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I don't get it. Do you have an example that you can show this happening in?

Thanks!



I think the OP means that E and Ǝ would be equivalent.


This actually works fine with latin letters. Think of for example advertising or graffiti where this trick is used sometimes to gain attention.


Not all of them, depending on font (and case) - bdpq, sz.


It works fine with all of them. It's true that some letters are mirrored forms of other letters, but that doesn't leave any ambiguity - the form of the letter is oriented to the direction of reading, so "b" is a B when you're reading left-to-right and it's a D when you're reading right-to-left.


Why not just stop visiting FB?

You might lose access to things you logged in with "Login with Facebook" or lose out on some connections that are only on FB. Doom-scrolling FB is a bad idea, but whenever I log in to FB, I do it with a purpose (usually to text someone on FB)

That's a big jump from the time when typing "facebook" in the address bar used to almost be a reflex on opening a new tab.


Another approach is to unsubscribe from everything (friends, groups etc.). You feed is empty, but you can still visit profiles/groups etc. but nothing will be pushed to you.


I did the same thing when I read about a plugin that was banned by facebook for allowing you to unsubscribe form everything and decided I was going to do it manually. Funny that facebook temporarily banned me from unfollowing people even though I was doing it manually, not using an app/plugin.

It's wonderful really.


I deleted my FB account years ago primarily due to its aggressive tracking. The mental health benefits have been a nice bonus.


The change I made was to change my facebook bookmark to messenger, and thus I can still chat to all of my mates who use it to talk but otherwise have to consciously decide to visit facebook itself. I find myself doomscrolling WAY less, and maybe visit it once a day if I'm bored.


Trailers are ads they don't make money from. It's not about the media being ads, it's about if the media makes them money.


Is there a good screencast series about people doing stuff in Emacs? Not like a tutorial like "press C-x" etc. I just want to know what is possible, or what people mean by "I did _everything_ in emacs".


Just replace "ripgrep" with "cowsay" or "neofetch" and read again.


> and trying to click it brings you to a broken page.

Can you give an example of this (with the real link to compare)? Tracking info can be added to the URL but should not break the page.

There are extensions and addons that remove the tracking data for you, you might want to give them a try.


It's not the tracking info that breaks it, it's that when the receiving device tries to parse the long url and figure out what part is a link and what part is just text, winds up with a broken link.

I'm not able to find an immediate example but usually happens when sharing links via a format that doesn't explicitly format them as links, such as SMS

As a rule I don't install any add-ons or extensions. Because a trusted extension today can become malicious tomorrow as has happened so many times.


>There are extensions and addons that remove the tracking data for you, you might want to give them a try.

Yes, but we are talking about why the average person just sends a screenshot. Insanely long links filled with tracking data that may or may not result in a clickable link on whatever app-browser-OS they are using is the reason. There is always a workaround for people that A: understand the problem, and B: care enough to find and use the workaround. But since the average person is not likely to pick this topic to use their limited time, energy and knowledge on, they go with the easy consistent option.

Whenever there is a problem and the two options are 1. have all individuals change their behavior or 2. fix the system so the better option is the easiest, the answer is always 2.


Puzzle Streak/Storm/Racer are the only equivalents that Lichess lacked from Chess.com, but so happy to see them added (like 1-2 months ago?)

Lichess is responsible for most of my chess progress through matches, puzzles, analysis board. Excellent piece of software.


I run NixOS on Mac on 2015 Macbook Pro Retina, works like a charm. Everything works on KDE.


Did you ever receive complaints that your emails are ending up in spam folder for Gmail/Outlook/<other big email provider>?

How about you receiving a lot of spam emails?


Nope. I'm on a static business IP, with DNS all set up correctly. I've also got SPF records set up, but I don't think they get used, as I use my ISPs smarthost for relaying mail through.

I do get a lot of incoming spam though, but I think that's more to do with some of my email addresses being over 20 years old.


Not OP, but hosting my own mail as well (postfix, dovecot, spamassassin) for six seven now. Had one issue with outgoing mails to Microsoft (hotmail I think) bouncing. The IP of my dedicated server had been blacklisted from before it was used by me, but I got them to remove it. No other issues I can think of.

I'm getting about 1-2 spam mails a month delivered to my inbox, usually french SEO spam. Not worth investigating.


What kind of SD card are you using? How many writes/transfer speed? The fact that the card can die on you and lose 400 GB of data gives me nightmares.

I got a Rock Pi recently and it supports M.2 slot and eMMC that goes up to 64 GB, this makes me less nervous.


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