Hacker News: Erratic6576

New comment by Erratic6576 in "A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings"

Erratic6576 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 06:21:04 +0000

I would like to make the argument that the increased attention from Google will exert an enshittification pressure in code quality due to the sudden appearance and accumulation of trackers, until the web is finally sold to any big publishing company, and, eventually, to an AI training company.

Browsing HN is a relief in times of Surveillance Capitalism

Edit: HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy"

Erratic6576 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:09:55 +0000

Why wouldn’t you trust Zuck’s word? He seems like an honourable

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy"

Erratic6576 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:57:16 +0000

The amount of problems remains stable, as a universal constant . Problems are neither solved nor created, only transformed. By switching from Telegram to Matrix, new problems arose. By switching from Matrix to Session, by switching to Signal, where we are now, fewer problems arose

New comment by Erratic6576 in "My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)"

Erratic6576 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:47:54 +0000

There are many tools I wish I had never installed. I’m now installing them on a VM first

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:08:46 +0000

David Graeber argued that there are bullshit jobs, that keep people busy with tasks that are useless for their development or the society.

He didn’t take into account that there are destructive jobs, whose workers significantly contribute to the destruction of the conditions which render the planet habitable.

The planet would be better off if those folks received a UBI for staying at home

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:11:03 +0000

That’s another reason not to pay for privacy

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Smoking has long-term effects on the immune system"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:10:13 +0000

Yeah. I can no longer stand the smell of smoke no matter how far away. My wife hates me because we can’t sit on terraces to eat and drink next to smokers and traffic smoke

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:34:45 +0000

I dont browse signed in to my Google account, which I barely use. But Google has an open account on each of us, even if we block their servers at the firewall level

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Kagi Changelog 2/13: Faster and more accurate instant answers and Wikipedia page"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:25:27 +0000

For me, it’s not only the price you pay. Having a username attached to each your searches is the opposite of privacy, no matter how much you trust their legalese wording

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch"

Erratic6576 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:21:22 +0000

Sorry I meant to look it up on alternativeto.net but I got distracted because it would have taken me 3 seconds on my laptop. Damn mobile phones

Hiddenbar. It might not be as shiny as bartender but it gets the job done

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch"

Erratic6576 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:20:57 +0000

Yessir, Thank you very much

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Nokia made too many phones"

Erratic6576 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:04:39 +0000

I like to think that it was Microsoft which destroyed Nokia from the inside in order to make Windows phone great at last

https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/microsoft-nokia-deal-a-...

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Built-in workaround for applications hiding under the MacBook Pro notch"

Erratic6576 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 13:55:34 +0000

There’s a FOSS alternative to bartender

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Notes on my Remarkable tablet"

Erratic6576 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:14:41 +0000

I found about these new tablets shortly after buying an iPad mini.

As much as I’d love to have an e-ink device, I don’t regret my purchase because you cannot yet plug those devices directly to a screen using a usb-c connector

New comment by Erratic6576 in "46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023"

Erratic6576 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:52:18 +0000

There’s no such decline in consumption. There’s always been a horde of illiterate people among the lower classes because decoding written letters is a very abstract and complicated intellectual activity.

A few centuries ago, the illiteracy rate was way higher. But it’s always been mostly been niche activity for intelligent people, that’s why the school used to focus on training that skill

New comment by Erratic6576 in "46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023"

Erratic6576 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:49:50 +0000

Written letters are not an obsolete technology.

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages"

Erratic6576 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:47:59 +0000

And Tesla, and Apple, and Amazon

“There’s a class warfare and mine is winning” WB

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset"

Erratic6576 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:31:22 +0000

I used to self host Nextcloud and securing it ended up being very complicated

New comment by Erratic6576 in "Sam Altman seeks to raise up to $7T for new chip project"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:56:01 +0000

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New comment by Erratic6576 in "My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life"

Erratic6576 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:49:44 +0000

I beg you to please tell me how to uninstall a web browser altogether. I was dreaming of installing GrapheneOS but nobody in the forums was able to answer my question whether it was possible to uninstall the web browser altogether in a way that renders it impossible to be installed again in a whim.

I struggled to have a pixel delivered, for the 6th time, so I ended up with an iPhone, which has screen time.

My wife despises me when I ask her to manage screen lock codes for me, so I’ll ask a kind coworker I always meet on Tuesdays, to lock the screen time in my stead.

Were that to fail, I’m kind of doomed. I ducking spent around 12 hours yesterday scrolling between NH, Reddit, messaging, and other webs.

Another option is to get a signal capable feature phone, but those are also smartphones and quite expensive and outdated. For me, it’s either screen-time lock or grapheneOS without a web browser.

I know I’m missing on the good HN content but it’s still way too engaging.

I’d only allow “nautilus” and r/science and a few other websites whose engagement-interest ratio is higher