Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection. Just a bunch of cool puzzles for wasting time. No ads or bells and whistles.

You can download them or just play in the browser. Someone also made the collection into an Android app, which I usually use.

To save you a click (although none of the other commenters seem to have read the article anyway): The microchips aren’t embedded into the actual cheese that you eat, but are part of the label attached to the outside rind. Nobody will be eating microchips.

But does it really matter if it’s possible for us to make such predictions? If a hypothetical omniscient observer (i.e. Laplace’s demon) could predict all your decisions, then that already shows that they’re deterministic. Us not being able to actually do the determination wouldn’t change the fact that there is a definitive state of the universe for any point in time.

am I correct in feeling wary of using this from a security standpoint

I don’t really think you have to be worried about security. Without an official API I’d be more worried about stability and potential data loss due to e.g. bugs in the encryption implementation or unexpected API changes though.

this is asking you to put in your Proton username and password and 2FA and it gets stored as a token in the config file.

As far as I can tell it’s just using your username and password to obtain an access token just like any other Proton Drive client, including the offical one, would have to do.

It is (or can be) just as secure as a non-mnemonic passcode. The mnemonic aspect just helps with typing it out without errors.

You’re not really supposed to remember the mnemonic passcode, but save it in your password manager and/or print it out and store it in a secure location.

Now if you need to use your printed out mnemonic passcode, you just have to type in a bunch of normal words instead of a very long list of random characters and symbols, where it’s easy to make mistakes.

Have a look at rsync-sidekick maybe.

I think they they stopped reading after your first sentence and are suggesting KeePass as a password manager that lets you sort by date modified.

Not sure why I see this one recommended so much. Seems like it’s run by just one dude who won’t always be able to respond to support requests, security issues and other emergencies in the time frames you’d want with such a service. I also really wouldn’t want to bet my ability to securely access/send/receive important emails on that one person in Delaware not randomly getting hit by a car or something.

adblocker, sponsorblock and this

I’d even add Unhook (hide Trending, Shorts, Merch, replace “Home Feed” with subscriptions etc.) and Age Restriction Bypass (avoid the need to verify your account with a credit card). I also use Clickbait Remover. It essentially does the same as DeArrow without the crowdsourcing, which is already good enough for me.

I tested it a bit a few months back, when the trial was still a bit more generous. Results are generally good (often better, but sometimes worse than Google’s) and the custom filtering/weighting of search results is really cool. That said, for me the difference isn’t nearly large enough to justify the price compared to just continuing to use Google with uBlock Origin. Especially considering a big part of their costs are third party API integrations for AI summarization, weather, maps etc (IIRC from some of their comments on HN), most of which I don’t actually need or want. Maybe if I could pay like $3-5 without having to worry about going over some search limit and suddenly having to pay per search…

By default, if there are no submissions, it will […] set a screenshot from a random timestamp as the thumbnail.

Would it be possible to extract the most watched position from the watch graph in the seek bar or use positions that were already tagged as highlights in sponsorblock for better defaults?

Sounds like it would make things like surgery with general anesthesia impossible though.

Edit: Now that I think about it, wouldn’t 4 be better since it makes you functionally immortal? Dying from old age just means dying due to some of those health conditions (heart disease, cancer etc.) that get more and more likely the older you get. If you can’t get those, you don’t die of old age.

But n is commonly used for a total number. Using an index i to iterate over a number n of elements just makes more sense IMO.

Individual servers isn’t the quick answer everyone seems to think it is.

It might not be quick, but it’s probably the only answer. You can’t both have someone else run and be responsible for a server that you use and expect them to do everything exactly like you’d want it. Especially if doing it your way might result in significantly more work for them.

That’s true for Lemmy as it is for Reddit and any other service on the internet that you use, but don’t run yourself. The only difference with federated services like Lemmy is that there’s at least the possibility of just doing it yourself.

IMO KeePassXC’s UI is way better than Bitwarden’s, but Bitwarden has very convenient syncing and a browser extension that actually works with almost any website.

I used to use KeePassXC and KeepassDX on my phone, syncing them through Syncthing. But depending on Syncthing and the clients always making the right changes to the one database file without destroying something never felt good and always having to run Syncthing in the background on my phone probably didn’t do its battery life any favors.

Add to that some frustrations with the browser extension and that’s why I decided to switch to Bitwarden in the end.

Because people generally want a user experience similar to Reddit, I think it’s inevitable that most user activity will be concentrated in one or two instances.

Two obvious reasons for joining smaller, more local instances are language and region. At least along those axes, there will naturally be decentralization.

It just doesn’t make much sense to have communities on instances where most people on that instance can’t participate in discussions due to the language barrier or because topics are specific and only relevant to a certain region.

There are already plenty of growing instances like that for specific regions or languages that are likely here to stay: feddit.de, lemmy.ca, midwest.social, aussie.zone, feddit.uk, feddit.it, feddit.dk, feddit.nl, lemmy.nz, feddit.cl, feddit.pt, …

I’ve been using Kopia on my desktop computer for a few years now to do cloud backups. It’s generally working well and I haven’t found anything else with the same combination of features yet.

That said, kopia-ui is still a bit finicky and I’ve managed to bork a repo beyond repair a few times (e.g. once because my cloud provider account ran out of space, leading to some kind of inconsistent state) and there are some oddities, like the regular “periodic maintenance” (it’s a bit weird that it’s needed in the first place) randomly failing or taking forever.