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Here’s a niche gotcha with the clipboard API’s `navigator.clipboard.writeText()` method that’s unique to Safari:
If you access a function from a module within your gesture handler (e.g., click handler), you will get a permission error.
The (sadly hacky and not as robust) workaround is to set a global variable from your module instead.
Full gist:

gists/clipboard-writetext-permission-error-when-using-modules-in-safari.md at main
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Flipboard!!!
Niche Pursuits Podcast: Find Your Next "Niche" Business Idea!: Meet the Flipboard Master that Gets 1 Million Views a Month
Webseite der Episode: https://sites.libsyn.com/36873/meet-the-flipboard-master-that-ge…

tick tock it's niche jokes o'clock #nethack

Computer music institutions shouldn't really call a practice 'niche' just because they've ignored it up until now.

Me: *searching for something very niche on Amazon*
Amazon: *shows the thing in the search listing*
Also Amazon: "The item is currently unavailable"
Me: WHY TF ARE YOU GIVING ME HOPE 😠

writing business mission/vision statements is hard.
some of these services / software projects have fairly specific niche purposes and a niche customer base.

Searching for „Algebra“ on #LinkedIn reminds me of searching for the same thing on Clubhouse back in the days.
Anyway, I got 3 hits: a niche advisory firm based in Dubai, paid media experts from London, and an IT security specialist firm from India (decades of experience)

2021 retro-link! https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/07/30/ - strcpy: a niche function you don't need.

tick tock it's niche jokes o'clock #nethack

@… this is some niche one. In coal mine they used to call some tool for pulling stuff. A hook or something. It seems it comes from „zehfuß” but since now I checked and can’t find this word on Duden I can also guess my grandpa did make fun of me.

@… Do you have any idea on what angle the Sui crypto handheld console is aiming at? https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112254343688838229 Seems a rather pricey move for a niche inside a niche.

Time Series Analysis of Key Societal Events as Reflected in Complex Social Media Data Streams
Andy Skumanich, Han Kyul Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07090

Time Series Analysis of Key Societal Events as Reflected in Complex Social Media Data Streams
Social media platforms hold valuable insights, yet extracting essential information can be challenging. Traditional top-down approaches often struggle to capture critical signals in rapidly changing events. As global events evolve swiftly, social media narratives, including instances of disinformation, become significant sources of insights. To address the need for an inductive strategy, we explore a niche social media platform GAB and an established messaging service Telegram, to develop metho…

Morons: They are so brainwashed that they become nothing but mindless money pumps to be used by rightwing scammers...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/anti-woke-vitamin-economy

Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/09/survey-teenagers-using-more-vr-devices/<…

Survey shows that teenagers are using more VR devices in the US
The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier...

I see an untapped market in basically every red state, that strict anarchists/progressives won't tap into.
republicans who are dis-serviced by the GOP and willing to cooperate on niche issues.
case study: housing supply in utah.
there are loads of republican types (or people who are republican because the only viable candidates are)
who DEFINITELY see house prices in Utah as INSANE.
whatever their other reprehensible views on trans rights - the fact they have already come to a conclusion ON THEIR OWN that housing is fucked up, is a good sign you can join together and get something done.
like, they're chomping at the bit for some kind of change to the system.

Bit of a niche question, but does anyone else have a weird XBox one problem where their external drive unmounts, making games inaccessible?
In my case it's a 1TB SSD, but have had the problem with a standard HDD too 🤔
The cure is to unplug and plug in again.

Early vote counts suggest attempt to modernise Irish constitution has failed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/vote-referendum-modernise-ireland-constitution-women-home
<< this will be no surprise. It was an awful campaign and the proposed replacement text is either vague and/or problematic.
It doesn't bode well for the next UPC referendum, which whilst a much easier "yes" to justify *if you know*, is on a niche issue.

Pleroma
In Pleroma, you will take on the role of Diane Kestler, a youthful individual who has recently moved to a new part of town and is starting a new job at a niche art gallery / studio collective / research library which is (you guessed it!) hiding a rather surprising and unusual secret.
https://thealeks.itch.io/pleroma

“The nonalcoholic beer market has actually gotten so good, it’s no longer niche.”
#Beer #NonAlcoholicBeer
https://wapo.st/3VVNJjA

Review | Nonalcoholic beer is better than ever. These are our top picks.
The nonalcoholic beer market is finally good. So, which should you reach for at the store?

Les Houches Lectures on Community Ecology: From Niche Theory to Statistical Mechanics
Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland III, Pankaj Mehta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05497

Les Houches Lectures on Community Ecology: From Niche Theory to Statistical Mechanics
Ecosystems are among the most interesting and well-studied examples of self-organized complex systems. Community ecology, the study of how species interact with each other and the environment, has a rich tradition. Over the last few years, there has been a growing theoretical and experimental interest in these problems from the physics and quantitative biology communities. Here, we give an overview of community ecology, highlighting the deep connections between ecology and statistical physics. …

This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:
How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

gists/how-to-include-multiple-directories-from-different-places-in-the-file-system-hierarchy-in-an-archive-without-including-the-whole-directory-structure-for-any-of-them.md at main
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Kaikenlaisia niche aloja sitä onkaan jossa suomalainen firma on maailman harvojen alan toimijoiden joukossa. En olisi ikinä veikannut että tällainen firma on Suomessa, ellei olisi tullut vastaan Youtube-video jossa kerrotaan still- ja elokuvakameroiden vanhojen mutta optisesti korkealaatuisten objektiivien muokkaamisesta (ammattimaiseen) uusiokäyttöön moderneissa elokuvakameroissa. Tällaista tekee vain kourallinen firmoja, joista yksi Suomessa.

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Any company wanting to help C development should consider adding an AI to summarize/analyze/interpret compiler errors 💡
Step 1: just summarize the reams of error messages.
Step 2: provide a brief list of likely causes for the error messages.
Step 3: suggest some corrective actions.
This is a niche and narrow purpose and is doable. And any C dev knows this is necessary.
Do it right and there'll be much interest to integrate w IDEs, even compilers.

Bit of a niche question, but does anyone else have a weird XBox one problem where their external drive unmounts, making games inaccessible?
In my case it's a 1TB SSD, but have had the problem with a standard HDD too 🤔
The cure is to unplug and plug in again.

Literary Gold From the Gilded Age, in Poster Form - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/books/review/art-of-the-literary-poster-allison-rudnick.html

Literary Gold From the Gilded Age, in Poster Form
For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, “The Art of the Literary Poster” celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising.

there should really be regulation on standardising console accessories, it is really dumb that you can buy two racing wheels or guitar controllers or whatever other niche controller of the same model and one will only work on playstation and the other will only work on xbox despite them being the exact same hardware, some of those controllers can be like >1k you shouldnt be expected to buy two because you have two different consoles

This was sad to read how google's algo change has impacted traffic to niche websites:
https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
Google made you rise, and now google is taking it away.
The sad part is that consumer AND the creator appear to …

Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites
It honestly breaks my heart to write this article, but I want to be as transparent as possible with our readers because you are the ones that have quite literally…View Post

Microbial iron reduction under oxic conditions: implications for subsurface biogeochemistry
Giulia Ceriotti, Alice Bosco-Santos, Sergey M. Borisov, Jasmine S. Berg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07137

Microbial iron reduction under oxic conditions: implications for subsurface biogeochemistry
Iron (Fe) reduction is one of Earth's most ancient microbial metabolisms, but after atmosphere-ocean oxygenation, this anaerobic process was relegated to niche anoxic environments below the water and soil surface. However, new technologies to monitor redox processes at the microscale relevant to microbial cells have recently revealed that the oxygen (O2) concentrations controlling the distribution of aerobic and anaerobic metabolisms are more heterogeneous than previously believed. To explore h…

I feel this strongly, as a dilettante #FOSS coder.
Modern mature software can be inherently complicated. PostgreSQL is a deep RDBMS that has been under development since the 80s. Writing new code for that is hard, especially in C. The only FOSS projects I‘m in at all active in are all Perl (i.e. ‘dilletante’) but they are also big and arcane. E.g. there are parts of

Digitality as a "longue dur\`ee" historical phenomenon
Salvatore Spina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03869 https://arxiv.org/p…

Digitality as a "longue durèe" historical phenomenon
The digital age introduced the Digital Ecological Niche (DEN), revolutionizing human interactions. The advent of Digital History (DHy) has marked a methodological shift in historical studies, tracing its roots to Babbage and Lovelace's 19th-century work on "coding" as a foundational communication process, fostering a new interaction paradigm between humans and machines, termed "person2persons2machines." This evolution, through digitization and informatization, builds upon ancient coding practic…

I wonder if when the goggles finally turn out to just not be more viable as a product than a cool tech demo and for niche use cases, they’ll start to incorporate some of what they’ve developed into computer screens and phones.
For example with proper eye tracking you could make well-working planar lenticular 3D screens.

"But why do we have another advocacy organization starting up?"
Because the current one is either so unheard of or so dragging it's feet on advocacy that a new organization with better leadership has seized a niche alongside you?
And their volunteers are more vibrantly signing up to the fresh cause?

@… @… This is also why multi hand decimal watches and clocks with analog faces are so rare in this day and age. Precisely because they are non-trivial to produce and you are doing it for a tiny niche. The German watch company Rainer Nienab…

An #AI I'd find really useful right now is one which filters out #MWC announcements of the form;
"Company X has announced the next iteration of Product Y which includes the headline features A, B, and C"
where A, B, and C are tiny-niche interest features that company X feel are the only…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04621 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Model Compression in Practice: Lessons Learned from Practitioners Creating On-device Machine Learning Experiences
On-device machine learning (ML) promises to improve the privacy, responsiveness, and proliferation of new, intelligent user experiences by moving ML computation onto everyday personal devices. However, today's large ML models must be drastically compressed to run efficiently on-device, a hurtle that requires deep, yet currently niche expertise. To engage the broader human-centered ML community in on-device ML experiences, we present the results from an interview study with 30 experts at Apple t…

One of my favorite things about Mastodon is the revival of all the niche, quirky, fun apps we had in the early days of Twitter. Cool to see someone reincarnate Birdhouse.
https://mas.to/@bardi/112365896372971256

Anyone who happens to use Starling bank (#uk), and #emacs.. I made a thing. So far it just gets all my savings pots and shows them, which I already find useful.
Some day I might release it, but anyone who stumbles on this who might be interested (pretty niche) let me know.

Might be a niche comment, but I can only aspire to be loved as much as government comms in #SouthAfrica love a low-res screenshot of a poorly cropped PDF:
*This text is too crisp and responsive to different sized devices. How do we make it blurry and screw with the aspect ratio at the same time?!?*

Okay Mastodoni , this mild-mannered climate scientist & cyclist of questionable stamina is a secret
#wine enthusiast. Esp Sherry #jerez But other niche lovelies, too.
20yrs ago, I took a course at #Cervantes

A profile of Swedish accounting software maker Fortnox, valued at $4.6B after its stock rose 5x since 2020, as some analysts question its growth prospects (Financial Times)
https://t.co/Y4xOdW5xGE

@… @… Probably a niche concern, but I love the #maildir "separate file per message" format. I can sort, search, and archive t…

I feel this strongly, as a dilettante #FOSS coder.
Modern mature software can be inherently complicated. PostgreSQL is a deep RDBMS that has been under development since the 80s. Writing new code for that is hard, especially in C. The only FOSS projects I‘m in at all active in are all Perl (i.e. ‘dilletante’) but they are also big and arcane. E.g. there are parts of

“Wood is part of a new group of super-proactive, super-engaged electricity customers. Solar panels, home batteries and other energy-efficient devices [..] price signals in the form of cheaper rates when demand is low and pricier rates when demand is high. Together, those factors are creating a new class of consumer: Call them the home energy nerds. It’s a niche for now, but baked into the nerd experience are lessons for everyone, and for utilities.”

Solar Panels, Heat Pumps, EV Chargers: The Home Energy Nerds Have Arrived
As homeowners invest in solar panels, EV chargers, heat pumps and batteries, many are finding that a little electricity arbitrage can be addictive.

🎨 Arduino Turned Into Something Kinda Like A Pager
#arduino

Arduino Turned Into Something Kinda Like A Pager
Video may have killed the radio star, but cell phones and smart phones all but killed the pager. They still exist, of course, but only in very niche applications. [João Santos] wanted a pager-like …

Drone weather apps are such a twisted niche. All of them do the same thing using different APIs and yet they can cost anything between 'two Starbucks coffees' and 'my mum's monthly budget'.
Meanwhile that one free weather app that does EVERYTHING contains no information how to support the author.

Securing Bluetooth Low Energy: A Literature Review
Zhe Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16846<…

Securing Bluetooth Low Energy: A Literature Review
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, operating within the widely used 2.4 GHz ISM band, stands as a cornerstone in modern wireless communication frameworks alongside its classic Bluetooth counterpart. This paper delves into the foundational aspects of BLE, excluding niche components, to explore its core functionalities and pivotal role in diverse connectivity needs. BLE's specialization in catering to low-power devices ensures optimal energy utilization, making it indispensable in IoT applica…

Does it have a touchscreen?
Power consumption?
Could it be the one-step-up-from-a-PDA niche product?
Hackable? Can you, e. g., upgrade the RAM and storage?

very general career advice: if you can identify something useful that you think is interesting and everyone else finds boring you may have a very solid niche on your hands

I wonder if when the goggles finally turn out to just not be more viable as a product than a cool tech demo and for niche use cases, they’ll start to incorporate some of what they’ve developed into computer screens and phones.
For example with proper eye tracking you could make well-working planar lenticular 3D screens.

This is a niche one and will likely not affect any of the (three?) people playing with Kitten¹ right now but, in any case:
If you persist custom types to your Kitten database, you might be hit by this bug that was introduced when I released versions of Kitten with minified identifiers.
I briefly wrote about what happened, how you can identify if you’re affected, and how you can fix it here:

Periodic crash due to session garbage collection code
``` 🙀 Uncaught exception TypeError: e._db.sessions[n].hasExpired is not a function at file:///var/home/aral/.local/share/small-tech.org/kitten/app/kitten-bundle.js:434:9245 at Array.forEach () at Timeout._onTimeout (file:///var/home/aral/.local/share/small-tech.org/kitt...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04621 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Model Compression in Practice: Lessons Learned from Practitioners Creating On-device Machine Learning Experiences
On-device machine learning (ML) promises to improve the privacy, responsiveness, and proliferation of new, intelligent user experiences by moving ML computation onto everyday personal devices. However, today's large ML models must be drastically compressed to run efficiently on-device, a hurtle that requires deep, yet currently niche expertise. To engage the broader human-centered ML community in on-device ML experiences, we present the results from an interview study with 30 experts at Apple t…

Drone weather apps are such a twisted niche. All of them do the same thing using different APIs and yet they can cost anything between 'two Starbucks coffees' and 'my mum's monthly budget'.
Meanwhile that one free weather app that does EVERYTHING contains no information how to support the author.

Countering Mainstream Bias via End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning
Jinhao Pan, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, Allen Lin, James Caverlee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08887

Countering Mainstream Bias via End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning
Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommendations suffer from mainstream bias -- where mainstream users are favored over niche users, leading to poor recommendation quality for many long-tail users. In this paper, we identify two root causes of this mainstream bias: (i) discrepancy modeling, whereby CF algorithms focus on modeling mainstream users while neglecting niche users with unique preferences; and (ii) unsynchronized learning, where niche users require more training epochs than mainstre…

This is a niche one and will likely not affect any of the (three?) people playing with Kitten¹ right now but, in any case:
If you persist custom types to your Kitten database, you might be hit by this bug that was introduced when I released versions of Kitten with minified identifiers.
I briefly wrote about what happened, how you can identify if you’re affected, and how you can fix it here:

Periodic crash due to session garbage collection code
``` 🙀 Uncaught exception TypeError: e._db.sessions[n].hasExpired is not a function at file:///var/home/aral/.local/share/small-tech.org/kitten/app/kitten-bundle.js:434:9245 at Array.forEach () at Timeout._onTimeout (file:///var/home/aral/.local/share/small-tech.org/kitt...

An Interdisciplinary Perspective of the Built-Environment Microbiome
John S. McAlister, Michael J. Blum, Yana Bromberg, Nina H. Fefferman, Qiang He, Eric Lofgren, Debra L. Miller, Courtney Schreiner, K. Selcuk Candan, Heather Szabo-Rogers, J. Michael Reed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02593…

An Interdisciplinary Perspective of the Built-Environment Microbiome
The built environment provides an excellent setting for interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of microbial communities. The system is simplified compared to many natural settings, and to some extent the entire environment can be manipulated, from architectural design, to materials use, air flow, human traffic, and capacity to disrupt microbial communities through cleaning. Here we provide an overview of the ecology of the microbiome in the built environment. We address niche space and refu…

I found this graph from Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Google Mandiant extremely interesting. This pie chart highlights the motivation behind various threat groups that are using #ZeroDay vulnerabilities.
That yellow section... "The commercial surveillance industry has emerged to fill a lucrative market niche: selling cutting edge technology to governments around the world that exploit vulnerabilities in consumer devices and applications to surreptitiously install spyware on individuals’ devices. "
Thoughts? Are you surprised by this data?
Full Report: #infosec #google #mandiant #threatintel

I can't wait till Fedi opens certain floodgates.
Lots of niche topics and communities are non-existent here.
I try SO hard to engage in pro wrestling discussion here, but it just isn't happening like it is on other platforms.
On threads, in 4 minutes, Smackdown will most likely be Trending. Here, maybe 5 people will casually mention it throughout the show.
There's a lot to be desired here and I hope this new social movement changes things for the better.
#Fedi #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Threads #Meta #ProWrestling #ProfessionalWrestling #WWE #WWESmackdown

Methods for Matching English Language Addresses
Keshav Ramani, Daniel Borrajo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12092 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Methods for Matching English Language Addresses
Addresses occupy a niche location within the landscape of textual data, due to the positional importance carried by every word, and the geographical scope it refers to. The task of matching addresses happens everyday and is present in various fields like mail redirection, entity resolution, etc. Our work defines, and formalizes a framework to generate matching and mismatching pairs of addresses in the English language, and use it to evaluate various methods to automatically perform address matc…

This BlueSky bridge IS exciting. However, due to the ignorance of the "opt-in" brigade, I feel it'll be pretty much dead in the water besides with a select niche crowd.
Just like Threads, having to opt-in on an opt-out protocol is killing the usability of such good integrations.
This is why I keep thinking that Fedi won't get popular. Bad implementations like this, specifically wanted by ignorant users, will go unused.🤦‍♂️🙄
#BlueSky #BridgyFed #BlueSkyBridge #Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Bridge #Mastodon #OptIn #OptOut