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Yeah, it's great, but doesn't always work e.g. some corporate/academic networks.

I really wish this was the One True Way, but unfortunately I couldn't get this working. Installed fine but then, nothing.

Unfortunately this doesn't always work on corporate/academic networks.

I'm truly sick of how difficult it is to copy files between devices in different ecosystems. It makes me grind my teeth that emailing/WhatsApping attachments has become a default for people literally standing next to each other.

No, we don't need more proprietary protocols like Apple This or Google That. We've got scp, sftp, Bluetooth, all manner of secure connecting and tunneling methods, all of which can be made easy to use and secure.

Apparently, I can't Bluetooth a file from my Android phone to my partner's Apple phone because apparently Bluetooth is insecure and Apple have hobbled it on iPhones. What a crock. Fix the damn protocol or make a new one that's open. It's anti-competitive and user hostile to do otherwise.

Yes, there are the various wormhole and filedrop services, and good for them. Unfortunately they sometimes don't work on corporate/academic networks.

Ugh. What a mess. Rant over.

Bump each letter in nginx and we get.... ohjoy!

Update from 2021:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...

Edit to add sci-hub link to full paper: https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.scico.2021.102609

This appears to be a web page where the authors have posted links to their research, data, updates, etc:

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/

The project initiator has written about this several times, for example:

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-o...

Website, not web app. Static website if it has no backend. Strictly speaking, 'static' used to mean no JavaScript either, so perhaps 'jamstack' is the appropriate neologism.

Maybe now, but it hasn't always been so. Attitudes change. If you're lucky enough to chat with someone in their 90s about dying, you may hear stories of how doctors used to "help people on their way". In other words, casual euthanasia was quietly accepted and expected.

Not quite what GP is describing, but it illustrates the point.

There's a ton of research into this idea, have a search on PubMed.

Unfortunately it suffers from at least two problems.

First, generalisable effects from specific interventions often fail to replicate, so for example subjects tend to get better at a specific task but it doesn't necessarily carry over to real-world contexts. There are a few promising potential directions, although even those results are modest and uncertain.

Second, people with even mild/early signs of dementia are extremely unlikely to continue with an intervention. Even if they do they often modify it, e.g. unplugging a smart device to save energy, or taping over buttons to prevent accidentally pressing them.

I would hunt out references but I'm on mobile, they shouldn't be hard to find.

.uk.com and various others are/were subdomain sellers.

Sure, but you can think you hate it, and practically speaking what's the difference?

This company/app pops up on HN with some regularity, and attracts a fair amount of criticism:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359256

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058271

It's business practices seem distasteful, several legal threats against competitors and critics, heavy covert "submarine" advertising (i.e. ads masquerading as news), and apparently unexplained popularity among policy-makers despite criticism from those on the front line (e.g. emergency services). Technical criticism centres on the fact that it's algorithm is not as good as it could be, hence risking lives, and is not open. Several alternatives exist, some of which the creators claim address these technical issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20970664

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31829267

I've no horse in this race, but frankly what3words seems a bad choice and an unpleasant organisation.

Edit to add links to reported issues and legal actions:

https://archive.is/6KVvL

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/what3words-legal-threat-wh...

http://web.archive.org/web/20210430005537/https://twitter.co...

The vast majority of the world does not have an iPhone as their smartphone. It's not even close.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/apple-hits-all-time-...

Has anyone had any luck breathing life into old tablets with PostmarketOS or anything similar? I'm talking about Android tablets that are now so slow as to be literally unusable. Some comments here mention hardware degradation, so can a lightweight alternative OS/distro make a difference?

No worries. And yes, but that's not what I'm taking about :) I was interested in the favicon, which is the icon shown in the (desktop) browser tab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

It's an open-source [0] metasearch engine using [1] the following:

Scopia

Yahoo

Bing

Mojeek

Yandex

Brave

Also images from Bing and Pixabay, and news from OneNewspage, Bing and Brave, and academic science from base-search.net

[0] https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer

[1] From https://metager.org/search-engine

Indeed, although client-side opting in/out of any site's ranking would mitigate this.

Well like I said, I don't disagree that there are other more significant things we can do.

> He certainly wins at buzzwords bingo ;)

She :D

While I agree that the most impactful things might be nothing to do with software, that's not always true. A friend of mine works on AI-based solutions for decarbonising industry, for example. Perhaps that's a bit contrived, but it does point to one obvious thing: use your talents to help solve the problem.

If you want to work in an industry that's not directly related to the climate emergency, there's still plenty you can do. TFA points to several, such as shifting your company to a B-Corp (or similar) if you can. It also directs readers to https://learn.greensoftware.foundation/

It's interesting (to me) in this specific example because it generates a favicon using SVG + emoji. I wasn't aware that could be done. Favicons can't be simple enoji/text, they have to be an image.

I've not really considered this before, but I might actually be interested in a 'white-listed' web. This is obviously possible entirely client-side with a plug-in that white-lists domains and allows you to edit the list.

I'm wondering if there's a genuine opportunity here to go further. A client-side browser plug-in, plus a SaaS which automatically vets pages on-the-fly to guesstimate the chance they're AI-generated, spammy, etc. So if you visit a new domain the plug-in auto-updates the white-list, prompting you to confirm the judgement, maybe prompting to add the domain to UB0 or similar.

Again, this could all be done entirely client-side if the guesstimation algorithm is efficient enough. But a centralised database would confer other obvious advantages, like basing the guesstimation score on decisions from similar users, building a giant up-to-date list with fast lookup, that sort of thing. Site listings and other data from Kagi, marginalia.nu and Mwmble.com would be a great starting place. Obviously it would have to protect against the system being gamed, Sybil attacks and what have you.

I'd pay a dozen CURRENCY per year for that.

Maybe this exists already, or something similar?

Yes, and I've not seen this before, the HTML uses an SVG with an emoji in it as the favicon:

    <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 viewBox=%220 0 100 100%22>
      <text y=%22.9em%22 font-size=%2290%22>
        :( HN has remove the emoji
      </text>
    </svg>">

Very neat. Might use that.

Oh, now that's a nice twist, if I follow you. A universe with a creator, but no afterlife. Or another possibility: a universe without a creator, but with an afterlife.

Huh. Don't think I've considered those options before. I'm sure some religions have proposed these possibilities already, though?

Genuine question: since these are core utils, and probably used billions of times every day, is anyone actually going to switch to this version? I see that the intention is for this to be a drop-in replacement, but some options and behaviours are still different.

To clarify, I'm not intending this as a negative comment. It's an impressive project, and aiming for cross-platform sharing of scripts seems a worthy goal. The graph of progress against the GNU test suite is neat and encouraging. However, I can't imagine anyone in Unixy lands moving to this - although I may be wrong there - so it feels like a "compatibility" project for MacOS and Windows. I'm not familiar with the situation on MacOS but how bad is the compatibility issue? Similarly, on Windows what's the situation with WSL or VMs or even Cygwin? Is performance the issue?

Do people actually want this, is there a market for it? It's got 17.8k stars so seemingly so? Again, I'm not intending to cast aspersions, just trying to understand the audience. This is clearly different from a "for the fun of it" side project.

Thanks, but I've already got a pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatics.

https://odysee.com/@NoVax:c/Hitchhikers-Guide-to-the-Galaxy-...

Bear in mind I'm interpreting the previous comment.

I'm familiar with many things Bayesian thanks :) However, I wouldn't assume everyone else is, even here.

Are you familiar with the meaning(s) of the word jargon? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/jargon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon

Just to provide an example, your previous comment could have been written something like this: "Being honest though, the guy's commit messages changed my preconceptions about how reliable and well-designed his code will be."

No knowledge of statistics required, Bayesian or otherwise.

I understood the point to be about using accessible language rather than jargon.

ITT: Tails wag dogs.

Ads are, in the vast majority, toxic shit. Endemic income inequality and unicorn worship has produced VC-backed hustle culture where "creators" spew "content" over platforms, and slap ads on top to generate income.

If a business can't generate sufficient income by selling a product, it's not a viable business. It's certainly not one I want to interact with.

Tail wags dog: Without advertising, all this content would be paywalled or simply wouldn't exist.

Dog wags tail: Sell your product, maybe give away samples. Sink or swim.