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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • I have a Google Alert set up, so I get notified in case my name pops up on the web. A month after I joined a new company, I got an alert - turned out that their internal directory page was exposed to the public web. I was pretty livid - all this time I was proud of maintaining good anonymity, looking up my name never returned anything meaningful on Google. So I complained to my boss about this, and he said it was actually a bug/misconfiguration - which they were already aware of, but didn’t bother fixing it because no one complained. I was super pissed and made it very clear that it was a violation of my privacy and I wanted it taken down ASAP. Thankfully my boss was understanding and got it fixed. Then I had to report the page to Google. It took a while, but it was finally gone from the search results.







  • Here’s my take:

    May need a bit of tweaking though to suit your tastes, especially light mode. The current color options are a bit limited.

    {
      "monet_override_light_secondary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
      "monet_override_light_primary_text_color": "#657B83",
      "monet_override_light_link_color": "#073642",
      "monet_boost_light_color": false,
      "monet_override_dark_secondary_text_color": "#657B83",
      "monet_override_dark_primary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
      "monet_override_dark_link_color": "#B58900",
      "monet_boost_dark_color": true,
      "monet_color_intensity": 0.6,
      "monet_manual_theme_color": "#002B36",
      "monet_system": false
    }
    
    {
      "monet_override_light_secondary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
      "monet_override_light_primary_text_color": "#657B83",
      "monet_override_light_link_color": "#073642",
      "monet_boost_light_color": false,
      "monet_override_dark_secondary_text_color": "#657B83",
      "monet_override_dark_primary_text_color": "#93A1A1",
      "monet_override_dark_link_color": "#B58900",
      "monet_boost_dark_color": true,
      "monet_color_intensity": 0.6,
      "monet_manual_theme_color": "#002B36",
      "monet_system": false
    } 
    


  • In addition to what others wrote, here’s a practical example:

    I wanted to insert an old photo in a comment, from my Google Photos. The photo doesn’t exist on my device, since it was taken from an old phone. I located the photo in Goolge Photos and downloaded it to my device. Then I went to pick the photo in Sync, but it was neither visible under “recent”, nor in any of the albums. So I had no choice but to scroll thru hundreds of photos to manually look for it, and found it under the original date the photo was taken - which makes sense, but in the previous gallery, my recently downloaded photos would appear at the top.

    I’ve only got a few hundreds of photos so this isn’t a big issue for me, but I can imagine it’ll be a dealbreaker for people with thousands of photos on their device.












  • The other comments explained what a launcher is so I won’t go into that.

    Instead, I’m here to plug one of my favorite launchers, AIO Launcher, which is a very different kind of launcher compared to the others.

    Here’s what it looks like, on my Galaxy Fold 4:

    AIO stands for all-in-one, and as you can see from the screenshot above, it has a lot of things, which is handy because I don’t need to open a bunch of different apps to get my news, weather, emails, calendar events, notifications etc - all of it is on my home screen, which makes it very convenient and saves me a lot of time.