dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
Developer at Meta.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
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Mastodon: @dan@d.sb
- Comment on non issue 21 hours ago:
You can also get to this through the UI, too. It’s the “Web” tab.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 1 day ago:
They should have to get a warrant, because of the fourth amendment.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 1 day ago:
I agree. I don’t like that a private company is involved, at all. Companies should just supply the hardware, and not have full access to the system.
- Comment on What shall I watch next? 2 days ago:
Nah it’s a screenshot that’s at least ten years old. That’s a very old Netflix UI.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 2 days ago:
the alternatives do not include a nationwide search as part of their features
Yeah I think people would feel much better if the cameras were operated by the local police department, and they were the only ones that had access to it. ALPR cameras have been around for a long time, but it previously wasn’t an issue because access to the data was restricted. Other jurisdictions had to subpoena the data rather than being able to instantly access everything.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 1 week ago:
I don’t think this is even legal in some jurisdictions.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 1 week ago:
That would be an issue, but I’m a person of habit and it’s part of my routine now, so I don’t forget.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 1 week ago:
The way I solved this is by flipping the medicine container upside down after I take it, then flip it back around when I get up in the morning.
- Comment on Infuriating day of the week layout 1 week ago:
Week starts on Monday in ISO 8601, and thus in most programming languages by default.
- Comment on Love my fellow humans who leave presents like this 2 weeks ago:
There’s places that still use Styrofoam for food? I haven’t seen it in a long time.
- Comment on Every new interface being built right now... 2 weeks ago:
“You’re absolutely right!”
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 2 weeks ago:
My wife upgraded from a Samsung S21 Ultra to an S25 Ultra but uses it mostly same way.
The one new feature I have seen her use is the AI person/object removal in the gallery. Samsung’s AI tools can run entirely on-device, which is nice (avoids sending the photos to the cloud and using an AI data center for the processing). I tried them while in airplane mode to confirm they do indeed work with no internet connection.
She upgraded because the old one had a pretty scratched screen (we installed a screen protector on the new one!) and the battery wasn’t lasting long any more. The official repair store that Samsung use in the US, UBreakIFix, don’t stock S21 batteries any more, and I didn’t trust myself enough to replace it myself.
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 2 weeks ago:
I really hope some phones are released with support for MicroSD Express.
One of the practical reasons companies started removing MicroSD slots is because SD cards were fast slower than the internal storage, and installing apps onto them could make everything laggier. That’s mostly solved with MicroSD Express which is up to 9x faster than the legacy MicroSD standard.
Of course, there’s also the financial aspect, which the manufacturers love. If you can’t insert an SD card, you have to pay the manufacturer for more storage.
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
How much difference does an extra second in the microwave make?
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
My husband forgets food if it doesn’t beep (ADHD).
Same. I get other things done while the food is in the microwave, and would completely forget about it without the beep. Thankfully neither my wife nor I are sensitive to the beeping.
- Comment on I do this every time 4 weeks ago:
My wife leaves time on the microwave. I like things to be complete though, and time left on the microwave means the usage of it is incomplete.
- Comment on The perfect date 5 weeks ago:
RFC3339 is better than ISO8601 since it doesn’t allow some of the esoteric formats, and allows some useful formats that ISO8601 doesn’t (like separating date and time by a space instead of by
T) - Comment on The perfect date 5 weeks ago:
RFC3339 is better than ISO8601 since it doesn’t allow some of the esoteric formats, and allows some useful formats that ISO8601 doesn’t (like separating date and time by a space instead of by
T) - Comment on Gender neutral guide 5 weeks ago:
Because I used Arabic as an example rather than Hebrew? Or because I’m unfamiliar with RTL languages?
In any case, it’s pretty easy to figure out that I’m Aussie :)
- Comment on Gender neutral guide 5 weeks ago:
In frontend development, it’s pretty common to use German to stress test UIs, as it’s a commonly used language with a lot of long words. It reveals all sorts of UI issues - text that doesn’t wrap properly, buttons that are pushed off the screen, etc.
I don’t know German, but I do like the idea of using compound nouns rather than inventing new words.
It’s also common to test UIs with Arabic, to test handling of right-to-left languages. At work we have a “fake RTL” language that’s English but rendered RTL. It’s interesting because everything is flipped - for example, a left-hand sidebar is instead on the right side in RTL languages. Company logo is at top right instead of top left.
- Comment on modern classic 5 weeks ago:
Good catch! I didn’t notice that initially.
- Comment on modern classic 5 weeks ago:
This looks like an AI edit rather than an actual renovation.
Why would they keep the hole with the CRT TV in it?
- Comment on Well if you insist I gladly will 1 month ago:
Embarrassing? I’d want to keep that plate forever lol
- Comment on Been on this typa shit lately 2 months ago:
I do this and then realise I’m not actually an expert.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
weed at y
- Comment on That original batch sounds tasty 2 months ago:
ClownlyFans
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 2 months ago:
Proton’s server is closed source so I don’t trust it as much as Bitwarden.
- Comment on Glad they're looking out for me 2 months ago:
It’s crazy that forfdd arbitration is legal.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 2 months ago:
Bitwarden’s the only password manager I trust, since their entire stack is open-source.
For self-hosting, they recently released Bitwarden Lite, which is a lot simpler to host than their regular server. There’s also Vaultwarden, which is an unofficial third-party server implementation.
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 2 months ago:
I do live in the USA at the moment, but in a state that pays waitstaff well (California).
There’s too many American people online that just assume everything is about the USA though. It gets to me sometimes :)