codeyarns

codeyarns, 10 days ago to random

"The Rwandan genocide is 1 of 2 events in the 1990s that prodded a guilt-ridden world to pledge never again to stand aside & allow mass atrocities. The other was the massacre by Bosnian Serbs of thousands of Muslim men & boys in Srebrenica the following year. In 2005 the UN General Assembly adopted the principle that all countries have a “responsibility to protect” (R2P) people from genocide and war crimes, by force if necessary."

https://www.economist.com/international/2024/04/03/thirty-years-after-rwanda-genocide-is-still-a-problem-from-hell

#TheEconomist #R2P #genocide

anirvan, 1 month ago to random

We led our 272nd Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour last weekend, when two participants unexpectedly brought a story alive.

On the tour, we use street theater, visuals and storytelling to explore the anti-Emergency movement, when international students at UC Berkeley organized to resist Indira Gandhi’s state of emergency in India, between 1975-1977.

#SouthAsianAmerican #SouthAsianDiaspora #Berkeley #PublicHistory… (1/4)

codeyarns, 2 months ago to Japan

"Japan’s archetypal gender roles—the salaryman husband and stay-at-home mum—were cemented during the country’s long post-war boom. Following the oil crisis of the early 1970s, those rigid roles began to break down in many Western countries. By contrast, Japan tried to overcome the crisis by extending men’s working hours. While Western countries went through a “transition point” in gender relations, Japan missed the opportunity to change."

https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/02/22/japanese-men-have-an-identity-crisis

#TheEconomist #Japan

codeyarns, 2 months ago to random

Fountain Pen Companion is a neat website which helps you maintain a list of your pens and inks. ✒️

Created by @ujh

#FountainPen

https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/

codeyarns, 2 months ago to mastodon

Mastodon folks you follow might post a lot about causes that you don't want to be bombarded with posts about. The secret to a sane feed is to create filters with suitable keywords so that those posts are automatically hidden in your feed.

#Mastodon #filters

codeyarns, 2 months ago to Costco

"Costco's gross margins are 12%, compared with Walmart’s 24%. The company makes up the shortfall through its membership fees: customers pay $60 or more a year to shop at its stores. In 2023 fees from its 129m members netted $4.6bn, more than half of Costco’s operating profits."

https://www.economist.com/business/2024/02/15/why-costco-is-so-loved

#TheEconomist #Costco

penfount, 3 months ago to fountainpens

#FPQuestion of the day:
If a person expressed interest in #FountainPens to you, what would be your top three recommendations for a “starter pen”, and why? Have your top recs changed over the years?

codeyarns, 3 months ago to random

Good history of fountain pen technology and interesting list of fountain pen recommendations at every budget level.

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/product-recommendations/best-beginner-fountain-pens-1234694493/fountain-pens-we-recommend/

#FountainPen

codeyarns, 3 months ago to Etymology

Origin of the word "pyrrhic".

"“He had lost a great part of the forces with which he came, and all his friends and generals except a few,” wrote Plutarch of Pyrrhus of Epirus, a Greek king who defeated the Romans but shattered his army in the process."

https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/01/17/rishi-sunaks-pyrrhic-victory-on-rwanda

#Etymology #TheEconomist

codeyarns, 3 months ago to mastodon

I was wondering why there were no notifications on my Mastodon the whole day. Turns out that the notification settings had been changed by my mastodon.social instance. 🔔

Probably because mastodon.social is where @Gargron tests the latest Mastodon changes, even nightlies. Some recent change must've modified the notification settings. IAC I was able to reenable them and saw all the missed notifications from today.

#Mastodon #notifications

codeyarns, 3 months ago to random

Trying a retractable fountain pen was one of the best decisions ever. ✒️

Since I mostly use pens to jot short notes or annotate, uncapping and capping a regular fountain pen is just too much effort. Clicking on a retractable is so low effort that I transitioned over almost completely from gel pens at home.

#RetractableFountainPen #FountainPen

codeyarns, 3 months ago to random

The square checkbox is yet another fatality in the slow death of all the great human interface guidelines that were followed in the heydays of desktop OSes.

https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

#CheckBox

codeyarns, 4 months ago to random

I discovered so many classic Microsoft Word formatting and style features which I didn't know about by watching this @shanselman video where he fixes a Word doc live on camera. Must watch! ⭐️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMDOBBjubk

#MicrosoftWord

pamelafox, 4 months ago to random

We recently invested in metal plates/cups for our kids, to move away from plastic (especially with hot foods), and now we're tempted to use them for adults too. They don't break!! Amazing technology.

*not microwave-safe though

skinnylatte, 4 months ago to random

I have an old MacBook and I want to use it to run some self-hosted services. So far, I’ve only run self-hosted services on remote servers.

What’s the best way to connect it to 2 external SSDs?

I don’t want to trip over it and disconnect things if I use a dongle. Should I just build a NAS with multiple bay storage?

As for OS: I’m thinking Ubuntu, Cloudron, or Unraid

#NAS #Selfhosting #Computers

codeyarns, 4 months ago to random

PerplexityAI is a LLM/DL-powered search engine. I tried it and it is impressive!

Perplexity shows citations for its response, which I consider a must-have feature to use any AI search engine. Google should be afraid, I'm switching to give Perplexity a shot full-time since the experience has been good.

PS: They need a short/cute name. 😁

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/How-to-remove-2aEBaLeiS2G7EHtUna.34g?s=u

#PerplexityAI #SearchEngine

codeyarns, 4 months ago to random

Things do bring joy when they fit your life perfectly. Looking back at 2023, these new tech HW/SW additions to my life truly brought joy:

• Small lightweight tablet as ebook reader
• Small smartphone
• Handheld retro game console
• Mobile scanner
• Universal remote
• Epub reader that works on both Android/iOS devices and syncs b/w them
• Linux mini PC
• Python IDE for kids
• Retractable fountain pen

#Ereader #FountainPen

codeyarns, 4 months ago to python

For 2 years I've been struggling to find a simple Python IDE that JUST WORKS to teach my son how to program. IDLE and other tools don't work or are ill-suited for beginners.

I'm happy to share that there is a great solution now: the Mu IDE for Python is perfect for teaching kids/beginners!

It auto-installs all the modules needed for beginners (like PyGame/Turtle) and it JUST WORKS no matter what OS you use (Win/Linux/Mac). A great tool created by @ntoll 🙏

https://codeyarns.com/tech/2023-12-30-mu.html

#Mu #Python

mariyadelano, 6 months ago to random

Last week, I tried my hand at interviewing people during an in-person conference

It went pretty well 😂

Very excited to edit all of these videos and share them with the world

codeyarns, 7 months ago to random

"Pharma & hospitals attract much of the public ire for inflated costs. Much less attention is paid to the middlemen who extract far bigger rents from the system’s complexity. [...] They are the intermediaries—insurers, chemists, drug distributors & pharmacy-benefit managers (PBMs)—sitting between patients and their treatments. In 2022 the combined revenue of the 9 biggest middlemen equated to nearly 45% of America’s health-care bill."

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/10/08/who-profits-most-from-americas-baffling-health-care-system

#TheEconomist #HealthCare

codeyarns, 7 months ago to climate

The island nation of Tuvalu is already preparing for its climate change future when its islands are going to disappear under the ocean.

"The government is keen to make explicit that it would expect to retain its claim on the waters surrounding present-day Tuvalu. [...] Leaders fear that they will lose those rights—and a tuna industry worth billions—if any or all of the islands that make up their territories disappear."

https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/10/12/tuvalu-plans-for-its-own-disappearance

#TheEconomist #ClimateChange #Tuvalu

cheeaun, 7 months ago to random

Crude design but let's see if this works. Private notes for accounts, with sticky-notes-like design.

Emojis generated from https://www.emojiipsum.top/

#PhanpySocialDev

Demo of private notes feature for accounts on Phanpy. It's rendered as a tiny sticky note design, when clicked, will show the full notes on a Private notes modal dialog, which allows viewing and editing.

glyph, 7 months ago to random

I need a new TV and the “smart” TVs are so much grosser than I realized (fucking ADS when I turn them on?? What?!?!) I want a high-quality OLED that just has an HDMI input. I kinda want it to have one input and I will buy my own discrete switcher thanks, given how little I trust the companies making these. Is this even possible any more? I am vaguely aware that “commercial panels” are a thing but they all seem lower quality and hard to source and missing basic stuff like color calibration.

skinnylatte, 7 months ago to random

It’s still weird to me that all the money in this country is the same color

cheeaun, 7 months ago to random

lol somebody stop me (a little fun with the loading indicator)

#PhanpySocialDev

The "Post stats" feature on Phanpy. It shows a button to load the stats on-demand. Once clicked, a nifty loading indicator is rendered before showing the post stats.