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by lynx23 3y ago
I disagree. What made eternal september so painful was lack of intelligence, not lack of money. It is only a correlation that poor people also tend to be less educated. I don't care if my chatroom is flooded by people with just a l
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well said, I couldn't agree more, unfortunately... I also noticed the "MS is cool now"-cult, felt surreal and almost like deliberate misinformation. Classic counterpart to FUD, Honeypotting. However, more people seem to f
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by lynx23 3y ago
I recently hit the "classic" case. Saw a CLI tool for an API I'd like to use, written in Python. Tried it and found out it didn't work on my machine. I later found out it was a bug in a dependency of that tool. 100 l
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by lynx23 3y ago
I should take a look at Mastodon one day. However, all of this talk of having to maintain your own instance and my very bad experience when looking at Google Plus (the most inaccessible social network ever put out by a large corporation) k
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by lynx23 3y ago
Even though this happened a long time ago, whenever I hear or think about it, I am a mazed that it didn't put Xerox out of business, or at least hurt a little more. After all, some big players were already doing digital archiving at th
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well, that reminds me of autocorrection in web input fields, turned on automatically. Especially great if there is no proper language detection. You type a message into a text field, and Edge corrects every second word because you are typ
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by lynx23 3y ago
OCR in images is becoming the norm. It was a big relief on social media for blind and visually impaired people. Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web. So ML fo
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well, this is when the military budget of many countries will be put to a test, for real this time. After all, the reason to keep investing into military force is to be able to defend sovereignty. It is a harsh thought, no question, but w
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by lynx23 3y ago
BTW, Chris talks a lot about Mojo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJQ8iVTwj8
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by lynx23 3y ago
> And while we are throwing out FWIWs, I myself am not religious. But judging from your way of remote diagnosing people over the internet, you are at least a very qualified psychiatrist, right? You aparently dont consider religious peopl
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by lynx23 3y ago
I thought the same when I read this article on Planet Debian. Pretty weird for an organisation that has spent the last 5 to 8 years alienating contributors with CoCs and outreachy projects. Looks like as if the fight isn't over yet.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Yes, I have interacted with plenty of religious person,s this is where my personal stance and comment above are rooted. Yes, I know these people are well integrated into society. But this doesn't change my analysis. I consider relig
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by lynx23 3y ago
It is about time that we call out soft sciences for what they are. Pretty much a hoax and a way to escape real work when going to university. Two of my partners both have academic degrees in soft sciences, one even made it to a PhD. And
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by lynx23 3y ago
I guess you'd say something similar when thinking about blind people? Humans relying 90% on vision is apparently killing most of their imagination.
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by lynx23 3y ago
(2015)
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by lynx23 3y ago
I am not looking for a fitness tracker, so Garmin is not even close to competition for an Apple Watch to me. Why? I use VoiceOver. Garmin does not have any speech output at all, so they can not even be compared for me. I do a lot of F
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wrong. The count of the unaccounted votes was 600. Around 100k people voted in this "election".
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by lynx23 3y ago
Thats one likely outcome, yes.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Ah, sure, and teachers will accept this and happily go back to the "stoneage" just because some parents-sekt has decided no smart phones anymore? You can not outlaw technology on a social level. Many control freaks would love to,
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by lynx23 3y ago
I understand the urge to create pseudo-laws, and outlaw the thing you dont like just a little bit, on your own, as a group. I am just not a fan of Prohibition Culture. It never really did anything good except feeding the underground.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Ah, so you need to "bind together" to be able to make decisions these days? How is this going to go down with your kids? At first, you say no? If they ask enough, you explain "you know, there is this church of parents whic
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by lynx23 3y ago
Good example. When the 1st gen watch came out, I knew I wanted to have one, but I also kind of knew I wouldn't want the first generation. Lucky me, because I had quite some GAS at that time, the 1st and 2nd gen watches were never rea
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well, this does not come as a surprise at all. The digital age totally passed these people without notice. As did many other things. Sad to watch, but this party is killing itself. This is what happens when you no longer can pretend, an
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by lynx23 3y ago
The "framework effect" seems to be a thing these days, not only with SPAs using the newest JS framework. When I stumbled across an HN article describing a CLI app for the OpenAI API, I thought that is just what I was waiting for.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Because it is unsolicited LLM spam, not an "experiment". The "experiment" seems to be if they get caught doing it, or not.
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by lynx23 3y ago
The table layout on the main page is more of a problem for a modern web bgrowser then it is actually for Lynx. Modern browsers will announce the table, and your position in it, which is totally irrelevant on the main page. That is definit
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by lynx23 3y ago
Please don't do that. If you are straight enough to actually explain your operation in this detail, it shouldn't take much extra thought to realize why you shouldn't run this on the public internet. Users of that forum ex
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by lynx23 3y ago
On a positive note, HN is one of the very few sites left which is still simple enough to be used with older browsers. I am writing this comment in the text console (no X11) of a Raspberry Pi 3 with a braille display (no monitor connected)
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by lynx23 3y ago
TL;DR: If all media tell you the same thing over and over again, just don't do it and you should be safe. Propaganda is propaganda, don't get confused if many people around you fall for it, just stay on your path and trust your i
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by lynx23 3y ago
To me, religious explanations always have an air of cozyness, because "reality" of human experience is usually much more harsh then people are prepared to accept. Case in point: "an act of god" vs "the universe doe

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