Timwi · HackerTrans

Timwi

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há 5 diasdiscuss

I'm in my 40s and I also prefer to call people on Discord, Telegram, Signal or (if no other option available) WhatsApp. The phone dialer is just inconvenient, while the above-mentioned chat apps have all the contacts listed and easy to access. There's also a slight worry about being charged for every phone call and every SMS and having to worry about your phone plan and texting plan separately from your data plan; maybe that's not a thing anymore but it used to be really worrying, so it gives me more peace of mind to only have to worry about the data plan and nothing else.

há 5 diasdiscuss

I tried on both phone and desktop and couldn't find that alleged setting either.

há 5 diasdiscuss

Apparently not compatible with Android.

há 5 diasdiscuss

Strange thing to be publicly proud of.

há 5 diasdiscuss

> Whilst I agree that addictive things can be bad how far does this ago?

We don't need to get bogged down in this question before doing the first obvious thing and banning the most addictive things known to exist.

há 5 diasdiscuss

I was on LiveJournal a long time ago and I distinctly remember seeing Facebook, when I first tried it after everyone couldn't stop talking about it, as an unviable alternative precisely because it didn't show exactly what you subscribed to without filtering or manipulation. So either the algorithmic timeline was always there, or it was introduced early on before Facebook got big.

há 5 diasdiscuss

I think it should be illegal period. Advertisement is deliberate manipulation by exploiting known psychological vulnerabilities in humans. It's a despicable thing to want to do intentionally. It should be a criminal offense.

há 7 diasdiscuss

That sounds sadistic, to be honest. I think it's more fun when I know I'm not being unethical.

há 8 diasdiscuss

That's right, you're all alone in this private chat room.

há 11 diasdiscuss

> When I compare what I’ve seen in my life so far, I don’t think anything comes close (for better and worse) to even one of those things.

I dunno, I personally consider the internetification of the world to be on a level with the developments you've listed. We've transitioned a lot of things away from the real world into cyberspace: banking, shopping, postal communication... and now even recent technologies such as radio and TV are being replaced by it. I don't know how old you are, but I've lived through that and it has been quite a ride — for better and worse, as you say.

Nevertheless, I agree that little has changed since. Maybe this puts you at < 20 years of age? I don't want to be presumptuous.

há 11 diasdiscuss

Your whole argument for not taking someone seriously is that they use a specific word 15 times? That's your standard for insanity?

há 13 diasdiscuss

Not sure how to feel about your implication that unmarried people are neither grown up nor adults.

há 13 diasdiscuss

Did anyone notice how the article goes on and on about making AI accessible to the billions of people in the world, but then in the same article says this:

> Your agents need to be sovereign. Your company must own and control the agents’ identities, permissions, memory, skills, artifacts, and audit trails. Those assets must be portable, governable, and inaccessible to anyone you have not authorized.

That's not very open, now is it? In fact it sounds like the author assumes that all 8 billion people in the world will all be running their own company, and they will all still be competing in a game of capitalism.

há 14 diasdiscuss

How do you think humans experience desktop interfaces? “Basically just OCR'ing screenshots” is exactly what humans do.

há 18 diasdiscuss

> Is that specified or does it always just assume it isn’t really being put in charge of things for real?

I think it's neither, and it's interesting that those are the only two possibilities you thought of. I think the article is implying that it figured it out on its own.

há 18 diasdiscuss

The button to place an order should 100% be idempotent. There's one order you're constructing in your shopping cart, perhaps with an internal ID, and the irreversible “commit” button should place that order, not create two separate orders.

há 19 diasdiscuss

It seems somewhat clear to me. You want it executed twice if and only if the operation isn't idempotent. Can you give an example where you think both behaviors are equally defensible?

há 19 diasdiscuss

It shouldn't buffer them like the author describes. It should execute the button’s function immediately when pressed. This might mean to cancel the current animation and jump ahead, or it might mean to speed it up by the appropriate factor so it takes the same amount of time as it does for one button press. Either way is massively preferable to a button that swallows my input.

há 20 diasdiscuss

Have you tried asking your son if the slippers and/or the coat might be uncomfortable to him in some way? You seem to assume that he randomly throws tantrums just to annoy you, but maybe he has a reason.

há 22 diasdiscuss

How does this affect the Fairphone? If I buy a Fairphone now (which I've been considering for months now) will I continue to be able to run F-Droid and load arbitrary apps, or does it come with “official” Android that will contain the restrictions?