This. Or quora or pinterest or twitter/x or etc etc
I can outright block domains or just adjust their weight. Great for my personal prefs but also huge with the family account and helping keep the BS out of sight for the kids without going full restrictive.
This feels like the opposite of rickrolling, though.
Instead of naively trusting the link, only to click it and get rickrolled, you’re naively distrusting the link, so you’ll never know the link was fine all along.
Same with some of the older Wowee stuff, Robosapien, Roboraptor, etc. In-box ones are expensive as collectors items, but you can grab ones that are missing the remote for cheap and then it’s a fun project to reverse engineer the IR signals with a Pi or Arduino or something like that.
Probably not from the bigger creative community point of view. Lottie feels too trapped in the “buy this saas product so your marketing team can sell your saas product to other saas product startups!” loop.
I get your point, but Lottie is widely spread now, and I hope OpenAnimation can help bring it from mainly commercial use to all developers and creators.
As a paid product, has anyone used Raindrop as well and have opinions/comparisons? And on the self hosted side, vs Hoarder?
I’ve been considering switching from Raindrop to a self hosted option, but while I like self hosting I’m also leaning towards just paying someone to handle this particular service for me.
I used to use raindrop however found it a bit bloated with features I never use, I've switched to selfhosting linkding: https://linkding.link and enjoy the much more minimal experience
I've never heard of raindrop and it looks cool but I see the .ru in one of their screenshots -- are they based in Russia? Any concerns with doing business with a Russian company, in the context of sanctions etc.?
Rustem Mussabekov on 24 Oct 2023 wrote:
"I'm founder of Raindrop.io. I'd like to clarify information about the origin of myself and the project. While I did live in Russia for a long time and initially started Raindrop there, I relocated to my motherland, Kazakhstan, shortly after the war began. I also moved all financial and business matters there.
I am no longer associated with Russia in any way. It would be great if this information could be added to the article."
These days yeah, lots of home automation gizmos for instance like the SwitchBot line. Plus it wouldn’t take nearly the amount of engineering know-how it once did to rig up something with an Arduino and a little hobby motor, probably like a $20 project from Adafruit. AI for the code these days, or just a bit of googling. Crazy to think about how easy to get that sort of thing has become in just a couple of decades.
It seems like an odd way to name/announce it, there's nothing obvious to distinguish it from what was already there (i.e. 4o making images) so I have no idea if there is a UI change to look for, or just keep trying stuff until it seems better?
If only OpenAI would dogfood their own product and use ChatGPT to make different choices with marketing that are less confusing than whoever's driving that bus now.
Same. My eyesight getting worse has been a big factor for me. The days of having all my active tools neatly organized and visible simultaneously is over, even with multiple large monitors.
But that’s really only viable if you have a very small number of devices and those devices only have one user. Let’s say you have a family of 4, each with smart phones, two tablets, three computers, each with myltiple user accounts… setting DNS on each individually becomes extremely cumbersome. Not to mention all the other connected devices that want to throw ads at you these days, TVs gaming systems, etc. And god help you if you’ve invested in any kind of crazy connected thing like a fridge with a screen on it, setting device level DNS there might be so obfuscated t’s not possible.
Point is that using any kind of DNS based blocking is far better at the router level but the above poster is right in that a lot of ISPs these days make it impossible to adjust your router level DNS and even for someone tech minded setting up some kind of downstream secondary router can be become so convoluted that they just give up.
All the major browsers can do the screenshot thing, most just keep it hidden in the dev tools for some reason while MS realized “hey, people who have no idea what html is might like taking screenshots too”.
I can outright block domains or just adjust their weight. Great for my personal prefs but also huge with the family account and helping keep the BS out of sight for the kids without going full restrictive.