Geek stuff
Bits of code, gadgets, and the odd privacy rant.
Every once in a while I stumble upon some kind of rant regarding Adobe subscriptions prices or hidden fees. And the more I see this the more I glad I moved to darktable years ago. Yes, the UI may not be as polished and sometimes might have multiple ways to do same thing (in true open-source fashion), but I’d rather have that than feeling trapped in corporate greed. And it’s free as in free beer, but that’s really secondary.
Another YouTube video from a small creator that used to work in a much larger channel with roughly the same message: things are too big, too corporate, no creativity.
Is YouTube slowly becoming old media?…
Two days of #OutsystemsOne, plus one more of Champions Summit
The event featured exciting presentations, advancements in AI, and a clearer roadmap for Outsystems, along with valuable reconnections.
In every developer conference there’s always someone, sometimes close to the front row, with an open laptop on the lap, probably doing a patch in Production! #OutsystemsOne
About the next few days… #OutsystemsONE
My photo site (built on Hugo) was taking a lot to deploy after I added all the older content, as the pipeline was always deploying the entire site. Finally took time to look at it, and only upload the changes. I guess I got a slight improvement.
One thing that annoyed me on Obsidian app for Android, besides the app not being really thought and built for mobile from the start, was the lack of Web Clipper, I find it more useful each day. Until I discovered it installs nicely on Firefox for Android.
I’ve lost track the amount of times I’m going to open the app formerly known as Twitter and end up opening Fujifilm’s app. At least I use Twitter less and less often.
Having a Linux desktop with a Nvidia graphics card means each distribution upgrade can be a bit of gamble…
I was watching a video of new a camera (the new Hassie l, but that’s irrelevant) and mentioned something almost as a complain: these new models bring less and less new features. Well, that’s where we are right now, with the current release cycles, more of these incremental changes.
Sad news, Nova Launcher is no more… I really liked it, was the perfect mix of clean, configurable and smooth, often when trying launchers I’d start feeling it was getting it was getting to much in my way. Nova didn’t do that. I’ll probably go back to the stock launcher.
…and it would be fun to have the open source version of it.
I saw a red pandas short video on YouTube a week ago, now all the algorithm gives me is just that….
A significant part of my Monday morning is spent running again the authentication flows of all my clients' email accounts, because each sets up one for me, which is even more time consuming now because each has their own multi-factor authentication setup in a different way.
If you live in Europe, then it’s time for action!
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable.
Although not fully agreeing with Cloudflare’s and not being fully comfortable with Perplexity’s procedures, sometimes I feel people are picking convenience and blissfully ignoring all the potential impacts of AI.
Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it
Like anyone, I use paid apps, but also free ones. And a thing that really annoys me is apps that flaunt the “free forever”, but silently cripple and remove features from their free tier… I call it the Evernote Effect.
Setting up single sign on is always fun, besides all the endless call to do something in the Authenticator app.
Device must comply with your organization’s compliance requirements
Which ones? We won’t tell you…
Kind of missed the bandwagon of Mozilla shutting down Pocket. Although I loved it and used it for years, I think I have it covered from now on, except for one thing: how can I read saved articles on my Kobo?…
Unfortunately, we cannot change the email address associated with your account. If your email address changes, please create a new account using your new email.
I find incredibly strange when someone doesn’t allow an account’s email address update, mostly because it sounds very lazy and I start to wonder what else didn’t they want to do…