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I think the approach here where interfacing with a device is considered from first principles is one that is rarely taken on, and this is a thought provoking implementation. Kudos.

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8 maanden geledendiscuss

While you & I may find shoehorning LLMs into every nook & cranny distasteful, I worry Marl may think differently

https://open.substack.com/pub/nothinghuman/p/the-tyranny-of-...

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).

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9 maanden geledendiscuss

I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood the power that comes with a fully reprogrammable editor. There is a learning curve and there is also a mental model to adopt, and I think that adopting the mental model is easier when starting raw and building up from scratch. Once you feel comfortable maybe try spacemacs or doom to see if they offer advantages for your workflow.

I also highly recommend the resources at https://www.masteringemacs.org

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

This person is missing that modern global society is rigidly organized around principles of competition. It's not the case that people don't care -- instead we are systemically pressured into putting all of our care into getting one over everyone else and taking care of our own. A society organized around different principles would give us the space to care about our collective wellbeing. Hopefully one day we'll get there.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -- then we wouldn't have to manually reconcile wildly heterogeneous data formats and interfaces in the first place!

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual endpoints.

The irony is dawning on me that for much of the recent computing era we've developed defenses against massive endpoint outages (worms, etc.) and one of them is now inadvertently reproducing the exact problem we had mostly eradicated.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

This had my attention at first but I’m not sure it led me anywhere. For discussion of the fundamental contradictions with the current structure of the Internet (that lead to the problems described herein & more), I highly recommend The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People's_Platform

It’s a decade old at this point & yet continues to be startlingly relevant.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

I’ve come full circle on this but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake.

There is no technological reason why applications can’t be distributed as PWA packages similar to the days prior to the App Store.

This would serve two important functions:

1. Remove most if not all distribution monopoly concerns

2. Create application standards that function nearly identically across the myriad of screen sizes and input types that are now available.

The current status quo of some service that makes my life easier or better only being available in a browser or only available on one or two of my devices (or, most often, available in a few ways but only bug-free or full-featured in only one method of access) isn’t the future I want.

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3 jaar geledendiscuss

These types of articles come out periodically and annoy me quite a bit. iPadOS has been my interface to the digital world for going on 6 years. Here are the things I do exclusively via an iPad Pro:

  * administer a dozen HPC clusters
  * perform all the digital tasks required of a non-profit board member
  * learn/read, communicate, consume media, photo edit and all the other normal life things one does on a computer nowadays

It’s true that I don’t have a podcast. But I think I’m in the majority of computer users there! I’ll also say that I have had to accept some limits or look for workarounds in the past, but the big additions of file downloads, safari compatibility modes and finally stage manager have effectively taken care of those.

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4 jaar geledendiscuss

This is correct & I’ll add that reorganizing around sustainable ways of being is in fact an inevitably.

And a result of this inevitably will be huge winners who invest in sustainable ways of being and huge losers tied to old ways of doing things.

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4 jaar geledendiscuss

well that explains a lot

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5 jaar geledendiscuss

as someone responsible for a small nonprofit that runs on google sheets, this product is super exciting.

a suggestion: key to us adopting this would be the migration story. I’d love if that was clearly presented on the website.

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5 jaar geledendiscuss

I still use it regularly. the app is my go-to calculator.

it just hasn’t been updated in quite some time. there are a lot of ways the back end could support new UI features etc., but something seems to be holding it back.

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5 jaar geledendiscuss

The resurgence of the email newsletter in recent times is a sign that, regardless of advances in web and web-connected applications, on a broad timescale open connectivity protocols ultimately hold lasting appeal.

Open protocols and techniques that enable effortless parsing of information serve a growing need for users of the web today. While I’m not sure if it will be gopher or something new, I foresee significant disruption potential for whatever effectively fills this need at scale.

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6 jaar geledendiscuss

I work for a big institution that includes a massively funded hospital network. I don’t actually work for the medical part of the institution. I am technically deemed an essential worker because we have servers on-site.

Recently I had some minor symptoms and wanted to get a test. By going through my employer’s employee testing process I

  A) got a test scheduled for the same day I called
  B) got my negative result under 12 hours later

This was a transformative moment for me in recognizing that there is an intentional, and centralized project to stress testing capacity in the United States. There is no shortage of materials or staff, just funding for lab capacity. This is an incredibly solvable problem that our leaders are choosing not to solve.

I truly believe the future historical narrative of this moment will cast our elected leaders as the orchestrators of mass genocide. It’s hard to consider living, breathing, contemporary people who hold esteemed positions to be on the level of evil as historical Nazis. But as time passes and we consider the impact their choices are having, it will both become easier to cast them in such a light, and to question the passivity of a population that accepts their decisions. It has never been more clear to me how such atrocities can happen and at the same time become normalized.

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6 jaar geledendiscuss

I would argue that in a number of ways Apple Notes is one of the most advanced in terms of features.

Yes, it doesn’t bombard you with its functionality and at first glance is a simple place to jot notes (perhaps its greatest strength). But dig into the feature list, and perhaps help me find a similar application that:

1) can combine tables, rich text formatting, and in-line sketches 2) can store any file type in-line 3) can encrypt protect notes 4) can bulk share Notes + live edit 5) has a built-in complex document scanner

I know there are some alternatives that cover most of these but I think Apple Notes is king precisely because of these many layers of functionality.

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