URLCheck

One of the most useful apps on my phone. You set it as your default browser and any links open in that instead of in the default app. So before opening anything, it gives you a chance to see the url, remove tracking parameters (which it detects itself), unshort etc. and then open it in whatever app you want.

Interesting how Google Translate returns brown-haired for both Brunhårig and Brun hårig while DeepL doesn’t but they both return brown-haired when provided with the whole phrase. Shows how trustworthy auto-translation is.

Favorite albums that came out this year
Malicia - Mägo de Oz - Favorite song: El último rezo. There is a website about this album somewhere with a story formed by the songs but each song stands fine by itself too.
Puertas - El Cuarteto de Nos - Favorite song: En el cuarto de Nico. Some interesting lyrics here.

Favorite rediscovered song
The Last Stand - Sabaton - This feels pretty random cause I don’t even remember where I came across it, just started listening to it at some point this year. Perfect for waking you up when you’re feeling down.

Well shit, it had me convinced. I don’t remember what the argument was about so can’t really find the post to verify.

I saw a comment recently that answered with “would a bot do this?” with a photo of a post-it note saying Not a bot :). Was kinda cute

I shop from small businesses when it’s more convenient (which is actually more common than you’d think when you don’t have a car).

Mini markets are closer than supermarkets and stay open longer so I’ll often get groceries from there even if it’s more expensive.

When looking for a specific piece of equipment there are some things that can’t be delivered or they’d take an eternity to arrive so I find which stores sell it and go to the physical store, which is usually a smaller local place.

I don’t know if thrift shops count as small businesses but they’re also more convenient than going to big clothes shops.

And I guess most restaurants are local businesses too.

Sadly true (and yeah, I didn’t know about those movies)

And that’s why older media is usually better. Only the good parts have survived and the 90% has been forgotten.

From the link, since I think this is the part most equivalent to DNS.

The Onion Service assembles an Onion Service descriptor, containing a list of its introduction points (and “authentication keys”), and signs this descriptor with the Onion Service’s identity private key.

The Onion Service upload that signed descriptor to a distributed hash table, which is part of the Tor network, so that clients can also get it.

You can still see that on https://lemvotes.org/

That’s very European of you to say

I haven’t done it myself but know people who do. If you use a known provider and only the domain is yours I wouldn’t expect it to be blocked as companies also use their own domain for their email.

Email yes but only with my own domain so I can change providers if the price changes.

I wouldn’t pay for anything I’d prefer to keep anonymous and that includes search.

Even if they don’t end up fully switching it doesn’t matter. Some might switch, some might try dual booting. But saying they are going to switch is free press and may convince more people to try it so that’s still a win.

Many companies will just buy in bulk and give the same thing to everyone. I’d rather use Linux but I understand they don’t want to deal with different environments. Also yeah, Apple has made it very difficult to emulate MacOS so it’s easier to buy that and emulate everything else.

Sorry, I’m too introverted for this. Where is the owner’s cat?

How about getting the people who pay you to buy you over-priced hardware?

Also this ad is hilarious. “BLACK FRIDAY” “-80%”. It’s 4$

Apparently the map on the front page doesn’t require a login but it’s all the way at the bottom on mobile so I didn’t see it. All good

Does wigle.net allow you to check if you’re indexed without creating an account? Search and map pop up a login form.