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by segasaturn 2y ago
Is this something that Flatpak could fix?
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by segasaturn 2y ago
This is very common and I would even say a necessary part of using algorithmic social media now, basically awareness of the algorithm and interacting with content in a way that keeps your algorithm tuned to what you want. For example I avoi
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The way people are talking about the name of the app feels very stupid to me, in a way I can't put my finger on. I guess it smacks of more Red Scare paranoia, trying to tie anything Chinese to scary, nefarious communists. I doubt that
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The Panic of 1873 and the Long Depression seem to directly contradict you on that. The crashes were maybe not as large but that's because the economy of 1873 was an order of magnitude smaller than the economy of 1929.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was with Outlook. They replaced the regular desktop Outlook app with "New Outlook", which is just a wrapper around Outlook.com, which is horrible and slow and buggy and even shows
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Indeed, switching Windows PCs is like pulling teeth because of having to re-discover all of the little programs you had downloaded previously. I was a supporter of the "Windows Store" they added in Windows 8 and 10 for this reason
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I'm done with Microsoft. Switched to Ubuntu last week after a long break from daily driving Linux desktop (not since about 2013) and not looking back. It's much better here.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
My understanding is that it's meant to push the gold standard/anti-fiat currency, judging by the quote at the end of the website + link to Bitcoin whitepaper.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Great, so we have TikTok where we can access information that's being censored by the West, and Facebook to access information that's being censored by the East. What's the problem? Information wants to be free.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
> Irrespective of whether the government has control of the narrative on Facebook (I would argue they pretty clearly don't) Posting pro-Palestinian content on Facebook will get your account terminated for "supporting terrorism&
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TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote before US ban(bbc.com)
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Sure, that design work and firmware development is probably a miniscule part of their business in comparison to the scale of their App Store and other service revenues though. And Apple does no manufacturing at all, the screens come from Sa
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Google isn't entitled to invade my privacy, harvest my data and waste my time with ads. Installing an adblocker isn't an act of entitlement, it's an act of self-defense.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
> You can fork but you likely cannot maintain Linux as-is. Where do the 1M hours/year come from? That's hard to do in free time. Maybe a question too radical for Hacker News, but why does Linux need 1M hours/year? How much
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by segasaturn 2y ago
They don't need to engineer them, but for example BYD's vertical integration with batteries has been their superpower. Tesla once upon a time (~circa 2013) talked about building battery manufacturing "gigafactories" al
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Why should I care that Microsoft Office has more users than LibreOffice? I care which is the better product and has my interests as the user, and not the product, in mind. For example, and relevant to the article, I can use an ad blocker on
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I actually agree with you that Linux development has been captured by corporations. Except that I believe it's not sustainable. Eventually the Shareholders are going to come knocking and ask why so much engineering time and money is be
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by segasaturn 2y ago
All that Facebook money has gone to his head I guess. Thankfully we should still have the ability to fork the kernel if he fully loses the plot to corporate interests.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Graham was brilliant in the 90s. I would say this article is more like evidence that he's washed up. When you no longer have to work hard because your name alone means money, your mind turns soft.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Indeed, although most of the real work on the hardware side is done by TSMC on the processors, and Apple just does a good job wrapping that piece of silicon into a shiny glass and metal body. Apple's real superpower is getting people t
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Cocaine is so passé. The tech oligarchs are all on ketamine these days.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I find Safari on iOS to be nice, and Safari on macOS to be horrifically slow and inadequate, even on the newest M-series processors. It's like two different worlds, you can really tell that all of the engineering time is going into iOS
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by segasaturn 2y ago
The irony that Google, who made their bones on the "open web", is now attacking open web standards and trying to turn the internet into their own walled garden that they control every aspect of I hope is not lost on the people her
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Oh god why is pg even writing about this? Why does every aging, decrepit Silicon Valley oligarch think the world needs to hear their opinion on political correctness? It's all becoming too much. Please buy a diary and write your import
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I don't know, I agree that production value has jumped in the last decade but these trends are often cyclical. The overproduced boy bands of the 50s and early 60s gave way to aesthetically simple folk singers like Bob Dylan, and the sh
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Functionally it makes sense. Pringles chips being in a can instead of a bag means the chips can travel farther without being damaged or broken.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
I like it because it's ugly.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
Anybody who formalizes their "homebrew KVM platform" into a marketable hypervisor product is going to make a lot of money I suspect. Every IT department I know is scrambling to replace their VMWare stack ASAP, including very large
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by segasaturn 2y ago
> seems like this isn't really a plan, more so just a vibes-based promise for innovation To be fair, that description lines up with a lot of what I hear from other AI startups.
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by segasaturn 2y ago
What a platform chooses to ban or allow decides the shape and direction that platform takes. It's the reason why you're on Hacker News and not 4chan right now, HN is a strongly moderated platform with expectations for how users sh

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