Lightning CSS
https://lightningcss.dev/
The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool - https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-tv-ad-blocking.html
Going back to Xmonad from sway has been an experience, but slowly we are getting somewhere. I wanted to stick with Wayland, but no color management and broken screenshare are enough to ruin it.
New laptop in: Lenovo Z13 running NixOS
So far everything has acceptable. The display is not quite as good as my last (Asus Flip OLED + Tiger Lake), but OLED with 100% DCI-P3 coverage (97% AdobeRGB) as measured by my colorimeter. Trackpad feels slower, but clicks better. The Ryzen 6860Z runs about twice as fast and the devices gets about 70% more battery purely due to efficiency.
The hitches: BIOS menu is slow and was a little confusing what all needed to be disabled to get a good boot due to all the stupid Microsoft-imposed lock-in features. Upgrades don't require Windows which is an improvement to my older Razer Blade, but it's not just a simple *.bin file, but you need to `dd` an ISO which mean you need a drive that's okay to overwrite rather than just plopping a file in. The BIOS still constantly beeps with "self-healing" message every boot despite the upgrade.
Laos economic crisis intensifies amid massive Chinese debt https://www.dw.com/en/laos-economic-crisis-intensifies-amid-massive-chinese-debt/a-62758725
Tim Hortons Offers a Free Coffee and Pastry for Spying on People for Over a Year
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnnn4/tim-hortons-offers-a-free-coffee-and-pastry-for-spying-on-people-for-over-a-year
Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking - https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/vodafone-deutsche-telekom-to-introduce-persistent-user-tracking
So hopefully soon we can remove flags from the language switcher because it's the wrong symbol and it seems he agrees that playing geopolitics does nothing for this widget.
I rarely used the thing anymore, but I got my Instagram account banned. Likely this was for using a third-party client to keep Instagram's data harvesting to a minimum. The biggest bummer was not backing up the photos that I had as there are were like 5 that were special to that platform. To get back into the account, I'd need to start providing ‘real’ user information on myself—including my phone number (for metadata harvesting) & a video selfie (definitely used to create some 3D model of your face for their AI).
The lesson learned is to not trust these platforms, or anyone really. The corporation need you to comply on feeding data to them so they can offer you the ‘free’ service (not as in freedom).
The hurt from losing this account is mostly in that it was one of the last ways to contact some people I had (this is problematic as we can tell). In the past, it was a source of drama and waste of time scrolling. It’s probably a net win tbh—I was just assuming deactivation would be on *my* terms instead.
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