Hacker News: wan_ala

Algospeak

wan_ala — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:23:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40936520

Points: 4

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Threads is the perfect Twitter alternative, just not for you

wan_ala — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 06:10:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.privacyguides.org/2023/07/21/threads-launch-twitter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36832945

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Sift

wan_ala — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:05:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sift.quest/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176361

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wan_ala in "Reddit has been down for more than an hour"

wan_ala — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:58:21 +0000

After a few hours I am now getting the error message "Failed to parse page JSON data: expected value at line 2 column 1" (I use libreddit so it might be different for you). I wonder what is going on over there.

New comment by wan_ala in "Google is screwed, even if it wins its antitrust case"

wan_ala — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 06:16:16 +0000

Is Gizmodo a actual news source? It links to The Onion at the top part of the page, and The Onion links to Gizmodo at the top part of its page.

New comment by wan_ala in "Four thousand weeks"

wan_ala — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:40:08 +0000

If you like that you might want to read the daodejing, which i think that quote came from.

New comment by wan_ala in "Flip Phones: Gen Z has a new ‘vintage’ technology to obsess over"

wan_ala — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:18:03 +0000

I haven't had a flip phone in a while (or any phone for that matter), but I think flip phones are probably my favorite type of phones. They look sleek, you can easily check the time just by looking at them, and you can type without even looking at the screen. Cool to see flip phones getting more popular.

New comment by wan_ala in "Ask HN: Sites with the quality of Hacker News, but for more general topics?"

wan_ala — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:06:10 +0000

For a project i am working on, I've thought about egalitarian-based moderation (i.e people vote on moderation decisions, there is no specific 'moderators'). It could prevent admin abuse and make it so that you don't need to hire mods.

New comment by wan_ala in "I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing"

wan_ala — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:12:13 +0000

The statement isn't too far from the truth ngl. I think it'd probably be in the top 10 most famous C guides out there.

Wetware Computer

wan_ala — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 02:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34213621

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wan_ala in "Power substations vandalized in Washington state"

wan_ala — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:28:07 +0000

The comment is deleted, did you figure out how? I'd like to know too.

New comment by wan_ala in "How to Befriend Crows"

wan_ala — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:25:25 +0000

Excuse my ignorance, but what type of animal would eat a crow?

New comment by wan_ala in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

wan_ala — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:28:35 +0000

Yeah, I think a lot of history of the russo-ukranian war is not known by many americans. Many people didn't even know there was a war until the invasion. I remember tensions building up a few months before the invasion and some people started talking about it (I knew a political dude online who was talking about it a few months before, he was saying something about how things could go down. I wasn't really interested but now I realize he was right (except for him supporting russia tho)).

New comment by wan_ala in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

wan_ala — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:17:54 +0000

>* Twitter users will massively migrate to a new social network (and it won't be Mastodon) Maybe I am being too optimistic but it kinda seems like that a big chunk of twitter refugees will move to Mastodon. Maybe not all of them but a lot, like how right now Mastodon is slowly entering the mainstream as sites publish articles about it and many users are already switching to Mastodon. And how the other Twitter alternatives are barely talked about but Mastodon is being brought up as an alternative all the time.

New comment by wan_ala in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?"

wan_ala — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:07:09 +0000

As someone who used ChromeOS for a year or so, I think its kinda cool that mainstream people are using Linux, but 1: They don't know they are using Linux. Most users dont even know what Linux is. 2: Not open source. 3: Not privacy respecting.

New comment by wan_ala in "America’s social and political turmoil during the 1910s and 20s"

wan_ala — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:06:16 +0000

Yeah, i am pretty distrustful of any "news" website still reporting on low-hanging fruit such as trans swimmers.

New comment by wan_ala in "Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal"

wan_ala — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 02:13:49 +0000

Thanks for making this! I have been wanting to see something like this but too lazy to make on myself lol.

New comment by wan_ala in "Big Tech Companies Join Linux in Effort to Kill Google Maps"

wan_ala — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:08:53 +0000

tbh I would only trust it if the software worked so that they wouldn't be able to abuse it for tracking (i.e not centralized). Although i am not sure how you would implement that in a geolocation tool.

New comment by wan_ala in "Inventor of the world wide web wants us to reclaim our data from tech giants"

wan_ala — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:54:52 +0000

He's been concerned with this type of stuff for a long time. There are plenty of articles about him talking about the NSA, tech giants, etc. I think he created a social media platform a few years ago as an alt to facebook.

New comment by wan_ala in "EFF Takes a Stance: San Francisco Shouldn’t Arm Robots"

wan_ala — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:41:05 +0000

Having opinions on dystopian armed robots != being a bad organisation. Also isn't being pro-privacy an agenda too? They have always opposed the US government.