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light-dark(): light-dark() CSS color function helps to make better color schemes for websites.

Most of “AI” is a rebranded side effect of the surveillance technology.

Still warms my heart after 7 years: people making music with floppy drives.

RFC 1149: Packet loss is likely with avian carriers.

Back to 90s: Ruffle is a Rust-based Flash Player reimplementation.

Google’s YouTube Music is now testing “AI” radio announcers, mainly to mess up the experience of people who paid to get music without interruptions.

How does YouTube verify student’s educational status?: Identity verification is a multi-national industry that remixes data between educational institutions, advertisers, and governments.

This is impressive work of art: wearable wedding dress made of 3 kilograms in LEGO bricks. Designed by Satu Aaltonen, a Finnish hobbyist builder. She was invited to Lego House Masterpiece Gallery. Her LinkedIn post tells a bit more about it.

Surprisingly, totally awful lack of ‘security’ on a call-recording application that sells people’s private conversations to unknown “AI” companies. Why in the world are such clearly malicious applications allowed on mobile application stores?

Shopify was behind the RubyGems hostile takeover: Shopify was behind the last week’s hostile takeover of RubyGems and other Ruby-based projects, according to Joel Drapper. As the biggest corporate sponsor of Ruby Central, Shopify already had oversized financial influence on Ruby’s core projects and infrastructure. Now their role is …

Trouble in Ruby land: Overview of the outcome of recent hostile takeover of RubyGems’ infrastructure.

There will be paid advertising on OpenAI systems. That will make OpenAI even less reliable as a data source.

YouTube goes full speed towards disasters.

Moderation in a challenge on social media platforms: All platforms (including Mastodon) are required to do certain levels of moderation to stay compliant with the laws and regulations.

Out-out from LinkedIn’s GenAI data mining: You should opt-out from the data mining of your posts.

Nvidia bought ~4% of Intel: Intel still holds the key technologies for x86 CPU computing.

Shelly Power Strip 4 Gen4: Multi-purpose automation at home or office.

Netlify pricing change is a disaster: Netlify limits Free tier users to only 20 builds a month.

Sigma 200mm f/2 DG OS | Sports: Expensive 200mm lens that looks good based on the details.

Reducing risk of malicious ads: New method for blocking accidental visits to search engine ads by using enterprise policies for adjusting web browser settings, developed by Don Marti.

No more spam from IEEE: Disable unwanted spam emails from IEEE’s “Communication Preferences”.

Learning standards: Start learning standards-based techniques.

Future: Increased uncertainty about future requires preparing for potential future(s).

EXIF data discovery: Overview of an article from Harley Turan about ways to access and search EXIF metadata from a collection of photos.

Ideas for a website: List of ideas for new /pages

Bluesky adds Saved Posts feature: Overview of a new feature from Bluesky platform.

Problems with social media platforms: Platforms are structurally different from each other, even when they compete with each other (with a similar set of features).

Today I Learned that there is a city called Norway in the State of Michigan, USA.

Names makes things easier to remember: Manton Reece has a good naming convention for Micro.blog servers.

Updated About page with a bit of actual content.

I really like this example from Ethan J. A. Schoonover on how Obsidian can be used to plan RPG gaming sessions (or as tool for scriptwriting, potentially).

How to blog: Blog posts are timestamped snapshots of your past.

blog.autiomaa.org: New blog is available via subdomain of my personal website.

The minimalistic layout of my tiny new blog on this platform feels nicely focused. Less focused on the constant flood of randomised posts (and reposts) from other people, more focused on the writing itself. It is kind of what personal blogs used to be in the past. Small but personal.

Mobile games are largely an escape room from reality (when people are either too tired or too bored about other things around them).

Many people seem to be considering to move away from GitHub, but even while their own repositories might move away from it, most of the Open Source software dependencies are still going to stay on GitHub. Largely because it is slow to move communities from one platfrom to another.

Trying out Micro.one: Trying out Micro.one because it’s really nicely priced at $1 per month. While it has a bit less features than the other Micro.blog plans, having the basic things is enough for me at this point. The biggest feature is not having to worry about the build pipeline of a personal blog.