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New comment by i_read_news in "Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults"

i_read_news — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:06:35 +0000

That’s my own take, not actual direct causation. But for example, I’ve experienced and witnessed time taken by endless scrolling design (I.e. TikTok) which could have been spent socially. Since I’ve take time away from such apps with patterns, I feel generally more content, but results may vary.

New comment by i_read_news in "Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults"

i_read_news — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:57:08 +0000

That’s a factor, but there are other reasons. Saving money, more online entertainment, the general shift of things done in person are now online, and the dark patterns that keep us tied there.

New comment by i_read_news in "Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy"

i_read_news — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:11:39 +0000

I think this would be more fun for VIM keybindings, where there is a higher skill level (to get cooler combos of course).

New comment by i_read_news in "Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective (2020)"

i_read_news — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:57:51 +0000

The power of defaults cannot be underestimated.

New comment by i_read_news in "Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work"

i_read_news — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 01:00:32 +0000

I also have a similar struggle right now with similar ambitions. I’ve been finding that while I want to do many of these things idealistically, in reality I didn’t end up actually doing them and just idealizing in a sort of paralysis of getting to my end goal. I’ve been learning the balance of pursuing these things when I’m interested and to not stress about simply watching television. I’m not probably going to be the next hot shot OSS contributor or project creator, but a few patches and features here and there is actually more than enough. Day by day is great advice for long term happiness (and productivity), and as Bruce Lee says: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times”

New comment by i_read_news in "Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera Data Set for Academic Use"

i_read_news — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:19:09 +0000

We can also say binaries are code, but if we are being pedantic that likely isn’t the source code that generated the binary (I also doubt the intention of hand writing binary or manually inputting billions of weights). I’d reckon that’s why it’s called open source, not open code or open binary, as the source code that generates the data is distributed. I’d actually just call this for what it is - open weights.

New comment by i_read_news in "MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader"

i_read_news — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:56:34 +0000

I use Invidious for this purpose. Has a priority feed only on subscriptions which is great. I would say it’s not great for discoverability, but if that’s not a use case I’d look at it.

New comment by i_read_news in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

i_read_news — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 21:58:58 +0000

Or GPLv2 with binaries loaded at runtime, like Linux does. This is a definitive good candidate for v2 as not having DRM is simply just not going to work.

New comment by i_read_news in "GPL all the things?"

i_read_news — Wed, 01 May 2024 22:18:49 +0000

To follow: this is the reason the FSF has specific guidelines on contributions.

https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignmen...

> In order to make sure that all of our copyrights can meet the recordkeeping and other requirements of registration, and in order to be able to enforce the GPL most effectively, FSF requires that each author of code incorporated in FSF projects provide a copyright assignment, and, where appropriate, a disclaimer of any work-for-hire ownership claims by the programmer's employer. That way we can be sure that all the code in FSF projects is free code, whose freedom we can most effectively protect, and therefore on which other developers can completely rely.

New comment by i_read_news in "Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone"

i_read_news — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:02:39 +0000

The fact that it’s not immediately obvious to be sarcasm tells us about the state of Windows.

New comment by i_read_news in "Ask HN: Technical and non-technical goals for 2024?"

i_read_news — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:29:16 +0000

Technical: Wanna contribute to OSS projects more - feels like the best community service with technical skills. Also want to get the OSCP cert as it’s been a fun goal of mine to have the skills of a pen tester, but that’s a stretch. Have also had thoughts on starting a grassroots sort of push to use privacy based tools, as current tools don’t feel like tech illiterate people have a reason to use them, but that’s just a soft plan for now. Non Technical: Make more music, spend more time with family and friends. Less video games. Oh and exercise as usual.

New comment by i_read_news in "Show HN: A game to memorize scale degrees on the guitar fretboard"

i_read_news — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 05:57:26 +0000

I actually use Tenuto for this purpose - it includes this specific exercise, but also a plethora of other exercises for guitar along with others (staff, key memorization, piano) and utilities like cord construction. Best money I’ve spent on an app.

New comment by i_read_news in "Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect"

i_read_news — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:45:35 +0000

AKA, the classic case of the Ford Pinto

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto

New comment by i_read_news in "Searx is no longer maintained"

i_read_news — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:46:51 +0000

From my understanding, the metrics from SearxNG are still privacy respecting, and searx never clearly defined what constitutes privacy enforcement or drew a clear line. Most active developers went to SearxNG for that reason, and searx was largely in maintenance mode for a long time. I had recently asked to clear the confusion, and honestly just made me think searx was passively abandoned already - they just made it official.

New comment by i_read_news in "Never Ending September Date"

i_read_news — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:26:22 +0000

Had a good laugh just imagining this scenario, thanks.

New comment by i_read_news in "Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser"

i_read_news — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:21:14 +0000

I consider these either proxy-search engines or meta-search engines. Either way, it still accomplishes the goal of a search engine for the end user, even if it’s not the one doing the heavy lifting.