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My favorite pen is the Uniball Vision Micro. Not the "Elite" model, but the base model sometimes called the "Eye" in some regions.

I've been using these for maybe 14 years? And I've got three dozen more in my desk cause you never know when something you like is gonna get discontinued.

I actually can't remember that well, but I don't think I used anything special. There might have been a few courses where I just used a paper folder with simple pockets inside, and some courses where I used a three-ring binder with section dividers for the courses. I would set the paper in between the dividers and it would stay there well enough by friction without any help.

The total number of pages for each course was never very high because we were on quarters instead of semesters. If there were a lot of pages I'd probably add some sleeves to secure the pages -- but I would be fine with putting several pages in each sleeve rather than one page each.

After the course was over I put the pages into 9x12 clasped folders and that's where they piled up until I did this scan.

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Desktop PC, my most recent reboot was a few days ago but the previous was 108 days before.

The worst part about rebooting is catching up on all the Chrome updates that I don't want -- most recently the one that removes the bottom downloads bar in favor of the upper right popout.

> now you will replace it with another site.

Or you can self host! Github's changes pushed me to self host recently.

https://voussoir.net/writing/git_dot_voussoir_dot_net

That one does look like a proprietary design, but USB IF has a locking connector standard too! Makes it look like VGA.

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/documents/usb_type-c...

> Cities aren't loud; cars are loud

Here's the Not Just Bikes video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

I use Youtube's RSS feeds in one of my programs and this happens once every couple of months. They'll 404 or 503 for half a day and then come back.

Not looking forward to the day they don't come back, of course!

> using a single pedal has enough innate advantage that it overcomes the disadvantage of having to be learned?

For me, the learning period would be best measured in minutes. It feels extremely natural. When I bought my Bolt I turned on One-pedal mode and I haven't turned it off a single time.

Today's cars have loads of technological regressions -- touchscreen head units, expensive proprietary headlights, removal of 3.5mm audio input, telemetry -- but one-pedal driving is very clearly a progression as far as I'm concerned.

I modified an open source GPX recording app called Trackbook to turn it into a 24/7 recorder, and I wrote about it here:

https://voussoir.net/writing/obsessed_with_gpx

I have a few recent commits in my repository that I haven't put into a versioned APK yet though.

The output GPX files can be viewed on the PC with JOSM:

https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

I had an account with privacy.com for about four years, then in July of this year they disabled my account and requested I upload photo ID and a selfie. I told them that if a four-year-old account with no issues has suddenly "failed to validate security checks", that's their problem and not mine. So, my account is still suspended and I've never used it again.

I was on their free plan anyway, so I can't say they "lost a customer". But I think asking users to upload a selfie is humiliating and I don't want to take part in it.

No, it seems the adblock-blocker has not started affecting their embedded video player yet, which is my primary viewing method.

In a sense, it has increased my usage, because I've started archiving a whole bunch of videos with youtube-dl so I don't lose them when this clock runs out.

I am also using Maddy so my programs can email me with notifications (I'm not using it to email anyone else) and it has been great.

One thing about Mail-in-a-Box is you have to dedicate your entire machine to being MAIB, whereas Maddy is just a regular program you can run along with everything else.

I found this video in another HN thread, and thought it was worth its own submission. It's a captivating talk about the computer chips we all take for granted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37724225

Me too. I started using Purelymail in July 2021 and it costs me $0.40 per month on average.

I absolutely disagree. Romanized Korean is harder to read than Korean itself. The sounds implied by the roman spelling do not match the sounds you're supposed to make, and you lose the syllable boundaries that aid in pronunciation. I feel like a caveman stumbling over my letters when I try to read a romanized word.

A one-page alphabet reference chart would be enough to remind the reader which letter is which without relying on the romanization crutch.

Normally I don't like to make argumentative internet comments but I really passionately think romanization is a detriment to a learning tool.

A few months ago there was an HN thread calling for personal blogs, and it accumulated almost 2,000 comments. Plenty of blogs to be found, if you like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

> I travel for work.

That seems important, since most people don't travel for work and only fly once per year or less. They might appreciate the extra confirmation they're going the right way.

I'd rather have the Apple map in this case. But of course, I'll stick to OSM!

The mandatory 2FA thing bothered me, but I hooked it up with Aegis, which is FOSS on F-droid, and decided it wasn't the final straw yet. But Github's distasteful AI marketing/desperate pandering is bothering me a lot more. They're advertising Copilot directly on top of my source code. I don't want to be associated with that.

I'm basically a nobody so of course Github doesn't care if I stay or go. But I don't have any investment in their issue tracker or proprietary features because I want to stay nimble and ready to drop GH from my remotes when the time comes.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.beemdevelopment.aegis/

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https://i.imgur.com/McftJ5H.png

On Windows, I use Balabolka to do this.

There's also a Python package on pypi called pyttsx3, which I used to write a very simple command line program to say whatever is on my clipboard.

http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

https://pypi.org/project/pyttsx3/

I think mhb's point is that the size of the request content is so small, it can be compared byte-for-byte directly instead of hashing and comparing hashes. Many of us have a kind of muscle memory where we always hash everything for comparison, but for small data there is not really a point.

Wow, that's a game changing idea. Thanks!

To corroborate your comparison between news and WWE, here's a list of "slams" and "blasts" headlines I put together recently :)

https://voussoir.net/writing/slamming_and_blasting

I don't see it as shooting oneself in the foot, I see it as documenting the state of present technology for the benefit of the future. In ten years, we'll be glad that people published not only the strengths but also the weaknesses of their work. The bathos is temporary.

I am pretty sure OP is referring to the ability for an individual, logged in user, to maintain a list of "don't show me results from these domains" on their Google account.

Yes, I do want to read about that, because it tells me that this is an article I do not want to click on.

As a reader I do not want to contribute to the analytics and click count of a website that uses these engagement tactics.

This may not be a fully "new" method. In the FMV video game Gothos, from 1997, the actors have visible purple light fringing. A commenter on youtube gave this explanation:

> If the foreground actor or object was too close to the fabric or the green Kino banks were too bright, green light spilled onto them, creating headaches during keying.

> To counter this, a DP could set up Kinos with purple gels to fill the green spill. If done incorrectly, the actor or object would now have purple lighting on them instead of green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_lWIFlMbMU&t=7m20s

Wow, crazy to see 1600 comments here. Thanks for keeping the web alive. This is mine:

https://voussoir.net/writing

Some selections:

https://voussoir.net/writing/advertixing

https://voussoir.net/writing/hobby_photography

https://voussoir.net/writing/professionally_written_article

I've also been trying to do some narrations, though my results are not the greatest just yet.

https://voussoir.net/writing/e_unibus_pluram_1993

https://voussoir.net/writing/the_stuff_of_fiction

I pulled a fuse out of my car to disable the onstar module because they were sending me "monthly diagnostic report" emails. I had never made an onstar account, and I even declined the free trial.

If they hadn't sent me those diagnostics I would not have guessed they were tracking me in the first place. Too bad they outed themselves, this time at least :)

I just recently re-read David Foster Wallace's E Unibus Pluram (1993), so this is fresh on my mind:

> Audience gets trained to respond to and then like and then expect trite, hackneyed, numbing television shows, and to expect them to such an extent that when networks do occasionally abandon time-tested formulas we usually punish them for it by not watching novel forms in sufficient numbers to let them get off the ground. Hence the networks' bland response to its critics that in the majority of cases – and until the rise of hip metatelevision you could count the exceptions on one hand – "different" or "high-concept" programming simply didn't get ratings.

> But it's still not fair to blame television's shortage of originality on any lack of creativity among network talent. The truth is that we seldom get a chance to know whether anybody behind any TV show is creative, or more accurately that they seldom get a chance to show us. Despite the unquestioned assumption on the part of pop-culture critics that television's poor Audience, deep down, craves novelty, all available evidence suggests rather that the Audience really craves sameness but thinks, deep down, that it ought to crave novelty.