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@MitchWagner 💯 and it gets worse. I keep any and all feeds that I know about of my sites in a folder so I can see if anything breaks .. for John.philpin I have three ..
The confusion is worse when it comes to feed aggregation .. eg in feedland Dave tells you how many others in his world are subscribed to a particular feed … I am one of a couple that follow daring fireball for example .. elsewhere there are 60 or so followers .. not even @dave can aggregate this stuff .. and he invented RSS❗️
@amerpie nothing wrong with me then our musical tastes seems to be one of those perfect Venn diagrams … before the data arrives.
Joking aside .. it could have been different.
@crankreport you had me at ‘devilled’ and then lost me at ‘beet’
@hollyhoneychurch so temperature wasn’t the driver .. in Loch Lomond ……. Makes a note.
@devilgate I found it an interesting piece .. i am not steeped in the genesis of the prayer .. so thought nothing of it .. and then you raised it .. which got me to thinking if it was yet another example of a perfectly good meaning being flipped on its head for no reason.
🔗 Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File
> They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already installed when you visit on their website.
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> They didn’t have to do this, of course. In fact, quite obviously, they definitely should not be doing this. Adobe is just a third-party developer, no better, no more trusted, no more important than any other. Imagine if every piece of software on your computer added entries to your /etc/hosts file. Madness. Adobe should be ashamed of themselves. Adobe used to be a bastion of best practices for developers to follow. Now their installer/updater is indistinguishable from malware.
<p class=“attribution”>💬 John Gruber</p>
@lmika a single person is niche .. Simon Williso on posting about kiwi parrots .. far and wide or niche?
@hollyhoneychurch ‘almost’ is the key word that recognizes your keen insights in the decision making process.
@lmika Depends what b how you define niche .. I am 1 person in a sea of 8.5 billions … and counting. That’s pretty niche. If I find it interesting, useful, funny … and I have the time .. I will post.
The work of Steven Wilson, a quote from Russell, a movie review an essay on the role of structured thought in the world of AI to some might seem broad .. to me it is all connected.
@bradenslen I don’t think he needs any help.
@promptslinger.bsky.social yup - got that t-shirt - it was more the ‘arguing about CSS’ that resonated. I am not any kind of tech maven - thoug enjoying the expansion of my mind and the learnings - but when I found out it was adding identical classes to an already bloated CSS - because it couldn’t be bothered to find the original class already defined in the previous session that I lost it.
In other news .. France has its own colour on these two maps
🔗Wine Consumption Rates By Country
AND - on the smoking side .. we shouldn’t forget to include vaping … because when it comes to Vapes (like ‘arms’) - the US beats out the world - both in consumption and production - even with the massive massive health warnings.
Meanwhile - France beats out the US with coffee, though only by 25% (ish): 🔗Coffee Consumption Rates By Country
.. and yet for all of that
@the i think this is exactly right - down her in New Zealand the Chinese cars are very cool and definitely threatening the high end euro cars - teslas exist - but all probably have an invisible sticker on the bumper.
and their fast charging is also good enough for longer journies - on the ‘popular’ routes
@johnjohnston and Claude totally made sense of this and now I understand (I think).
So any WP user could drop this in - like @dave if he chose to - could drop on to his own site - but t(more importantly) the folks at Wordpress could also do this as part of their standard install?