dariosalvi78

I've been thinking about this these days, this is the final revenge of open source. After having ingurgitated all the open source projects there exist in the world, AI is making basically all software un-copyrighteable (yes, you can't copyright a picture made by AI as you can't copyright a piece of software made -entirely- by AI).

I don't see the issue with having one open source browser everybody uses with all sorts of variants, as I don't see one Linux kernel with all sorts of distros.

If making a browser has become such a deal (as is making a full OS), then let it be one Chrome. I'm fine with it. But maybe it should be taken over by a foundation instead of a company.

the browser is the best tool we have now to fight the duopoly and its absurd rules.

Funnily, or depressingly, a lot of people here on HN are against the browser, either because "the UI doesn't look native" or because of security/privacy issues, with regular apps shipping with hundreds of MB or spyware you have no control of.

Let's push for the browser to become more feature rich, more secure and more universal. Or maybe for another OS altogether?

As a European, there is only one answer to this: more Europe. Alas, with far right winning everywhere, we are only going to get more war, more inflation, more poverty, more climate change etc...

Is there any country that has good prospects? asking for a friend...

I've been playing most of Lucas Arts games with my 10 y/o daughter. Grim Fandango is the one she has liked the best. It is not perfect, has lots of bugs (crashed on several occasions) and weird things, but the atmosphere is so cool.

Monkey Island comes second of course.

passkeys are excellent for security and horrible for usability. We did a students' project on that and decided to not invest on them, yet.

But, hey, here is the new startup idea for you: make passkeys great!

you can use password managers that support passkeys, or a HW key

so we stop developing code, to develop code again...

I tend to attribute most problems to low intelligence and/or ignorance more than plain asshole-ness. I don't disregard the complexity of fixing climate change, and the need for global cooperation, but we have had plenty of time and too little was done, even in more peaceful times than today.

I think that the problem won't be solved by us, it will balance itself out. A bigger chunk of the planet will become more hostile, human population will shrink, we will live at much lower scales, consume less and pollute less, for thousands of years to come.

I hope I will be proven wrong.

climate change became to be discussed as an issue since the 80s. I am in my late 40s and I have been hearing about since forever, and yet so little has been done since then. Now you can understand why I, as probably many here, have zero faith in this being solved in any sensible way.

Go and get depressed... or maybe go and eat your Brazilian meat burger, drive your SUV and book your flight to Hawaii, it won't last long.

I was a kid in the early 90s and my school book mentioned climate change and need to change energy sources. This could have been, if not prevented, at least greatly mitigated. We have had plenty of time. But well, I guess that our species is not that intelligent after all. Too bad, maybe the next one will be better...

we have had the perfect storm to do a U-turn on most fossile fuels:

- COVID pandemics: everybody at home, less traveling, massive economic reset and massive capitals injected (EU recovery funding, quantitative easing)

- Russian attack on Ucraine, stopping a big chunk of gas and petrol to Europe

- Strait of Hormuz, also chocking oil coming to the rest of the world

We could have said: "oh, let's swap those energy sources to renewables", "oh, let's bind those capitals to de-carbonization projects", "oh, let's plant trees", "oh, let's stop deforestation". A lot of things could have been said and done. But, well, a certain degree of coordinated intelligence is too much to ask.

At this point I have lost all hopes, whatever comes, we have asked for it.

it's a great app, I use it whenever I have bad Internet coverage or when I want to use open street map, for example when hiking. It's really a competitor of commercial apps.

it's not that there are too many people, it's more that the type of jobs that are abundant are low-wage, temporary and low-skilled.

it has happened what it's happening in almost all the world, at different speeds. It's a combination of factors, economic, cultural, gender roles and general societal expectations (secularization, individualism, self-realization over family, etc.)

Particular factors in Spain compared to other European countries are: chronically high unemployment rates, especially among the younger ones, low salaries and exploitation at the start of the career and general work culture with little respect of workforce (you are always replaceable, be thankful to your bosses). This makes children very unaffordable, people wait until they are "stable enough", which never happens.

The issue with these small towns in Southern Europe is that they don't offer services, because they are abandoned. No schools, no shops, no hospitals... you end up being isolated, struggle for a lot of basic needs, and you leave. Not enough people -> less and less services, and the cycle goes on. There may be a few exceptions of course.