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by blfr 2y ago
I wanted to do this a long time ago but I wouldn't trust my router with a Cloudflare API key. Paranoid or is there a way to limit that key to one domain or, even better, one DNS entry?
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by blfr 2y ago
the current de facto, whatever is considered 'normal' in whichever country you currently reside and work, was not piloted or effectively tested I understand your point and directly disagree with its main part: the move from a fa
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by blfr 2y ago
That's a welfare argument, not really relevant to UBI.
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by blfr 2y ago
Shift work with fixed time frames was absolutely piloted on tiny scales way back during industrial revolution and evolved from there. We supposedly even had podcasts to make menial work bearable back in... 1865: https://mashable.
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by blfr 2y ago
Not even remotely so in practice. Adults are largely responsible for themselves and their kids/elders. Sure, with some government assistance but true state wards are fairly rare and the system would have no chance of working if they
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by blfr 2y ago
The network effect of mass messaging was tested at smaller scales many times. Victorian era pneumatic tubes come to mind or unlimited local calls later, but there must be countless other examples that did not require changing the economy a
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by blfr 2y ago
Couriers have existed since the beginning of civilization. With many famous examples, like Pheidippides in keeping with the Olympic spirit. It was obviously valuable and workable from the smallest scale possible: a verbal message carried by
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by blfr 2y ago
We want to guarantee for every human on the planet the right to food, water, shelter, health care, and education. ... What matters is that we agree on that goal and find some way to achieve it. Honestly, I don't. First, perhaps it&#x
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by blfr 2y ago
The world is increasingly complex making it seem to many people that their work is unproductive (bullshit/make-work jobs). This and lack of agency in many jobs is what leads to massive frustration with work* but it's not actually
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by blfr 2y ago
First, it was hours. Second, I'm there more for the tpot/schizo/alternative content. Most importantly though, it's not just a couple hours of difference, but the content is different: raw, with live comments (from the pe
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by blfr 2y ago
Twitter is by far the best source of news and analysis currently. Outpaced only in some areas by niche, usually also crowd-sourced, sites like HN. A week ago twitter had pictures and videos from several angles of assasination attempt on Tru
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by blfr 2y ago
> Scaled up, that’s 5.8 L (1.5 gal) per kilogram (2.2 lb) of material used per day, which is enough to satisfy several people’s daily water needs. No knock on the device itself but this is barely enough for two people, especially in arid
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by blfr 2y ago
Google had a Data Liberation Front before it was forced by regulation to enable bulk, machine-readable data downloading. Takeout is their product.
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by blfr 2y ago
Freedom is usually the opposite of cumbersome and annoying. And current payment tech does not rob us of freedom. I can wire money to virtually anyone in the EU at no cost. I can pay any merchant in the world with a credit card, in any curre
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by blfr 2y ago
> There's a bunch of information asymmetries This is what I meant by mental effort. With the advent of the Internet, most of these asymmetries are gated by at most a couple of hours of online research.
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by blfr 2y ago
> This kind of transaction is exactly what modern capitalism is trying to stamp out. Yet again modern capitalism is blamed for its users' lack of taste: people genuinely prefer new, crappier stuff to classier, old items. This is t
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by blfr 2y ago
Having no inner voice, imagery, or whatever seems to be poorer rather than richer experience to me. I don't think the existence of deaf people invalidates the importance of music to human experience.
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by blfr 2y ago
I think that this is false, as in intersubjectively not true for the human experience. First, because our physical state has a huge influence on our thoughts, not just their content, but direction, "color." Secondly, and more impo
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by blfr 2y ago
Isn't that what Beeper or Ferdium are doing? And there's still libpurple/Pidgin. [1] https://www.beeper.com/ [2] https://ferdium.org/
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by blfr 2y ago
Can there be a more shallow criticism of a project than the color of the skin of people in a render? I can't imagine one but surely a tech journalist will surprise me. And more to the point, not every community has to be for everyone.
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by blfr 2y ago
Amazing. I'm glad you don't ship outside of the US 'cause I would be insanely tempted to buy this completely superfluous gadget. Love everything about it, from the idea and its negative utility to design and materials. Are th
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by blfr 3y ago
I have a Samsung tablet (Galaxy Tab S9+) and I not only suggest but downright recommend it. Sure, right away I switched away from their default apps (launcher, notes, keyboard, etc) but it wasn't difficult. Maybe they got me with their
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by blfr 3y ago
I also use Linux on all my machines but that's because (perhaps after years of tinkering) it is currently the most turn-key laptop/desktop OS. Things just work, they don't break without a good reason, and weird limitations do
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by blfr 3y ago
You don't see that many, or any really, von Neumanns walking around so there's probably still significant room to improve with all the benefits of having intelligence neatly packaged in a computer.
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by blfr 3y ago
> It's insisting that someone engage with you when they would do so if they cared to. No, they wouldn't. Most people are not like us. It always baffled me why the ecommerce stores would so easily nuke your entire purchase histo
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by blfr 3y ago
Asus Zenbook UX325EA I use Ubuntu and everything works OOTB except hibernation. The computer is cursed with the new Intel power levels, because someone at Microsoft thinks suspended laptops should receive mails like they were smartphones. T
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by blfr 3y ago
For better or worse (ok, worse), Twitter is the current intellectual trend-setter. You may not be there but many a youtuber/podcaster/academic/politician are scrolling through hot takes as we speak. The cultural power of Twit
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by blfr 3y ago
Stop from doing what? Threads is even deader than Mastodon. Twitter faltered but recovered and competitors don't have an opening any more. Between Facebook's (and its users) ageing out, Instagram quickly turning into yestermonth&#
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by blfr 3y ago
ReVanced integrates SponsorBlock in addition to omitting regular ads and has some cool features like custom/definable playback speeds.
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by blfr 3y ago
Between uBlock in the browser, ReVanced apps[1] (YouTube, Twitter/X, TikTok), DNS ad filtering[2], and Spotify Premium, I don't see ads. It takes some effort but isn't that hard for an HN poster. Also, I'm quite skeptica

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