Is Newfoundland and Labrador still the butt of jokes in Canada?

I thought Misskey and its forks already supported quote posts?

That’s a good point; modern pages would choke our old 2G/3G plans!

What a wild story

I don’t know why Facebook puts so much junk in the links, but there’s a setting for Safari to remove that automatically.

It might be related to the setting to remove tracking information from shared links? I’ve appreciated not having to manually take that crap off.

I didn’t know that was something that’s been available in Chrome. Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.

Holy cow, 35 mods!

It’s a subtle thing, but I really appreciate that when sharing a link from Safari on iOS it puts the address on the clipboard without the “m.” automatically, so I don’t have to edit it out.

I think they used separate style sheets. Going way back in time, to the early days of smartphones and back when non-smartphones had mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout for tiny screens or even an entirely different, simplified page. Early adopters to mobile browsing tended to hang on to that separation much longer than newer sites that took advantage of CSS that could adapt to the screen size.

Are you in a jurisdiction subject to HIPPA? That would seem like a pretty easy violation to report. Otherwise see what your jurisdiction’s medical privacy laws are and who you can report that to.

As much of a hassle as Epic My Chart and other portals can be, I do appreciate how they make medical things more secure and an annoyed when I see small places with nothing that try to tell us to just use email.

I think I’ve bought from 7digital a time or two in the past and had no problems. Obviously there are issues with Amazon as a company, but I think they were the first big name to offer DRM-free MP3 purchases and I used it a lot back when it first launched, especially since they offered a selection of albums each month for just $5. They should have most mainstream music available for purchase, depending on which country you’re in. According to this Wikipedia page listing music stores they only offer 256 kbps MP3 but I was sure most if not all were upgraded to 320 kbps now, although of course you would have to re-download anything if you had downloaded the lower-quality version previously. That Wikipedia page is a good link to other stores as well, with a number I’d never heard of including specialty stores.

Also, along with someone else’s comment mentioning ripping CDs like the old days, check to see if you have a local record store. It’s been a mantra since at least the Gen-X days to “support your local scene.” I know in Raleigh the longtime staple Schoolkids Records is still alive and kicking, although their Chapel Hill store closed last year. It might take some digging but it can be worth seeing if there’s a local store in your area.

I feel like something’s gone very wrong if the MP4 is dimensionally smaller but has a larger file size than the GIF

Thanks for the explanation!

Are you supposed to be working right now?

Self-hosting there are some ways to fight back, or depending on your opinions on Cloudflare it seems they’re fairly effective at blocking the AI crawlers.

I am not a programmer but this seems like it might be interesting reading for fediverse developers; this guy was a long-time infrastructure developer at Reddit.

There’s actually a surprising amount of free static website hosting out there. Besides GitHub, GitLab, Cloudflare, and Netlify come to mind offhand.

They used to sell those on the xkcd store and I was going to link to them but it seems the store is closed now.

As an American I usually go with Merriam-Webster as being reasonably authoritative for typical American usage. Most often I’m trying to check a preferred spelling in situations where there might be more than one way to spell something.

When I need an English/French dictionary wordreference.com remains my go-to. I’ve also found Wikipedia to be useful for more technical terms by using the Other Languages feature.