Bought the ten inch apple. Was ten inch circumference. Hugely disappointed.

This is gonna have to simmer for a while.

PO-TA-TOES ~ boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew

Water.

I hear you. I’m not crazy about it either. I use it at work and I get the point: it’s awkward to make CSS respect the encapsulation of component-based reactive frameworks like Vue or React. Tailwind alleviates that. On the other hand the actual HTML/CSS produced is disregarded by all measures except size maybe. It’s yet another layer of abstraction and its necessity is debatable at best.

You have basically two options: treat HTML as a string or parse it then process it with higher level DOM features.

The problem with the second approach is that HTML may look like an XML dialect but it is actually immensely quirky and tolerant. Moreover the modern web page is crazy bloated, so mass processing pages might be surprisingly demanding. And in the end you still need to do custom code to grab the data you’re after.

On the other hand string searching is as lightweight as it gets and you typically don’t really need to care about document structure as a scraper anyways.

I use syncthing to sync music, notes and pictures between my phone and my PC. It’s ridiculously efficient and it feels like using your devices’ networking features in a reasonable way at last. It’s so simple and feels so good. I fucking love it.

They’re gonna tell not to parse HTML with regular expressions. Heed this warning, and do it anyways.

Time magazine going hard making clear on which side of the class war they stand.

This is an NPM package. I really wish the dev would find it in them to host a little demo page someplace.

I’m probably paraphrasing someone famous but the quality of a society is measured by the way it treats the vulnerable.

It was wrapped in wet underwear though. A completely irrelevant precision, but a precision nonetheless.

Oh can we bribe the mods?

And they’ll get AIs to scrape that shit too. And train on it so they can spew higher order nonsense. And so on.

I love how diverse the Linux distros breakdown is. SteamOS of course, but also Arch, Mint, CachyOS, Bazzite and so on. Choice. And because this is open source software work done by one community potentially helps all others. It’s fucking beautiful 🥲

The research paper referred to in the article is from July 2025.

i love stuffing my face in pastry

Congrats on switching to Linux! There’s a lot to learn, but this also means you get control. Furthermore, what you learn is very likely to be useful for a very long time. If you still feel intimidated by the Unix command line I strongly recommend addressing that asap. It’s where the magic happens when things go wrong. It can become a super power as well in terms of automating tasks and customization. Look for guides in the format you prefer and most importantly play around with what you learn.

As for your immediate need with the Bluetooth keyboard… OK for real I’m writing this right now from a living room TV Linux (Mint) PC and I’ve ditched my previous Bluetooth keyboard for a keyboard with a 2.4ghz USB dongle. I’ve had sporadic issues with Bluetooth on Windows in the past, I’ve had less (but not none) on Linux, and I just feel keyboard/mouse are devices that are too critical to pass through Bluetooth. Wireless USB is just so much more stable. Furthermore if/when you’ll want to log into you UEFI/BIOS it’ll be really awkward because such a basic environment has no Bluetooth. I understand this may be of little help if you’ve got a keyboard you love.

Purple’s nice

Have you tried reading the article?