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by haswell 2y ago
Lately I've been strongly considering helping migrate my parents to Linux. Their needs are primarily web-based with some basic productivity tools mixed in, and Windows has just been getting more and more hostile. On top of this, they&#
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I don’t think relying on new laws as the primary incentive is going to get far, especially when big tech has the outsized influence they do on government. This then just leaves a strong incentive to stop updating things.
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There are many environments where people don’t have a choice but to maintain what is in production. Whether or not viable alternatives exist, those alternatives don’t magically change org structure, office politics, budget, current business
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That really depends on the meeting and the nature of the information being shared. If you’re communicating purely technical information about a subject everyone is already aligned on, text is fine. But the information density present in fac
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This seems like a very strange conclusion. In what way is "I can solve real problems faster than before" analogous or related to companies building frivolous/unnecessary cloud-connected features?
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I couldn't disagree more. The world is full of unsolved problems and many of them are just time-expensive to fix. Significantly lowering the activation energy and time investment required totally changes the calculus. I wrote about one
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> I'm not convinced myself AI will have much impact on the developers landscape, beyond better autocompletion and doc generation. I’ve been a developer for 20 years. Using an LLM to generate context-specific prototypes has complet
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what it would take to create a sort of “friends and family” Internet using some combination of Headscale/Tailscale. I want to feel free and open about what I’m publishing again, and the modern inte
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I’d summarize btop++ as: a much richer and more flexible experience with a very pleasing UI. Screenshots summarize this better than I can [0]. - [0] https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file#scre...
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> I'm a big fan of X and hope they're able to fix these things. It's such. valuable tool. Genuine question: what value are people finding on X these days? I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but I gave up on the site due to
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> Or you did have experience it just did not notice. Exactly my point, and this is why personal anecdotes are just not sufficient for something like this. Life is full of people telling us to do <thing>, because they’re convinced
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Building a bridge and building a sand castle are two entirely different things. Each impressive in their own way, but clearly there is a difference both in terms of the skills required and the outcomes enabled. I think the specific term use
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I think the need for an explanation/citation scales relative to how common a given anecdotal experience is. I’ve spent plenty of time walking barefoot outside but apparently have not experienced what people here are claiming. Not sayin
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I came across the author's Reddit post [0] and thought the HN community would appreciate this. I've been trying to move away from Instagram for awhile, and this looks like it might be a big help. - [0] https://www.reddi
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Memento Mori – Instagram Archive Viewer(github.com)
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The Framework Desktop [0] also sits in this space and looks pretty promising. Starts at $1,999 for 128GB RAM and no storage. - [0] https://frame.work/desktop Edit : I misread the specs and posted this a bit too hastily. I&
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> I the human want the data from that request. I am using a tool to get it for me. Isn't this a bit of an oversimplification, though? Especially when the tool you're using completely alters the relationship between the conten
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Are you arguing that these are equivalent actions? The entire web was built on the understanding that humans generally operate browsers, and robots.txt is specifically for scenarios in which they do not. To pretend that the automated readin
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Unprecedented Exposure of Federal Databases Pose Critical Risk(cyberintel.substack.com)
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I'm about 4 years out from my no good, very bad 6 months. The similarities are a bit eerie. This happened while working a high stress product management job and I realized I was in the middle of burning out and had to do something abou
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> There ton of people that won't go to some shopping districts because the rest of the area is an intolerable mess. But there is still a major difference between “this shopping area is mostly stores I don’t care about but has a fe
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By way of analogy, large portions of Reddit have turned into every other social media hellscape. Reddit is still awesome if you curate your subscriptions and avoid the big subs. Is it cherry picking to say Reddit is awesome because I’ve car
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I was reflecting on something similar to this this while photographing the recent lunar eclipse with a Fujifilm X-T5, a highly tactile camera that is just an absolute joy to operate. I was on my roof in the dark at 1:30 in the morning in th
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Those aren’t necessarily in conflict with each other, though. As an often-depressed creative person, I find that depression is absolutely the enemy of creativity, but my creativity is often fueled by the same things that cause my depression
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Please don’t do this to HN. I come here because I value what people here think and want to read their thoughts and share mine. Pasting AI output like this devalues the conversation and is uninteresting.
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This is a good piece that is undermined somewhat by the AI imagery. My goal isn't to just complain about AI, but I've been reflecting on how my own mental process unfolded while reading this. > Note: I used AI to create this im
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This is not an invitation to mute your emotions. This is questioning why someone should feel a particular emotion. > is an invitation to keep everything as-it-is. I don’t need to feel personal guilt about something outside of my cont
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I support DEI initiatives in general and think they’re important. But please educate yourself about the situation at the FAA. There’s a failure mode that DEI opponents point to regarding deprioritizing actual talent for the sake of the DE
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Worth mentioning that https://wayfire.org/ is a spiritual successor that runs in Wayland.
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I love the idea of tiling window managers and I've done reasonably long stints with i3 and hyprland, but for some reason, I've always struggled to fully stick with them and have fallen back to Xfce (old habits die hard). I think w

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