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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
> The reality is that "we" as an open-source community suck at taking money and I believe this is partially on us. More broadly people suck at giving money for things they can get for free. That’s just the reality of how most p
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
I suspect this has something to do with it: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/vet-privat...
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
Makes sense then, considering timers I set them on my watch and I don’t watch tv.
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
My exact reaction every time I hear people discuss Siri. I don’t think I used it once in my life and it’s one of the first thing I turn off every time I have a new device. So interesting to see how different people use the same devices in c
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
Somewhat related to this topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
> deserves to be replaced Replaced by what exactly? Also, when was the last time a foundational piece of tech powering of the web got replaced by something entirely different? Also who has decided that CSS is a "terrible foundationa
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
I’m sorry for what’s happening to Tailwind, it clearly sucks, but a library like that is definitely not a key piece of foundational web tech the same way bootstrap and jquery weren’t.
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
The best way to subscribe to creators on YouTube is via rss. This way one doesn’t have to deal with YT at all.
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
> My personal preference would be a network recommendation system. Random question: do you have a personal site where you write about things you recommend? Because that's the solution IMO. And that's the network you're tal
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
Some people in 2026 are still updating sites the old school way: https://brisray.com Ray's a great example, he even has a lovely page about webrings: https://brisray.com/utils/webrings.htm Was very hap
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
My pleasure. Will throw a few more links your way, just in case you want to keep surfing: [0] https://wildwild.directory [1] https://cloudhiker.net [2] https://theuselessweb.com
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
> It gives me the impression that this 'let's get the web back' movement is mostly nostalgia. Culture happens where it happens, not where it should happen. Today, that place is unfortunately a walled garden controlled by c
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
You want to check this one out then https://a.singlediv.com/
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
You are clearly not browsing enough of these “weird web” sites if that’s your take. Or the only ones you’re clicking on are the ones that are posted here on HN. Try search something on https://wiby.me for example and then tell m
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
RSS still contains full articles on a lot of personal sites. As you said, it’s about monetisation and control and when you’re writing with no plan to monetize there’s no point in not serving full content.
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It’s also a lot less wasteful and more respectful in my opinion. Scattering content everywhere in the hope others will see it doesn’t feel right to me.
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
If the system promotes being an asshole, and you decide to play along, you’ll have to accept the fact that you are, in fact, an asshole. It’s not a matter of moralizing anyone. It’s just a matter of accepting consequences.
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
I know this doesn’t answer your question specifically but it might help: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
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by manuelmoreale 9mo ago
> In other words, I see this not a special greed of this particular company, but a logical conclusion of the economic system it operates in. (I'm not saying it is good either. Only that raging against the symptom is a bit misplaced,
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
> I mean, I get that it's frustrating to pour effort into writing something that effectively nobody reads And if that was the issue this clearly doesn’t solve it since nobody is reading this. I might be the wrong audience for this c
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
How about caring for both? How about that as an idea? It’s impossible for you to accept that you can arrest and jail all those people to protect the lives of regular citizens but also not torture them while they are in jail?
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
I know it’s not the point you’re making but I’ll never not be surprised by how much electricity some people consume. The highest month I have recorded over the past 3 years is ~9kWh/day. Last month it was 7. And we’re in the winter. Ov
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
Income tax paid by public internet tech companies is not the same as “revenues from the entire tech industry” This report is indicating around 800B in value for the sector ( https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-expla
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
The Indie Blog Crusader A digital preservationist who wages a one-man war against the AI-slop apocalypse by manually indexing every human-written blog post in existence while playing Unreal Tournament 99 on a secondary monitor. ——- I have t
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
That’s a fun math. I just checked mine: 96000 minutes. 2 minutes per song is way too generous as an assumption, for me everything seems to be > 3 minutes so ~20000 streams. I’m paying for a family account (that’s around 250/year) an
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
> It's kind of the point of the computers. It kind of isn't? If I read your comment and rather than taking the time to think about what you said and respond to you I simply prompted one of the many tools to "write a commen
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Or think critically. Or write proper emails. Or a multitude of other things. Why bother when you can outsource everything to the computer. If this trend continues is gonna be interesting to see how people will evolve in 10 or 15 years.
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
Years ago I wrote [0] about the lessons I learned by reaching the front page of both HN and Product Hunt and honestly, all these years later, the only thing I can confidently say is that I don't know shit. Sometimes people posts here t
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by manuelmoreale 10mo ago
Not sure if blogging, collecting blogs, and interviewing people about blogging is considered a side project but ever now and again, depending on how generous the people on the other side are, I hit 500/month in donations. Everything I

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