread everything. So it would have been of interest to me how this exactly works. A video maybe.
nilslindemann··on C Is Best (2025)
Off topic: This CSS improves the usability of that page:

    ul.threadlist li:hover > a {
        color: red;
    }

    ul.threadlist li.origin > a {
        display: block;
        background: rgb(205, 216, 216);
        font-weight: normal;
        padding: 1px 6px;
        margin: 1px -6px;
    }
nilslindemann··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
https://web.archive.org/web/20121225011818/http://www.useit....

Old but gold

nilslindemann··on Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
I also found Winscript and Windhawk useful.

https://github.com/flick9000/winscript https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk

nilslindemann··on Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
Why use a whitelist from someone else, I disable it manually per page by using something like https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher, but there are more of those in the chrome webstore.
nilslindemann··on Why does VirusTotal give different results depending on how I upload the file?
Thx, seems we posted at the same time. AI confirms what you say.
nilslindemann··on Why does VirusTotal give different results depending on how I upload the file?
Okay, I figured it out by asking the Google AI (in German): https://share.google/aimode/vEQR65SSttZJkDWax

(In the case of the direct upload, more programs check the file, indicating that the direct upload may in general be a more reliable method. Though the twelve reports seem to be false positives in this case)

nilslindemann··on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
The PSF is the most recent org which did not get my donation due to this. https://donate.python.org/ X pages, I will not know in advance which of my data is required and which payment option is supported. All this could be on one page, I guess.
nilslindemann··on Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does
And, also not very funny, those corps never tell in advance which data they "require". They grab my mail on "the first page" of the registration form. Then, on "the second page", they ask for my phone and my address. Should I decide to agree to this, they will finally tell me on "the third page", that they only support credit card, no PayPal, no direct payment via Bank ...
nilslindemann··on Using Python for Scripting
More like, "no, but installation is easy", "yes, if the machine is safe", "depends on what you do"
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