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New comment by foob4r in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

foob4r — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:45:09 +0000

Your morality is not relevant to good journalism.

New comment by foob4r in "I Am Deleting the Blog"

foob4r — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:59:32 +0000

Regardless, revealing someone's real name is orthogonal to clicks or ad revenue.

New comment by foob4r in "The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes"

foob4r — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:04:49 +0000

This. HN is so entitled - I want the perfect thing, then complain about them trying to be sustainable.

New comment by foob4r in "Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28"

foob4r — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:01:28 +0000

I was at a peaceful rally in Seattle last night, and a bunch of cops kept closing in and started shoving people.

New comment by foob4r in "Please Pay for Your News"

foob4r — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:23:29 +0000

That's a good discussion, but improving the model and sustaining the institution are orthogonal.

I do agree though that a lot of the problems are structural and systemic - that also does not negate the public's negative outlook towards journalism, or the sense of entitlement (read the comments here).

I do agree though that not enough tech people who can afford to don't pay for their news. Why? IDK. How to make them? Well maybe this post will persuade a few to do that.

New comment by foob4r in "Please Pay for Your News"

foob4r — Sun, 31 May 2020 21:46:06 +0000

News is not perfect, just like any other platform or business you use is not perfect.

I think paying for news and not reading all of it are orthogonal. If you don't like curation, RSS is still solid.

New comment by foob4r in "Please Pay for Your News"

foob4r — Sun, 31 May 2020 21:34:12 +0000

Do you ask for per-movie pricing from Netflix?

Please Pay for Your News

foob4r — Sun, 31 May 2020 20:45:50 +0000

Article URL: https://goel.io/pay-for-news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372570

Points: 37

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New comment by foob4r in "A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression"

foob4r — Thu, 28 May 2020 13:49:18 +0000

The different is that in the 90s, there was no clear evidence for pessimism about the future. The same is not true now.

Standard of living for most Americans is actually bad right now - trillions of student loan, no prospect of home ownership, no jobs, extreme income interest, weak authoritian governments,and let me know even start of climate change.

But hey, we have a new iPhone so I guess it's all fine.

New comment by foob4r in "A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression"

foob4r — Wed, 27 May 2020 23:11:07 +0000

False optimism about the future from older generations is nothing new - been happening for years now

New comment by foob4r in "NextDNS Is Out of Beta"

foob4r — Wed, 27 May 2020 15:02:12 +0000

No my upstream is Cloudflare. Weirdly, I trust them.

New comment by foob4r in "NextDNS Is Out of Beta"

foob4r — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:59:17 +0000

That's awesome and I've tried nextdns and loved it. But - and this is just me - I just don't trust anyone to delete my logs or not log in the first place.

That's why I'll probably not move off of my pihole

New comment by foob4r in "Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies"

foob4r — Tue, 26 May 2020 17:48:15 +0000

Why should I give the benefit of the doubt to a billionaire autocrat who had done objectively more global harm than good?

New comment by foob4r in "Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies"

foob4r — Tue, 26 May 2020 15:24:51 +0000

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New comment by foob4r in "I won’t buy ebooks anymore"

foob4r — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:12:08 +0000

For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.

I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.

New comment by foob4r in "The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020"

foob4r — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:09:20 +0000

Here's mine: Jekyll blog with no js. Git push to my home server [1]. It runs in a docker container with a watch. The simplicity means adding a tor proxy in front was as easy as running another container.

[1] https://goel.io/blog-2020

New comment by foob4r in "Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media"

foob4r — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:34:59 +0000

If Rogan is MSM, then Spotify killing the open RSS ecosystem is even worse that I thought.

New comment by foob4r in "Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media"

foob4r — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:33:49 +0000

Since when is thinking about others you work with called "political correctness"?

I go to work to do my job and get a paycheck, ideally without drama. I don't give a day's ass about your MAGA hat.

New comment by foob4r in "Notion for everyone"

foob4r — Wed, 20 May 2020 14:11:39 +0000

Seems like people in this thread want an E2EE alternative. May I mention https://standardnotes.org/.

It's a very well built notes app, cross-platform. The dev team makes really solid decisions (they say no more than any other company to feature requests).

I'm in no way affiliated to them, just a happy paid customer who agrees with their mission and values.

New comment by foob4r in "Notion for everyone"

foob4r — Wed, 20 May 2020 14:08:31 +0000

I would recommend looking at Standard Notes. It's paid only but it's so worth it.