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10 years of personal finances in plain text files(sgoel.dev)
502 points by wrxd 10mo ago|193 comments
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Sarah Wynn-Williams - Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism I'm not a Facebook fan but the more I read the book the more I dislike them. The author seems well-intentioned but I the overall feeling is tha
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Approachable Swift Concurrency(fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com)
192 points by wrxd 10mo ago|98 comments
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by wrxd 10mo ago
What do you want to run? Small services with an handful of users? Anything can serve them. Media libraries? As long as you have a CPU with QuickSync you’re good for on the fly transcoding and the real limiting factor becomes storage. A Tiny
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by wrxd 10mo ago
It’s even better than that. You no longer like Plex? Alternatives like Jellyfin are there, you can use them on the same media library
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Great video and great use of Blender to illustrate how small modern-day transistors are
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by wrxd 10mo ago
It’s sad that we replaced manual curation with recommendation algorithms because they were doing the hard job of surfacing relevant content for us and the end result is that you’re spending more effort and intellectual energy into steering
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Reminder that you don’t have to play by YouTube rules. Unsubscribe from everything and disable video history, that also stops the slop recommendation engine. YouTube search still works, you’ll still come across interesting YouTube links and
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by wrxd 10mo ago
> From 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, I had to care deeply about our quarterly goals and production stability He didn’t have to care that deeply. Alphabet expected from him L4 work. He got paid as a L4. It’s just fair that he also delivered L4 work
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Have you ever read a comment in favour of Apple Store ads? Every time the topic is discussed here the opinion is very negative. What I said it’s that I don’t find it surprising that people generally dislike the App Store but that they also
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by wrxd 10mo ago
I don’t think it’s surprising. The ideal setup for many people here is an OS that gives them control over what they run and over their data. An App Store that restrict us from running the application we want is bad. An App Store that preven
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by wrxd 10mo ago
As much as I would like my job to be exclusively about writing code, the reality is that the majority of it is: - talking to people to understand how to leverage their platform and to get them to build what I need - work in closed source co
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by wrxd 10mo ago
> estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider It would be nice to know what the requirements are. There are plenty of providers in the EU happy to sell cloud services
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by wrxd 10mo ago
That’s a trade off if you don’t want the service to know who you are
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by wrxd 10mo ago
> but the admin can see everything, because otherwise management of the service would be impossible. It depends on what service you’re offering. There are many cases where you can have end-to-end encryption so that you can know who your
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by wrxd 10mo ago
This is not about making all books DRM-free. It's about allowing downloads for the ones that are already DRM-free, if the publishers opt-in
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Ad Blockers helped kill the open web(christianheilmann.com)
6 points by wrxd 10mo ago|8 comments
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Out of curiosity, what’s the ratio between sales on Amazon and the DRM-free option?
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Unfortunately bad press is likely going to be the only thing to give you your account back. You should write a blog post and let the internet and the media do its magic
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by wrxd 10mo ago
This was unexpected. They lost me as a customer when they stopped allowing me to download books I bought and I'm in the Kobo (+ BookLore) side now and I am not coming back. I wonder how many books are actually DRM-free and are going to
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by wrxd 10mo ago
If I were an app developer I would feel this is extortion. Users that are searching for your app can find it as the top result, if you pay enough. Don't want to pay? We'll show them your competitor's app, no problem.
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by wrxd 10mo ago
If I try to search for Mastodon on the App Store the ad at the top of the search results is Truth Social. I cant wait for the second and third results to be X and Threads /s
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Yet I don’t want to play lottery with hardware I paid thousands of dollars for and with an account that holds hostage a lot of my data and digital purchases. I’m even fine with big tech having great powers but that needs to be counter balan
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by wrxd 10mo ago
If you never start you'll never be free. It's also not all or nothing. You can keep things with Google, self-host new stuff and gradually move over things that make sense to mover over.
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by wrxd 10mo ago
I di the exact opposite and only use ssh keys store in secure enclaves. Each device has their own key I have no access to. Not sure what the author does but I have three devices and keep them for many years. Adding a new ssh key to servers
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by wrxd 10mo ago
It wasn’t one time fee though. The one time fee bought a copy of the software and its patches. A couple of years later a new version would come out and people had the choice between keeping using the old version or buying the new one. To co
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by wrxd 10mo ago
I don't think that's true. Have a look at the people who are actually working in the US offices of US companies. There are some Americans but you'll also find plenty of Europeans as well as people from all over the world. Hav
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by wrxd 10mo ago
Is that defense umbrella actually real? Over the last year the US acted less and less as an ally to the point I wouldn't trust to actually help out in case of an attack
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Sustainability and Responsible Computing(tara.sh)
1 points by wrxd 10mo ago|0 comments
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by wrxd 10mo ago
I haven't updated to a version with the feature yet but support for it has been added recently In https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/pull/1541 and https://github.com/booklore-app&#x

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