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by moksha256 6y ago
Well this is why the Commons Clause [0] was created, but many people seem to trash it for violating the original spirit of FOSS. So there have been attempts to deal with this issue, but there's a lack of consensus on what the "rig
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by moksha256 6y ago
Vim. Actually this workflow is what finally got me to start using vim, and now I use vim for everything.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Journaling. I have a shell script that that creates a new markdown file for that day, which I write my journal entry into. Another script compiles a year's worth of journal entries into an epub. Another workflow I made is similar, but
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by moksha256 6y ago
Lemmy also has RSS baked in, so for this instance, you could use the following: https://hystoria.100millionbooks.org/feeds/all.xml There are a couple more endpoints (one for communities and another for users) but I&#x2
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by moksha256 6y ago
Of course hysteria is not a new phenomenon, but hysteria perpetuated by instant-gratification digital social networks absolutely is a new phenomenon. Recognizing the dubious assumptions upon which the Iraq war started should provide perspec
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by moksha256 6y ago
The user determines it, and they're trusted to provide the correct year upon submission. Then I double-check most posts. Not sure how long this manual honors-system style thing will work, but I'm not sure of a reliable way to auto
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by moksha256 6y ago
Idea: create another Lemmy instance focused on 500+ year old content and federate it with mine! Then you'd get the best of both worlds ;)
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by moksha256 6y ago
Lapham's Quarterly is great stuff. They had a 50% sale a couple of months ago and I bought...a lot of their back issues.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Currently I'm relying on the poster (a) identifying the year of publication in the title and (b) trusting that the year claimed in the title is accurate. So it's not automated. I'm not sure if automating such a thing is doabl
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by moksha256 6y ago
20 years! Frankly hadn't thought of going back even further. But I guess if Lindy holds true, the farther you go back, the better it should get. In such a case having options to filter would be helpful, as other commenter suggested.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Reddit owns reddit.com so they can do whatever they want with it. And indeed, over time, they've added ads and analytics and generally made it more commercial and less user-friendly. This is a subjective opinion as someone who's u
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by moksha256 6y ago
True if looking at individual news stories. However, when looking at significant developments, 5 days is not enough to create proper context. I'm thinking about things like wars, public policy, scientific breakthroughs, major business
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by moksha256 6y ago
I made a tinder-style clone a couple of years ago where you would swipe a headline left or right depending on the political direction you thought it leaned. When you got one wrong, it was a signal that you should read the story (i.e., that
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by moksha256 6y ago
I wasn't aware of this element of Lemmy...thanks for bringing it up. Philosophically speaking, I detest the idea of software limiting a user's speech in such a way...maybe such a filter would be needed, or maybe not, but I would p
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by moksha256 6y ago
Yeah I was scrambling for a few minutes there but finally uncovered some not-so-well-documented rate limits set by default in the Lemmy config. I suspect requests will die down pretty quickly after this submission peaks.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Nope, and yet it's being publicized on platforms that prioritize the present :) But that's the world we live in. No single platform can (or should) dominate the media landscape. Everyone has to play in harmony with everyone else.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Sorry, it's back up now. I ran into multiple rate limits, some of which were hard to determine/uncover/configure.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Ok it's actually back up now. I ran into a rate limit, and then another rate limit, and then another...but things should be good now. Sorry.
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by moksha256 6y ago
It could be, but then reddit would own it, and the fediverse would lose out. And users would have to deal with their awful new interface and privacy shenanigans.
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by moksha256 6y ago
I've deployed a number of web services and I have to say...Lemmy was incredibly streamlined and easy to deploy. Deployment is entirely automated with docker and an ansible script, and updating requires just 1 command. Really looking fo
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by moksha256 6y ago
Thanks, looks like it was at 1 per second...I just boosted it a bit. EDIT: boosted again...gosh, HN front page is no joke :D EDIT 2: I ran into multiple rate limits, some of which were harder to discover/configure than others. Site sho
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by moksha256 6y ago
That's a good example of a post that probably wouldn't do well on such a site...you're right, time doesn't add much context to that topic.
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by moksha256 6y ago
Ugh it was just working, looking into it.
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by moksha256 6y ago
I created Hystoria as an experiment to see if blocking out current events can lead to more thoughtful discourse. --- Hystoria is a simple, reddit-like site (built with a simplified version of Lemmy [0]) where only items older than 5 years c
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Show HN: Hystoria – a Reddit-like site where all posts must be 5+ years old(hystoria.100millionbooks.org)
375 points by moksha256 6y ago|97 comments
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by moksha256 6y ago
FYI I'm about 5 days away from launching Hystoria, a link aggregator limited to items >5 years old. Idea is to beat hysteria with history. I contend that an unrelenting focus on "breaking" news and hot-takes is what is beh
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by moksha256 8y ago
I'm a simpleton when it comes to video editing, but I was able to make a series of professional-looking videos without a whole lot of trouble in February. I only run Linux, so I'm not sure what I would've done without Kdenliv
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by moksha256 8y ago
It's even worse than that. There's 2 types of crap now: vendor crap and Windows crap. You can avoid vendor crap by reinstalling a fresh version of Windows from Microsoft, but you'll still get Microsoft crap (i.e., various app
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by moksha256 8y ago
Didn't Google have messaging figured out with Google Talk? Everyone was on Gmail all day (as many still are) and people actually used it. Then they let it wither, came out with Hangouts, and it's been a downhill train wreck from t
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by moksha256 9y ago
The more I explore this concept of 'passive income' the more it seems like a unicorn not unlike the Facebooks and Instagrams of the world. Sure, it's possible to generate truly passive income, without any ongoing work to sust

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