Amar Balikai

@abalikai@theatl.social
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328 Posts
ATL > NYC
@matt @andyn and shoving AI everywhere. I have no idea what their AI policies are or if they’re sucking up all my emails 🤷‍♂️. What did you end up switching to?

A rainy night view of the Atlanta skyline - one from the archives that I recently revisited to add to Etsy.

Prints on Etsy (US) and Pixels (most locations and additional print choices).

Etsy - https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com/listing/1882910265/atlanta-wall-art-atlanta-skyline-print

Pixels - https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/atlanta-skyline-at-night-mark-tisdale.html

#DigitalArt #Atlanta #Georgia #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #rain #architecture #MarkOnArt

Hey, New York!

We have a really fun partnership with Upway, which is having a massive Sample Sale at their Brooklyn warehouse on February 28th.

If you're looking for a new e-bike at a BIG discount, you won't want to miss it.

Find an e-bike from all the major brands at really low prices and get ready for spring!

Learn more at:

https://upway.co/pages/garage-sale-nyc

garage-sale-nyc

REGISTER FOR FEB. 28 Test and buy your dream e-Bike at 134 Morgan Ave, 12-6 PM WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE SAMPLE SALE? Our team is here to help you find the perfect e-Bike. Enjoy one-day-only discounts! Take a test ride on e-Bikes. Love the ride? Buy it on the spot with an extra discount, plus a free Kryptonite lock.  We al

Upway United States

I asked myself, if I'm setting my own fonts, why is my browser hitting fonts.googleapis.com?

And I am both surprised and not-surprised to discover that Google will lie to you at the dns level and blocking fonts.googleapis.com with Ublock Origin fully removes a class of unwanted captchas from my browsing experience.

In Firefox: Extensions, UBlock Origin, click the gear, "My Filters" at the top, check the enable box, add this:

||fonts.googleapis.com

And suddenly this goes away:

Here are some lesser known differences between an open source #IoT project and a commercial IoT appliance:

1. Support - #OpenSource projects field questions. Actual humans, taking the time to understand your questions and answer them!
2. Repair - Again, people will help you fix things
3. Less #environmental impact - Fewer things ending up in the landfill on account of the #repairability, often times they have more localized production, less shipping, etc.
4. Customizability - #FOSS for the win

@paulhellyer @backupbear Thank you! Will try this. Coincidentally, I was searching for spotlight alternatives a couple of days ago and saw Raycast. But it looked like the team was adding a bunch of unneeded AI….hard pass.

#Apple has been progressively making the #UX for Spotlight Search worse, but with #macOS Sequoia, it's become pathetic for the simplest use case - an app launcher.

For ages you could simply hit CMD+Space, start typing the application you want to launch and get it going quickly. Instead, now, you're lucky if the application shows up at all in the search results and the top search result is some mindless gibberish.

Intelligent suggestions my arse.

Cake Club Is a Must-Try Brooklyn Class for Baking Hobbyists

“We do all the grunt work for you.”

Eater NY

If you’re a Windows user, I can help you switch to Linux. Please stop supporting an insecure and privacy-intrusive operating system. What’s stopping you from switching to Linux/macOS? Ask all your questions, and I’ll answer everything.

#linux #macOS #privacy #security #windows

This site apparently sells nostalgic aviation items, including an Air Atlanta t-shirt!

https://www.shankandmiller.com/products/air-atlanta-t-shirt

Air Atlanta T-Shirt

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I asked myself, if I'm setting my own fonts, why is my browser hitting fonts.googleapis.com?

And I am both surprised and not-surprised to discover that Google will lie to you at the dns level and blocking fonts.googleapis.com with Ublock Origin fully removes a class of unwanted captchas from my browsing experience.

In Firefox: Extensions, UBlock Origin, click the gear, "My Filters" at the top, check the enable box, add this:

||fonts.googleapis.com

And suddenly this goes away:

God, finally.

OK, so: if you're tired of clicking the X on that "log in with google" dialog box on every goddamn website in the world but you still need gmail and docs, add this to your ublock origin rules.

||accounts.google.com$domain=~google.com

(one line, no spaces)

That says "do not allow connections to accounts dot google com if we are not on a google dot com domain."

If you do use "log in with google" for else this will break that.

@mhoye
If you _do_ need it from more domains you can add them:

...$domain=~google.com|~other.site

or a full regexp:
...$domain=~/regexp/

@mhoye You can also do this from the "advanced mode" UI instead of text filters! Which also lets you easily unblock it on sites where you use google login (you'll also need to add the unblock on google.com of course).

You can click the red in the left column to block it globally, and then the gray in the right column to unblock it for the site you're currently on. Though the gray is now hidden by default for some fucking reason. (Hit the gears next to the "I am an advanced user" checkbox and add "filterAuthorMode true" in the about:config-equivalent there to get it back. The gray means "undo the global rule" while the green means "unconditionally allow, overriding filter lists".)

@mhoye breaking a broken thing is fun.