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How to fail your GDPR legislation TrustArc / Truste. Consent is opt-in.

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@sander the problem is that these sites assume that they don’t need to earn our consent, that it’s a given. And they wonder why so many people use tracker blocking...

AlanRalph, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog

@AlanRalph can’t change other people only yourself is my mantra.

sander, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog

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Saw on the news a train season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh is now £4200 a year. That’s £350 a month. For comparison, leasing a brand new Honda Jazz starts at £155 a month.

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@sander I commuted regularly up until 2012, and it was over £200/month when I stopped. I dread to think what it’s up to now. And that was a relatively short trip within the same country on one line, albeit the West Coast Main Line.

AlanRalph, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog

@AlanRalph yeah really I’ve not heard any justification for why tail travel is 6x more expensive than France.

sander, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog

@sander yikes!

toddgrotenhuis, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog

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It seems that HomeBrew on Linux is a good way to install newer packages without having to trust PPA authors.

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Pseudo elements and states are adding complexity to web design and are best uses sparingly. Every one adds a mode that must be tested individually and this adds up.

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@sander Yep. As a journalist and news junkie I primarily visit news sites and adtech has made those BARELY usable.

MitchWagner, Dec 21 2019 on micro.blog

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Going to have to investigate whether to improve Known or switch to another blogging system. How is WordPress when posting from mobile these days?

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@sander In a word, terrible. I mostly do linkbloging and microblogging and wordpress does not seem to be designed for that kind of lightweight activity. I struggle and wrestle with it and think about switching to something else daily. The wordpress iOS apps seem to be designed for longform blogging -- I say "seem to be" because for all I know it's rubbish for that as well.
If you're looking for an alternative blogging platform, how about micro.blog?
P.S. I do like your "note-taking" tab. I should do something similar for note-taking and writing, and another for task managers. Maybe another for blogging and social media tools. Those are three categories of tools I'm constantly fiddling with and never satisfied. For both note taking and writing I'm currently using IA Writer. But I have my eye on Bear -- gosh it's nice.

MitchWagner, Dec 21 2019 on micro.blog

@sander why not just use micro blog? It’s pretty great on mobile web and desktop

prologic, Dec 21 2019 on micro.blog

@prologic I’ve been sticking to something I host and customise as I turn out to have opinions on this and like tinkering at least as much as writing.

sander, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog

@MitchWagner yeah that’s why I left the WP system. WithKnown is pretty much there and posting is frictionless and I can still tinker with the code theoretically.
Re: note taking I kept forgetting why I dismissed something so it’s best written up. Thinking of doing the same for task and bookmark management.

sander, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog

@MitchWagner I like writing in ia writer best it’s effortless.

sander, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog

@sander I'd like to read about what you're doing about bookmark management. I looked into options a couple of months ago and concluded staying in the Safari-verse is the best of a bad lot of options.

MitchWagner, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog

@sander I'm looking for the opposite -- blogging that I don't have to host or tinker with. That's why I went to wordpress.com a few months ago. wordpress.org kept flaking on me, often when I had other things to do.
Starting Thursday, I'm going to do daily digests of my links and found images. Easier for me and readers too, I think.

MitchWagner, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog

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Faster rendering through a Local DNS Proxy

Unless you're using DNS over HTTP (DoH), you can speed up general DNS requests by running a local DNS proxy, and increase the expiry time of DNS queries. I'll go into this further once I've updated this post for DNSMASQ to do DoH.

The following configuration will speed up browsing in Safari for example.

Install DNSMASQ:

brew install dnsmasq

Load all configs from /etc/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/:

echo "conf-dir=/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d,*.conf" | sudo tee —append /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf
mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d


Edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/proxy.conf:

# Tell dnsmasq to get its DNS servers from this config file only.
no-resolv
# Add router dns
server=192.168.1.1

# cache for 1h
min-cache-ttl = 3600

Start DNSMASQ on boot and launch it:

sudo brew services start dnsmasq

Test:

dig cnn.com @127.0.0.1

Query time should be 0 the second time and an ANSWER SECTION should be returned. If that is the case open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS > +

Enter: 127.0.0.1 and hit OK > Apply.

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I start a zsh instance and I get interrupted by oh my zsh asking to update.

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I ask homebrew to install a package and it starts updating formulas.

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I initiate a new Github Pull Request on a forked repo and it default destination is upstream/master

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I type a word and another word shows on the screen.

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The amount of attention breaking distractions encountered using modern devices is frankly baffling and user hostile. From selecting a show on a streaming service and instead seeing a preview of a different one to the weird autocorrects on modern iPhones. When you initiate an action the computer is not meant to surprise you!

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if I want to update homebrew I would have updated homebrew. Just update it in the background.

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SecondLife is reinvesting in events

Improvements to the Events pages are in the works for 2020, too. You’ll soon see more functionality and a new look, such as the ability to set an alert on an event you want to attend, to follow your favorite event hosts, to share your event calendar with friends, and to see the latest event developments in a news feed. 

https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/3016-the-return-of-last-names-and-changes-to-marketplac...

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Making Recents more useful

Clean Recents list

So if you open Recents in the sidebar it's likely it's full of files you have no idea you recently opened. It's most likely that you didn't. We can make Recents more useful by restricting the last opened date, and make using it more convenient. This is how:

  1. Open Finder, then Recents in the sidebar.
  2. From the cog menu, select Show Search Criteria, add a criteria via the plus button.
  3. Change the filter name to Last Opened Date within last 14 days and press Save.
  4. Name it My Recents, and enable Add to sidebar.
  5. From the sidebar, drag the smart search into the dock next to the Trash.
  6. Optionally remove the recents icon from the sidebar. You can restore the item via Finder > Preferencers > Sidebar by dragging it back in.

As a bonus tip, update  the icon for the smart search (just like any other folder and app) as follows:

  1. Open /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ and search for "Recents" to find the current Recents icon, or choose an alternative.

  2. Right click on the My Recents icon in the sidebar and choose Get Info.

  3. Drag the preferred icon from the folder into the icon slot in the top left of the Get Info window.

This changes the icon in the window title, but I haven't found out how to change it in the sidebar.

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Turns out for webdev you don't need full Xcode, trash it and install the stanalone developer tools via `xcode-select --install`. Just as well as the App Store has been redownloading Xcode all day yesterday.

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After that, Software Update finds a 5GB update to the developer tools, ugh.

Sander van Dragt, Nov 05 2019 on vandragt.com

`sudo xcode-select -s /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools` fixed the issue.

Sander van Dragt, Nov 05 2019 on vandragt.com

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2019 and I still love to add `fortune` to my shell profile.

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If you or your company have a contact form on a website, please send a test email today to confirm that someone reads them! Many times I hear nothing back, particular from small business.

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"remote working is..."

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It's all gone pythong.

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Working with Two SSH keys

If you're working with two SSH keys (work / personal) then the following setup is quite elegant. It assumes all repositories are work related, unless they're hosted under your own user:

Host *
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_corporate

# personal account
Host github.com-MYUSERNAME
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

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