xorvoid

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by xorvoid 9mo ago
"oh the indignity of not having internet for 118 hours, personally didn't have it for much of my childhood" I understand what you're trying to say and I agree with that, but this is actually different. This is not an inc
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
Am I understanding correctly that the company itself maintains the allow list? It's not my personal allow list? That's bizarre. I don't want someone else to control what information I do and don't allow myself.
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
What could have been a decent and well-meaning discussion has been completely lost here in cynicism and hero worship.
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
I feel like the comments are taking away the wrong message from this. He used it to do the part of the project that he has poor knowledge/experience/capacity for. He needs a visualization but the project isn't about visualiza
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
"if something isn’t worth consuming at 1x, it’s not worth consuming at all" Depends A LOT on what kind of content you're watching. I've been studying physics lately and a lecturer talks slowly so 2x makes a lot of sense.
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
Same. And I'd advise anyone to attempt it. You'll learn a lot about yourself and your society by quitting alcohol, even if for a brief moment. The benefits are immense.
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
I'm amused at how circular this is. Unix v4 is first OS written in C, now running on top of an unbelievable amount of C (and C++). Classic circular computer science delight.
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
Hobbies. Social hobbies. It kind of doesn't matter which, just pick one. Show up religiously. Try your best to talk to people. Having a shared hobby/interest makes for easy conversation and ice breakers. Don't expect to make
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
Strong agree. I switched back to RSS after trying social media. Much more boring. And that has been a very good thing. It's also been much more substantive. It's like eating your veggies vs eating sugar candy. Why should we believ
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
Same. This is the way. If you use Firefox, install the "unhook" extension to remove all the junk ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom... )
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by xorvoid 9mo ago
Indeed. I'd suggest Susskind's Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics if someone wants an introduction. He doesn't explicitly prove Noether but he demonstrates the connection between symmetry and conservation laws building
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by xorvoid 10mo ago
"Memory Safe No garbage collector, no manual memory management. A work in progress, though." I wish them the best, but until they have a better story here I'm not particularly interested. Much of the complexity in Rust vs sim
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by xorvoid 10mo ago
It sounds almost like you're saying that quality information shouldn't be accessible to anyone if it's not accessible to everyone? That would be an unreasonably high standard and would set an incentive to withhold. Which is e
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by xorvoid 10mo ago
Ha. At my last job, I observed that we were so good at solving technical problems that we transformed social problems into hard technical problems so we could solve the original song cial problem. It's something like a problem reductio
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by xorvoid 10mo ago
Here's someone trying to build a serious PC focused on Linux. But the comments are very negative. And people wonder why the year of the Linux desktop still haven't arrived. If you want PCs targeting Linux with good support... don&
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by xorvoid 11mo ago
I'm amused this is a new reveal for some people. Seemed the very likely case for me.
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by xorvoid 11mo ago
Clearly you didn't read the article...
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by xorvoid 11mo ago
Because they struggle with how many problems they see. In order words, the opposite of "ignorance is bliss"
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by xorvoid 11mo ago
Honestly, this seems rambling and unfocused. It's like a grab-bag of recent-ish buzzwords. The task that has been set is gigantic. Despite that, they've decided to make it even harder by designing a new programming language on top
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by xorvoid 11mo ago
Try going on a hike in the sticks where there is no cellular service at all. The idea that you can't escape the internet is a fiction. This is so overblown.
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by xorvoid 11mo ago
It's just the internet. Lots of deviant communities that are still quite active if you turn off your laptop/phone and go seek out the eccentric folks in the real world. The internet has pushed towards homogeneity over the last cou
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by xorvoid 1y ago
The way they're lock down make them really not general-purpose. Smart phones really were envisioned as thin-clients to cloud servers. When you start getting too far away from that, everything starts fighting you.
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by xorvoid 1y ago
Why does it have to be one or the other? I agree about better government. But it's also very reasonable to call attention to consolidatation of power and abuses of that power. Doing so doesn't automatically imply that one thinks &
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by xorvoid 1y ago
That's not the issue in my view. It's an issue of fundamental freedoms. Freedom of speech and freedom to control your own device and your own data. Freedom to decide for yourself how you use it to communicate with others. The prob
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by xorvoid 1y ago
Same. I am (1) Moving to GrapheneOS. And (2) exploring other alternatives such as PostmarketOS for when Google makes it impossible for Graphene to operate. And (3) even pairing down my smart phone usage entirely. But I'm also thinking
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by xorvoid 1y ago
This is a fantastic idea. Do you mind sharing a copy of your RSS comment feed?
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by xorvoid 1y ago
Let's do this. But entirely local. Local obsidian, local LLM, and all open source. That's the future I want.
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by xorvoid 1y ago
I believe the lack of popularity is more of an economics problem. There are established business models for SaaS apps or freemium with ads. But, the business model for local-first apps is not as lucrative. Those who like the local-first mod
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by xorvoid 1y ago
Chaotic Neutral
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by xorvoid 1y ago
I would say this is all we really should reasonably expect from our knowledge consensus systems. In fact it’s the same values that “science” stands on: do our best everyday and continue to try improving. It’s a bit hard for me to imagine so

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