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by infotainment 1y ago
You'd be surprised how many of the old devs are coming out of the woodwork to fix their old watchfaces and apps. It seems like a lot of people who were excited enough about Pebble in the past to develop apps seem to still be excited
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by infotainment 1y ago
Exactly -- all new housing is going to be marketed as "luxury". Who is going to build a brand-new apartment and say "well, this is janky low-quality housing, you might want to live here if you're poor or something&quot
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by infotainment 1y ago
Letting “DOGE” be the ones to cut spending was kinda a great play on Trump’s part — it effectively got Elon to take the heat for cuts Trump himself wanted. People are still talking about how “Elon” cut USAID, even though that was very clear
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by infotainment 1y ago
TBH, I think that wouldn't solve the core problem. If you forced, for example, TikTok to do this right now, they would presumably add a page to their app with their recommender algorithm. Then what? Meta or other competitors might be i
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by infotainment 1y ago
I think this is a reasonable take; a good start would be banning all forms of algorithmic "discovery" recommendations, and things like "for you" feeds.
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by infotainment 1y ago
I suspect social media's biggest problems (engagement bait, brainrot, echo chambers, etc), would generally not be fixed even with a ban on sale of personal data.
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by infotainment 1y ago
I'd rather just a full blanket ban on social media, but I guess it's something. Social media is basically what cigarettes were in the 50s: everyone uses it, and seemingly no one is aware of how it is almost entirely bad.
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by infotainment 1y ago
> These restrictive rules weren’t a problem back when Sun Belt cities could expand by building new single-family homes at their exurban fringes indefinitely. (…) Recently, however, many Sun Belt cities have begun hitting limits to their
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by infotainment 1y ago
It’s kind of surprising there wasn’t one already?
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by infotainment 1y ago
Regardless of how one personally feels about it, you can get sued into oblivion in certain countries for not complying with WCAG, so that's something.
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Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you?
10 points by infotainment 1y ago|6 comments
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by infotainment 1y ago
All of them?
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by infotainment 1y ago
The country of free speech, everyone! You are free to say whatever you like, as long as your words do not contradict Official Party Ideology.
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by infotainment 1y ago
What I assume the "assembled in America" parts list will look like: - 1x Smartphone (shipped from China) - 1x Gold plastic smartphone outer casing (shipped from China)
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by infotainment 1y ago
This has all the same problems as the official one, IMO. The linked article seems to offer the best possible alternative (sticking with the existing one but running it through Icon Composer for that extra shininess.)
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by infotainment 1y ago
Having played with it on my M1 iPad, seems like they really nailed the interaction with this release. It feels like it always should have worked this way, unlike Stage Manager, which was just kind of weird. The sad part is, of course, that
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by infotainment 1y ago
That's more of a problem with the Android security model; even fully blocking sideloading on Android wouldn't be able to stop that kind of misbehavior.
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by infotainment 1y ago
Good! I'm glad that someone has finally ordered Apple to stop with one of their hilariously bad-faith implementations of interoperability laws. If only the EU would do the same and clamp down on Apple for their flagrant violation of th
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by infotainment 1y ago
Ars comments, in general, are hilariously bad. It's surprising to me, because you'd think a site like Ars would attract a generally more knowledgable audience, but reading through their comment section feels like looking at Twitte
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by infotainment 2y ago
The ironic thing is that if he had just focused on cost cutting and hadn’t gotten involved in posting various Political Hot Takes, Twitter would probably be doing extremely well now. They could have had both labor cost savings and without
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by infotainment 2y ago
I like the idea of their products, but I just wish Unihertz wasn't so sketchy -- they refuse to release any kernel sources. (Which is in direct violation of the GPL!)
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by infotainment 2y ago
Agreed largely, though IMO BART is holding the bay area back. Unlike Caltrain and Muni, BART management is completely incompetent and more focused on spending their money on random things than actually running their transit system. Fun fact
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by infotainment 2y ago
They really need to be banned. It's unfortunate that it's come to that, but non-physical controls are a safety nightmare.
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by infotainment 2y ago
Interestingly, Meta’s other property, Instagram, used the opposite approach. The old @potus account was renamed to @potus46archive with @potus being treated as effectively a fresh start. The IG approach seems like the right one IMO — odd th
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by infotainment 2y ago
Never ever say anything bad about The Glorious Leader, of course.
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by infotainment 2y ago
Pretty neat that they’re able to support logging into Discord now! Nice to see that they’re making progress on getting actual complex webapps up and running in Servo. Looking forward to when I can use it as my main browser (one day!)
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SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck(arstechnica.com)
20 points by infotainment 2y ago|2 comments
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Building LightOS with React Native (2020)(medium.com)
2 points by infotainment 2y ago|1 comments
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by infotainment 2y ago
Admittedly, I felt this actually added to my enjoyment of the Zephyr ride -- total disconnection.
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by infotainment 2y ago
I really wish someone would fork Darktable to build “Darktable but with a UX that isn’t horrible.” One day!

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