urlwolf

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by urlwolf 4y ago
I use openbox with lots of keyboard shortcuts to bring up apps/windows. I prefer this to tiling wm, which I used for a while.
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by urlwolf 4y ago
I have recommended it to at least 20 people. I'm sure my girlfriend and close friends are tired of me bringing up the topic in pretty much every conversation. You did something great with that book. Last time I recommended it I said so
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by urlwolf 4y ago
The author of the book 'digital vegan', the most impactful thing I've read in at least a year, responded to my post. I'm fulfilled :)
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by urlwolf 4y ago
One effective thing I'm doing for myself (hard do to on mobile, or for kids in general) is to use the Firefox addon 'disengaged'. It hides upvotes, likes, and recommendations. https://github.com/a13o/dise
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by urlwolf 4y ago
Yes, and also that even if you make 'reasonable efforts' to stay off the radar, algorithms will build a shadow profile of you from other people's interactions with you they track. For example, if you send an email to a gmail
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by urlwolf 4y ago
There are books on the topic. 'Digital vegan' by Andy Farnell is a good entry point. He cites lots of studies and other books.
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by urlwolf 4y ago
Very good point. The problem is that these issues are hard to understand and properly value for adults... let alone children at 7 and 9. Addiction. Privacy. Freedom of expression. Popularity contests and identity. Economies of Scale. Value
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by urlwolf 4y ago
I'm in Berlin, Germany. Can corroborate that people here distrust bigTech to the point of not using it. It's a big question for our generation. I posted this using a gemlog in gemini: protocol but it has an html proxy so that &#x2
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by urlwolf 4y ago
Well, cutting out "the entire future" is a bit dramatic. We may be building a better future by using smolWeb tech like gemini: My browser with 20 tabs open is a game of 'kill the tab that is burning the CPU'. I have to h
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I decided to move away from big tech for my children and myself(lof.flounder.online)
179 points by urlwolf 4y ago|295 comments
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Discord Is Spyware(spyware.neocities.org)
11 points by urlwolf 5y ago|1 comments
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Two years after Chrome and Edge, Firefox 100 is getting AV1 support(neowin.net)
3 points by urlwolf 5y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 5y ago
I was a big fan of zim, but I have to admit it's falling behind the times (search is poor, graph view not useful, no collaboration, no mobile, tags are second class etc) so I reluctantly moved away from zim to amplenote.
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by urlwolf 5y ago
Don't forget asciidoc. Coherent, has markup for things like video etc. It's a superior format to markdown, a pity it's so unknown
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Fix Twitter Addon for Firefox that improves UX on thread commenting(addons.mozilla.org)
3 points by urlwolf 5y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 5y ago
Wonderful take on what's missing in current notetaking. Agree that text editors are not good for thinking (forcing the constraint of linearity "Great ideas don't flow out of us with a beginning, a middle and an end" I us
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by urlwolf 5y ago
Amy plans for a Linux app?
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Ask HN: Gmail stopped receiving email, I have a legacy free edition of gsuite
3 points by urlwolf 5y ago|1 comments
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by urlwolf 5y ago
Love this. Inter-post linking is a must, I use zim wiki to think and cannot live without wikifying everything :)
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by urlwolf 5y ago
I'm on openbox (non tiling) and I'm extremely happy. I was on tiling wm before. You can do a lot with openbox. Now I open windows, not tabs, for browser pages. And search for window title to teleport. The spatial arrangement of &#
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by urlwolf 5y ago
Geany is really fast, and according to typometer (From Pavel Faltin), it processes keyboard input faster than any terminal I've tested (linux). So A terminal editor doesn't do anything for me...
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by urlwolf 5y ago
I can vouch for dvgodoy's content and writing style to be really ideal for beginners. He's a deep thinker and has been working on this book for months. I can also vouch for asciidoc been a superior alternative for markdown
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by urlwolf 5y ago
I really like zim (a desktop wiki) together with some filesync software
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by urlwolf 6y ago
Link please :)
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How to Prepare for Hurricane China(steve-yegge.medium.com)
3 points by urlwolf 6y ago|0 comments
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by urlwolf 6y ago
Very good point. I hope what happened with AI doesn't repeat with Quantum (that is missing the train even though it started with a considerable advantage).
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by urlwolf 6y ago
We do! (and are hiring; although we are tiny!) https://datascienceretreat.com/
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Geopolitics of AI: Element.AI imploding accelerates tech dependence on US&China(josequesada.com)
2 points by urlwolf 6y ago|2 comments
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by urlwolf 6y ago
Did ghost.io not make a dent at all? it feels like aiming for the same market, with modern technology and faster pageloads. Not easy to install compared to php, that's for sure. This may be a blocker.
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Why US unemployment is higher than Germany – Quartz(qz.com)
2 points by urlwolf 6y ago|0 comments

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