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by fhennig 9mo ago
What about going back to a system of reputation and recommendations by reputable people? I'm thinking stuff like web rings. Or if you have a blog, maybe also have a curated set of pages you think are good, sort of your bookmarks, that
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by fhennig 9mo ago
I expect someone writing a blog about AI agents help you run your home server to disclose that they are "helping companies automate operations with AI" as their job, which they get money for. Why wouldn't you bring it up, or
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by fhennig 9mo ago
Interesting! I'm not sure how severe the consumerisation really is, but yeah I can totally see the whole home-automation thing playing into it too. I don't think mainstream tech media is deliberately omitting co-ops in their repor
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by fhennig 9mo ago
I want something that can work for non-techies too, that I can recommend to my friends as well.
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by fhennig 9mo ago
I personally find this information quite relevant to get the full picture and I'm glad someone else provided it.
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by fhennig 9mo ago
I don't actually need much, I think basically just encrypted cloud storage would be great. If there was something like proton mail, but ran as a co-op, I'd also use that (it has great calendar support too). I'd really focus o
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by fhennig 9mo ago
I think it's great that people are getting into self-hosting, but I don't think it's _the_ solution to get us off of big tech. Having others run a service for you is a good thing! I'd love to pay a subscription for a ser
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by fhennig 10mo ago
Seems sensible to me, Oracle doesn't seem to use the trademark. But also, what are the consequences of Oracle having the trademark, why is this an issue?
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by fhennig 11mo ago
Okay, maybe I was overly technical. I'd still say that the average reader maybe reads 'the internet' as 'the websites I browse', so I still think the language isn't good. I think it makes sense to talk about &q
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by fhennig 11mo ago
I love this, thank you so much for building this! I didn't know I wanted 6 videos in a row, but now that I have it, it's so much better. Also linking youtube logo to subscriptions is great.
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by fhennig 11mo ago
> And yet, as cringeworthy as the modern internet may be, it will never go back to the way it was before. Interesting take. What exactly is meant with "the way it was before", and when was that?
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by fhennig 11mo ago
Maybe it's a nitpick, but > The reality is that the internet has become decentralized What the author seems to mean is that internet _culture_ has become fragmented ("decentralized"). The internet (servers etc) always was
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by fhennig 11mo ago
I think you're misreading the situation in (2). There is still a social contract to return the carts - just because you put a coin them doesn't make that go away. If your interpretation is true, wouldn't the shop need to have
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by fhennig 11mo ago
Yes, it's the tracks. Planes don't need tracks.
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by fhennig 11mo ago
Why buy stock of something you don't like? Surely you can find other profitable investment options that also then don't support the thing you don't like?
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by fhennig 11mo ago
I think the car analogy is great and also even shows that some degree of collaboration is great! IMO it's about the scale. Like someone giving you directions while driving, IMO it's great to have input from 1 to 2 people on a PR,
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by fhennig 11mo ago
> Every delivered feature is a liability not an asset. > If you don’t believe me, consider two products that make customers equally happy and one has half as many moving parts. Which one is more profitable to maintain? The one with le
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by fhennig 11mo ago
Thanks! I got some useful things out of your suggestions (generate plan into actual files, have it explain code execution paths), and noted that I already was doing a few of those things (asking it to look for similar features in the code).
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by fhennig 11mo ago
I think you're making a fair comment, but it still irks me that you're quite light on details on what the "correct" approach is supposed to be, and it irks me also because it seems to now be a pattern in the discussion.
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by fhennig 11mo ago
We're talking about the whole earth here, not just the societies that we live in. And globally, things are not so rosy. Specifically the point of electrification, might be that we electrify more, but globally the CO2 emissions are on t
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by fhennig 11mo ago
I think it's a category error. The optimism isn't about tech, but rather about society changing in ways that make life better: > More peace, no apartheid, no Soviet union, removing borders between countries in Europe, tech felt
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by fhennig 11mo ago
> Today’s AI runs on GPUs — chips built for rendering video games, not thinking machines. Adapting them for AI is about as sensible as adapting a boat to travel across land. A GPU is fundamentally just a chip for matrix operations, and t
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by fhennig 1y ago
I was using Affinity Designer! I still will, I liked it. I was really happy about the pay-once model. It's quite obvious that it's now a funnel into the subscription, and that's not great.
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by fhennig 1y ago
But where would dissatisfied customers go? I've only recently (3 years ago) bought my first MacBook, and it's because everything else is also getting worse.
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by fhennig 1y ago
I don't like any of the options but still need a phone, now what?
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by fhennig 1y ago
I'm in the same boat, I still find the model to make mistakes or solve things in a less than ideal way - maybe the future is to just not care - but for now I want to maintain the level of quality that the codebase currently has. I thin
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by fhennig 1y ago
> Build something useful. Solve a real problem. Even if it’s just a simple spreadsheet. I think saying _just_ a simple spreadsheet makes it sound like a bad thing. Actually, the simplicity is probably one of the key selling points! I wis
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by fhennig 1y ago
Just like how in a year or two we will have fully self-driving cars, right? The last percentage point for something to get just right are the hardest, why are you so sure that the flaws in LLMs will be gone in such a short time frame?
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by fhennig 1y ago
People do care, about their own self interest and making money. Homo economicus, here we are! A critique of this attitude must look at its origins, and I think the reason we see this so much, is because the narrative of the last 40 years or
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by fhennig 1y ago
I really enjoy this! I wish it would also support cities, it would help me get a better sense of the size of a city to compare it to one I'm familiar with already. But I guess city limits are less well defined that country limits. Anyw

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