why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?
Well.. the base color is about establishing a baseline of neutrality so that the deviations (the highlights) actually register as signals. Like he said "if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out". If you highlight an entire page of a book, you haven't highlighted anything, you’ve just printed the book on yellow paper.
why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?
I think there exists both passive usage of colors (feeling the structure through colors) and active usage (consciously looking for "green" when you need a "string"). The author is suggesting that with too much highlighting you can't use the latter.
But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn’t even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn’t feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post’s advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.
True, but I think he showed that to illustrate a broader point that current themes are so noisy that even when color changes you don't notice it, not that somehow his minimal theme would help spot it.
So, that’s what I’m here to talk about today—the post-American internet we can wrestle away from Trump’s chaos. The kind of internet that’s possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to fight on our side.
In politics, coalitions are everything. Anytime you see a group finally make a breakthrough after years of hitting walls, you can bet they’ve found new allies—people who don’t want all the same things but who share enough goals to fight together.
And that’s exactly where Trump came from. He’s leading a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists…and, of course, self-described libertarians whose main political drive is a scorching case of low-tax brainworms—people who’d vote for Mussolini if he promised to shave five cents off their tax bill.
I've been using AstroNvim ever since i moved to Linux and not long ago got some inspiration to re-write my config to be more minimal. I also found his channel helpful :)
I actually remember reading about this in a book "Life after cars". Great read, would recommend !
<...> Tire companies like the one named after Sarah’s ancestor guard their chemical concoctions closely, veiling themselves behind a variety of regulations that protect “proprietary” technologies. (Fossil fuel companies do the same with the liquids they use for fracking.) The tire companies were not going to help figure out the mystery of what exactly was killing the salmon. So researchers at the University of Washington for years doggedly sifted through the dozens of chemicals they found in runoff until they isolated the one they allege is responsible for the salmon deaths. The culprit turned out to be a by-product of a molecule called 6PPD, which for the last sixty years or so has been used as a kind of tire preservative. The ground level ozone that cars give off (a dangerous pollutant that is distinct from the beneficial ozone layer in the atmosphere) can actually harm tires; 6PPD protects them against ozone-induced decay. In so doing, however, it degrades to create a different molecule, 6PPD-quinone, which turns out to be fatal to coho salmon. So the chemical that protects the polluting car’s tires from its own pollution creates even more pollution.
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<...> Scientists say that 6PPD-quinone, along with the countless other toxic chemicals that run off our roads, could be captured by creating natural buffer zones of plants and wetlands that would filter out the poisons before they could reach the delicate ecosystem of, say, a particular stream that is vital to migrating cohos. Perhaps, like guardrails, this type of solution could be written into road engineering codes, mitigating the damage that roads do to the most sensitive habitats. No one thinks, though, that a scattering of human-engineered roadside filtration marshes could even begin to address all the harms—many of them yet unknown—that 6PPD-quinone presents to the natural world. A more systemic approach might result from lawsuits, which could pressure tire companies to find a replacement for 6PPD, but what are the chances that the replacement will be completely benign? In the meantime, the tires keep rolling along, their decay coating the asphalt that spreads across the land, mixing with rain from ever-morepowerful storms caused by climate change, and ultimately washing into bodies of water. There, the poisonous cocktail is metabolized by some of our planet’s most delicate and irreplaceable creatures, desperately trying to get upstream.
If you want to do tracking evasion you don't want to do a lot of tracking prevention as tracking prevention is finger-printable itself and that will undermine tracking evasion. Think of things like adblockers where your particular combination of blocklists and custom rules might be nearly unique to you or doing stuff like disabling javascript.
I had the same thought. Why not diversify by uploading videos simultaneously to platforms like PeerTube or creating written versions of the content? The author of libre.news does this, and I love it.
Obviously, alternative platforms won't have much impact initially and will likely get zero views at first. However, I believe that if more creators adopted this approach, audiences would gradually catch on and these platforms could grow into something bigger.
As I mentioned, I'm at a point in my life where I prefer reading blog posts over watching video content. It's great that this channel provides both formats, but most creators don't.
I don't think so. From what I gathered, the only thing Play Services can see on GrapheneOS is the list of other apps you have installed. That's it. They can't see anything else unless you grant access to it. You're not giving Google root access to your phone, you're just installing an app that happens to be made by Google, and it's locked down like everything else.
Edit: https://youtu.be/YB01HHFitFA?t=625 I just saw this video apparently apps can still communicate with each other so you might want to isolate if that's something you're worried about.
I was thinking how the hell does an app track another apps' activity? So they allegedly used AppsFlyer, which is a Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP).
Companies like Grindr use it for tracking ads, it basically tells whether a user that clicked on a Grindr ad on Tiktok lead to a successful install of their app. They have to install an SDK for that. Apparently it wasn't just tracking that.
Well.. the base color is about establishing a baseline of neutrality so that the deviations (the highlights) actually register as signals. Like he said "if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out". If you highlight an entire page of a book, you haven't highlighted anything, you’ve just printed the book on yellow paper.
I think there exists both passive usage of colors (feeling the structure through colors) and active usage (consciously looking for "green" when you need a "string"). The author is suggesting that with too much highlighting you can't use the latter.
True, but I think he showed that to illustrate a broader point that current themes are so noisy that even when color changes you don't notice it, not that somehow his minimal theme would help spot it.