skuthus

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Hi, I'm Skyler. I work in IT for a major aerospace company. Before that, I worked in IT for a major software company. Sometimes I work for myself.

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Comment · 5 years ago
Part of the fun for me is that it's kind of like a zen garden, but for buildings. I would love to see people start to populate and let the computer decide what they do and what the buildings are used for based on conditions created by the design of the city.
Comment · 5 years ago
consistent uptime, apparently
Comment · 5 years ago
you know that's bad, right?
Comment · 5 years ago
it's called the macbook air
Comment · 5 years ago
To be fair, Apple users only care about privacy when it suits them - 5-6 years ago, it was not a priority of any apple user and many mocked non-apple people for caring about it. If apples handing it to you, it must be important, or so the thinking seems to go
Comment · 5 years ago
obsidian has a whole number of these things - to what degree, I do not know, but it's definitely worth looking
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you! Didn't see it before I posted.
Comment · 5 years ago
I agree that corporations should be curtailed in both their size and power. This would resolve the paradox of speech being free, but it's platforms being controlled by a few large organizations. However, to say that free speech is absolute is absurd, because absolute free speech in this context would require the limitation of rights of organizations and owners too.
Comment · 5 years ago
precisely. A better way to look at it is that you are free to travel by other means. The burden is convenience.
Comment · 5 years ago
>the billionaires running the digital tools all decide to ban me, I am silenced.

How so? Are you incapable of using non-digital media to communicate? Are you incapable of creating your own digital platforms for communication or using alternative, less popular means to do so? Are you prevented from going to city hall, council meetings, political rallies, or voting? Your speech as it relates to your rights granted in the constitution remains completely intact. Your rights are unaffected by your access to certain digital platforms.

Comment · 5 years ago
Sounds like reasonable open internet regulation, like the type that "The Left" has been fighting to get for decades, would have really been something useful for Republicans to not oppose simply because of its popularity among the left.

Instead, we are left with mega corporations being the arbiters of their own platforms, Just like those supporting deregulation wanted.

Comment · 5 years ago
Totally - you can also easily sync it with your own service, if you don't want to use their sync service. The flexibility is definitely a huge selling point.
Comment · 5 years ago
Over the course of the last year I have been working on building a personal zettlekasten. I started in Notion, making several relational databases. However, after experiencing some down time, I decided to switch to Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) it's a much, much better program, does not have slowdown issues on my mac, is fully cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and has a sync system that works pretty seamlessly. Not to mention that the files are all plain markdown and stored locally.

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