mindfulhack

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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I deliberately bleed my own money and energy to run a Tor node to help other people gain freedom of information. Small scale, but proof that your absolute statement is not grounded in reality.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
> Think of a US media tycoon who went to China to meet with the Secretary of State, used the media to incite riots in his country, appeared on the streets of protest, and publicly called on China to intervene in the United States. What a
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
If you're feeling despair, there are real things that you can do. I do one thing that makes me proud every day. I run an obfs4 Tor bridge on an old Linux Mint box that's just sitting around in my home.* The bare minimum thing that
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I'm even creating my own audiobooks from ebook text, as a way to consume books not officially available in audiobook! I haven't tested it much yet but the 'Samantha' voice actually seems listenable and intelligible for l
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I agree about the usefulness of doing mouse/keyboard combination manoeuvres, as an advanced user. Saves time for sure, and keeps you in the flow to keep up more with your brain speed. An excellent example I discovered only the other da
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I have a meta tip for everybody. I only recently discovered the Youtube channel 'MacMost': https://www.youtube.com/user/macmostvideo As a long-time macOS user, I am astounded at the things I'm currently
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Surely there are provisions in or affecting such trademark law such that you cannot overstep bounds of reasonableness, e.g. by going after anything with the colour red just because yours is also red? (IANAL)
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Imagine what it must feel like to be Apple legal counsel. Just going around searching for businesses that have nothing to do with Apple that you can capitalistically bully out of existence. It would have to feel like you have no compassion
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
How on earth could you easily enforce that though? Easy to quietly pay some private investigator or specialist to do some expensive or hard work in evidence gathering or analysis, and then pretend it was easier and cheaper to do than it rea
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Awesome! Finally some alternatives! I'll try it and switch to that GPL project if it's a better app! Thanks for sharing. Update: AltTab is already better and exactly what one wants from an alt-tab, and best of all, FOSS and active
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
The existence of this thread, with no mention of the Touch Bar yet, but we're seeing keen enthusiasm over shortcuts with as much as 3 keyboard keys involved, demonstrates exactly how useless the gimmick of the Touch Bar is. It provides
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
- You can get rid of those annoying pop-up notifications by doing Cmd-Period (Cmd+.) It will work when even Esc / Cmd+W won't! It's a hidden shortcut not many know about, and not on the linked Apple shortcuts page. - You can
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I find HyperSwitch to be better more useful interface compared to Witch, because it retains the whole thumbnails look: https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch Its developer hasn't been updating it or fixing bugs for a long time
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Interesting info! Here's a good list of potential candidate countries which are neither in Berne Convention nor TRIPS Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#List_of_count... It may take effort a
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Just to offer my perspective, and thank you for yours - I don't feel like HN is a hive mind and a single-voiced consensus, nor that I need to check if 'HN has endorsed this project or the idea proposed by this article' as the
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
If someone disagrees, it is reasonable to expect them to explain why instead of merely dismissing it. Also, I think my generalised statements - and generalised statements have value and meaning - are quite self-evident and already well unde
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
How so?
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
This demonstrates yet again how encryption technology should be in software, not hardware, in open-source, not closed-source, and in the decentralised full control of every user, not centralised self-serving entities.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Me too. I've never been a 'fanboy' of any given manufacturer or ecosystem. Even while still a Windows user I starting moving my laptop hardware to Apple in 2010 once I saw it clearly was the best. I painfully lived through th
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I'm pretty encouraged at how far the Linux kernel's progressed with adding support for current modern MacBook hardware. Every now and then I boot up a distro that tends to have quite bleeding edge kernel version like a Tails USB t
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I'm not a dev, but for my particular use case this is my current observation: Running Windows or Linux as a VM in macOS has terrible performance in VirtualBox right now (people are discussing it at length in VirtualBox forums). The exp
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
By saving money on CPU, they can now pack in more RAM to keep the price up, and give the machines a competitive edge.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
This seems like a risky move for China that will only hurt them. I'm not an expert but open targeting people who are citizens of other countries feels like, for lack of better terms, war crimes or diplomatic warfare. It doesn't fe
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
Apple Silicon feels like the most exciting 'Apple computer' news since the launch of the Macintosh. Typing this from a 16-inch MacBook Pro that cost me $5k, I know Apple loves to make money via raw sale price of premium hardware.
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
What's the rationale for your bank doing this? The litigation-heavy environment of its jurisdiction? Someone once sued a bank due to a loss caused by not knowing what was in their bank account, and they demonstrated that they were not
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I first really appreciated your thought - indeed, the fact that "Headphones are collecting personal data" alone feels like something unacceptable and shocking compared to just 10 years ago. But then I had a counter thought: You kn
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
You're not even as high-status as 'product' (let alone 'customer') - you're the 'fuel' - for an ad product, bought by ad customers. You're the coal being burned - all for profit and power. Yes, m
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
I do think it's an important concern, even though I absolutely love Github. Most importantly though, `git` is not centralised, and no service like Github, no matter what it does, can ever stop the decentralisation, roll-your-own-abilit
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
It's more acceptable and state-sanctioned to sell drugs that kill people while keeping them subdued, than ones that keep them alive and open their minds. I don't want to sound like a crazy 'conspiracy theorist' or a &#x2
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by mindfulhack 6y ago
No, 'moralisation' comes from the emotions of our biology. Disgust, tribalism, groupthink, mob mentality - all the horrors are in our biology, right here, right now, inside everyone, in 2020. 'Godless' non-religious peop

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