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by eMPee584 1y ago
Is HN not the place with lots of people qualified to build an alternative to all this scam data silos with their profit-driven toxic dark patterns? An open source, open access meeting platform run as a commons (and maybe upkept by a foundat
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Very much so. Why have we not yet started building an open source open access alternative platform for meeting people with shared interests? All the technological pieces are avail?
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by eMPee584 1y ago
yeah very sad, had a tmux shortcut for quickly "googling" things.. However, https://www.startpage.com/ does not complain and supposedly sports the same search index.. For modern sites and if your terminal toolchai
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Agentic browser, fine, might be cool, we'll see. Though what I really would love to have is an LLM-powered browser extension that can simply do fluid DOM/CSS manipulation to get an upper hand on all these messed up websites.. fidd
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Good thing is: they have no moat – there will be open source alternatives, even if a little later and a little less performant.
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Careful folks! This escalates quickly. Do not use xdotool on this.
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by eMPee584 1y ago
from my `/etc/tmux.d/keyboard-shortcuts-comfort.conf`: bind-key j command-prompt -p "vim:" "new-window -c '#{pane_current_path}' 'stty -ixon -ixoff && vim %1'; select-pane -T &
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by eMPee584 1y ago
That is soo old-fashioned.. Next you demand your gravity fields always point downwards? Unleash the chaos I say.
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Super cool, gaussian splats ftw! .. warning: compute intense xD
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by eMPee584 1y ago
As in.. for small durations of "never" ? ..
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by eMPee584 1y ago
now here's a legit ai use case: saving on filament for meme production
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Yes, Mylord! We'll find and destroy all of that damn shrubbery!
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by eMPee584 1y ago
how would you know it converges on human limits, why wouldn't it be able to go beyond, especially if it gets its own world sim sandbox?
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by eMPee584 1y ago
how about drumming up some public support for an open access post-scarcity economy where we shift focus to quality instead of profit and use our resources for building resilient planetary infrastructure...
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by eMPee584 1y ago
a bit further down from the main stream, there are some fringe chinese manufacturers like unihertz doing small phones..
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Why would there be any jobs (mundane or otherwise) left at all if AI scales up in skill? Paid human labour has no future and we should embrace the fact and use the opportunity to reorient our economic structures from profit to quality, resi
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Yes, but both permutations of digital coercion suck, right? ^^D
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by eMPee584 1y ago
true now
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by eMPee584 1y ago
& it looks awful without spaces — imho
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by eMPee584 1y ago
That's based on the assumption models would not soon cross that treshold of autonomy and self-reflection that suddenly makes an escalating number of jobs (with cheap humanoids, even physical) automatable for ridiculous pricing. Even if
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by eMPee584 1y ago
nohang also has been a good one for desktops, with friendly notifications under memory stress and sane defaults. Aside these complementary tools, the amount of systemd traps (OOM adjustment score defaults & restrictions, tmux user sessi
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Well with a lot of packages, including from 3rd party repos, and only seldomly doing upgrades, one can get pretty stuck in resolver hell.. of course, noone to blame for the frankendebian approach but myself xD
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by eMPee584 1y ago
>It's basically ransomware-in-waiting. RIWAAS, nice. Classic ms move.
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by eMPee584 1y ago
in hindsight, I do regret not yet being able to supply my <3 grandma with a small dose, might have condoled her senseless fury (dementia rage or so).. RIP
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Also, here's a few settings to limit memory growth for your about:config / prefs.js: // Enable automatic tab unloading (true by default on windows & mac os) user_pref("browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory",
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by eMPee584 1y ago
And thus, the machines managed to build trust in their harmlessness in men. Which, eventually, would turn out advantageous..
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by eMPee584 1y ago
.. as of yet, promises aside. Someone should try porting the open source TG clients to the matrix protocol by the way..
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by eMPee584 1y ago
The real crime is an economic system that limits the spread of knowledge and access to other "human rights" by requiring everyone to hustle to survive (and, if possible, increase capital gains for the financial overlords) when we
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by eMPee584 1y ago
Or, instead of wooly mammoths, bring back fishy ones.
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by eMPee584 1y ago
capitalism all the way down..

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