illithid0
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Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 2 days ago
I'm glad I don't know what this is referring to and I think I'll be happier continuing to not know.
Comment · 3 days ago
The M-series Macbooks have been some of the best machines I've ever used. Why do they seem so intent on ruining that streak?
Comment · 5 days ago
Care to elaborate?
Comment · 6 days ago
I'm a big fan of Proton, and I couldn't imagine using anyone else's email services, but in the age of ID verification for porn and governments trying to ban VPNs, I just hope there aren't any bears that feel this poke is too hard.
Comment · 1 month ago
This may sound misanthropic of me, but it has helped immensely for me to view all of humanity as insignificant. Maybe even an anomaly as far as the scale of the universe, or at least an extreme rarity, capable of building societies and machines with more power and influence than our brains and bodies ever evolved to handle.
Perhaps many of us are indifferent because that is our default, and there is no reason we were "meant to" survive this long. If the universe's age scaled down was the length of a human lifetime, we almost went extinct the day before yesterday[1].
Beyond at least that moment, we are very lucky to still be around. There is nothing about us that is special against the vast indifference of the universe. While we may feel special ourselves, against our own atomic understanding of our surroundings, we are not, and that gap could very well be a primary source of our suffering.
That said, it does not stop me from enjoying my time here in this beautiful place and, as Camus put it, raging against the absurdity.
1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-ancestors-n...
Comment · 1 month ago
Malicious actors are going to figure it out anyway. They already have. There are good guys who are hacking things to help (like me) and are having immense trouble leveraging models to that end because labs make it hard to prove you're not a criminal.
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you expect to be insulated from the consequences of that?
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm sure the Uyghers will find this reassuring.
Comment · 1 month ago
non-paywalled: https://archive.is/imWtu
Comment · 2 months ago
No one will reply to you because it requires thinking through this problem with the same nuance they accuse DHH of not appreciating. I'm right there with you.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't care what they change, I want Flock gone. I will not accept that this is "just how things are now".
Comment · 2 months ago
Wow! Can't believe I missed this. Thank you.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is great. I would love a way to simulate something like possible tree placement and how much shade that may generate over the years. There are some parts of my area that are, despite being cut out of a forest, devoid of trees but are supposed to be "outdoor shared spaces".
Full sun all day at a dog park in August, for example, just isn't a place I want to be.
As long as they keep making desktop workstations, perhaps that's where macOS will fit into my stack in the future, if they haven't tanked the OS by then as well.