pandemicsoul

I was super tired of how much junk was in my RSS feeder (lots of promotional content, occasionally things in other languages, etc.) so I asked Claude Code for help in setting up a better system. Pretty happy with how this turned out!

My God, this toxic POS company needs to die.

No, but Screen Studio does allow you to tweak how the mouse appears to move, in the sense that you can make it move more smoothly or quickly.

Same, and no, no hope. Money trumps all – most people are in this for the buyout, and when they get it, their users don't mean anything anymore. The best we can do is just use the services we like and know that any additional service we add will someday be a big fiasco to transition out of. Which, by the way, is why we should demand that every service make portability a standard.

Yes, the bubble is poised to pop. The vast majority of AI startups are grasping in the dark for an idea that will capture enough market share that will make them sustainable, and very few will find that. Right now VCs are dumping tons of money into the space to find the things that work, but eventually the vast majority of those bets are going to lose and those startups will fail. The media will go bananas trying to paint this as the end of tech, the end of AI, the end of capitalism, but in reality, it'll just mean a bunch of startup founders and their employees will lose their income stream and move on to other things. The cycle repeats every time a new technology gains traction.

It's not – it's just a "competing" product.

Just like a month ago there was a study showing that no amount of quick walks could offset a day of sitting.

It's so tiring to have these kinds of conversations with folks who do not understand the legislative process. There's no need to treat the legislator like an idiot. She's doing what EVERY legislator does, which is to identify a problem ("printed guns are a loophole in how we manage guns in this state") and saying she wants to find a solution to that problem. One mechanism by which legislators do that is by writing draft bills and then helping it through the legislative process to be improved, sorta like how you'd write a draft essay for a college class and then go back for a second and third pass before submitting it. As part of this process, people who are in favor of no legislation will come forward, people who are in favor of strong legislation will come forward, she'll hear their advice and feedback. If she's lucky, the bill will be seen by a committee who will hold hearings and re-draft it.

When you see a "ready to go bill," it's either been through a dozen-step process in this legislative session OR it's been brought up in a dozen different sessions and been improved along the way as legislators have to re-introduce all the bills they are sponsoring in each legislative session.

The legislator is not an expert in the issue, and I doubt she's claiming she is. She's proposing the broad strokes of a solution to a problem she sees. The point is not to pass the bill in its current form – it's to figure out how to solve the problem, using this general idea as the starting point.

Yeah, I constantly flip between wanting to self-host and do things myself, and ragequitting that type of thing when this sort of stuff comes up. Paying someone else to screw with all this – at their own best scale – cuts frustration, but obviously comes with a cost that's frustrating every few years when you realize how much money you're sending to someone else to do something you can do. Then once the pendulum swings the other way and you start doing things yourself again you realize the money you're saving is going toward mind-numbing tasks and updates you have to research yourself because someone who isn't dealing with this stuff every day isn't the person doing them.