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refresher | 5 years ago | on: Kali Linux 2020.3

Their image says 'zsh auto-suggestions rocks!' but I had to add quite a bit to my .zshrc (in macOS at least) to get them to be good.

refresher | 5 years ago | on: Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images using TensorFlow JS

I’ve jokingly / seriously been waiting for things like this. I’m the type to go overboard with filtering and mute lists on twitter, but images are harder to deal with. I did have a 60,000 line pastebin that was used in conjunction with a Chrome extension to block Wojack and Pepe memes on 4chan using md5 hashes, but something not rely on specific hashes is obviously superior.

One day someone will release the ‘detect and block anything resembling kpop’ extension for Twitter and I’ll be happy.

refresher | 5 years ago | on: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

I actually do like the 'explore backlinks' pane for Foam so it would be of some navigational use for me. They list reasons for adding it as:

> Make every link two-way navigable in published sites

> Make Foam notes more portable to different apps and long-term storage

(via https://foambubble.github.io/foam/materialized-backlinks)

Though I may be getting confused between the backlink differences that Foam, Obsidian, and Roam offer. A list of forward links per document would actually be useful as well, which IIRC neither Foam or Obsidian offer at the moment. Obsidian also shows the user 'unlinked mentions' along with explicit backlinks, which is also a nice feature that Foam lacks.

refresher | 5 years ago | on: Epic’s Fortnite standoff is putting Apple’s cash cow at risk

>It’s the same logic driving Apple’s own pursuit of subscriptions: getting users to pay continuously for services means increased revenue. Apple even went as far as to lower its 30 percent take down to 15 percent after a year for developers willing to commit to subscriptions.

I wonder how much this, vs. a more constant revenue stream, is the reason for so many apps becoming subscription services.

refresher | 5 years ago | on: Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust

Safari page loading is fast but from my experience the actual app is slow (on the newest MBP no less). It's the only browser where I can type something into the URL bar and press enter quickly, expecting it will take me to the top history result (e.g. type 'tw' and press enter to go to twitter.com) but actually beat out the loading of the history / bookmarks results and have Safari simply google the string 'tw' instead. This happens all the time for me in Safari and never happened once in Chrome.

refresher | 5 years ago | on: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds

Not sure if this explains it because it would require ice melting enough in areas to become just water with no remaining ice underneath, but albedo of ice and water is fairly different. Snow covered ice in particular. The change in the amount of solar radiation reflected vs. absorbed as ice / snow covered ice becomes water will drastically heat up an area.

refresher | 5 years ago | on: Digital data could overtake Earth's actual atoms, physicist says

>By Vopson's calculations, the total mass of all the information we produce in a year is far less than a single grain of rice, or about equal to one E. Coli bacterium. But it's the potential for growth that concerns Vopson. In an extreme scenario where the amount of digital information grows by 50% annually, half of our planet's mass could be literally converted to bits within 225 years.

This reminds me of some future civlizations described in the X-Men series House of X / Powers of X, where entire planets become single entities of machine intelligence, and the information density gets so high that it collapses into a black hole.

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