katabasis

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by katabasis 7y ago
Hi HN – I'm one of the authors of this proposal. I'd like to clarify a few points here: * Wikipedia is not becoming an SPA * Wikipedia is not dropping support for non-js users * This proposal is not about changing our current brow
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Helm Is a Private Home Email Server Anyone Can Use(theintercept.com)
10 points by katabasis 7y ago|1 comments
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by katabasis 7y ago
As far as I know, having a fixed IP address or domain name is a requirement – Mastodon is decentralized in a different way from P2P protocols. This is one of the reasons that the article I linked to above recommends a community-based approa
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by katabasis 7y ago
I just started using Mastodon and I'm pretty impressed with it as a product. But I think you need to approach it in a different way from Twitter and Facebook to really see all the benefits. If everyone just signs up to a major instance
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Four Years in Startups: Life in Silicon Valley During the Dawn of the Unicorns(newyorker.com)
4 points by katabasis 7y ago|0 comments
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by katabasis 7y ago
Great project! There are lots of resources online for analog photography but few are clean, simple, well designed, etc. – nice work. Also, it's a great demonstration of static site / "JAM stack" technology (Nuxt + Flicke
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by katabasis 7y ago
Fair enough – I was speaking in a more general sense. A better historical analogy would probably be something like the phenomenon Jared Diamond describes in his book "Collapse"[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by katabasis 7y ago
That future sounds depressingly like the present!
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by katabasis 7y ago
At this point the most likely future looks like one where we use all of our resources, wreck the environment, and enter a new dark age. The potential benefits/dangers of AI seem distant in comparison.
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by katabasis 7y ago
The way things seem to be heading, I'm afraid we're going to have much bigger problems by 2059 to worry about.
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by katabasis 7y ago
So Net Neutrality constitutes unwelcome government interference in the internet, but it's okay to force private companies to tolerate extreme right-wing views? This is ridiculous.
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by katabasis 8y ago
I understand the UI is not to everyone's taste, but I think the idea of using machine learning to create an engaging "window" into large sets of public-domain images is a good one. It would be interesting to read more about t
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by katabasis 8y ago
Years ago, as a (traditional) designer trying to learn how to code, I spent what felt like an eternity trying to wrap my head around JavaScript. This was in the ES5 days. After a lot of effort I could usually do something approximating what
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by katabasis 9y ago
I wish that concise, jargon-free explanations like this one were more common in discussions of theoretical physics and cosmology; thank you for posting.
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by katabasis 10y ago
Nice project! RE: IIIF, we're interested in going in that direction as well. Fortunately it looks like someone already wrote a plugin for it: https://github.com/mejackreed/Leaflet-IIIF PS - Hey Kjell! This is Eric
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by katabasis 10y ago
Leaflet is an amazingly powerful tool. As others have mentioned, it makes it easy to use a variety of sources for the underlying map tiles; in my case I was able to replace the modern-day base map with a map of the Roman Empire for an inter
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by katabasis 10y ago
Kudos to the EFF for putting this together. I've been sending it out to less-technical friends as a reference and plan to use it as a resource to help teach activists & concerned citizens how to protect themselves (with an understa
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by katabasis 10y ago
Social scientists have been paying attention to a recent spike in suicide among white, middle-aged Americans [1], and economic distress is often often put forward as a cause. This is exactly the group that the automation of these kinds of b
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by katabasis 10y ago
I know that lots of other languages / frameworks compete these days for the title of "most-cutting-edge", but I love working with Rails. There's a lot to be said for the "stability without stagnation" approach.
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by katabasis 10y ago
I want to echo the support for Prince here, even though it's not open-source it is a very useful piece of software. I create web-based art books at a museum[1], and Prince has allowed us to generate high-quality PDFs[2] and even print-
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by katabasis 11y ago
Right, totally not what one would expect. But based on the geography of California, it's very vulnerable if the water levels were to go up significantly. There would essentially be a second Bay cutting deeper into the state, only it wo
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by katabasis 11y ago
For some context about what impact this could have on major U.S. cities, the NYTimes published an interactive a few years back[1]. I guess if this new model is accurate, the scenarios on that link which are projected for 100-300 years out c
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by katabasis 11y ago
This is amazing. I work in digital publishing at an art museum, and we are creating digital books as static HTML/CSS/JS files which rely on client-side interactivity for most features. Some people have asked about getting a deskto
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by katabasis 11y ago
How does this app compare to atomic.io [1], which just came out of beta and appears targeted to a similar use case? [1]: https://atomic.io/
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by katabasis 11y ago
It's great to see others in the publishing world moving away from proprietary software like Word and towards plain-text based processes. As the author points out there are many benefits of this. Here's something to consider: you&#
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by katabasis 11y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing! It's funny, I was just thinking about trying to use Electron for a markdown editor project. I work in an academic environment and fantasize about luring writers and editors away from MS Word into Mark