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by barnabee 11mo ago
Given the user hostility of Google and Apple (and the rest) and the rate at which they emulate competitors and try to crush them, I’d start at a small library or framework and not stop until I had a whole OS.
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by barnabee 1y ago
There are a number of reasons I use Helix but one of them is the maintainers’ approach to managing development of the editor and accepting (or not) contributions. For me, slow and opinionated is a feature, not a bug.
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by barnabee 1y ago
I mostly listen to albums, the Spotify “library” is a reasonable way to browse my saved albums. Spotify (now) supports lossless. Spotify connects to Sonos, wiim, etc. devices Spotify supports marking albums and playlists for offline sync, i
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by barnabee 1y ago
Now Meta does paid ad free for my private Instagram account I feel like my online world is pretty close to ad free. It’s closer to $100 than $10 though, for all the services I pay for to avoid ads, and you still need ad blockers for the res
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by barnabee 1y ago
I now pay for: - Kagi - YouTube Premium - Spotify Premium - Meta ad-free - A bunch of substacks and online news publications - Twitter Pro or whatever it’s called On top of that I aggressively ad-block with extensions and at DNS level and r
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d probably agree with you if I didn’t have Kagi. As it is, I find there are some things LLMs are genuinely better for but many where a search is still far more useful.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Driving dangerously is illegal in most places though, and the illegality isn’t tied to the fatality rate of your driving style.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Thinks aren’t magically legal just as long they don’t kill “too many” people.
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by barnabee 1y ago
It’s irresponsible to use open source software, be it a docker image or the application itself, if you’re not willing to maintain it or replace it yourself at short notice if what the maintainer is willing to do/publish no longer meets
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by barnabee 1y ago
I miss UIs that were native to screens and efficiently and effectively deigned to work well on screens. What was wrong with windows and panels that actually filled square viewports, visually distinct separation between different things, use
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by barnabee 1y ago
Not as young as I was when I voted in my first election, about 25 years ago ;) You assume young people will vote for other people like them rather than whoever they think would actually run the country best for the long term? You must be an
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by barnabee 1y ago
Everyone I know has used Caddy by default for so long now that I'd describe Nginx as an alternative to Caddy, at this point.
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d love to apply the same logic to voting and weight votes by how long the voter is expected to have to deal with the consequences.
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by barnabee 1y ago
The project will accomplish much if those who want it have better choices, even if they’re not perfect. They don’t need to replace or even challenge Apple and Google for market adoption, just be there and be a viable alternative used by a
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by barnabee 1y ago
> So in effect, it sounded to me like a limit on how many times you can toggle this feature to prevent wasted processing. That would be a limit on how many times you can enable the setting, not preventing you from turning it off.
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by barnabee 1y ago
It’s garbage. I’m done. I’ve used only iPhones as my main devices since the iPhone 3G but instead of getting a 17 Pro I’ve bought a Pixel 9 Pro and will switch my main mobile to GrapheneOS.
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by barnabee 1y ago
If using Svelte hinders the creation of “enterprise web applications” then it sounds like exactly what we need. The web is supposed to be made by tinkerers and hobbyists.
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by barnabee 1y ago
I don’t find this at all, even compared to my (now rather old) X-T1. For quick shots to remember an event or night out, modern phone cameras are fine. For anything that I’d call photography and actually want to print, display, etc. I rarely
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by barnabee 1y ago
To steal you have to take something from someone, i.e. deprive them of it, as well as acquire it for yourself. Piracy can be illegal, may be considered unethical by some, but it definitely isn’t stealing.
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by barnabee 1y ago
In the worst case, you can always buy it from Amazon and download it from Annas Archive Or buy the physical book, download from AA, and give the book to charity when you’re done.
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by barnabee 1y ago
My Onyx Poke 5 is better than every Kindle I’ve owned. It’s super compact (great for travel), has a good screen, reads anything I’ve thrown at it, runs Android apps, and is simple to send files to over its (local) web interface.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Yep. We also saw people run any fuzzing, scanning, etc. tool they could get their hands on and pretty much just paste the results in a bug report email, well before AI was a thing. Completely useless 99% of the time but that didn’t stop a g
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by barnabee 1y ago
Nobody must watch ads, that's the point Businesses that rely in it don't have an innate right to exist. It is ok for some businesses that are viable now to not be in a future, better world. It's ok for some people who are r
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by barnabee 1y ago
> the problem is that you feel you have an intrinsic right to the content Not at all. I no more claim the right to force someone to serve any given video to me than to force authors to send me copies of their books, musicians to perform
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by barnabee 1y ago
Eventually, I expect it to be
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d rather actively hurt their business model, thanks
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d love to go back to a completely non-commercial internet that only contains things people put there with no expectation or possibility of profit.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Their business model and their belief that there’s an obligation to view ads when consuming content are not our problem. Advertising in general and Google in particular are so immoral that morally you should rip every YouTube video and di
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by barnabee 1y ago
UK, state school: “some officers have coaches and horses to order about”
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by barnabee 1y ago
I should be firmly in this market. Indeed, I was about to order a 17 Pro just for the camera upgrade (coming from a 15 Pro). Then I installed iOS 26. I think I hate it. It might be the last straw. I’m seriously considering taking the plunge

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