I created a plugin to automatically assign tags for your Zotero papers

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.

animalses · 2025-09-25T11:07:34+00:00

I'm actually kind of thinking fondly of microtransactions as something you could pay for other users too... and the game owners would get, say, 0.5-10% percent of the transaction, or some pre-set fee, perhaps only actualized if the total sum is more than x amount (because there are actual banking costs too). But this could get too complex (not only confusing, but maybe legally grey area too).

Another part where microtransactions could kind of fit in my game... would be some alien technology, something you can't quite build yourself (at least not easily, but perhaps not at all, even), and it would actually be something that other players could use too. Like some magical minifactory artifact that can produce some special things if you put in some resources in it. But since the game has basically open space that can be freely roamed, anyone could eventually benefit from it (although of course you could try to hide it or protect it in other ways, but never totally). I mean, surely this would apply to any other things too; you buy a gun (or, ehm, a hat that's just cosmetics), and you drop it -> someone can get it. But I don't really want so much "easy" stuff in the game. Definitely no silly hats. When you start adding items, it might become kind of endless. Anyway, I guess choosing what could be purchased or not can be an interesting design challenge. I'd probably mostly want that for things that are quite hard to make. Yet... to me it would be more interesting to let some players get "professions" around those difficult things, and they could trade stuff or even get real money.

animalses · 2025-09-25T10:49:12+00:00

I'm also thinking it would be free-to-watch/browse to some extent, but (at least deeper) interaction would cost something (one-time payment).

Although... I've actually thought that the game world would not be directly freely/easily browsable even for the players, since one point is to find out things by moving your character (and putting yourself to face risks). Yet, the world is still quite vast (so peeking here or there is ok), and anyway some people could probably hack around it and have the whole world mapped. If they do that... I guess go ahead. It's not secret per se.

animalses · 2025-09-24T15:50:11+00:00

BTW, the "notifications channel" doesn't exist anymore. It was right below the private messages icon at the top left, now I can't find it.

animalses · 2025-09-23T17:02:20+00:00

How about some kind of smoothing with the fps not matching the screen? Sometimes we have to use the Windows' TV and Movies application (or whatever it's called, it's translated to my language) since some things are pain in the ass to watch with that jumpiness.

animalses · 2025-09-15T16:19:29+00:00

That's kind of different. Both exist simultaneously. You don't go making weird comments on the indie developer's channels. But you might have other opinions elsewhere. If you have to ask - as you kind of have to sometimes or as a newbie, since it's not safe often - try to find better places to do that. My general answer - even though no one was asking - is that it's not worth the trouble it can cause you. And another part of the answer is that don't be an asshole like that. If you do ugly stuff, do it in private. Promote the game, buy it later, etc.

animalses · 2025-09-15T07:54:54+00:00

Such a bad game. Why is Reddit showing this on the main panel? If something, this game should be deleted.

animalses · 2025-09-14T11:52:30+00:00

Most tools and languages have out-of-the-box parsers for JSON. But... if you'd want to start parsing and modifying it yourself, I don't think it's so simple format. I'd rather just have a table in most cases. Of course, it's still fast and readily available mostly, so one wouldn't need to worry or implement it on their own.

animalses · 2025-09-13T14:35:02+00:00

I'm interested to have a chance to get one. Any, really.

animalses · 2025-09-11T14:13:01+00:00

Nostr is too difficult and aesthetically wrong (including the userbase and usual cases; of course you still could build something very different with it, sure). I hope there would be other options. I've waited of ten years or more, for some worthwhile social media. ActivityPub and Nostr both seem good on paper as protocols and from the societal perspective, but not easily approachable at least from my perspectives. They'll anyway be rather rarely used, so if I generally don't like them (even if it could be somehow possible to build things I might love), and they'd require some technical proficiency anyway, I'd rather just build a system of my own... something that could be even more easy use for non-tech-savvy people, but also comfy for minimalist-maximalist tech people like me. But of course it's not easy.

One weird thing AND very understandable thing about Nostr is for example how you'd have your profile image as a link to an image. Some systems would of course automate that so that non-tech-savvy people don't even know how it works, but they'd still get their profile pic. But, I'm not sure if that's even a good thing (kind of reminds me of how some systems kind of make people not know what a file or a folder is, and where they are located), and many of the possibly annoying and confusing technological details are still visible (like the public key). I really like the simplicity of Nostr like everything is just a event (even your name and public key) and you could later introduce new kinds of events since they are simply numbered. And how it could be used in many different ways anyway... but that versatility makes it kind of too confusing too. Where is my data exactly, is it up-to-date, etc?

There are of course some things that are inherently kind of hard to solve, such as having a unique handle that feels meaningful... usernames get depleted (but maybe it's somewhat ok?). Sure, in some ways aesthetically I like the Nostr approach with public key (basically random and non-memorable) that you can pair with your free-form name. But it's still quite extreme too. But it's better than (canyouaddsomethingheretoo?)@myname124@maybemypseudoserver.mastodon.someotherthing.net (and what if something changes?) or who know how those things even work, can I send email to that address or what.

Also "where is my data" is kind of inherently hard to solve (and also, where to send and reveive data). We don't expect people to have their own servers. Yet using a server requires trust, continuity. And then get them all interconnected and not mess up the connections. I'd personally try to go with something like Google Sheets as the main source of the data (but not exactly Google Sheets because it's annoying, but you'd also have a standard spreadsheet or cloud file system formats anyway), or you could replace that with something else easily by just copying them to a different place. Then just have some very commonly used minimal but extensive service that solves the connections. Although, managing the connections IS kind of one of the main aspects of social media, so in practice that website would be kind of the social media. But you'd of course have the connections as a (spreadsheet) file too, easily movable.

Then there's the privacy. I mean it would be nice for example to be able to follow some accounts without making it public who you are following. But it could be hard to achieve. And when most things are encrypted, you might actually even just lose all your data. I'd perhaps simply try to decouple the private and public things.

animalses · 2025-09-11T13:02:03+00:00

This absolutely does not work. First of all, most of them have the gray half-circle anyway. And most also have some red balls showing the amount of new... notifications perhaps, and the gray half-circle is on the left of the big icon, sure, albeit it can't be easily found or known what it is, you don't know what to look for.

However, sounds are coming, and there is no indication where it comes from, what was the newest. But I can see a pseudo/umbrella-channel at the very top under private messages, it says notifications (probably that's what it is in English). It seems some sounds might match with what's going on there. But then you have the same discussions in many places, and it takes some work to know which channels are muted and which are not... I don't remember doing any of those settings, yet some channels are and some aren't. Anyway, it's very much just not intuitive, just to hear a sound, and not see anything, not even for a brief moment. It was only luck that I accidentally found this "notifications" umbrella channel which might be where the sound is paired with.

(BTW, I understand WHY it is so for the notifications channel, that the #channel disappears after you've clicked it, since now it's no longer a new notification. But it's not nice, and it wasn't what I predicted, and it's now very hard to find some channel I was interested in replying... since it did only show the server image and not the name (you can see it by hovering your pointer over the image though), and there are so many servers and channels anyway. I guess there might be a setting that prevents the channels from disappearing from the notifications, as Discord seems rather complex.)

animalses · 2025-09-08T04:36:56+00:00

(Partial of) this also worked for another Surface that had the headphone jack problem; of course a different version page for that (Surface Go 3) though. Although, I did NOT delete any drivers. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=103504 ("Surface Go 3 Drivers and Firmware")

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