Daniel Aleksandersen

• You were a good operating system, macOS 10! Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-10-02

• Have you seen all the new fancy and the schmancy stuff in the latest #VivaldiBrowser Snapshot (Preview)? Oh, and this version added folders to the feed reader and the new and faster sync system. https://vivaldi.com/blog/new-look-new-feature-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3483-4/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-10-02

• I’m revisiting #Deezer to see if it has improved its music streaming service in the last eight months. The first impression was okay but I quickly ran into intermittent playback issues (Error MS0610). One of their media storage servers uses a security certificate that expired over a year ago. I’m pretty sure this is what caused my intermittent playback issues the last time I tried Deezer.I’m giving them another shot because I believe Spotify is overdue for more competition, and I like the concept of Deezer’s Artist-Centric Payment System (ACPS). (I’m not sure it’s reality or a pipe-dream, though?) With ACPS, you pay the artist you stream instead of pooling everyone’s subscription into a giant slush fund. #CreatorEconomy https://www.deezer.com/explore/en-us/artist-remuneration/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-26

• 🎙️ Audiobook narrator: “Chapter 11 —”
  🧠 My brain every time: “— bankruptcy.” Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-26

• Registering for any popular service and being forced to pick a username is torture at this point. Please stop requiring people to pick unique usernames. #OnlineLifeIsRealLife Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-24

• Dear all innovative mobile network solutions apps. Please stop using the #VPN layer on #Android. The platform does not support multi-VPN setups. You cannot all be VPN-like apps! (Unless you invent a multi-VPN solution, of course.) Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-23

• Credit where due, this is a real nice new feature in Microsoft Edge. #WebExtensions #Performance https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2024/09/19/extension-performance-detector/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-20

• There is so much fun stuff in the pipeline for Vivaldi for computers right now. 😁 That front and center thing is getting way cooler with oh so many more configurable options. The things are getting roomier and prettier. That slow thing is finally becoming lightning fast! —and that cool open web glue? We’re working on folders for your glue! 🤩 I’m not sure it’ll all be done at the same time (or even when), but there is some pretty exciting stuff coming soon(-ish). Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-09-11

• I just pushed my first unsupervised minor update to the Vivaldi stable stream. Let’s hope I’m better at this than Crowdstrike. https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/minor-update-six-6-8/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-24

• Is it time to disable Secure Boot for good? Most hardware manufacturers have been using known sample keys, and Microsoft just nuked dual-booting systems trying to make an adjustment to Secure Boot. Is there any value left in the system for a Linux user? or even a Windows user? #SecureBoot Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-21

• Randall Munroe deserves a comedy award for #XKCD. He never ridicules or throw punches. It has been nothing but good clean fun for years on end. Is there an award for that? if not, there should be. Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-19

• I bought #SinsOfASolarEmpire2 through Steam and have been looking forward to playing it all week. However, I can‘t launch the game because of digital rights management tech gone wrong: 😢 “Epic Game Ownership is unknown. You must start the game when connected to Epic at least once before playing offline.” The error isn’t wrong, I do indeed not own the game on Epic. I did, however, purchase it legitimately. #DRMfail Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-16

• I spent €300 on fancy laundry baskets with separate sorting compartments. Did anyone say obsessive-compulsive disorder? 💸 #OCD https://eu.josephjoseph.com/products/tota-trio-90l-laundry-separation-basket-black Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-16

• Check out my new “Gummiboot” theme for Vivaldi! #darkTheme #greenTheme #rubberBoat #rubberBoot #vivaldiThemes #intentionallyLowContrast
  (The preview on the themes gallery page is somewhat misleading.) https://themes.vivaldi.net/themes/NOb71L33J1g Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-08

• I want to use anything other than #WordPress for a project. (I don’t consider their humble brag about powering 40 % of the web to be a positive.) I’ve wanted to give #Textpattern another go, but the project needs a lot of work to be brought back up to date. I think I‘ve landed on Chyrp Lite. It‘s quite neat! ✍️ #CMS #ChyrpLite https://chyrplite.net/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-05

• Google Gemini has started instantly responding “Great question!“ and then take another minute before it writes anything more. I’m assuming the UX designer that came up with this distraction got a huge bonus. Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-05

• Every now and then I remember that Blogger still exists. ✍️ #GoogleZombieServive Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-02

• “BROWSER, acronym: BRowsing On-Line With SElective Retrieval” 🤯 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/history-of-internet-terms/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-08-02

• Yesterday, @Uladzislau casually referred to #ChatGPT as a person he had had a week-long conversing with about a topic. I’m torn between overthinking about how he referred to fancy autocomplete as a person, and whether I should go upstairs to visit Vlad at his desk more often. 😆 Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-07-30

• 🕵️🍪 “Third-party cookies have got to go” — @hadleybeeman https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/third-party-cookies-have-got-to-go/ Posted on Vivaldi Social on 2024-07-30

• I’ll want Corning’s new Gorilla Armor glass in my next smartphone. It’s anti-glare properties look amazing on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra. I’m hoping we’ll see it in more affordable devices from other manufacturers soon! #betterLivingThroughChemestry Posted on Bluesky on 2024-04-25

• Hate those pesky consent dialogs? Give #Consent-O-Matic a try! This is a better approach (causes less site-issues) than whichever ones you might have tried in the past. Available for most desktop browsers. #CMP #browserExtensions consentomatic.au.dk https://consentomatic.au.dk/ Posted on Bluesky on 2024-04-22

• My #Zstandard decompression browser test pages now actually works in Chromium and Firefox (with the right experimental flags enabled). Before today, the decompression test was accidentally double-compressed. #WebDev https://www.daniel.priv.no/tools/zstd-browser-test/ Posted on Bluesky on 2024-03-17

• One of my home ISPs just enabled #IPv6. I’ve not had IPv6 at home in 6,5 years. Unfortunately, it was my slow non-symmetric backup provider and not my main symmetric-gigabit speeds provider. I’ll need to turn off IPv6 on my end to keep routing through the much faster IPv4-only provider. 🤷‍♂️ Posted on Bluesky on 2024-03-16

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