Aerbil313

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by Aerbil313 1y ago
HN is yet another infinite scroll feed. It’s no different than traditional social media, except in intensity. It’s less intense, because of its text-based format as opposed to video, the clickbait-resistant culture, and the fact that while
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
I agree with the author, but can’t agree with his stance that self-restricting is not effective. I use tools like Screen Time heavily with a setup that is not bypassable on a weak moment (I don’t know the PIN). Nowadays when waiting for som
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
I’m not a US citizen, nor living there. Pretty much nothing surprised me about US news till the last Trump administration, even then, I chalked it up with “oh guess they have an actual dictator with unlimited power now”. Last week I looked
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Thanks, I had a mental lapse - fixed it.
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Now this is hilariously non-ironic. The guy who spent his life researching how to live rationally chooses suicide at age 90, upon seeing “increasing metal lapses”, presumably in order to not ever live irrationally.
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
> “They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in t
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
I don’t know what to say anymore. You are not safe even if you are a citizen of the wealthy and peaceful European nation of Sweden, you are not safe even if you are a global icon of activism and peace, you are not safe. There are no rules f
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Everyone should learn the concept of a Skinner Box. [1] Reddit is a Skinner Box. HN is too, though to a much lesser extent [2]. Every Skinner Box has one dominant opinion on every matter, which means, by simply using the product, your belie
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
I’ll never understand this sentiment expressed online that Liquid Glass is bad design. After reading how awful it is on HN, I upgraded to see it for myself. After some pondering it was obvious why Apple went with this design. Today’s apps’
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
To be honest, I don't have a good answer. Indeed, I don't have the friend network since I stopped forcing myself to be social. Most people don't call again if you don't answer their calls for a few months [1]. I too witn
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Afaict, a good part of racism comes from the fact that human brain automatically labels people different from you as enemy. I assume this was a very useful strategy for millenia, if you saw a person not belonging to your tribe/nation t
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
I have a counter-anecdote. In order to get over my social anxiety I did the same. First year of college, I'm in to every event, hangout and gathering. I made many close friends, connections, memories. Yet after any significant social i
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
We desperately need Linux phones to succeed, especially in the current geopolitical situation. Not everybody lives in a country aligned with either the US (Apple/Google) or China (Xiaomi etc.).
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
With iPhone 17 line the security situation has improved dramatically. I'm not a cybersecurity researcher, but Apple says even nation-state actors will struggle to breach a single device with the newly introduced Memory Integrity Enforc
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Which other country can attack 6 countries in 72 hours and get away with it[1]? I very rarely expose myself to international news. When I do, it's strikingly obvious that Americans have a president who treats every other country as if
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
You have replied: > And do you think we defeated the nazis by leaving their food intact? to the parent comment saying: > 28% of children under five are actively malnourished. > IPC Phase 5 famine is officially confirmed in Gaz
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
It's common knowledge among people living in Arab countries that most Muslim countries' presidents are a sockpuppet from either the US or Russia. The exceptions are so few they can be counted on one hand. Mohamed Morsi was widely
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
The reason the US will never go against Israel is the enormous leverage Israel has over the US administration: through the AIPAC, a money laundering operation disguised as political lobbying, a steady flow of money is ensured from the US
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Yeah, you're right. My GP comment is a bit narrowly focused.
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Lots of undiagnosed autistic people in the comments describing autistic masking and burnout. Autistic burnout is the name for the unexplainable energy drain when you have to interact with people, because while social interactions are usuall
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Years ago I had this problem, but I didn't know about these services, so I had to keep the PIN data myself without being able to access it on a whim. I developed timelock for this purpose: https://github.com/rayanamal&#
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Dude... > I get the feeling that the “just be disciplined” comment often comes from people who didn’t have these addictive habits seared into their minds from an early age I had the exact same mentality as you. I wrote the exact same s
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Yes, this was added a couple months ago! And to top it off, in iOS 26 (Beta) you can set time limits for websites too! One feature I (and I'm sure many others) were waiting for since forever.
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Congratulations! I myself independently arrived where the author is over years of self experimentation, but I think you'll get used to it in no more than a month. I even use a whitelist (i.e. default-deny) for websites on my work lapto
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
This is what I do as well. I actually see so much interest for this sort of "dumb smartphone" in some demographics that I seriously intend to start a company selling configured iPhones at some point. Shout out to TechLockdown (not
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
Probably all part of possible ADHD, except point 2, which might be a sign of SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory). It’s recent and not well known.
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
For me, first came the stimulant meds, then slowly and over time the energy, as I started being more organized and putting my day into a routine. Try Bullet Journalling, it was created (discovered?) by a guy with ADHD.
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
It’s weird to believe that US and China are ahead of Europe simply because they work harder. If anything I’d be more inclined to believe they are ahead despite these unhealthy work cultures. Not to mention that US vs. China is not compara
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
7. Finally burn out and seek professional help. 8. Discover you were living life in hard mode, while everybody else were on easy mode. You had undiagnosed ADHD all these years. 9. Get medicated. Your life is completely turned over. (At leas
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by Aerbil313 1y ago
I’m lucky enough to never had too much difficulty with access to meds. In your situation, considering the hugely positive impact they have in my life, I’d consider it worth it to try another country’s healthcare system until I get them.

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