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In July I wrote a ranty little three-parter on Bluesky about my frustrations in trying to enjoy Apple's show Silo ⸺ specifically the new third season that started its release on July 3. By the fourth episode, released July 24, I was rather annoyed with the process of waiting a week between episodes. The next day I condensed my feelings into a few skeets:
Keep on readin' on Weekly releases of new TV episodes is outdated and bad⟶
I doubt it's a particularly common issue, but ad/tracker blockers like uBlock Origin allow their users to block webfonts. After all why wouldn't it be up to the user to decide how much crap a website sends to their computer? Well, there's a slight downside to this...
Keep on readin' on Reliance on icon fonts can make your site look ridiculous⟶
A year and a half ago I put up a post about how how Honey is scam, referencing research done by this YouTube guy called MegaLag. I started but never finished a follow-up post when said guy made a second and third video. I titled that still-drafted post "Calling Honey a scam is a disservice to scams" because what MegaLag uncovered was absurd.
Keep on readin' on Honey, an infamous Paypal scam, finally sees consequences⟶
I never created an IMDb account for a reason. I just want to look stuff up there sometimes, not have my viewing habits tracked and sold to data brokers. I noticed recently, however, that I was being logged into IMDb through my Amazon account ⸺ something I never would've okayed had I been given a choice. But I wasn't; they took it upon themselves to create and connect my accounts for data-selling purposes.
Part of this dumb blog "project" of mine was writing a plugin that would disembiggen uploaded images and strip EXIF data from it. The idea was to drop HIEC photos from my phone into the plugin's form so I could then upload the the resultant JPEG to Bluesky. The new images would be much smaller in terms of file size but also safer from any data hoovering that might be going on behind the scenes.
Keep on readin' on Resize images and strip EXIF data with PowerShell⟶
Elon Musk is a neo-Nazi. Anyone still denying it at this point is a fool who can't be convinced by reality slapping them in the face and/or balls. "Just because he supports neo-Nazis politically, constantly interacts with and retweets neo-Nazis on social media, and threw neo-Nazi signs on a world stage while high on ketamine doesn't mean he's a neo-Nazi!" Sure, guy. Sure. I guess that Kool-Aid is delicious.
GDocs, at least on desktop machines, somehow still refuses to offer a dark mode to its users. It's black text amongst a sea of white and that's it. Yes, you can change the background and foreground colors, but these are "destructive" operations that directly affect the document. When you go to export that document it'll have those colors for everyone else to see. Uncool, bro. Uncool.
Keep on readin' on Write in Google Docs without blinding yourself⟶
Apple recently alerted me via push notification that "Silo" hadn't been killed off and was in fact returning for a third season. While the show may not be too highly rated overall, I remembered enjoying it. Since I could only recall tiny bits and pieces, I decided to rewatch the first two seasons as a refresher. I knew, however, that there was a problem with this PC and Apple's content being an unwatchably low resolution even when downloading it.
It had been happening for a few days but I chalked it up to Firefox occasionally being weird. After a restart of the browser, and then another when an update was pushed, that my typing was still laggy on reddit meant it wasn't the browser. How to diagnose the cause?
Keep on readin' on How I found out Bitwarden was the cause of laggy typing on reddit⟶
The combo of a purple gummy and getting back onto a clackity keyboard with Cherry blue switches had me on some kind of stream of consciousness the other day. I followed it. Because there was a time just a few years ago when I was almost in shape. Almost had a color to my skin other than "pale". Almost had a proper jawline. Almost had to start buying new clothing to fit a new size me. Then all of that slowly went away once I stopped biking.