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A similar scenario to this played out in Yugoslavia and overthrowing of the previously proven, and definitely not 90% manufactured "evil, genocidal and dictatorship regime" of Slobodan Milosevic. A lot of people cheered, including many expats, and "democracy" and "freedom" were finally gifted to the people. To be clear, I, in no way, justify any atrocities committed in war by any party - but "evil" and "savage" was used to describe a lot of legitimate reactions of the country, in a very similar way to how Iran is now "savagely attacking" innocent countries around them.

What happened afterwards in reality was 20+ years of escalating corruption and sale and systemic destruction of any valuable assets - culminating in the government of Aleksandar Vucic, member of Milosevic's regime, who in the recent years pumped out absolutely incredible amounts of money out of the country and is a de-facto dictator.

If you ask people who remember living under Milosevic about how it was, they all say the same thing - bad in some ways, but certainly better than this, and that he was a "little kitten" compared to the current fully criminal organisation.

Looks great and congrats on building and shipping a well-rounded and usable product. Looking forward to trying it out this evening.

Thank you for the heartfelt reply - I wish to apologize for crude assumptions I made.

My view of how people are getting affected by AI and choosing to degrade values that should matter for a bit of convenience - has become a little jaded.

While we should keep trying to correct course when we can, I should also remember when it's still a person on the other side, and use kindness.

1) the person is either too lazy to write themselves anymore, when AI can do it in 15 sec after being provided 1 sentence of input, or they adopted a mindset of "bro, if I spent 2 hours writing it, my competitors already generated 50 articles in that time" (or the other variant - "bro, while those fools spend 2 hours to write an article, I'll be churning 50 using AI")

2) They are still, in whatever way, beholden to legacy metrics such as number of words, avg reading time, length of content to allow multiple ad insertion "slots" etc...

Just the other day, my boss was bragging about how he sent a huge email to the client, with ALL the details, written with AI in 3 min, just before a call with them, only for the client on the other side to respond with "oh yeah, I've used AI to summarise it and went through it just now". (Boss considered it rude, of course)

As someone for whom English is not the first language, I got stumped by the "chest freezer" and the photo of colourful bags, for good ~15 seconds, going through - "hm, must be some kind of travel thing where you bring snacks in some kind of device you carry around your neck / on your chest...why not backpack freezer then...hm, why would snacks need a freezer...maybe it's just a cooler box, but called chest freezer in some places"...

....before I took a better look of the photo and realised it's frozen stuff - for the dedicated freezer - that opens like a chest (tada).

Well, that was fun...Maybe I should get a bit more sleep tonight!

Do you mean because the previous "flagship killer" company now needed a "flagship killer" sub-brand, since they could no longer be categorised as such?

I picked up "Atomic Habits" recently, tbh mostly because I've seen it being hyped all over - I was expecting it to be along the lines of "if you just do X for even 5 min every day...", but one of the early ideas that get introduced is that identity can play a big part in how we function with regards to our habits, which resonated with me, and I think is interesting in the context of your question.

The idea is that our sense of identity and image of self shapes our behaviour, subconsciously to a large extent. So if someone offers you a cigarette and you're trying to quit, it can make a difference if you frame it as "No thank you, I'm trying to quit" (I still identify as a smoker, but I'm trying to not do it), vs "no thank you, I'm not a smoker (anymore)".

Applied to defining goals vs parts of identity- not "I want to run every day and compete in a marathon", but "I 'd like to be a marathon runner". Because, in a lot of cases, we want to do something because of the qualities or traits we perceive the people doing it to have.

To me, it sounds good in this context as well - instead "I have to stop drinking" - "I want to be a sober man".

Socialism = tyranny? Wow. I guess you prefer the freedom of being bankrupted if you get injured, and getting taken by masked men from an unmarked van if you got some tan on your vacation, and then dropped to El Salvador.

I adore my Linux setup and have switched back to it after using M1 Pro for 3 years.

But through all the Dells, Thinkpads and Asus laptops I've had (~10), none were remotely close to a full package that MBP M1 Pro was.

- Performance - outstanding

- Fan noise - non-existent 99% of the time, cannot compare to any other laptop I had

- Battery - not as amazing as people claim for my usage, but still at least 30% better

- Screen, touchpad, speakers, chassis - all highest tier; some PC laptops do screen (Asus OLED), keyboard and chassis (Thinkpad) better, but nothing groundbreaking...

It's the only laptop I've ever had that gave me a feeling that there is nothing that could come my way, and I wouldn't be able to do on it, without any drama whatsoever.

It's just too bad that I can't run multiple external displays on Asahi...

(For posterity, currently using Asus Zenbook S16, Ryzen HX370, 32GB RAM, OLED screen, was $1700 - looks and feels amazing, screen is great, performance is solid - but I'm driving it hard, so fan noise is constant, battery lasts shorter, and it's just a bit more "drama" than with MBP)

I use Arch, btw

Or for one co-CEO to be there solely for optics / hype / media coverage.

I mean, cats are pretty smart and picky about what they do and don't do, and they do it all the time

This person just shared (for free) tons of experience, knowledge and insight into thinking/problem-solving process, for others to enjoy and learn from - and your only comment is attack on them for "stealing" somehow, by not sending e.g. 300 WA messages, but instead kilobytes of HN content?

How much would you calculate was stolen this way? Based on which factors?

As a side note, those pesky "tech people" are most certainly not THE most paid profession, now or ever.

Their motivation seems clear from what they voted, and what they're cheering for - they want to be able to behave without consequences in the same way as well.

Blame others (dems, libs, immigrants, races, religions...) for everything that's wrong, screw the "government" whenever possible, "grab them by the ***", and treat others and the world in the same way Trump can.

It's the same in every autocracy - the leader is providing an outlet for the immoral / suppressed / forbidden thoughts, actions and feelings - they either live vicariously through him (even if they are worse off, but that's blamed on others), or can now do some of that stuff because of him.

Trump is, inevitably, in the comments a lot.

And I'm just surprised when people still react to what he does as "unbelievable", "illegal" etc... I get it, but it's weird how persistently people still try to frame Trump's actions into moral, legal, historical, cultural, responsibility or any other framework.

He is someone who was born into wealth in the worst way possible, and was never - ever - subject to any moral restrictions, material consequences, or requirements that depend on any positive qualities, effort or success.

In those conditions, his bullish way of behaving always got him what he wanted in the moment, without any downsides or counter-weight that would regulate it. Time after time, he was given proof - by us, the society - that there are no consequences, or they are just so unimpactful, and that he can continue doing what he does. There is no framework that he needed to adhere to.

He was then placed into practically the same position within the government - being able to do whatever he wants and benefits him (directly, or through benefitting his posse), and there will be no material consequences of any kind. If he comes up to any inconvenient restrictions put in place before, they can just be removed first.

And that's it, that's what he's been doing all along. He doesn't have any higher interests, any ulterior motivation, or ambitions - in every situation, he just uses it to get something for himself in that moment - even if openly solely to be able to brag that he did it - and he makes himself look big by lying or belittling others, and that's it. Just a very simple unrestricted narcissist, on grander scale.

Their behavior is quite simple to understand and predict. It's just that they can rarely be SO up there, so unrestricted, that people still seem to struggle to not try to tie him to norms and frameworks.

I don't really understand why people still talk about impeachment.

It has been very clearly shown to be a futile formality that only makes the ones doing it look even more powerless and worthy of mockery in the eyes of the other side and their supporters.

In a bygone era, impeachment would rely on concepts of shame, responsibility and public duty - it would be unimaginable that person that was impeached does not step down from the position and likely from political foreground fully - from the moral and social weight of that consequence.

We've seen last 2 times how thoroughly that weight no longer exists in modern society/politics.

Without criminal responsibility, there is no responsibility left at all.

One thing I don't get fully is people that say "it's easier to write code" - we use n8n for workflow orchestration - a junior developer can put together some nodes to e.g. get data from an API, transform it (by writing code), prepare a CSV, send an email. In about an hour. You then have a workflow that you set to run every night at 2am, and that you can open, understand visually at a glance, modify, and continue running without any other actions required. All self-hosted on a small VM.

Alternative would be writing custom code, deploying it somewhere, setting it to run automatically on schedule somehow, and modifying it and redeploying through a dozen steps every time.

Of course there is docker and cron and deployment scripts - but all of that is not needed with n8n for these kinds of use-cases.

For me, that's the primary value of n8n - nodes themselves are nice-to-have shortcuts, some of the time. Maybe I'm not familiar with tools that make it easy to "just write code" and have everything else (deployment, orchestration etc) covered?

After some thinking, I've concluded that I'd actually like if there was a large collision that resulted in a chain reaction and took out most of the military and commercial satellites. It's obviously needed, in order for people to reassess their priorities, and whether additional garbage will be left with every mission.

(if we're imagining, without damage to ISS and scientific projects, of course)

It's quite wild to think how US wouldn't want access to their data on a plate, through AWS/GCP/Azure. You must not be aware of the last decade of news when it comes to US and security.

Beautiful photography, and I enjoyed your commentary. Thank you for posting.

Crossfit has a church now? I mean, not completely shocking, but still...

I believe it was meant to be "All you can..."

Heh, exactly my other reply - I feel for you, friend!

Their download service does not require authentication, and they are kind enough to be hesitant about blocking IPs (one IP could be half of a university campus, for example). So that leaves chasing around to find an individual culprit and hoping they'll be nice and fix it.

Thanks for the reply - I did not mean to rant, but, unfortunately, this is in context of a B2B service, and the other side are most commonly IT teams of customers.

There are, of course, both very capable and professional people, and also kind people who are keen to react / learn, but we've also had situations where 429s result in complaints to their management how our API "doesn't work", "is unreliable" and then demanding refunds / threatening legal action etc...

One example was sending 1.3M update requests a day to manage state of ~60 entities, that have a total of 3 possible relevant state transitions - a humble expectation would be several requests/day to update batches of entities.

People like Geofabrik are why we can (sometimes) have nice things, and I'm very thankful for them.

Level of irresponsibility/cluelessness you can see from developers if you're hosting any kind of an API is astonishing, so downloads are not surprising at all...If someone, a couple of years back, told me things that I've now seen, I'd absolutely dismiss them as making stuff up and grossly exaggerating...

However, on the same token, it's sometimes really surprising how API developers rarely ever think in terms of multiples of things - it's very often just endpoints to do actions on single entities, even if nature of use-case is almost never on that level - so you have no other way than to send 700 requests to do "one action".

This "it's only right that we, the humble and fair politicians, are exempt from this forceful control we're exerting over everyone" aspect of ChatControl is beyond ridiculous.

I'm not usually of a "revolutionist" kind in the slightest, but, when you combine this small example to a lot of things currently happening across Europe and the US - it does increasingly seem like people in power are less and less wary of heavy and serious responsibility their positions hold to the people, and are more and more brazen when it comes to trying to isolate themselves from scrutiny over their self-profiting endeavours.

Historically, there were somewhat regular "correction" events happening somewhere sufficiently close, that made sure that responsibility is stuck in politician's minds for longer into the future, but it's been a long time since.

Edit: My comment is partially fueled by everything that's currently happening in Serbia (grand-scale systemic corruption), but I do think you can see similar movement in much more orderly countries in Europe as well, and all this is unconnected to ChatControl, but I see it as a small ripple from the same source.

I also dare say that current state of affairs in US has emboldened such people everywhere.

Nepal is probably not felt as close enough to have an effect.

Eschewing responsibility through these kinds of "tricks", where the person obviously thinks themselves so above everyone else that they can make them idiots to their face, makes my blood boil.

It's always either public "servants" in power, or the rich people, putting themselves outside of the rules. If you are an elected official, and make a stunt like this, it should be grounds for immediate dismissal, IMO. But, alas, nowadays these kinds of things are so minor and irrelevant, in the sea of ridiculously horrible stuff they do.

It's at least refreshing that there are still places, like the Netherlands in this case, where there are some (even when it's surface-level) repercussions of such behavior.

Looks amazing, thank you - installing!

This also sparked a somewhat widespread meme, that I find very amusing:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir