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  TIL: meteotsunami = a tsunami-like wave caused by rapid changes in atmospheric pressure, typically associated with severe weather events like thunderstorms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteotsunami

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  If “cute” was a German word, it would be written kjüt. I just realized that the English language does have the German ü sound. But it does not have the ö sound.

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  > AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop Pre-2022 content will become more and more valuable. People will more and more start watching older movies specifically because they aren’t contaminated with AI. That’s how I feel about CGI already. Movies from the 1980s have better acting because it had to be coordinated with time-consuming special effects. Today it’s just casual acting in front of green screens and “we’ll do it in post” https://www.40...

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  Xiaomi phones have system apps (e.g. Mi Music) that periodically show slop notifications that cannot be disabled. This is anti-user.

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  Proposal H (birds) is best, but I want proposal F (beard) to win because I love quirky. You can take the survey: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/ecbeuro/

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  Great explanation of HDR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hAVA6_Sczs

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  Looks like I’ve been steeping my green tea leaves for far too long. 1 to 3 minutes is enough.

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  What are your views on those big buttons in the hero section of a website that, when clicked, scroll down to the next section of the page? I don’t like them. Scrolling down is the most natural thing that the user does on the web. There is no need to incite the user to scroll. If the user does not scroll, they’re just not interested, and no button can “fix” that. The button is just clutter. I don’t like clutter on web pages. Web pages should be as simple as possible. Zero clutter.

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  If you listen to YouTube in a background tab on your laptop, know that music.youtube.com is lighter (less JS) than regular www.youtube.com. 8 MB vs. 14 MB.

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  A slight redesign of Firefox just dropped in @firefoxnightly. All the UI elements have very round edges now. … Probably not the first time in Firefox’s history.

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  Nintendo has never publicly revealed or credited the individual artist who designed the font in 1967 that is still used in their logo today.

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  Will Apple change MacBooks to comply with EU’s battery regulation? The deadline is February 2027.

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  I was pouring hot water into a pot, and I spilled it all over my kitchen table because I was waiting for a very bloated website to load in my other hand. #TrueStory

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  Some users on Reddit are still sharing AMP links to news articles.

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  At the beginning of the day, you start your computer and open your web browser. The web browser indicates that an update is available. Do you restart the browser now to update it or ignore the update for while?

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  Firefox devtools has a useful little feature that makes debugging CSS quicker. When a CSS declaration is overridden by another declaration, Firefox puts a Filter button next to it. Click the button to highlight all instances of that property, including shorthands that contain this property!

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  Instead of just using https://gov.de, the German government redirects it to https://www.digitale-verwaltung.de. That’s such a German thing to do.

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  Given enough time, could you eventually solve a Rubik’s cube without any external help whatsoever? Be honest.

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  Don’t position an AI chatbot control over your cookie consent banner (https://csi.hr)

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  TIL: cabotage = the transport of goods or passengers between two places in the same country by a carrier registered in a different country From French: caboter = to travel along the coast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabotage

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  First time I see this “link mismatch detector” in my email client (@thunderbird)

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  Check out this weird scrolling behavior on Polymarket’s website: 1. it scrolls the page 2. it scrolls the smaller left column 3. it scrolls the entire page again, but only for a bit 4. it scrolls the main column 5. finally it’s back to scrolling the entire page (the rubberband effect) This is without moving the mouse at all (!!). You just put the mouse cursor somewhere on the page and start scrolling, and it behaves like this. Not ideal. Probably confusing and disorienting for some users.

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  This thing is really good for peeling garlic

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  If cocaine is anything like cocoa powder, it’s impossible to use without creating a mess and leaving traces of it everywhere.

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  Not sure if this theme switcher is new or I just never noticed it until now (in @thunderbird)

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  Dropping tabs into tab groups in @firefoxnightly does not work well in vertical tabs. It would be better if there was a little drop area to the right of the tab group “pill” where you could drop new tabs without causing the pill to move up/down

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  31 European countries (the vast majority) have a better Press Freedom Index score than the USA https://rsf.org/en/index

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  https://codeberg.org is a GitHub alternative by a German non-profit

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  What do you think about this *intentional* layout shift on Formula 1’s website? I think it should be avoided. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/breaking-new-start-time-confirmed-for-miami-grand-prix-following-weather-concerns.36mNfBCj5LLIRbgxAgjZIn

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  I remembered that I made “What are my CSS user preferences?” https://simevidas.github.io/css-prefs/ (looks like nothing has changed in the last 2 and a half years in terms for browser support)