I've not much to say on the thermal printer part of this but the extensions they did to markdown are great. They had me double taking for a few seconds thinking they might be real markdown because they make so much sense.

    [align=center]    Center-align the following text (also left, right)
    [qr=https://...]  Generate and print a QR code

Deprecating align in html was a mistake.

It’s funny, after all the work that was done to decouple content from presentation, 90% of the markup I’ve seen in every codebase this decade is using Styled Components anyway, which commingles them in the source code anyway.

I think this further proves that the hypothesis of decoupling content from presentation is flawed. The question is how many more data points do we need before we admit that?

Yes, iirc the concept wasn't to decouple content and presentation but to decouple semantics from presentation in order to re-present content in different media in that medium's native representation of a particular semantic. However, many things are not much different in different media, a headline is a headline. And other things like "emphasis" can have cultural differences even within the same media, like being bold, italicized or even double-quotes.

I suppose to a limited extent, that being “articles” in the typical sense, the strategy might be said to have some modicum of success. I’m sure many CMSs store articles as mostly “plain” HTML and regurgitate the same, directly into a part of the final HTML document, with actual normal CSS rules styling that.

Oh man... the popularity of the tailwind css framework. I have big-o Opinions on that, but screw it, if it helps people get things done quickly, then I'm all for it. The semantic xml/html dweebs set us back a solid decade.

Indeed, I can't think of anybody who prefers <button> to <div><div><div><div class="button xl red-border top-pad-2x rounded-corner-in-bottom-left-but-not-other-corners" onclick="javascript:...">

Since align is only deprecated and not removed, and Markdown is a superset of HTML (at least for CommonMark and GFM), it would be valid markdown to just use <div align=center> to center text (not like there's such a thing as invalid Markdown)

> Its not slow like the on-prem. Jira cloud version is fine.

Seems like opposite land to me. Back in the day running Jira Server was the only way to get a snappy Jira instance. When they discontinued Jira Server to force everyone to the cloud it was god awful slow and forced us to abandon not just Jira but our entire Atlassisn stack.

This is closely on my mind because my steamdecks usb-c has started to break/wiggle and only charges now(No video out).

I figured surely the usb-c connector is on a small daughter board that would be easy to replace, but actually it seems directly soldiered to the mainboard and I don't have the tools/skills to do that type of repair myself. T_T

I hope a future version of the steamdeck can use something like this compression mount usb-c connector that would be easy to replace even when it's directly on a mainboard. Also they should drop the 2x usb-c unit in there to boot, a full computer like the steamdeck being stuck with a single usb-c connector is just criminal.

I've always loved Reese's since I was a kid. When I moved to another country a decade ago I went looking for Reese's to fill my home sick cravings but they all tasted like trash and I convinced myself they must be old/stale.

Come to discover in some recent trips back to the states that the problem was actually Reese's themselves, they all taste like stale garbage now.

Yeah normally the CF blog ranks as one of the best in the world in my book, so a post of lower quality and potentially AI slop really stands out here.

That said I think the concept of a full matrix server running all on CF infrastructure/services is an awesome blog post from CF.

Honestly I wish CF would simply unpublish/retract this blog post, put another engineer on it to help the PM, and spend another couple of weeks polishing the post/code to republish the same blog post.

Even acknowledging that blunder and the lost of trust that could have followed for such sloppy work would be a minimum.

I am quite shocked by such lack of care, and it does tarnish the reputation of Cloudflare in my eyes :/

    > You could also DM an offline friend a tracking pixel to reconstruct their activity, a lot of this endpoint security is entirely up to the user.

Only for as long as they have the steam chat window open and your tracking pixel/message is a recent enough message to be actually loaded. I don't use steam chat enough to remember if they do any of these, but your plan also ignores any possible automatic security/scanning/proxy shenanigans on steams part that will muddy your pixels tracking data or just break it.

    > That logic is acceptable. 

I completely disagree. I use invisible status all the time on steam. I very much have an expectation that when set to invisible my friends would not be able to track my online status.

I don't have any comments on their supposed slant, but I do know electrek.co articles often contain mistakes or inaccuracies.

When I comment on the articles or email their authors/editors about the inaccuracies they never respond, nor fix the article.

So yeah... Take anything on electrek.co with a grain of salt.

I love and use mullvad myself but I don't think they are very competitive for the average person. They mostly just care about getting around geo blocks on websites and streaming services, which mullvad puts 0 effort into facilitating.

If there is one old format that actually should have a revival, it's minidisk. I was really holding out for their production keep on until that revival came but they gave up the ghost this year.

Tiny digital CDs packaged in little neon jewel floppy disks is the neotokyo future we all deserve.

Did you get the UI scaling in PS CS2 working?

I wasn't able to so it's unusable for me on 4k or 1440p.