Kissaki

Kissaki , 12 hours ago

four out of five companies in […Germany] continue to use fax machines and a third do so frequently or very frequently

I didn't expect it to be this high… But I guess it's not unrealistic. My job doesn't expose me to them at all.

Kissaki , 12 hours ago (edited 12 hours ago)

As part of a campaign calling on the government to reduce red tape, Alsleben has opened what he calls "the most German of German museums," the Bureaucracy Museum.

Genius move. I think it's a worth move either way. Bureaucracy and the shape and history of it is worth preserving [information on].

Among the objects on display is a 10-foot stack of files representing the paperwork needed to install one wind turbine. Another is a photograph of a mailbox with the label: "Please deposit online forms here."

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Looks like it's a 3 month limited activity, unfortunately.

Here's a video tour/intro of the Bureaucracy Museum.

Kissaki , 12 hours ago

How common is the terminology "red tape"? I had to look it up. Is it more than "bureaucracy" would fill?

Kissaki , 10 hours ago

Having to replace half of their installed inventory… That's a lot…

Kissaki , 1 day ago

Firefox plans to support Manifest V3 because Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and it wants extensions to be cross-browser compatible, but it has no plans to turn off support for Manifest V2.

If Google decided to break V2 compatibility with V3, Mozilla should announce V4 (or V3 extended), which is V3 but with the missing stuff readded.

That'd be a good practical and great product/tech marketing move. Just like most people won't see how V3 is worse than V2, V4 will indicate it's the evolved and improved V3.

It would also simplify supporting V3 and V4 at the same time for extension authors. A great practical gain for extension authors, not having to read and understand two manifest schemes and APIs.

Kissaki , 1 day ago

Some would switch, some would install another ad blocker extension, and some wouldn't know any better and do nothing.

Unfortunately, most people don't care all that much.

Kissaki , 12 hours ago

When my company enabled Microsoft InTune this year, so that our administration could ensure software is updated on our PCs, it repeatedly downgraded my Firefox back to before a security update, on every login. lol

Kissaki , 4 days ago

“No one has recognized a serious problem,” wrote He.

When his name is He and you can write "he wrote" or "wrote He"

Kissaki , 5 days ago

When the medical (Hippocratic) oath directly opposes the law, what's a medical professional to do?

It's a moral, personal, and individual dilemma.

It's insane and tragic that we have to see this development, against professional expertise and statistical and scientific knowledge. At the evident and predictable cost of people and their well being.

Kissaki , 7 days ago

I wish 404media would adjust their headline layout… So much text, so big, so narrow

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/cfc8640e-ce02-4bdc-a2f2-0bbb6d977a91.webp

Kissaki , 8 days ago

Putting focus on the "artificial" in "artificial intelligence"

Kissaki , 8 days ago

What is this reporting? The tone sounds like a personal Twitter post.

which Google recently launched as a way to search the web without Google's alpha-quality AI junk. It's actually pretty nice, showing only the traditional 10 blue links, giving you a clean (well, other than the ads), uncluttered results page that looks like it's from 2011.

Kissaki , 9 days ago

I'm not brave enough

Kissaki , 11 days ago

Great extensive write-up.

Stefan Hector, a representative of the Swedish Police Authority, said that “a society cannot accept that criminals today have a space to communicate safely in order to commit serious crimes.” A week later, it was revealed that the Swedish police had been infiltrated and were leaking information to criminals.

🙃

Kissaki , 14 days ago

54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.

My impression was/is that over the last years/decade Wikipedia made efforts to/switch to not linking directly but extending direct links with (dated) Web Archive links or using Web Archive links directly (dated as "sourced from this in this state; which protects against upstream edits too).

Kissaki , 14 days ago

Consolidating a large website down to fewer pages that are accessible for everyone is a good thing.

For consolidation, the clean thing is to introduce redirection to the new location.

Kissaki , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Wikipedia has guidance for it as Citing sources. Regarding web links specifically section Handling links and Preventing and repairing dead links.

The Web Archive "Wayback Machine" is available at web.archive.org. It has a "Save Page Now" action too.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/beehaw.org gives you a history of archived versions of that URL.

The Web Archive "Wayback Machine" is a project from archive.org, which does much more in archiving and accessibility efforts. An alternative service for websites is https://archive.ph/.

Kissaki , 14 days ago

At least this one certainly can't pass each other on one track.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/6560fff1-200c-4055-b1b9-b2adcde10a78.webp

Kissaki , 18 days ago

The post title and teaser text make a neutral statement.

Kissaki , 18 days ago

Your grandpa is working remote?

Kissaki , 23 days ago

• https://github.com/pylorak/TinyWall
• https://github.com/Safing/portmaster
• https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

Kissaki , 24 days ago

California filling batteries with solar and wind energy, and Texas filling them with gas energy.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

access to FireChat was completely cut off without explanation.

After establishing that FireChat establishes its own, independent mesh network, I would have at least expected more details on how it was cut off? Did it simply became unavailable on the publishers distribution? The followup text seems to indicate otherwise. Did Google and Apple as app publishers actively revoke access to already installed apps? Did the Open Garden publisher have a disabling functionality in place? Did they publish an update to disable it?

Without any information, it's hard to say why FireChat disappeared. […]

FireChat is gone because FireChat was a threat to the systems it circumvented.

"Nobody knows anything, but let me claim this anyway."

Kissaki , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I'm a bit confused by the app and Mailbox app for being able to receive messages while offline separation. The normal app only supports live communication between two online participants? /edit: Looks like that is indeed the case.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#will-there-be-an-ios-version-of-briar

We're looking into whether an iOS version is feasible.

A typical iOS messaging app would use a push notification to wake the
app when a message is received, but this exposes metadata to Apple's
push notification service and the app developer's push gateway

If we don't use push notifications then the best Apple allows us to do
is wake up every 15 minutes and check for messages. But maybe the sender
won't be online when we check (their 15 minute intervals might not be
aligned with ours - clocks aren't perfect).

Kissaki , 1 month ago

If everyone can sign their content, who verifies them as "real"?

Kissaki , 1 month ago

I also hate when people in YT videos are begging

Install the web-browser extension SponsorBlock

Crowd-sourced auto-skip

Kissaki , 1 month ago

I just wish they hadn't split description and alternative listings into two separate pages. It was way better before.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

Gravatar was a great, minimal, independent service. Until they acquired it and integrated it into their WordPress platform and onboarding (trying to get you to become a customer).

Kissaki , 1 month ago

Seems like they did good until now. I'm not confident, even skeptical, that will keep going after the acquisition though.

Gravatar was a great, independent, minimal service. Now it's a horrendous, bloated service.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

You link to an avatar generator.

What made Gravatar great beyond that was that you set it up with your email account, and other websites would use your chosen avatar,identified by email address.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

and economic models that don’t reflect that fact are not even slightly useful.

I think our current monetary system is more than only slightly useful.

Which doesn't invalidate their two assessments nor suggestion for change.

I'm not sure about the impact a change would have though. Maybe the suggestion is too in concrete, and the hopes too idealistic.

I do think it's interesting points and tboughts though.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

Zero downtme

If the paper falls down it's literal downtime though!

Kissaki , 1 month ago

If they were using a spreadsheet I don't think it qualifies as equal/the same to this.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

Please elaborate. Because they're right, and you are wrong. And they reasoned in what way.

Kissaki , 1 month ago

Maybe we should sell a blue checkmark on that

Kissaki , 2 months ago

This analysis has some technical information on how it injects itself, conditionally, into deb and rpm from src tar.

Kissaki , 2 months ago

Yeah, I posted another comment about that too. I was surprised I did not win after scoring a full line on the outer field.

Kissaki OP , 2 months ago

It's the full Kira desktop UI and app on Android. Digital pen drawing with pressure sensitivity works without further setup. The pen buttons don't seem to work natively. The version seems to be not the most recent Kira release (is the previous feature release instead).

I'll be using it. :)

Kissaki , 2 months ago

The relevant, 2023-07-03:

I am happy to say that Waterfox is independent again.

Kissaki , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Guilded.gg? not FOSS - I didn't notice the post community

Kissaki , 2 months ago

I'm not too familiar with open arena, and it's been a long time I played Xonotic (and it was not all that long), but

Additional movement, and better guidance.

The Newbie Guide has an overview of Xonotic stuff

Kissaki , 2 months ago

Great project, great focus on movement and movement skill. Good guidance/tutorial IIRC.

It's been a long time since I played it. I'm not very fond of arena shooters with weapon-collecting.

Kissaki , 2 months ago

This bot detects messages with certain tags associated with a profile, then replaces that message under a "pseudo-account" of that profile using webhooks. This is useful for multiple people sharing one body (aka "systems"), people who wish to roleplay as different characters without having several accounts, or anyone else who may want to post messages as a different person from the same account.

Yeah, that seems incredibly niche. Never heard or thought of necessity of it.