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by safety1st 10mo ago
There's actually a very active fork of Xorg called Xlibre, started by a former Xorg contributor, which seeks to "revitalize and modernize" X: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver?tab=readme-ov-file
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by safety1st 10mo ago
Thing is, from a commercial standpoint, who cares? It's an image used to promote a TV show on a social media account. There will be a tiny, loud community of AI haters who make a stink on social media, but the vast majority of people w
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by safety1st 10mo ago
There are a few issues with taking every set to failure, the most important being that it will substantially increase your risk of injury. It sounds great until you consider compounds like the deadlift that can ruin your back if your form i
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by safety1st 10mo ago
The explanation is that the platform firms operate with a high level of market power, which is another way of saying that they benefit from monopoly or near-monopoly effects that make them relatively immune from things like what their custo
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by safety1st 10mo ago
Looks like it, site loads within 1 second now!
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by safety1st 10mo ago
Hmm, the URL appears to have changed since I commented. It was originally a .co.za. Now it's fast. Perhaps there was a CDN issue (I am in a country that is definitely not material to his business)
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by safety1st 10mo ago
I think he's aimed in the right direction with the observation about short videos. I tried to load his website. It took a full minute to come up. Maybe that's the HN hug of death or something, but this is surely issue #1 to resolv
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by safety1st 10mo ago
I tried everything under the sun including the grayscale trick, and at the end of the day there were three things that worked. Putting the phone on silent, putting it out of sight, and simply turning it off. This resulted in 5 hours of phon
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by safety1st 10mo ago
I'm interested in the book recommendations!
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by safety1st 10mo ago
I mean, this very discussion is a case study in the supremacy of text. I skimmed the OP's blog post in thirty seconds and absorbed his key ideas. Your link is to a 54 minute video on an interesting topic which I unfortunately don'
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by safety1st 10mo ago
What I have plugged in via USB-A right now: Ethernet adapter; Generic gamepad; Logitech wireless keyboard receiver; Sony waterproof Walkman cradle.
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by safety1st 10mo ago
I want Framework to succeed, but the author's objection isn't unreasonable: > For a premium price I expect a premium laptop, but the Framework 16 feels more like a €1200-€1500 laptop at best... two thousand Euros for this kind
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by safety1st 10mo ago
It's an attempt to escape the control of the system but it's a reactionary approach, which at the end of the day, is just letting the system dictate how your life unfolds in a different way. To live well and accomplish OP's g
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by safety1st 10mo ago
Look at them all downvoting us for saying it. It's like a force of nature, the reaction to comments about it proves that it's true - the complainers sure enough come onto the free forum and blast down comments about it :) I like f
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by safety1st 10mo ago
I totally get this sentiment and I think it applies equally to the actual dating apps, these apps are all garbage fires that you don't really want in your life, but they do have utility if you want to date. So an idea I've been th
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by safety1st 10mo ago
This is so true. I can't signal boost it enough. I'm also a recovering social media addict, it was a slow and painstaking transition but the benefits in terms of attention, concentration and attitude have been profound. The main m
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by safety1st 10mo ago
The broader discussion but especially this little exchange reminds me of a similar situation with Ubuntu. At one point they were the darling of the desktop Linux space and much beloved by an online community of highly principled people who
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by safety1st 11mo ago
It's worth noting that this was a pretty active debate as TVs were going from one in the household to one in every room. "We don't want to put a TV in our kids' room, it'll rot their brains." And there was rese
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by safety1st 11mo ago
I don't think it's just the ads, I mean we had magazines, TV, and the web, they all had advertising, and no population-level impact on child & teen mental health impact was observed as these were adopted. Then we got the one-t
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by safety1st 11mo ago
I certainly don't have all the answers here but the entire $300B+ SaaS industry (and a bunch of other stuff that behaves like SaaS) was built in great part on a loophole in the GPL. More precisely, many of the people who licensed their
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by safety1st 11mo ago
It's incredible. I don't know the guy and I'm not being paid to say this, but I really think Blog Quest is a stroke of genius. The article totally buries the lead, so for anyone who misses it: this is a browser extension whic
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by safety1st 11mo ago
There is a bit of a debate about what to call the American economic system these days, but I think we should all agree it's not a capitalist one. It's not one that Adam Smith would look at, approve, and say oh yeah baby that'
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by safety1st 11mo ago
It's definitely interesting to look at people's mental models around AI. I don't know shit about the math that makes it work, but my mental model is basically - "A LLM is an additional tool in my toolbox which performs s
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by safety1st 11mo ago
"The major reason is they are a private company with good business..." This is unquestionably, undoubtedly incorrect. It is a really low information meme that's racing around the Internet right now. If you want a contemporary
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by safety1st 11mo ago
The whole US economy is so deep into La-La Land at this point that they don't really need to be a good business. There are already murmurings that they may pull off a trillion dollar IPO, I don't see why they wouldn't, Amazon
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by safety1st 11mo ago
I'm on record many times saying that I think open office plans are a bad idea, so I'm not sure where you got that straw man
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by safety1st 11mo ago
The Internet tough guy strikes again, as if employment is not a voluntary contract between two consenting adults. This militant attitude is always good for a laugh... hate management if you like, but if you think no employee ever worries ab
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by safety1st 11mo ago
In Deep Work, Cal Newport posits that even the most disciplined, high performers can do work that requires really focused attention for a max of four hours per day. He's a computer science professor, not exactly "management."
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by safety1st 11mo ago
This is because in any monopoly/duopoly/oligopoly, the product inevitably stops being about what the user wants, and becomes about what the monopolist wants. They're removing features like this because simplifying configurati
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by safety1st 11mo ago
Is this why nothing happens when I click on any of the services in Firefox? There is no feedback at all. I don't know that there's much value to, for example, creating another web based YouTube front-end when Invidious exists

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