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bdn_ commented on Google Antigravity antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi

bdn_ · a month ago

Just from the name, I thought this was going to be Google's official take on the classic "Google Gravity" site from ages ago: https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity...

I used to love leaving that site open on public PCs and watching the reactions that resulted :)

bdn_ commented on Zip Code Map of the United States engaging-data.com/us-zip-... · Posted by u/helle253

bdn_ · 3 months ago

ZIP codes are such interesting identifiers. Their intended use was for facilitating more efficient mail sorting, they were not for providing any sort of human-friendly location data. Yet we still end up using them in so many parts of our lives for identity verification, navigation, population statistics, ...

They remind me of Social Security numbers in a way, where an identifier created for one narrow use (internal Social Security use only) ended up becoming a de facto standard (national identification number) due to the absense of a suitable alternative.

If you'd like to go further down the ZIP code rabbit hole, a few interesting codes to research are `00501`, `48222`, and `12345`. :)

bdn_ commented on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy blog.cloudflare.com/suppo... · Posted by u/jgrahamc

bdn_ · 3 months ago

Of course you can, nobody is claiming otherwise. Freedom of speech does not come with freedom from the consequences of what you say.

I have the freedom to scream "FIRE" in a crowded building when there really isn't a fire, does this mean I should be excused from the consequences? DHH has the freedom to post racist and intentionally divisive BS on his own site, and we have the freedom to let people who care about being anti-racist know to stay away from him and his work.

bdn_ commented on Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML picocss.com... · Posted by u/mpweiher

kozika · 4 months ago

There is also a semantic-based CSS that is overwhelmingly smaller than this one: https://newcss.net/

And I think this is so minimal

bdn_ · 4 months ago

New.css developer here, thanks for sharing :)

I’ve been thinking about creating a CSS tool somewhere about halfway between new.css and Pico CSS for very basic page layout tools (containers, callouts, menu bars, etc) that still focuses on being extremely small and performant.

I feel that a tool like that would be helpful for laying out a simple but functional site (sourcehut’s site [1] comes to mind) where you need a few basic layout tools but don’t need all of Bootstrap.

[1]: https://sourcehut.org/

bdn_ commented on Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice vercel.com/guides/can-ver... · Posted by u/jenny91

bdn_ · 2 years ago

I have been sponsored by Vercel since early 2020. Vercel has primarily served as a CDN for my free and open-source font delivery system, using up to a couple hundred gigabytes of bandwidth per month. Luckily I've been using a custom domain for these deployments so migrating platforms should be easy!

Does anyone have any recommendations for a CDN service that may be interested in sponsoring this type of project? I suppose it's possible to just use Cloudflare's free tier, but I'd like to avoid contributing to internet monopolies as much as possible.

bdn_ commented on Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub discuss.systems/@adrian/1... · Posted by u/luu

bdn_ · 2 years ago

I'm `@3x` on GitHub and I get multiple notifications every day from people mentioning graphics scale factors [1] in issues and PRs. It is a lot of fun to add a "" reaction to everything mentioning me!

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

bdn_ commented on Internet search tips gwern.net/search... · Posted by u/herbertl

38 · 2 years ago

my problem is some operators just dont work any more, either on purpose or because of crappy quality control. for example, you used to be able to do:

    allintitle:Neil Diamond If You Go Away

on YouTube, and get exactly what you would think, results with all those words in the title. but now, you dont:

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=allintitle:Neil+Dia...

now, I get crap like this:

    Neil Diamond & Shirley Bassey - Play Me - "high quality"
    Barbra Streisand - If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas)

how is that what I searched for? also, what is this:

> A search for [site:nytimes.com] will work, but [site:nytimes.com] won't.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

did I just have a stroke? those two searches are exactly the same. I try to be understanding, but I am constantly tripping over big companies glaring software and/or documentation issues, it gets old.

bdn_ · 2 years ago

Has anyone else experienced DuckDuckGo ignoring the exclusion operator? For example, searching `kiwi -fruit`, with no space between the hyphen and second word, used to bring up results that did not include the word "fruit". This no longer seems to be the case.

bdn_ commented on Kevin Mitnick has died dignitymemorial.com/obitu... · Posted by u/thirtyseven

bdn_ · 2 years ago

Who knows where I would be today if not for Kevin's influence... Kevin was (and will continue to be!) a role model in many ways. RIP

bdn_ commented on Sandstorm: Open-source platform for self-hosting web apps sandstorm.io/... · Posted by u/srgpqt

macrolime · 3 years ago

Sandstorm is much more secure, that's the main difference.

bdn_ · 3 years ago

I'm not too familiar with either's privacy/security practices, what makes Sandstorm more secure than Yunohost?