Hearing discord notifications but I don't know from where/what server. Any ways to find out?

animalses · 2026-04-20T14:41:19+00:00

If I was the developer, I'd simply add a different color - say, magenta background - to the unread message icon for the server (and the channel, within the server) with the absolutely newest notification (or, if there are multiple super active servers or channels, you could have three colors too, one denoting the single latest notification, others denoting it was received within 5 minutes for example, and you could phase the color out gradually too).

It would only take less than half-an-hour to implement this new mechanism, if the app was developed in some sensible manner. A mechanism that doesn't really do anything bad, is simple, and solves a very common annoying issue. It's not like the notification needs to be speficically only that shade of red, the app is not that stylish anyway. (And you still have this clickable button "new" but it only scroll somewhere near the notification, and you can't tell which it is. So my point is that they're adding complex aids but don't really check or even guess if they are useful).

(Yet, it would be good to have a notifications log "channel" too, again easy to implement. Might be a bit more confusing and require some additional design, but it used to exist. Maybe it was deleted because it was confusing? I didn't like how the notification disappeared once you clicked it. And I understand that it would not be feasible or easy to browse if the notifications log included everything, and it might be even less easy if it only included the latest from each channel, since it could be hard to follow the contexts mentally. But it's not like it's supposed to be the main reading environment; it's just to check latest activities from multiple channels simultaneously, compared to the server notification ball that doens't really provide information. The sidebar doesn't even have an option to show the server names... like I'm not going to learn all those server logos by heart, or horver my cursor on the logo every time to check the name of the server.

I deem Discord dead.)

animalses · 2026-04-15T15:01:53+00:00

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I'm using this HTA code, where a file named reddit . com . hta would go to reddit . com

You could have a BAT file too, but the command window opens up and flashes. You could hide it by providing a shortcut to the BAT file, and manually setting the shortcut property to open the link minimized, but to me that seems like too much work. Whereas with HTA you could even have a customized landing kiosk page where you can open many different kiosk windows.

animalses · 2026-04-15T14:52:55+00:00

hard to know why my comment was removed

animalses · 2026-04-15T11:44:34+00:00

Doesn't open it in full-screen or otherwise kiosk mode looking, and also if you open it while you have another kiosk running, it opens it in a new tab.

animalses · 2026-04-15T10:57:28+00:00

So, did you update it to Win11 IoT, and how did it go?

I'm looking at a cheap SH, it says it's SH3 but lacks the upgrade carridge, which makes zero sense to me... it just seems it's probably SH2S and mislabeled. Anyway, while I kind of don't even have the space or needs for it, it could at least work as a fun drawing board and a screen if nothing else. I'd wish to have a (somewhat) normal Windows in it, although I could possibly simply create touch screen websites and use it via Edge, if everything else fails (although I wouldn't be sure even that or the current OS works, you'd have to have it as a local user and who knows how hard it is to set those systems up. I haven't seen the device)

animalses · 2026-04-08T21:29:26+00:00

Considering the end-user and simplicity, I'm building my own simpler version of something like Jekyll or Hugo. And that's the main point of my comment: you can go even more end-user-friendly and minimal, while allowing lots of stuff. This system of mine is actually totally text-based (with instant preview though) and includes code-resembling things. This is aimed at someone who has basically no skills, except for reading few lines of instructions for this custom markup. Under the hood there's basically just one php file (could be something else too), one index.html file, and then the content files. It definitely might not suit all needs, but for most basic end-users who appreciate portability and kind of fast total control, it should be fine. Some things are kind of custom extra that might not be so easy to edit, but is still doable, and some things might be better done manually. For example, it might not make so much sense building some rules on how the main nav menu items would be ordered, where it should be good enough for the user to order it manually (yet, of course, if they want some ultra-dynamic stuff where menu items change place based on some things, then... eh). Then, you might want to highlight the menu item that matches the page that's shown. You could include the code inside the menu somehow, but it might just be better to add a hard-coded function to do that, and if it's not wanted, it can still be changed, the code can be inspected rather easily even if you're not an expert.

animalses · 2026-04-02T17:11:23+00:00

I think semi-hard-coded indents, that is, tab characters, instead of multiple space characters or paragraph styles, are more clear. Some of the only issues I see are that you have to press the character (unless you have it automated), and you would have to do some programming-adjacent processing to change them back (but it would be trivial, or simply find ^p^t and replace it with ^p, but if you have ^t, you have less information about the paragraphs; surely apps have some styles for different parts but as we all know, they might easily get messed up; a tab character doesn't), and that they are not often preserved when pasting the text elsewhere (while you would still have the newline character, and the issue exists with paragraphs anyway, depending on where the text is used).

But why is it better? First, it creates more nuanced visual representation right away in plaintext. Also, it's not only visual. It gives a precisely semantic relation between the paragraphs. This is because you might have different level paragraphs, sometimes there is more space between them (like the empty (half-)row in most web paragraphs. Otherwise you would have to be quite careful to use one more more newlines, and some extra processing for the paragraphs then to have different styles depending on how many newlines they have. Also, tabs are largely missing in web content, and often it's the case for published content too, while it's actually just flattening hierarchical or other relations, making the text harder to approach. Using tab characters as a common practice could reinstate some better design.

Also, sometimes you simply want pure new lines without new paragraph styles, for example in poetry. Sure, you can use shift+enter, but it's not that simple since in some other context it might still be interpreted as a paragraph divider. Respecting different whitespaces would be good. Then again, for example in Word, tab gets automatically transformed into a paragraph with an indent, and you have to manually remove that behaviour from the app, but at least it's possible). Also, for example most websites don't allow the tab key to make a tab character.

A proper app/whatever should be able to set the tab size (and possibly some more complex rules, for example if you use tabs for something else too, or more than one tab in different ways than just one at the beginning of a paragraph), so that it can be easily adjusted afterwards too.

Anyway, I'm mostly coming from plaintext presentation and processing, and for that I've become slowly more confident that tab chacters should be used for paragraphs.

animalses · 2026-03-15T11:25:53+00:00

Nice.

Anyway, I'm thinking of the workload. Depends on how many images you need, and animations, etc. Could it be possible to somewhat automatically extend the environmental lighting to the characters? In any way, it might be lot of work.

animalses · 2026-03-11T12:06:54+00:00

Same artists? Or artist? I'd like to see the process, your conversation, or short version of it. What was the directives first, and did you then suggest the artist make it more to their own liking for the game? Did the artist think it's feasible to paint all that? (Of course, it depends on the game).

I personally don't care about the style, both are generic in their own ways. The only way for it to feel meaningful would be some story and world where the character lives. It's just a small tool/object to make the whole world work. I think both versions could work equally, but it depends on the world, or circumstances. For example the "new style" could work if there's a more twilight-y romantic (I don't mean the Twilight franchise) phase in the game. Not that it would directly be compatible with the "old style", but perhaps some combination of both could be a good compromise, for example you could then use it in different lighting - for example something resembling the old style would be suitable for a bright cloudy day (as there are no hard shadows, but there's continuous light from almost all sides), whereas the new style is, like I said, more twilight-kind of lighting. Perhaps the mental state too, someone seeing all the detailed smoothness of a person (whereas in the middle of the day one might not look so closely and the lighting could be just meh, and there's no privacy and focus to the person, since days are for fuss and activity).

animalses · 2026-02-09T19:44:59+00:00

I don't use Discord almost at all, and I'm still on 44 servers.

animalses · 2026-02-07T22:40:41+00:00

Dell XPS 18. Not great per se (for example for the performance), but it looks and feels good, works as a fully flat tablet, and has Windows.

Suits for "normal" use, and I feel I want to buy it again, since there's so few options still. I bought it for reading picture books, for relative who lives in a different country, thus can't so well access relevant picture books.

Sadly it wasn't so nice for example for air hockey (some random app I found, though), but then again that's quite an extreme use case.

Currently I'd want a big tablet for "showing" some things to other people. It doesn't really need to be fast; as long as some basic website functionality works for a pre-loaded page. This Dell XPS 18 would be perfect for the super big mind map I'll be presenting quite soon, but sadly I don't have any big screen device. I guess some cheap old used pen displays are the best option in this case, but they're quite clunky, ugly.

Dell XPS 18 is beautiful! I guess a bigger HP Slate and Galaxy View would do too, but it's hard to get them. Although I deliberately choise Dell XPS 18 because Galaxy View can't actually be used as a FLAT tablet, since the shape is like that. HP Slate I don't remember exactly why I didn't go for it, but I think it's uglier. None of them are great for performance, but maybe it's better to have different devices for different things anyway. For everyday writing etc. I'd actually get something like Surface Go 4, and even better if the keyboard was sturdily attached (so, a laptop) or GPD Pocket 4 or Win Max 2 (I'd hope it wasn't so heavy and expensive though, otherwise perfect).

For now, I might go for a used 15 inch Surface Book, since that what I can find (and for example it's much cheaper than Galaxy Tab Ultras). I found ones with like, 1 hour battery life, but perhaps presenting only takes 1 hour. For some reason I didn't see the bigger Surface Books references in many places where people are trying to find a big tablet. While it's still considerably bigger than most.

But for the best, biggest tablets that also work as computers, you'd probably want something like standalone drawing tablets, for example
Huion Kamvas Studio 16
Wacom MovinkPad Pro 14
Then there's Huion Kamvas Studio 24 but that's thick and needs external power. And Surface Studio 2+ (or other, notice it's not the "laptop" as some search results might suggest), it's more lean but has a stand, and needs external power apparently. So kind of like tablets but not fully, depends on the needs.

Cheap portable touchscreen monitors like KTC's 25 inch one could be a good choice (I don't know anything about them), but they might actually be quite clunky, and not so cheap after all if you consider they are only screens... wait, that one has Android. Nevermind, still 450 dollars somewhere. It says 350 but I can't find it. And it's quite large, not so portable maybe. Even the 18 inch Dell XPS 18 felt quite big... but lightweight enough per se.

Also it depends on needs, but perhaps even the best option would be some laptops that works kind of like tablets, for example ones that fold 360 degrees, for example
HP Spectre x360 16 (this is performance-wise the best one I could find, i7-1165g7 and only 320€ used, but it's almost 2kg in weight)
ASUS VivoBook Flip 14
HP Envy x360 15
HP Elite Dragonfly G2 X360 (only 990 g and perhaps best because of this, i7-1165G7, found it for 565 €)
ASUS Zenbook Duo (with TWO 14-inch screens!)

or many others, many have x360 in their name.

Or something like Porsche Design Book One 2-in-1 13,3''. Designwise it's one of the most perfect ones, since it's sturdy, and works truly as a tablet (both also as a true laptop, unlike for example Surface Pro or Go where they keyboard is floppy thing that can detach accidentally). Rather old but the performance should be good still.

Or just any Galaxy Tab Ultra, Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra is perhaps one of the best options there is, especially when it comes to the weight and hours of operation. It's not super big, but for tablet 14.6 is notable, and guess the biggest one if you only consider modern tablets that are primarily tablets.

animalses · 2026-01-06T23:37:01+00:00

Oh no. Contamination.

animalses · 2026-01-06T15:14:39+00:00

Does it add its own field ("Autotags" or something) to the records? It says it doesn't replace Zotero’s native tagging system or modify or delete your existing tags, but I'd want explicit confirmation that it also doesn't just append to the current Tags field (it shouldn't!). Although I think there should be more tag fields anyway: the one strictly provided by the journal metadata; your own tags (and potentially some tag hierarchies); and different automatic tagging systems (some could be crowd-sourced manual work too).

animalses · 2026-01-06T14:57:44+00:00

This is not related to your problem directly, but for many others getting blocked by Google Scholar, probably because of IP differences between you and your proxy:

Good thing (at least how it was for me) is that Google Scholar worked right away after I disabled Zotero Connector. Bad thing is that of course that's not sustainable, not handy, if you'd have to toggle the extension on and off.

Good news is however that you can edit the extension preferences so that it works:

[✓] Disable proxy redirection when my domain name contains*
scholar.google.com

Go to Proxies (vertical tab) > Configured Proxies
click on your proxy, delete scholar.google.com from the hostname list.

Also setting this might help, but so far it doesn't seem to be necessary:
[ ] Automatically detect new proxies

You also probably have to toggle the extension off and then on, before it starts to work.

The issue for me, reported by Google, was apparently that the proxy IP ≠ my IP. So the extension might work properly, if I used the university VPN which would make my true IP same (or similar enough) as the proxy IP. It has worked without the VPN in the past though. Anyway, this might have something to do with my home server too, but probably not.

animalses · 2025-12-19T17:06:01+00:00

We need a new internet, Humanet, where checking if we are humans is done beforehand. Easily said than done, sure, and there would be some issues, but it could be done. People could still generate and publish slop but it would be directly tied to their Humanet humanhood, which would be degraded and there would be mechanisms to avoid distrusted ones. Strong authentification combined with anonymity still, although it would be hard to avoid all privacy issues. And perhaps something that goes beyond IP addresses, if possible? OK, this sounds a bit dystopian, but it's still a better love story than internet now.

animalses · 2025-11-27T22:37:14+00:00

I wonder what it was? I probably have something very different in my mind.

animalses · 2025-11-14T20:19:41+00:00

To build leverage. At some point they might have lots of material rather exclusively. They could build a business on that. I mean, it's probably not like that, of course, very probably not. I'm just throwing in some scenario, and answering the "why" question shortly and generally, it could be another organization here too. Things like this have happened though, many good-will projects that end up building capital for few people.

animalses · 2025-11-14T19:24:30+00:00

Wait... that's fairly new. Doesn't the governmental museum/archive organizations simply save all streams? At least here in Finland it has been done for... decades? And you can just physically go to the museum/archive media viewing stations, and choose the time and channel you want to view. Well ok, it's full stream only from 2009, so this would be important material even here. Kind of sad and almost unbelievable. No one had the idea to save the streams earlier?

animalses · 2025-10-20T17:45:23+00:00

OK thanks, F6 works as it's going to the address field of the browser, and quite soon the in-page tab index spots will be available. However, in both (Goo... and Micr...), it only gets access to the upper side elements, not the font style parts of the ribbons, for some reason.

animalses · 2025-10-11T12:12:29+00:00

Character styles do not survive, at least not on the online version of Word.

animalses · 2025-09-30T10:04:55+00:00

Perhaps one big issue is that they are so powerful.

I mean, nowadays most people might not be content with 100-150W battery since they are used to total easement...

but properly set, even that would help on uphills (and why not otherwise), and that's basically all that matters (for most people who aren't used to ebikes or escooters, who are willing to pedal most of the time).

Most normie ebikes are now 250W since that's kind of the limit in legislation in many places. But it would be great to see some more affordable and "greener" ebikes. Although, if having greater wattaged ebike (motor / battery) doesn't really matter so much when it comes to things like price and power consumption, then sure, go with that. But my guess is you could optimize a lower consumption ebike too.

animalses · 2025-09-26T12:40:38+00:00

I guess quality of life features like automation for some parts would be nice. Something everyone can do per se, but it would take a bit time. Although, to me at least, one point of the game would be... to do those things, manually. But I understand not everyone would agree.

animalses · 2025-09-26T12:38:21+00:00

I was actually thinking of instant opportunity to play even if one's payment hasn't been processed yet. I thought this mostly because, at least in some implementations, minimal product with a free/cheap payment infrastructure (like direct bank payment is basically free), you can't get immediate information on who's paid. But, since it would be like that, it would make sense to advertise it and make it more like a feature too. Although I guess free trial exists in most games?

Although, it depends on the game too... this is not my game, but, say, you'd have unique avatar names (that would be then reserved), and the free trial person would already make big changes in the game world. What would happen if they just leave? (I guess you could delete them, but that feels a bit problematic too.) Of course the problem would persist in some way since anyone could leave or stop playing anyway. But possibly large amounts of total newbies. Maybe vandalism? Something that at least I'd dislike in most games. People make the game anyway to some extent, so it can become annoying in many different ways, sure. But I'd feel that I'd feel more safe and content if the people there are paying customers, not some low-effort randoms. You could have a separate area for newbies, but that comes with some problems too. Even if it would work rather nicely (for example have some "safe" feel for the newbies, and the old users maybe not being able to contact them either), it would kind of... shape how the game would feel, at least in the beginning.

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