syncbehind

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by syncbehind 3y ago
Just recently found about his youtube channel and have found his content to be quite beneficial. Did not know that he'd done this. Can I read about this anywhere? There seems to be a lot of folks who are critical about him.
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by syncbehind 3y ago
>when I got to about four thousand open tabs. Thank you for putting my tab hoarding in perspective.
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by syncbehind 3y ago
> complexity merchants I have never heard of this term before. But I do think it is quite apt. Is this an established concept (can I read more about it somewhere)? Or did you come up with it on the fly?
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by syncbehind 3y ago
I am not here to engage in whataboutisms. This was my critique on Brave, not my critique on every other browser. Do you work for Brave? Otherwise, I am unsure why you are being this defensive.
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by syncbehind 3y ago
> The URLs that were being overwritten were only a few crypto exchange websites that partnered with Brave. The affiliate URL was supposed to be a suggestion but the bug made it overwrite the URL. I'm sure the outcry from folks who r
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by syncbehind 3y ago
I'm shocked at folks' willingness to use a browser that has a history of tampering with a user's URL input (among other shenanigans). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027&p=2 for more. That&#
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by syncbehind 3y ago
In the absence of someone's ability to give consent - ie. Informed consent in medical terms- the responsibility is assumed by the parents or guardian. Since an infant or fetus is unable to provide consent, why would you think a parent
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by syncbehind 3y ago
Why is this news?
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by syncbehind 3y ago
>Why don't you think you need your unborn child's consent before birthing them? Is this satire?
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by syncbehind 3y ago
Unless rooted, you're basically relegated to two options. 1. You can set your dns to a custom dns (adguard's dns is commonly used) to block ads systemwide. 2. You can use a vpn proxy style adblocker via Blockada, Adaway, or Adgua
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by syncbehind 3y ago
>I get about 30x the value in 1/2 paragraph of fiction than TV. How do you even begin to quantify this
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by syncbehind 4y ago
Higher likelihood that pandas are just cute
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by syncbehind 4y ago
>But c'mon, we all know vim is all you need. That's a funny way to spell emacs. But who am I kidding, I don't code. I could, but then who would waste all of my time reading HN?
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by syncbehind 4y ago
At what point does an "interview" become less an interview and more of an advertisement? Because that's what this post feels like to me.
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by syncbehind 4y ago
>the people I'm close with who struggle the most with finding day-to-day happiness are usually the ones who spend the most time in therapy Funny, I thought the same thing about the amount of sick people visiting doctors. The healthi
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by syncbehind 4y ago
> KDE connect - basically apple's handoff but open source and for Linux and windows. AND Macs :)
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by syncbehind 4y ago
How is that different from pinboard's dev getting ill? Both are single-dev projects
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by syncbehind 4y ago
How do you figure? Raindrop.io is aggressively priced for all that it provides (I have switched from pinboard to this, and it is a near 1:1 replacement). In fact, it provides features such as highlighting / annotation that Pinboard.in
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by syncbehind 4y ago
I've moved to self-hosting a miniflux instance and have been pleased with the performance for the past several years. Highly recommend.
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by syncbehind 4y ago
>Adobe does the exact same thing of buying competition and then destroying it Oh. That's why they bought Figma. My heart breaks
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by syncbehind 4y ago
I actually have something to contribute here! I had found myself using my phone too much earlier this year. So I wrote a tasker script that loads (randomly) one of 9 different apps. None of them social media. 1-4 are apps like Anki, Duolin
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by syncbehind 4y ago
long answer : Read "Four Thousand Weeks". Short answer: You have to chose a few and eschew the others. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. There doesn't exist a reality in which you can "test your limits" in all of the
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by syncbehind 4y ago
Is that you Taddy Mason?
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by syncbehind 4y ago
Not sure, the page has since been updated. Thanks for providing the links (and having the logos link to them.
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by syncbehind 4y ago
That looks really useful indeed! It also lets you access your track pad easily. I use a keyboard with the same formfactor as you do but never thought to do this. Will have to play around with this idea a bit
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by syncbehind 4y ago
Is that bad?
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by syncbehind 4y ago
Something that has always bugged me about sites like these. What's the point of "TechCrunch, Entrpreneur, New York Post, Mashable, AppSumo, NBC News" splattered on the top. It doesn't give any context at all why they&#x
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by syncbehind 4y ago
Text density is a bit too much for me to get any use out of it. Just looking at it hurts my brain.
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by syncbehind 4y ago
>Mozilla takes donations, so it isn't necessarely free. This is a wild take. Taking donations doesn't invalidate the fact that it is available to everyone for free. By definition donations are voluntary. No part of Thunderbird
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by syncbehind 5y ago
This is all sorts of brilliant. Being able to use container tabs was already a reason for sticking around with firefox but this makes it so much easier to manage. Being able to slide tabs into other containers and auto-reload them is icing

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