Holy sh*t. My mother had that.

She was severely overweight.

Mostly vegetarian, but had strange ideas about nutrition. E.g. she believed (from reading in the media) that seed oils were "Heart Healthy™ ".

I am looking for an aha moment, a eureka moment, where after a bit of finetuning I start to see the model responding.

It literally doesn't matter to me what exact domain problem is solved.

I want something that's easy to set up and could produce (at least some verifiable) results in under an hour.

Some sort of toy problem would be ideal.

I want to do scratching by pushing a button on my laptop keyboard (instead of dragging the spinning record with my mouse-cursor).

Can Mixxx do this?

Not sure if that's mappable, but I don't think that would provide enough control to get satisfying results.

How about a USB knob?

https://binepad.com/products/bnr1-v2

Looks interesting, thanks for sharing.

The ideal interface of course would be to use an external turntable and use one's hand to rotate a physical plate or record.

I find the mouse-cursor drag very clunky.

You can do that with a set of timecode vinyl, Mixxx fully supports that.

Even a tool like Frontpage was a game changer.

Simple website in a minute without any need to know HTML.

No free tool that does that today. Dreamweaver does, but it's paid.

There are too many to count. WordPress, MediaWiki (on Fandom or Miraheze if you want), Mastodon, Blogger (you can still sign up apparently), Twitter, Linktree, Facebook, Google Docs, Google Drive, GitHub Gists in Markdown, ...

I went to a restaurant last night that had QR codes instead of a menu. The QR code took you to their Linktree, which linked to some PDFs on Google Drive. You could criticize that for looking unprofessional, but it sure looked better than a Frontpage site.

The other day I went looking for information on a neighborhood business that's a bit cagey about saying what they do. Their website (built by a consultancy that charges US$450, according to the Wayback Machine) seems to have been online from 02013 to 02018, but they have active pages on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, which apparently is good enough for them. (It turns out to be a school for mentally disabled teenagers, if I've interpreted the multiple layers of euphemisms correctly.)

So the niche of "build a web page for free without learning HTML" where Frontpage and GeoCities followed NaviPress is not just not dead; it's thriving.

Not sure what you mean by “no free tool does that today”, there are plenty of free site builders out there, both on the web and desktop apps. Even more if you consider “freemium” site builders.

That's how I learned HTML, building the page in Frontpage and then looking at the markup. I don't remember it being free though.

It was very easy to get from the usual “alternative” software sources.

It was, but it created some nightmare HTML that even FrontPage had trouble rendering.

We called it Don’tPage.

MS Word / LibreOffice Writer → Save as… → HTML :-)

Become the weird guy that never says a word.

wait, what ?

It's one of the old "how to win friends and influence people" [1] moves. Say as little as possible. It seems people tend to overestimate the smartness of quiet persons, so their contributions will be respected more.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...

EDIT: added link

Here's the tragedy: the free world actually needs people with his skills working on their side.

According to the article he attempted to sell data that a different person obtained. He didn't retrieve the data himself, so I'm not so sure that he has any skills we need. He isn't even a good salesman, apparently.

>Judische said he had no interest in selling the data he’d stolen from Snowflake customers and telecom providers, and that he preferred to outsource that to Kiberphant0m and others. Meanwhile, Kiberphant0m claimed in posts on Telegram that he was responsible for hacking into at least 15 telecommunications firms, including AT&T and Verizon.

No we don’t lol..

That’s like saying we need plumbers and electricians who come into your house and steal everything.

Sure I’ll make no mistake on this if you can share some evidence

That's not how it works, they don't want people who have broke laws anymore especially due to the prior hacker leaks (Snowden).

IMHO, it has the best ELI5 explanation of integration, still not bested in 100 years.

Good ones.

> Challenging what doesn't sit right with you

You have aroused my curiosity. Feel free to share an example of such a scenario.

"I like to see the capabilities of a team I might be on."

- Not bad.