Category: Links of Interest
Discord Outage Doesn’t Mean Discord Is Bad
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I’ve seen a number of people jumping on the outage for Discord to say that “see you shouldn’t put important information behind Discord it could go down”. While I agree that you shouldn’t put user communication and documentation in Discord this outage in no way means Discord is bad. Your forum or documentation site could…
Obsidian 1.4.13 PSA
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It’s out and it brings a security update in the installer. That means you need to go to the site and download a new copy of it to get the security fix. Get the latest version of Obsidian now.
Apple will save your life…unless you’re building its products
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As usual Paris Marx has a great look at Apple, specifically some of the claims in their latest ad to get people to purchase their products. The claim that products are “net zero” is questionable: As Lloyd Alter outlines, Apple’s claims of carbon neutrality rely on emissions offsets that are coming under growing scrutiny for not really delivering the…
Some Vision Pro Excitement Feels Dystopian
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While listening to The Talk Show Episode 3841 John Gruber and Michael Simmons raved about the meditation features of the upcoming Vision Pro being able to gain you some peace in the midst of a busy world. To me the excitement makes me think of the dystopian future we seem to be headed towards sometimes.…
Worker Shortage…pay them more
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This week I read that the school district my children are in has a shortage of 59 teachers. Then a day later you read that another rural district in the same province didn’t have an issue with finding teachers once they started paying them more. Almost every time I see a “shortage” in workers it…
Don’t Write Code So Fast
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Most times when confronted with a “tricky” or new coding issue the best option is not to just start writing code figuring you have the correct path in mind. Stop and think about it. Do a bit of research. Try a bit of code and then think about how it will work out if you…
What is a Political Statement
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The more I think about people calling certain events/statements “political” the more I think that it’s only political when the statement/thing is something you don’t agree with. The very fact that you called something “political” is a political/moral statement. When I see people talking about pushing a “political” agenda because of some rainbow themed clothing,…
Forbidden Love – The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
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I just read about this Canadian documentary that came out in 1992 on the lives of lesbians in Canada and now I want to own it. No I’m not a member of the LGBTQ+ community, which is exactly the reason I should spend more time understanding the community. Unfortunately, the only way to purchase it…
Goodbye Grammarly
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So Grammarly is training AI based on my writing, and your writing too if you use Grammarly. While I bet there is a way to optout of this, I’m pretty tired of companies taking my writing without compensation and then allowing me to pay them to use the AI trained on writing I’ve done. So…
Reads for August 16 2023
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In this members newsletter we talk about the rug-pull that is Uber (and really it’s most tech companies), how the routines of others probably don’t suit you, paying taxes at the higher end of income, and opting out of the capitalist dream of endless purchasing. If you want to read this whole post become a…