Heliocentric orbit like this:

More info:

• Wikipedia article
• Media page on Wikipedia

I’m not sure how to do what you want with customizing Mint directly, but a possibly simpler alternative solution is to just send two clearly distinguishable USB drives (e.g. label them “1” and “2” with a label maker or get two drives with very different colors) and tell him to install (unmodified) Mint from the first and then have him run a program you provide on the second after that’s done to make the other changes.

Yep. Just like how some sites try to recruit you if you open the JS terminal. Spam knows no limits.

You know, I’ve gotten job offers in Apache logs, but no one’s ever asked me out through referer/user-agent spam…

Historically, I don’t know, but personally, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD style dates since they sort naturally in basically all computer software without having to think about it.

I have a folding card table that currently serves as my desk. I don’t know how old it is – 1960s, maybe, based on the style of the brand/sales label on the back? It’s almost certainly older than I am, at least… Got it from my uncle back when I was in college and its still working well enough that I haven’t bothered to replace it.

I don’t know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I’m currently looking at – and no one else has stepped up in the interim – I’ll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working…)

the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes

pictrs’s thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling – which leaves something to be desired… It has other sampling options implemented (with resize, according to the docs), but they don’t seem to accessible on my instance. You can remove thumbnail=96 if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.

make everything zoom 150%

I do this with my browser’s UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).

e.g. right side bar

[...document.querySelectorAll(".side")].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())

You could also just adblock the element with class side.

someone forks and maintains it.

MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I’ve been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.

I’ve only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don’t know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow… but I’m still poking at it.

Voting

You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn’t enabled. (That’s what mlmym does.)

Can’t manually switch between dark and light mode

Hmm… There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g. html:has(#element:checked) + CSS variables – though FYI :has is baseline 2023.)

Making it persistent would require some more effort – e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I’d have to think a bit if there’s a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though…

only automatically based on browser settings

Doesn’t actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript – I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your prefers-color-scheme media query?)

Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction – otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That’s a papercut kind of issue, but figured I’d point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.

I picked an RNG name since my old common username (from reddit, etc) was not available when I started on kbin.social (RIP) and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called. I deliberately kept it short though. Not sure what to make of other RNG names – esp. long unintelligible ones – but I’ve seen at least one account that I think is legit which has a long, bizarre RNG-looking username and a non-English display name, so 🤷️

Well, there’s roughly 8 billion people on Earth, and the Wikipedia article for “human” says:

The average mass of an adult human is 59 kg (130 lb) for females and 77 kg (170 lb) for males.

Male vs female is roughly 50/50 IIRC. Ignoring distribution of adults vs kids for simplicity, then roughly 4 billion times 59kg + 4 billion times 77kg = 544 billion kg or 1.2 trillion pounds, if I did my math right.

• Sandbox a general computer security term for a limited area that untrusted code can operate in. Essentially, think of an unruly kid – it’s allowed to play in its sandbox and could make a big mess there, but it shouldn’t be able to mess up the rest of your house if it’s only allowed to play in the sandbox.

• Site Isolation According to this post from 2021 on Mozilla’s blog, “Site Isolation” is the term they picked for loading different websites in different OS processes. As an ELI5… maybe think of it like moving from sites being in the computer equivalent of neighboring apartments to being in different buildings? IRL, you’re supposed to have a certain amount of privacy and security in your apartment but there’s limits because of the physical construction… A half decade or so ago, people figured out that you can do the equivalent of sticking your ear against the wall to try to hear what people were saying in the apartment next door; it’s more challenging to do that if you’re in the digital equivalent of a different building…

• Total Cookie Protection Metaphorically speaking, websites can tape a name tag (“cookie”) to your jacket without you noticing. That includes not just the direct operator of the site (who use cookies like that to keep you logged in) but also other people like advertisers on the site. In the old way of handling cookies, whoever stuck that name tag on your jacket can read it, so advertisers could figure out the equivalent of “Oh that’s Bob – he just went to Walmart, and then the bank, and now he’s at a swap meet looking at used manga.” if they were advertising on all those sites. “Total Cookie Protection” as Mozilla calls it is basically changing your jacket for each place you visit. Bob has a jacket for Walmart, a jacket for the bank, and a jacket for the swap meet. The advertiser can tell if Bob’s been to those places before – the metaphorical name tags are still on each one – but doesn’t know it’s the same Bob who was just at the bank since he changed his jacket.

• First Party Isolation seems to be an older name for a similar idea brought back into Firefox from Tor Browser. “Total Cookie Protection” seems to be Mozilla’s marketing of it when they enabled it by default, as far as I understand it? (There may be other features of it that I don’t understand though.)

• Multi Account Container Going back to my name tag and jacket metaphor again, this is a feature that lets you have essentially multiple jackets for the same place that you can choose between. You can have your work clothes and your personal clothes and pick which is appropriate for the situation, metaphorically speaking. Particularly useful if you have multiple webmail/social media/whatever accounts from the same provider and want to stay logged in to all of them.

Pretty sure you can do much better than that now (plus or minus tariff insanity) – quick check on Amazon, NewEgg, etc. suggests ballpark of $5K for 1TB RAM (Registered DDR4) + probably compatible motherboard + CPU.

You can get motherboards with enough slots if you’re willing to pay enterprise prices for them. I have a system with 1TB of RAM at work that I use as a fast data cache. I just mount tmpfs on it, write hundreds of gigs of data into it (overwriting it all every few hours), and it works great. Cost was somewhere in the $10~15K (US) range a few years ago, IIRC. Steep for an individual, sure, but not crazy for an organization.

There’s also cgroups and Linux namespaces – probably most popularly interacted with via Docker currently.

What they mean is you can just do something like mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G tmpfs /mnt/ramdisk to get a file system using regular RAM already.

There’s a lot of overlap, but the other is a bit more general purpose (not just new communities). I joined both to help with community discovery.

There’s more-or-less already an active community for that: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

From their description:

Promote your favourite communities here, or ask about a community you are looking for

A post titled like “Is there a community for TOPIC?” with text in the body indicating you’re interested in making one if not would likely do well there.