woolion

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by woolion 5y ago
So is it "with proprietary software you're always the product, but some offer you to pay for the privilege"?
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by woolion 5y ago
I only use Linux and indeed, drivers work OOtB and don't require you to sign any privacy policy. Although you don't have the fancy GUI that they have on Windows. The Huion GT works OOtB with the Wacom drivers. For the 1060+, I tri
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by woolion 5y ago
I spent a few years with a Huion screen tablet (GT-19 series), but pressure sensitivity response was really bad compared to a Cintiq. However we are comparing a 400€ product to one that is about 3K€; second-hand it can trade for under 1K, a
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by woolion 5y ago
An interesting read about the subject is the small 'utopian' book Erewhon by Samuel Butler, published in 1872. It considers the implications of the industrial revolution on society, and thus how it shapes the industrial society a
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by woolion 5y ago
Thank you for sharing. Is the quote from "The importance of understanding" by Lin Yutang?
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by woolion 5y ago
This is the case with people selling business software, meaning bugs would mean wrong accounting or worse outcomes for the customers. Yet all layers in the company would treat these reports as an annoyance.
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by woolion 5y ago
I would be afraid this approach would rather reinforce the status quo: the needle would slightly move so that people find themselves comfortable being serfs again, rather than encourage to move towards freedom.
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by woolion 5y ago
Just to clarify my comment: what I mean by 'it exists' is in a practical sense, i.e. what people mean by 'IP' is enforced by the institutions. It does not matter that much if they are infringing copyright, patents or tr
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by woolion 5y ago
Like it or not, 'IP' exists. By doing these kind of projects, sadly these people relinquish their rights. They could be 1) fighting for change in these laws, 2) investing in free culture/software. Sadly, almost all of them do
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by woolion 5y ago
This solves a longstanding problem. When recommending "hacker news" to people, they would immediately get suspicious. What's up with this weird address? Why combinator? It would immediately devolve into weird discussions. It&
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by woolion 5y ago
Thank you for the explanation, I thought it would be way more involved! I was just getting into git-annex yesterday, and now I see how absurdly powerful it is!
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by woolion 5y ago
That sounds like a great setup! Do you have a repo or write-up about it?
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by woolion 5y ago
Formulated like that, I'm very sympathetic to your point of view. Having a small set of well-refined features rather than a growing spaghetti of half done ones. I guess my own point of contention is that programmers would say "tas
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by woolion 5y ago
Is there any actual evidence that might be true? I encountered this argument many times, but only from programmers (who thought it was to difficult because of their tech stack), never from users. As a user, there is no site that does not ha
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by woolion 5y ago
Actually some awesome services! In particular the coursicle link describe how to implement a persistent, restorable loginless in a simple fashion, which is quite interesting on its own. https://www.coursicle.com/blog/lo
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by woolion 5y ago
Exactly, thank you for the reference.
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by woolion 5y ago
His autobiography books condense key insights into short anecdotes, that feel pretty much like parables. It is really a practical book to learn to think by yourself, showing how easy it is to question everything around you, and have a scien
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by woolion 5y ago
Programmer, but my hobby is drawing using Krita. I got into Blender by way of Wobblepaint (discovered here on Hn) and went on to beta-test PicoCad (part of the amazing Pico-8 community). It was a great introduction to 3D, which made it way
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by woolion 5y ago
I can recommend ours: https://okfeather.itch.io/feathery-christmas It's a ~1/2 hour playthrough, with music and graphics, and the source is on github: https://github.com/okfeather/feathery_chr