Category: Links of Interest

  • Avoiding Angertainment

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    I really like Om’s word angertainment to describe what gets popular on social media. This goes not just for the “big tech” platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, but I see it happening on Mastodon as well. Not always merely from those accounts that are engagement farming, but from lots of accounts, some of which…

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  • Escape the Noise with Molly White’s RSS recommendations

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    Molly White has a long list of RSS feeds to recommend if you’re looking to read more online but don’t want to get pushed into whatever big tech algorithms think you should read. Thanks to Matt for pointing these out to me.

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  • Obsidian Web Clipper is out of Beta

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    With the demise of Omnivore people have been looking for alternatives and I’ve heard great things about Obsidian Web clipper which is now out of beta. While it does work on mobile I don’t see a way to send stuff from an iOS app (like YouTube) to the web clipper without first going to Safari.…

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  • Mac Mini M4 and the Power Button

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    Yes the Mac Mini M4 came out and it’s a beast but that power button is stupid. If you have a 3D printer you can fix it like this. This is super stupid you have to fix a power button though.

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  • Guns N’ Roses Discography

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    This week I listened to all the albums from Guns N’ Roses. My favourite album was Chinese Democracy released in 2008, which came out after my teenage listening years. The albums I remember from that era are Use Your Illusion I & II which contain my favourite song…Civil War. Every time that came on I…

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  • Amazon is bad for Canada Post

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    Lots of good stuff in this article about how Amazon contracts with companies like Intelcom in Canada to deliver packages then enforces massive delivery quotas on non-union workers. It seems that many think that Canada Post needs to be more competitive by doing similar things like paying workers less for more work. I like the…

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  • The Ultimate ThinkPad?

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    Great video on upgrading an older ThinkPad to something highly usable today. Also props to this guy for keeping that older MacBook Pro running for so long. Goes to show you that with a bit of effort you can take “old” tech and make it very useful today. We don’t need to chase the newest…

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  • WordPress does feel bloated for blogging

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    I know I do a bit more than blogging here now, but WordPress does feel bloated so this post about moving to Pika does sound nice. In fact I did move to Statamic once and then came back to WordPress though I’m not sure why now with the drama going on and the ad crap…

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  • Koillection – self hosted collection tracking

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    Maybe it’s books, DVDs, or dolls, we all often have something we collect. If you’re looking for a way to track those things without giving your information to some corporation check out koillection.

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  • AI and Python are winning

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    So AI has lead Python to be the top programming language but I wonder how long this will continue? It’s easy to spin up some Python AI thing from a blog post and put it on GitHub, only to never look at it again. My GitHub repositories are full of projects like that, they seemed…

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