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Zealotux | 4 months ago | on: Affinity Studio now free

I was just looking yesterday for a simple vector editor, will give it a try. Sorry, Inkscape is a total mess to use.

Zealotux | 5 months ago | on: Notion 3.0

We have to use Notion at work, it's slow, bloated, and not a great UI experience overall. More bloat now I guess.

Zealotux | 5 months ago

I'm European, Eurovision is and always has been 100% political, the "Eurovision is not political" meme has been a running joke since I was a kid.

Zealotux | 5 months ago

It's the first time in history we get to experience such insanity in real time and know, minute by minute, what's going on in these monsters' heads. The total dehumanisation of their victims, the hubris, cold, calculated cruelty, barbaric, sadistic, and the ridiculous victim-card they play on top of that.

And the arrogance, too.

To think we naively thought technology would prevent that from happening again.

Zealotux | 6 months ago | on: Say Bye with JavaScript Beacon

You may not want to rely too much on `beforeunload` events though as it is unreliable on mobile, a good practice if you want to send analytics if to listen to the page visibility:

  document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', () => {
    if (document.visibilityState === 'hidden') {
      navigator.sendBeacon(...);
    }
  });
Of course it can't strictly be considered a "page leave" but for mobile users it's often your best bet: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/page-lifecycl...

Zealotux | 6 months ago | on: "Stop children using VPNs to watch porn", UK politicians told

Now you will need an ID check for using a VPN service, and it won't stop the children, so next you'll need an ID check to access your device, face ID will become mandatory except every access will be logged and sent to a Government Compliant Service® for possible review.

If only parents could start parenting, but we know by now this has nothing to do with the children.

Zealotux | 7 months ago | on: The internet wants to check your ID

Is there any serious investigation or a good article that explain how these ID check laws got simultaneously rolled out in the UK, EU and Australia? As well as the main payment processors heavily restricting adult content? It seems like there are remarkably powerful groups pushing for these things, or maybe it really is just happenstance.

Zealotux | 7 months ago | on: Rising young worker despair in the United States

I'm not American but I can sense the feeling is the same here in Europe. I wouldn't want to be a younger man right now. I feel like on top of every possible struggles they're facing: low wages, low sense of meaning, social media addiction, scarce opportunities for true connections... we're treating them with very little empathy and consideration, they're just "whining", wish I knew how to help beyond my modest occasional contributions.
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