Latest bookmarks (page 106 of 134)

2019 article about how the rest of the Fediverse isolated Gab

"Many devices now support an operating system wide dark mode or dark theme experience. This post explains how dark mode can be supported on web pages, lists best practices, and introduces a custom element named dark-mode-toggle that allows web developers to offer users a way to override their operating system level preference on specific web pages."

"About 20 million years ago, either a meteor impact or atmospheric explosion got to the desert part of the lower atmosphere, heated it up and fragmented and exploded"

Composite of multiple photos of Venus at different phases and angular size.

"Along the breezy streets, you'll find a tale of two eras: the town's surf bum past and its glitzy present. "

"The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP. "

Blog post proposing a common FreeDesktop/XDG API for virtual files. Windows and macOS have APIs that Nextcloud and other services can tie into, but Linux doesn't. Yet.

"people don’t have a single identity… in the real world, or online. Who you fundamentally represent yourself to be (in terms of name, accuracy of location, age, social-demographics, etc.) varies depending on the context. This is true whether you are interacting online with a bank vs. an online hobby forum vs. craigslist, and true whether you are interacting with your close family vs. coworkers vs. random strangers in the elevator."
An article from 2016 that I found really interesting.

"Because you probably need to advertise."