charlieok

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by charlieok 1y ago
I like that wsl is a thing when I'm on a windows machine, but it can also serve as a reminder of the often unnecessary frictions that exist between operating systems. When the answer to a "how do I do X on windows" question b
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by charlieok 1y ago
I like the idea of converting the executive branch to be just the cabinet and not the president or vice president. National elections for a few of the most significant ones (e.g. secretary of state, attorney general). Maybe Congress appoint
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by charlieok 2y ago
The bar for "the greatest calculator app development story ever told" it should be noted, is quite high :) https://www.pacifict.com/story/
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by charlieok 2y ago
cool, seems like the ideal device for something like Circa Solar as watch face https://www.circa.bio/ Although as far as I can tell, Circa Solar isn't open source. But maybe there's another similar thing that
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by charlieok 2y ago
Ross, you can set up identities on decentralized social platforms now! https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc...
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow(jvns.ca)
298 points by charlieok 2y ago|147 comments
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by charlieok 2y ago
bluesky was made for the purpose of decentaralized social networking, by people who wanted to do that, many with a background of working on that. Then they got an unexpected rush of users from Elon buying twitter. Many/most of those us
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Bluesky Welcomes Mike Masnick to Board of Directors – Bluesky(bsky.social)
5 points by charlieok 2y ago|0 comments
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Bluesky adds direct messages(bsky.social)
210 points by charlieok 2y ago|198 comments
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by charlieok 2y ago
This got me curious enough to skim the article looking for the answer to whether 3M "convinced" her. It looks like the answer is: * They kept relevant information from her, including studies they'd done on the subject b
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by charlieok 2y ago
Try posting some CSAM somewhere and declaring that no government can censor it, and see how that goes, and who you find yourself allied with and who you find yourself alienated from as a result. Censorship resistance is a nice principle tha
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by charlieok 2y ago
agreed, and it should be great for form factors in the range of apple tvs, mac minis, soho-size network switches, NUCs. If what you want is a homelab cluster, a 19 inch rack seems needlessly large. If only this 10 (or is it 10.5?) inch rack
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by charlieok 2y ago
"Meta AI", an AI assistant with a website at http://meta.ai/ , as opposed to "Meta AI", an artificial intelligence laboratory owned by Meta with a website at https://ai.meta.com/ h
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by charlieok 2y ago
if you're going to bother syncing your shell history across machines, you probably also would strongly consider syncing your entire home directory.
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by charlieok 4y ago
In my view, he has already tainted Twitter beyond redemption. Now it's a matter of getting more people to make the switch already. So yeah, that's a lot of people and a lot of inertia keeping them there so it'll take a lot mo
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by charlieok 4y ago
Since I've been bothered by giant centralized social networks like facebook and twitter ever since they rose to wealth and power in the aughts, and have had an interest in the building blocks of an alternative decentralized world durin
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by charlieok 5y ago
While not built for the purpose of voting, there have occasionally been some coin-weighted polls using the Zcash blockchain. The ability to post encrypted and immutable transactions, and selectively share viewing keys has interesting possib
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by charlieok 5y ago
That's not really an impediment in the Zcash case you're mentioning. Upon making a withdrawal to a transparent address, you can immediately do another transfer to a shielded address. Some wallet apps explicitly include a feature t
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by charlieok 5y ago
I feel like tossing in a radical idea here: instead of carving up time zones, just ditch all the step functions and smooth it all the way out. Make local time really local: solar time, as a sundial would show [1]. Noon goes back to its in
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by charlieok 8y ago
Thanks, I forgot to mention the safety part. Then I saw this which seems to confirm that there's an issue there. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/e-scoot... Re: cost and taking up space...
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by charlieok 8y ago
Jump just landed in Denver a few days ago with dockless electric bikes. I've taken two rides so far. These blow scooters right out of the water. I can get exercise and extra speed by pedaling along with the motor. Their app passed the
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by charlieok 10y ago
You're right, of course. My experience has been that the social norms and cues in the workplace are generally stacked against people doing these things, and in the past five years seem to have moved farther away from these ideals rathe
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by charlieok 10y ago
If “maximise skill development” were really so central, I would be much happier with the working environment. I think that would involve some combination of: * Choice over what kind of tasks you work on * Freedom to spend some extra time on
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by charlieok 11y ago
That was exactly the question I wanted to ask about sandstorm's capabilities. Glad to read this :)
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by charlieok 11y ago
If I could choose one app I'd love to see on sandstorm, I'd choose https://github.com/cantino/huginn Or to generalize just a bit, any good app in the category of "automate all the things". With the
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by charlieok 11y ago
As I understand it, the main point of Persona was improving the situation around authentication and passwords. Now, I'm seeing indications that Mozilla is working on implementing FIDO U2F support (“Mozilla’s commitment to add FIDO U2F
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by charlieok 11y ago
That's why I posted it here :)
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A New Yorker cartoon hatches an oddball idea that just might work(condenaststore.com)
2 points by charlieok 11y ago|2 comments
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by charlieok 11y ago
I'm sure apple's "tiny innovative core" is very good at what they do, and works very hard, but I suspect the reason you don't hear as much about the work environment there is that they are subject to much stricter p
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by charlieok 12y ago
Agreed. The whole dns system should really be just one way to resolve a name. The ideal would be just .dns (the traditional name) or .icann (the organization managing it, though that is a bit more unweildy). And maybe countries to give gove

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