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by barnabee 4y ago
I use 1Password but the slowly worsening/slowening UI and move to a subscription model, along with the fact I can’t even upgrade to the latest version because I still sync my own vault are making me look around for an escape hatch. I g
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by barnabee 4y ago
Yeah, the author mostly just makes it seem like being a movie critic is a great way to ruin your ability to enjoy movies.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Do you agree with copyright laws? Are they the best way to reward creation? Do they serve humanity well?
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by barnabee 4y ago
Meh. People will try to get rich off anything— crypto, the internet, SMS scams, every type of physical business, legit or otherwise. As a hacker I want to find out what else we can do with it. What surprising things can we build? What if we
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by barnabee 4y ago
I’d like to think this site of all places might be populated with very intermittent dissenters willing to be or at least support activists trying to change that, with the internet and technology as their tool. It’s always jarring to discove
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by barnabee 4y ago
Indeed. Intolerance is one thing it’s worth being intolerant of.
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by barnabee 4y ago
It doesn’t boil down to that at all. Anyone can send me spam email, my spam filters pick most it up and I never see it. I’d not choose to have corporate moderation of my incoming email even if it meant less spam. The same applies to web sit
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by barnabee 4y ago
I don’t agree that you should prevent people from saying wrong things in case someone happens to read/hear and believe them, no. If it’s wrong, counter it with warning labels explaining who thinks it’s wrong and why. Yes, the consequen
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by barnabee 4y ago
Regulations are fine but enforcement via corporate gatekeepers is not, and neither is creating a world in which breaking the law is impossible. Regulations create consequences for breaking them, and that is a good thing. Pairing regulatio
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by barnabee 4y ago
This sort of thing is why, for all their faults, I think we need decentralisation and “crypto” to succeed. We need to replace platforms like Kickstarter with standards and protocols so that shutting things down because someone doesn’t like
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by barnabee 4y ago
Strongly agree. A/B testing and equating time spent (“engagement”) and/or money spent with user happiness have a lot to answer for.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Quit. “I was just doing my job” stops being an excuse at some point…
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by barnabee 4y ago
I feel like London, for example (along with many other European cities), achieves this goal as well or better than any rigidly grid based city I’ve ever visited.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I see the appeal but it's not for me. If I need to get somewhere, I have maps and apps and GPS. Spending a day in a city with no agenda, meandering without a constant reminder of where I am relative to where I started or where I might
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by barnabee 4y ago
These things sound efficient and productive , but I don't think that makes them better.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I like a city I can get lost in. Grids seem like an anti-pattern to me.
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by barnabee 4y ago
There are electric "micromobility" options including bikes and things more suitable to physically disabled people though. Micromobility overall is more egalitarian than the car will ever be, and better in lots of other ways too.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I use most sites at 90% or below, HN is the only site I keep at 100% (across mobile, laptop, and desktop monitors). Information density is seriously undervalued these days.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I hope web standards decisions are never made starting from the assumption that there's a build tool.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I try not to use preprocessors or bundlers/build tools for simple stuff so the addition of features like this to the base CSS language is something I look forward to.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Thanks! I was looking for this to respond with, as pg's words here are part of the reason I use the site this way.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I think your comment is interesting even though I disagree, so I upvoted. It's perhaps important though I didn't state it, that the strength of my impetus to upvote interesting comments or comments that add value to the discussion
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by barnabee 4y ago
Upvote: - stories: I think this is interesting - comments: I think this is interesting and/or I agree with this Downvote: - stories: I don't think this is interesting - comments: I disagree with this comment or don't think it
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by barnabee 4y ago
Most things don’t start off cost effective, they become so due to investment, demand, industrialisation, competition, etc. Maybe fusion will stay a small part of the energy mix for decades even after the first commercial plants are built bu
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by barnabee 4y ago
Instagram as a social network sucks but I like sharing my photos with people who are already my friends (private account), and seeing their photos too.
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by barnabee 4y ago
I have been completely unaware of which Firefox version my Debian machines are on and have noticed no issues whatsoever. I guess I don’t want up to date browsers.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Snap was what made me switch back to Debian from Ubuntu. In the process I discovered that every issue and friction that had got me to try Ubuntu initially has been more than adequately solved by Debian now. IMO Debian is by far the saner di
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by barnabee 4y ago
Weechat[0], previously Irssi [0] https://weechat.org/
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by barnabee 4y ago
I'd like such a protocol to be designed so servers, relays, etc. are unable to censor content at the protocol level (if someone creates it, it is available) and the filtering is done on the client side. Commonly filtered things (acco
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by barnabee 4y ago
Thanks, but I have no interest in per user licensing for server side software nor in using proprietary, closed source dev or hosting platforms.

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