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Artist, Scientist, Junglist, Maker, Cooker, too many hobbies tbh.

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Hide My Email - Too much friction?
  • I'm the CTO of a tech platform that has a consumer component of it, and the real issue is that normal people just have zero idea of how it works and generally expect it to work differently.

    The main source of confusion is that if a service uses your email address to identify a user, and that user gives up a completely random email address, they now have no way of identifying themselves unless they remember they used hide my email.

    They assume two things: 1) that they will still be identifiable by their "real" email address some how, and 2) if they do use their real email address later, it will somehow map back to the previous hidden email.

    Also if they use Apple Mail, most of them are not aware of how to figure out what email address an email was sent to, so they can't identify if they hid their email address, or not, even when we're sending them emails.

    My evidence for this is thousands and thousands of customer support cases. Our CS folks HATE this feature.

  • Elixir for Fediverse applications?
  • Yes, I think so. There is a couple Mastodon things written in Elixir (Pleroma being the main one), so i think there's an activitypub implementation already. Would be nice to have a lemmy frontend that was fast.

  • Steam Summer Sale Steam Deck recommendations
  • Cult of the Lamb is great on steam deck. So is Dave the Diver, fun little game where you own a sushi restaurant and have to catch fish for it. Both are on sale.

  • Lasercutting options for Pi50 case
  • Laserboost is definitely one of the more expensive options, but they are convenient. Ponoko is good and typically cheaper. If you live in a large city, there's for sure someone local that will do it for much cheaper than any of the online places, but it takes some leg work.

  • Where do people blog nowadays?
  • Medium and Substack seem to be the two big "central" sites, but also lots of people don't want a central site so they do self hosted ones. I use a Ghost based site and it's pretty great IMO.

  • Apple announced Vision Pro before its best applications are working, says leaker
  • I'm not sure why this would be surprising to anyone. The point of announcing it now is so they can put it in the hands of devs to make 3rd party apps, of course their software isn't complete and shippable on the day in which it's announced to be shipping (probably) a year later.

  • Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP?
  • Not a PHP developer or advocate, but Facebook still uses PHP in 2023, so I guess it's fine?

  • [PHOTO] Dropbear60
  • Love the Dropbear. Wish it came in HHKB style, that frosty case would look super nice I think.

  • OpenAI just made tools a whole lot easier to implement via the API
  • Given that Sam Altman and a bunch of OpenAI investors are also investors in reddit, don't you think they can negotiate free/cheap API access anyway? Nor do you need an API to simply webscrape the content.

  • fly.io Adding Dialyzer without the Pain

    This post is about how to add Dialyzer to an existing Elixir project to get the benefits today without being overwhelmed fixing all the legacy problems.

    We couldn't get Dialyzer to work well until I found this, hope it's helpful for others!

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    Thoughts on Lemmy sorting options?
  • I'm not sure about the algos, but I'd kill if it would at least remember my choices between page refreshes.

  • Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Walkthrough
  • I honestly have no idea how independent the various studios are.

  • Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Walkthrough
  • Seems to have more actual story to it than the Division does at least from the trailer. I thought it was going to be Far Cry based and was then surprised to see the studio.

  • Can't create a new community?
  • I was able to delete mine so if you want to create over there, that would be cool.

  • Can't create a new community?
  • Oh, that's cool. I created an Elixir one here first, but that seems like a better spot for it. Let me see if I can delete the one here.

  • Can't create a new community?

    When trying to create community, I get the following error with no way to fix it. Anyone ran into this?

    !

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    2021: Reddit announces they are going to double size of payroll after raising $250m in VC

    I wonder why they aren't profitable?!?

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    Starfield's already the top seller
  • But I have to preorder only to be wildly disappointed so that I get the full NMS clone experience.

  • Wild caught salmon quality
  • I've always thought most of their salmon was pretty sus. Lots of it looks like it's dyed to look wild when it's actually farmed, and way too much fat to be wild.