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chridal··on What the brain's wiring looks like
No need for being rude.
chridal··on Hetzner Private Cloud
that doesn't have anything to do with my comment.
chridal··on Hetzner Private Cloud
You've really done a great job when the site explicitly has to state "Official Website"...
chridal··on Hetzner Private Cloud
This really needs a website that has a more modern feel to it. It doesn't exactly evoke trust.
chridal··on Hikikomori: The Postmodern Hermits of Japan
I just saw https://youtu.be/Jyfnl8K8fJM which covers this topic quite well
chridal··on Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
Firefox is going to need a large UI overhaul before I even consider laying my eyes on it. It looks terrible compared to Chrome. Maybe if Mozilla would employ me, I could fix that. It's very hard to stop Chrome's brand at this point.
chridal··on We Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (2012)
Article should be labeled (2012).
chridal··on Show HN: PgRebase, codebase management for Postgres
This is really cool! Having to manage functions manually is actually the reason I avoid using them for the most part. Exciting!
chridal··on Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
Your comment was a very interesting read. A shame that it didn't get any further discussion. I'll give The Book of the New Sun a go. Thanks for your insights.
chridal··on Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment
Hold option, select the text you want to copy, CMD/CTRL+C.
chridal··on Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol
Yes, I totally agree with this. We need to improve the tech, to the point of it being accessible and as good as the mainstream offerings.

The thing is also that we don't have any clear incentives to use P2P-services right now, because the silos aren't posing any clear threats to us as individuals. If we see something like a major data breach, or something like a "Snowden for social networks" that change the way we relate to these behemoths, we might just see users getting ready to give them up.

chridal··on Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol
I think there's also a whole lot of other issues. The technical part is one thing, but people's feelings are a lot harder to deal with.

We, hackers, think that everything is so sexy with P2P, federation and decentralization in general, but I don't think 'normal' people share that sentiment.

People love brands, they're surrounded by them, and they feel loyalty towards them. If there's no company behind something, it just won't feel right. You won't feel that push towards a thing. The reason why people use Snapchat isn't just because it's a good tool, it's also because it's cool.

I just don't see how something like GNU Social will ever become cool, if there isn't some timely and powerful brand to push it.

chridal··on Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol
There are a lot of them.

i.e. https://www.gnu.org/software/social/

chridal··on I don’t like computers
I loved this post, and so I wrote a small "reply post". http://valleybay.me/2016/11/05/death-of-the-internet/
chridal··on Origami Studio – Design Prototyping
This piece of software is amazing. Great job on this, Facebook! And thanks a lot for open sourcing it. I'd easily have paid a lot of money for this. I was actually looking into Flinto before seeing this. Thanks!
chridal··on Nearly there
But why does Mozilla really need a new identity? To me their identity feels really solid and strong. It's been exposed to developers and technically minded people for years and years, but also to regular users through Firefox.
chridal··on Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
I'd actually say that the presentation was really good. It's mostly in a very accessible form of humor that most can participate in. This presentation will not only be seen by those in the crowd but millions of people on Facebook. The people Mark needs to convince to use these products are not the old but the young, and by using that language I think he's reached the heart of many in the insanely large demographic this demo is targetting.

EDIT: Typo

chridal··on Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth
Might we see Snapchat turning into a Yahoo instead of a Google?
chridal··on Show HN: My side project – Laps – Client, Project and Time management
Nice colours, logo and name! You should have a look at Toggl. I just love how, in Toggl, you can start tracking something without creating a project first.
chridal··on The Way of the Gopher: Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang
Must be Erlang.