dmje

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by dmje 3y ago
I've always personally been of the opinion that people who don't entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don't ask "why am I here" or "what's
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"Oh great, XSLT" said no-one, literally ever
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Literally every left leaning person since the dawn of time: "the world is a closed system so we can't have unlimited growth in anything". Literally every right leaning person since the dawn of time: "MOOOOONNNNNNEEEEEEEY
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by dmje 3y ago
1. Yeh - but what sets Matrix aside is that you're abstracted away from the conceptual side of federation. As I said, this is about UI as much as anything else. Non nerds are used to "going to InstaFaceTubeDdit and seeing the stuf
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by dmje 3y ago
100% on this. Maybe we're just too early - I'm still waiting for this kind of UI so I don't have to think too hard about providers or the weirdness of the whole thing.
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Interesting. Tell me about "federated WordPress"? I haven't heard of it before as a concept...
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V interesting piece, thanks for that!
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Hard disagree on point 1. I mean, yeh, you'll maybe win a hardcore niche of nerds with federated services, but the usability / understandability of federation is absolutely awful, per my AskHN recently [0]. That's not to say
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by dmje 3y ago
So interesting, and refreshing, to see the tide gently turning in this direction :-)
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Ask HN: Is federated / de-centralised ever going to make sense?
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by dmje 3y ago
I like tally [0]. Lovely people, great functionality. Free. No worries about any of that normal deliverability rubbish. [0] https://tally.so/
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by dmje 3y ago
To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static site builders, SPAs and other madnes
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by dmje 3y ago
Drilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rryNobB_rvw
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What's bonkers is how far down the list of comments I had to scroll before someone sane called this stuff out as batshit. Well done, sir.
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by dmje 3y ago
I can't help but think bad thoughts whenever I see another "static site maker" posted on here, or a brand new way of using JavaScript to render a web page. Talk about taking the simplest and most durable of (web) formats and
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I think to be clear - firstly it's a hot topic in Cornwall not because of nimby-ism but because the developments are all pitched at hyper wealthy individuals, whether retirement individuals with £500k to spunk on a 1-bed per my example
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by dmje 3y ago
I constantly ponder this as I look around my home town. We're in Cornwall and so house prices have gone fairly batshit to the extent that local teachers (in fact, local GPs too) can't afford rents or house purchases. Meanwhile, a
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by dmje 3y ago
Tax blaming is b/s. The problem in the UK is that not enough rich people are being taxed. Meanwhile, shareholders are crapping all over normals (see story today about the water companies dumping waste and then passing on £10bn bill to
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by dmje 3y ago
Improved my life, no. Am I glad I do it, absolutely. I've got a shit memory for one thing - so it lets me keep a log of my reading, my watching, my listening and my meditative practice. I use Obsidian. Amazing. Couldn't recommend
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Hilariously the view from the UK side of the pond is that all our young people now have these terrible manufactured US accents...
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"He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it ma
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by dmje 3y ago
Hey - in brief: a long and consistent meditation practice, and retreats when I can. I've also done some MBSR[0] courses and am training to be an MBSR teacher - much of that focuses on putting some distance in-between an initial "p
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by dmje 3y ago
To be That Buddhist Guy - as the old saying goes: "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional". To me this is the critical distinction. Pain (loss of loved ones, physical pain, health issues, losing a job etc) is a part of life. If
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by dmje 3y ago
We waited for the French Exchange kids to be staying with us. They all looked about 25 when we were all 15. They were always happy to buy our booze for us :-)
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by dmje 4y ago
Clearly what we all need is AI backed customer support requesting software to issue the AI backed customer support software with commands. Humans can then retreat from customer support hell-loop and pop down the beach while the LLM's b
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by dmje 4y ago
I frequently MC for a conference in my sector. For the last 3 years it's been remote for obvious reasons - then in Nov 22 I was asked to do it again as the conference returned to f2f mode. The organiser and I are good friends and we&#x
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by dmje 4y ago
Switched the algorithm off years ago. It's rare I even look at YT.
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Insta-turnoff: a box asking for my email address and not much else.
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I started with Poe which I still us on my iPhone but have been trying MacGPT[0]. I really like the minimal interface and mac-wide shortcut key but the input is very laggy. Could be my older Mac. [0] https://www.macgpt.com/
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by dmje 4y ago
This. The last decade has been absolutely devastating to the UK. We were actually getting somewhere before that - good investment in infrastructure, in education, long term thinking about all the things that require long term thinking. And

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