nicbou

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by nicbou 9mo ago
The West, or just the USA?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Maybe the joke just did not land
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I visited Facebook pretty much only to see my mom's posts. Even as I literally unfollowed everyone and everything, Facebook still wouldn't show me the only content I chose to see. There are still the Facebook groups, and I really
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by nicbou 9mo ago
The US needs allies, and at the moment it's antagonizing all of them simultaneously. Europe is currently reorganising around the US, as are others. Collaboration benefited all.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I buy decaf Earl Grey from my local tea store. I cannot tell the difference; it's just another kind of Earl grey.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
There are really good ad blockers on mobile these days. I use AdGuard for Safari and it's as good as uBlock on desktop Firefox. I left my iPad deliberately unfiltered to discourage browsing - it's a bedroom device - and it's
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I do not have that filter, but I have been using ad blockers for so long that my tolerance for ads is near zero. Being interrupted by an ad is enough for me to close the tab or turn the device off. I can't imagine what it's like t
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I imagine myself as the one paying someone to do horrible things and uttering this line, and it makes me shudder.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I am thinking that giving them an opportunity is just a happy side effect. To big tech, they are the opportunity.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Text version: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-r...
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I'm working to fully open-source the website I've been living from since 2020. I'm not as worried about copycat websites anymore since big tech has stolen all of my work already, so I'm losing my audience either way. I&#
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Which specific threat are you modeling against? A crash? A world war? Hyperinflation? A tyrannical government?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Instapaper is how I queue up stuff on my iPad for bedtime reading. It does what it should with minimal fuss and enshittification.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
This is very common across multiple sources.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I work around German bureaucracy, and the loss of efficiency is real. Every state creates its own bureaucracy and its own software. Different people, departments and offices that rarely combine efforts, barely talk to each other, and never
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by nicbou 9mo ago
The same is true about superhero fights. They throw each other through a few buildings until the plot has to move on. The fights just don't matter.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
People also leave Germany
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Sometimes the writing itself is useful, like when I realise that I've been stressing about something minor for a few days, or when I hesitate to write down how I _really_ feel about something. In other cases it forces me to actually un
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Oh that makes a lot more sense. My initial read was almost the polar opposite of this.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
These notes are explicitly part of the process, but they're just markdown files in a folder.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
It's just information. Even calling it knowledge is a stress because it more closely reflects my emotional state than actual truth. It's only useful in the context of understanding myself.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I put my data on a timeline because I find it interesting, but I rarely check it.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
What do you mean, concretely? It seems to me like other countries are cautiously responding to threats of invasion and sudden tariffs. They did not wake up one day and randomly decided to divest from the United States. The government overre
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by nicbou 9mo ago
That was not very nice.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
At some point, organisation can become a form of procrastination. Building a second brain is not Doing The Thing.[0] A note is not an intention. It commits to memory, not to action. I really don't care about having a whole searchable,
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by nicbou 9mo ago
That looks like a specific level in Left for Dead 2
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by nicbou 9mo ago
This is cool! I set some time aside to experiment with it in February. If I can keep the human aspect while removing the tedium, I would be very happy.
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by nicbou 9mo ago
Be a little more imaginative. How would someone with the problem you solve behave? How can you catch them at the right moment in their journey?
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I am generally skeptical about AI but I do see the benefit here. I write a bunch of widgets for my website. They're little calculators that use common components and apply simple logic. Think unit conversion or date arithmetic. These c
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by nicbou 9mo ago
I had some success with batching. I have a daily report for my website, so that I can make sure everything is okay in one glance. In general email is silent for me. I only see it when I check my inbox manually.

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