Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

I actually can't tell.

Among other things: Cooking. They're really helpful in those situations where I have a bunch of ingredients lying around in my pantry but I lack concrete recipes that can make a proper meal out of them.

I wish they would carry on the momentum and also finally support hardware keyboard shortcuts. This is the one thing that's killing Android tablets for me (I'm not willing to use a Chromium-based browser): https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/need-more-physical-keyboard-support-for-firefox-mobile-on/idi-p/3836

Issue is being tracked here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1794664

An electric toothbrush.

Not India, but somewhat relevant:

It's been confirmed that the Egyptian government recently carried out a targeted attack taking advantage of a 0-day on a presidential candidate's phone: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-the-iphone-of-a-presidential-candidate-in-egypt-got-hacked-for-the-2nd-time (Edit: Link was pointing to second page of the article; changed to first page)

Related discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816

Also this report from Google's TAG: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/0-days-exploited-by-commercial-surveillance-vendor-in-egypt/

"I don't intend to live beyond 60 anyway."

This always makes me laugh (IRC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

It's worth noting that the definition of M1 changed in 2020, which accounts for the significant jump in that year.

Further reading: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-recent-surge-in-the-m1-money-supply/

Edit: Linked article also has the complete graph going all the way to 2023, which shows that spike dropping again within one year.

TL;DR :

Another measure of the money supply adds these savings deposits and checkable money funds to M1: It’s known as, you guessed it, M2. From the graph, we see that the growth rate of M2 has remained relatively stable since May 2020. This suggests that the rapid acceleration in M1 since May 2020 is mainly from money moving out of the non-M1 components of M2 into M1, rather than reflecting any acceleration in the demand for transaction balances.

Edit: Quoted wrong paragraph(s) in TL;DR

One thing I need to publicly expose is my own instance of Mealie. It's a recipe manager that supports multiple users. I share it with family and friends, but also with more distant acquaintances. I don't want to have to provide and manage access to my network for each and every one of them.

It drives me mad when I use PCs of friends and relatives and I see AdBlock Plus installed, but they still get ads and they never seem to stop and wonder why this "ad blocker" is not working! I do however enjoy their facial expressions when I install uBlock Origin for them and start refreshing pages.

Am I the only one bothered by that slanted hyphen?

I run Koreader on a Kobo Libra 2. I just connect to my OPDS catalogue on my Calibre-Web instance. It's not exactly a sync setup; it just gives me access to my library whenever I need to download something, and that covers my needs. There are several other sync options; check out Koreader's features here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki

If you like it and decide you want to it, go through the list of supported devices and see what sort of sync capabilities are available for them (support for Kobo devices seems to be the best/have the most options).