uamgeoalsk

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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Counterculture? Do you think you have to be counterculture not to know who Paul Graham is? What the fuck lol. Ask anyone outside of your little bubble and they won't have a fucking clue. Edit: The above was needlessly confrontational.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
This is like praising an "author" who self-publishes hundreds of AI-ghostwritten novels a day and then preemptively defending against criticism by going "He's not naive. These aren't books of typo-filled, grammatica
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
good for you. you're still supporting google by using a chromium-based browser
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
It's worth being careful with broad characterizations like this. Attributing complex policy opposition to fringe beliefs or bad faith motives oversimplifies the issue and shuts down good faith discussion. Whatever one’s views, that kin
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
I don't have to be "interested" in seeing something on steam to disagree with nkrisc. I don't care about 99.9%+ of the games on steam, that doesn't mean I want them gone.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
The issues you're talking about (surveillance capitalism, the attention economy) aren’t just browser problems. They're systemic societal and economic forces that go far beyond what a browser can fix. People accept surveillance and
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Quoting you: > Problem: you are looking for a way to get rid of the annoying issues of the modern www. What is the solution that solves this with the least amount of work? Talk about shifting the goalposts! If the idea is to dismantle s
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
A large C file isn't inherently wrong if it's all part of the same thing.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Why do you hope it gets removed? Personally I'd prefer to keep it - removing it would be another (small, but still) step in the corporate homogenization of everything.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
You're still trying to invalidate my experience because it doesn’t align with your criteria for what's “necessary.” But I'm not trying to solve your problems. I'm solving mine, in a way that works for me. Your browser id
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
That's not up to you to say. If it solves the issues I have with the modern web , it is an actual solution for me. And if changing my browser or installing extensions does nothing to solve the issues I have with the modern web , then
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
You're framing this whole conversation as if there's a single, universally agreed-upon set of "problems with the modern web." You're also treating it as though the only valid solutions are the ones that address your
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
That “alcoholic” metaphor? Seriously, what the hell. You don’t have to like Gemini, but reducing the people who use it to self-loathing addicts is ridiculous. I use Gemini because I enjoy it. That’s it. It’s fun. It’s weird. It scratches an
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
It's worth remembering that people are drawn to projects like Gemini for a range of reasons. That's not a weakness, it's a feature. One person might use it as a minimalist publishing platform. Another might enjoy the simplici
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Your use of "they" here is misleading. Many, if not most, people in the Gemini community see no need for Titan. The existence of a new protocol doesn’t imply that Gemini is somehow lacking. A Gemini client that doesn’t support Tit
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
A movie theater where 99% of the movies are crap but universal is less interesting to me than a well curated cinematheque. What I'm wondering is why do you feel the need to dismiss people's niche interests like this? You've e
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
I'm not aiming to solve the stated problem, I'm having fun with gemini.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Sure, that's fair! In any case, I personally prefer the aesthetics and the readability of gemtext to markdown (especially when it comes to links!)
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
What's more fun? Definitely A.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
That's not narcissism - it's just someone building something they enjoy and sharing it with the world. Do you have the same objections to fiction writers or songwriters? It's totally fine to prefer gopher for its maturity (I&
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Being able to parse gemtext line by line with almost no context is a big win for simplicity - you can't really do that with markdown.
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Turning 44 this year and none of this has hit me at all? Still staying up all night on weekends, working harder than I ever did (not more hours, though), feeling more motivated to take on both paid and unpaid work outside of my job. And my
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by uamgeoalsk 1y ago
Sigma currently doesn't produce any Foveon cameras - the fp, fp L and BF all use DNG.
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by uamgeoalsk 2y ago
100k would be more than double my current salary, with more than a decade of experience. US salaries are fucking insane.
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by uamgeoalsk 2y ago
Huh, what exactly doesn't work? Their own readme says "TruffleRuby runs Rails and is compatible with many gems, including C extensions." ( https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby )