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by palata 3mo ago
Slack and Spotify really suck. I can't judge Obsidian and Figma, I don't use them. The one example I know where they seem to have done a good job (at least in the beginning) is VScode, and even there it's not great. It's
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by palata 3mo ago
This is wrong. The most important reasons why I prefer mobile apps are the same as why I prefer desktop programs. - I can download it once and then use it. - I can see when it gets updated (versus a website that gets updated every time I
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by palata 3mo ago
> Most 'native' apps are just electron wrappers Desktop apps tend to be ElectronJS, because somehow Desktop failed. But because ElectronJS sucks doesn't mean that it's impossible to have good desktop apps. I have high
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by palata 3mo ago
Because physics sucks! USB ports take space, a phone is not Mary Poppins' bag :-).
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> instead I purchased a cheap USB-C rechargeable fan I really don't get that. Why not a handheld fan? It's cheap, doesn't require a battery, and doesn't need electronics. I see more electronic fans than handheld fans,
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by palata 3mo ago
I agree as well... doesn't seem incompatible with what I said, though?
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> data analysis opportunities into government strategic planning To be fair, governments can already ask companies to give them access to their data. Now given that most companies rely on BigTech for pretty much everything, it means that
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by palata 3mo ago
The US government has had access to all the data collected by the US BigTech for a long time, and now even more with AI. This is most definitely a digital sovereignty problem. > You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money
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by palata 3mo ago
> Half the git commands are low level, half are high level. Can't we say that the low level level commands reflect its internal? ...
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by palata 3mo ago
So when someone tells you "understanding X helped me a lot", your answer is "no, it did not"? > It's not 1:1 at all. I don't see any mention of "1:1" in the parent.
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by palata 3mo ago
> if they control the entire pipeline then they can optimize the entire experience So what? When you care about optimising the entire experience, you offer sane defaults. When you prevent people from changing the defaults, it's abou
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by palata 3mo ago
> Food shortages could result within five years. And we are only just starting to see the effects of global warming... while still emitting CO2, meaning that we are making it worse by the minute. But we have AI! What a time to be alive.
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by palata 3mo ago
> a ship that only made it 3km before sinking. Well that's precisely because it made it only 3km before sinking that we can see it.
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That's what I tell anyone visiting Stockholm: if there is one museum to do, that's the Vasa. It's exceptional and super quick (you can literally get there, see a very old boat in an incredible state, and leave).
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> I went back even further Further than carefully selecting the articles I read? I don't understand... I occasionally watch a video on YouTube, but again it's carefully selected. I feel like you're telling me that watching
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by palata 3mo ago
Sure, but Doctorow does mention John Deere a lot as a great example of enshittification :-).
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My feeling is that it interferes a lot with "the social media algorithms" and hence with the "infinite wall of random stuff from people you don't know". In the last few years I have been going back to RSS feeds, s
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by palata 3mo ago
What about Cory Doctorow? I heard about this from him, I don't know Rossmann
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by palata 3mo ago
Not sure you understood my point. - IF you can choose to rely on one of [France, Germany, Netherland] , then you would need to be in conflict with all three to be screwed. - IF you can choose to rely on a service in your country, it's
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by palata 3mo ago
> but we're not talking about each country in Europe having their own copy of AWS/Stripe/Search. We're not talking about having hyperscalers in each country, but I could totally imagine each country having infrastruct
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by palata 3mo ago
Peak oil means that oil becomes harder to get. That's the definition of the peak: the production increases until the peak, and decreases after. When the economy is directly correlated to oil, it means that a decrease in oil results in
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by palata 3mo ago
Are the sources published somewhere?
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by palata 3mo ago
Is "GFC" the subprimes crisis? Because that one, in 2008, may well be a consequence of the peak of conventional oil. It's not "some peak for Europe", it is THE peak for the world of, well, conventional oil, which me
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by palata 3mo ago
Not sure what you are trying to say, except that it confirms my point: if a company in say, Germany, uses Microsoft and Google services for all their communications, then the US (!) can just get access to all their data. Now if that company
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by palata 3mo ago
I don't understand that sentence.
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Since 2007, the European economy is in contraction if you look at physical indicators like "how much stuff do trucks move" or "what area is being built". That correlates directly with the peak of conventional oil and the
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Everything depends on energy. Driving a car is a lot cheaper in the US because of abundant energy. That has an impact on the economy (the economy is pretty much trucks moving stuff around).
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A lot deeper than active wars and energy supply issues??? Europe's economy has been slowing down since 2007, which is the peak of conventional oil. The problem of Europe is that is doesn't have access to abundant energy like the U
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> I find the Europe's relationship with tech to be wired I don't think it's weird: almost nobody cares, they just use whatever they know/is free. It turns out it is US tech. It's the exact same situation in the U
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> Nothing similar to what MS, IBM, Google, Intel, AMD , Nvidia or Meta provide. That's a bit of a feature, I don't think the EU should want TooBigTech monopolies. Doesn't mean that there cannot be successful services in Eu

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