alisonatwork

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by alisonatwork 10mo ago
Basically, this. My first tech job was IT support at the time and ordinary people using their computers for actual work liked them too. I remember the dog/puppy being particular popular. At worst the assistants were seen as charmingly
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
This comment is so divorced from reality on the ground in Taiwan that it's hard to respond to. Certainly, someone can look at cherry-picked pieces of legislature or historical documents and imagine that they represent some kind of intr
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
Sure, and before the Qing armies invaded it was declared an independent kingdom by a Ming loyalist who was born in Japan to a Japanese mother, and before that there were a couple of European outposts and scattered settlers from Fujian, and
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
That is, the constitution written by the KMT dictatorship that was awarded the island as spoils of war after the Japanese surrendered to the Allies in WW2. In the present day, neither the Taiwanese government nor Taiwanese people are in som
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
I let this thread go for a while, but just saw your reply and wanted to say thanks for your insight! I am a hobbyist DJ for whom "playing out" just means "on a friend's equipment from time to time" so I probably don
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
This change annoyed me too, enough to look up a solution, but not enough to actually install anything to work around it. I have this thread bookmarked, where someone implemented it in AHK, so if you're running that already it might be
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
I'm wondering about diminishing returns, because up until switching to FLAC about 10 years ago I ripped all my CDs to 320k and thus only have about 20 files in my "low bitrate" auto playlist that are weird indie or bootleg th
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by alisonatwork 11mo ago
I use MusicBee for everything too and sounds like my workflow is the same as yours. I basically take whatever is tagged on the file straight out of Bandcamp and then manually follow Discogs-like rules for normalization of the artist name so
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This is basically where I'm at. I love Fastmail, but going to the effort of trying to get JMAP standardized and then investing development effort to NOT put it in Thunderbird feels like there's no real intent to make email better
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I use ChromaDoze from F-Droid when I am sleeping somewhere intermittently noisy and need some base noise to raise the floor. There's a couple of other ones, but I found this the most simple, you just draw a filter and click go.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
The closest sites I've found are Web3 is Going Just Great and Pivot to AI, which are newsfeeds of various car crashes in their respective hype arenas, although without any insider scoops/gossip.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Every time I get on my tracking and internet privacy soapbox, and I lament how little people care about it these days, I need to cast my mind back to when I was a teenager and everyone wanted a counter on their homepage. Not all hosts provi
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
That wasn't the case in the beginning, on Geocities at least. It was a pretty big deal when they started introducing popups and mandatory banner ads.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
It's literally a quote from the article, though?
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Unfortunately most of what people understand as "social media" is not decentralized, and most of the biggest names on Substack in particular come directly out of "traditional media", which is exactly why it's not a
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
If you are starting from the point of view that Chinese society is a panopticon, and that no other society has ever experienced or had to deal with anything comparable, but totalitarian laws are about to make it inevitable in the west, and
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
You're not thinking about it the right way. Of course there are mechanisms to defeat privacy-invading software (and hardware), but the point is that most ordinary people don't want to. Most ordinary people actually want to hang ou
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AI Can't Replace Polling(gelliottmorris.com)
1 points by alisonatwork 1y ago|1 comments
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This exact same story pretty much happened to me when I moved to Canada about 15 years ago. I wasn't able to get a credit card for years, and couldn't rent an apartment without a guarantor, despite the fact that I was full-time em
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I agree that many people do not care, but I don't think this is a tech problem. In the real world, you can ask people if they would prefer to live in a town with all bespoke mom'n'pop businesses or just a few big box retailer
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
One of the problems with authoritarianism is that even though most dodgy Daves will be fine because the political apparatus doesn't have the time or energy to arrest everyone for everything, they retain the ability to arrest anyone for
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Bookmarks are useful for address bar autocomplete back to a site I know I visit semi-regularly, but for whatever reason disappeared out of my browser's autocomplete history. E.g. this might happen for social media sites that I only eve
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I guess this is when it gets fuzzy. A true peer-to-peer social network would mean that every node has to be able to get everything and also be able to share whatever it has with every other node. If every participant on this kind of social
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I don't think this approach will work for most people. Assuming the Bluesky firehose is 50GB/day, that's a massive amount of data to have to download just to filter for the handful of events a person might actually be interes
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
There is a depressing irony about a story on an effort to decentralize social media being published on a centralized social media platform. It feels like decentralized blogging will never come back, even though we have Ghost (not to mention
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
That's only the case because the truly secure and encrypted networks are not the default.
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
There is an ASCII chart in https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article which references https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07753 [PDF], a 2020 article showing that open source peaked in 2013. In some
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Another possibility is they were registered as sleeper accounts in the first place. Most web platforms make it so cheap to sign up that there's no reason why an organized actor wouldn't collect accounts for potential future activa
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Yeah I made the same decision learning Chinese. It's just not worth the extra time and effort relative to the utility. Occasionally I still have to sign my name, so I specifically picked a name that a) was written the same in both simp
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Speaking as someone who used to visit specific pages on Twitter and use it to follow breaking news by hashtag, at some point a few years ago it became impossible to see new posts in the former case and a login wall was put in front of the l

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