Liquix

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by Liquix 2y ago
want electronic jazz? check out cumulus frisbee or more electro funk with a gangster twist? vincent antone is superb
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by Liquix 2y ago
Hiro/the deliverator, YT, and most of the characters inhabit meatspace and "jack in" to the metaverse. Plenty is virtual but the dystopian pizza delivery is real
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by Liquix 3y ago
don't chrome and firefox both still have new tab/home pages? it's just that most HN users turned the feature off when they started displaying ads and propaganda.
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by Liquix 3y ago
While the internet does make it easier to access educational and useful materials, it also makes it easier to access X,000 hours of $videoGame or X0,000 dopamine hits from endless TikTok videos. Perhaps parent comment meant that there does
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by Liquix 3y ago
not that guy, but here is a small video streaming example using Bun/Hono/SQLite/Drizzle/SolidJS: https://codeberg.org/vlfldr/ucourse
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by Liquix 3y ago
"When we constantly pull everything apart trying to see how it works, we may end up with only an understanding of how to destroy something. We can have piles of spokes, rims and axles, but the beauty only happens when we see the wheel
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by Liquix 3y ago
I think the sentiment is less that something catastophic can't happen by depending on M$ - it's more that you personally will never be blamed for their servers going down. Whereas if you advocate for a smaller/more open solut
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by Liquix 3y ago
Financial institutions are very slow to adopt new tech. Especially tech that will inevitably cost $$$ in support hours when users start locking themselves out of their accounts. There is little to no advantage to being the first bank to imp
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by Liquix 3y ago
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.” - Darwin
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by Liquix 3y ago
in all fairness to the people of reddit, this is a top-down propaganda assault, not a grassroots uprising. reddit is 100% used as a controlled-narrative dissemination tool by nation state actors all over the world. monkey brain see upvotes,
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by Liquix 3y ago
a friendly heads up: the website's background image is 3.2MB. while it doesn't really matter for you (cached) or for HN readers (mostly desktop, mostly high speed internet), for what seems to be the intended demographic - a mobile
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by Liquix 3y ago
Does Obsidian feature a way to seamlessly sync between devices that doesn't rely on a propreitary service or external tool (Syncthing)?
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by Liquix 3y ago
> and you're absolutely kidding yourself if you think any meaningful percentage own the game. respectfully disagree. nintendo has fought hard to capture the casual/normie demographic and they have consistently sold more switc
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by Liquix 3y ago
poke around stablediffusion.fr and trending public huggingface spaces
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by Liquix 3y ago
agreed, anything FAANG/internet facing with this capability is Orwellian, which is why > local is explicitly included in the idea.
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by Liquix 3y ago
In the same vein as "agents watching your screen" - what about "agents watching your posture"? Pages like [0] and [1] exist because people experience great benefits from becoming (even slightly) more aware of the way the
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by Liquix 3y ago
huh, looks like they published an AI generated piece every day for a week, let them age a bit, and maybe are now submitting here to either farm karma or test how much engagement this set of parameters generates? more interesting than the &q
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by Liquix 3y ago
no, adtech and walled gardens collecting your browsing data and monetizing/weaponizing it against you is the imposition. refusing to provide this data by wiping cookies is not a "burden" this guy chose to impose on himself fo
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by Liquix 3y ago
If you choose to roll over and give $PRISMpartner unfettered access to your data in exchange for a modicrum of convenience, go for it. But there are millions of people who stopped using Windows, Chrome, Android, Facebook, etc because they c
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by Liquix 3y ago
that's a tried and true dark pattern. require little to no information to begin using the service -> user invests time and effort -> demand personal data AFTER they have invested -> people are more likely to give up their priv
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by Liquix 3y ago
It's hard to believe that "some" private customers have more sway over the plane manufacturing market than international airlines (the majority of which have banned smoking).
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by Liquix 3y ago
? no it wasn't. it was taking a beautiful, timeless, intrinsically valuable thing (music) and building a business around it. the idea was that if iTunes is the best way to tag, collect, burn, and listen to music, people would naturally
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by Liquix 3y ago
> I don't justify it spends five minutes composing thoughtfully formatted post justifying it
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by Liquix 3y ago
hoovering up users' phone numbers for profit is so widespread because - everyone has a phone - most people rarely change their numbers (if ever) - many people are more likely to give out their phone number than their social security nu
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by Liquix 3y ago
Great notion! Are there any projects or publications attemtping to map preferences like 'invigorated by mountainous forests', 'enjoys building and living in underground tunnels', etc to DNA markers? It seems plausible th
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by Liquix 3y ago
> Now it's the second week in February. They're even trying to force time travelers back into the office? Grim
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by Liquix 3y ago
A lot of the pages just scratch the surface on the subject to get ad revenue. The example will be incomplete, highly situational, only explain one out of five overloads, etc. Whereas something like MDN or an independent CSS blogger will lis
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by Liquix 3y ago
a tongue-in-cheek phrase. parent comment is just saying "woah, this concept describes me perfectly" - not "I feel personally hurt while reading this".
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by Liquix 3y ago
"If you see yourself as God and then you come back from this state and somebody says, "Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage." You can't main
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by Liquix 3y ago
"The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for." - Alexander Chalmers

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