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It's not my project, but the dude's work is very nice indeed.

It's gopher://hngopher.com:70/ for anyone reading this that wants to check it out.

I love Gopher, it's a nice, extremely light protocol with none of the added BS I hate about the web. The only people who use it these days are a particular type of person, the type that I generally enjoy reading the thoughts and work of.

I actually setup a new service on Gopher recently, a lightweight Google News reader[1] and it works better than I could have really hoped.

[1] http://muezza.ca/projects/gophernews/

Not natively, though some have heavily abused search selectors for form input: https://github.com/michael-lazar/flask-gopher/blob/master/de...

For sending data a Gopher server would need to be paired with an FTP server.

Tiny homes didn’t start out expensive. I remember years ago when it was just something eccentric people did to get away from society which they talked about on very obscure forums. Those tiny homes were not luxurious, they were spartan and not the sort of thing the average person would have liked. The idea of having them on trailers wasn’t really a thing yet at that point.

Of course at some point someone saw dollar signs and the rest is history.

Personally? Because I don't think the stress is worth it. I've been in this situation and find it unbearable.

Exactly. The moment upper management utters the word 'layoff' in any context, or tries to reassure workers it's time to GTFO immediately.

I'm super hesitant to take any position at all on this given who the author is and the issues surrounding him, so I will comment more generally.

The internet is becoming smaller (I don't mean in physical size), more centralized, controlled by fewer parties, and I really fear at this point how far that is going to continue in the future. Truthfully at one point I never thought we'd end up where we now find ourselves.

I see the dream of what the internet was supposed to be dying and it makes feel hopeless if I'm honest. It's one of the most important things we've ever collectively built and yet I'm increasingly cynical about its impact and future.

I would rather death than life in prison, much less life with years of solitary mixed in. I don't understand how the inmates deal with it, or why many prefer to live such an awful existence compared to a quick end.

Life in prison, especially an American prison sounds like its own form of hell. All of my energy would go into "checking out" if I found myself in that situation. It's not worth living at that point.

I'm certainly at a point where I no longer think things will get better and well I'm skeptical of the entire psychiatry industry, even the slightest chance is worth taking at this point.

Thanks for the well wishes, I really hope in a few months from now I can look back and see some progress.

I’m in this exact same boat right now, word for word, other than I haven’t had the assessment yet (very soon though).

I’m quite literally desperate for any answers at this point, my teen years and 20s were on the whole, an absurd nightmare.

The only thing that worries me is they’ll tell me I have it because that’s the easy thing to do. I don’t want a diagnosis unless they’re 100% sure and I worry that paying for the assessment will bias the outcome.

I really think this phenomenon is due to just how hard a diagnosis is to get in many countries.

Here in Canada you need a referral from a doctor (hard to get on its own), then you have to wait many months to years to see someone. Alternatively you can go private and spend quite literally thousands of dollars like I have.

Teens may recognize something is wrong, but simply not have access to the systems they need. We don’t want people to self diagnosing, but we as a society don’t enable them to get the help they need, so they turn to social media.

A website chooses to show ads, but I have not agreed to view them. HTTP does not force me to make requests, the law doesn’t force my computer to make requests, and not making requests is not immoral. There is no agreement my computer will request any particular resource on a server, I am the one with control in this particular situation.

When ads are blocked the protocol is working exactly as designed. If you don’t like me blocking your ads, you should block me. When I encounter sites that block adblock users, I simply write them off and never return. If you don’t block me? Clearly you see the ads as optional too.

Remember that just like I don’t have to make a request to a server, that server doesn’t have to respond to my requests.

I have lived in a place where many of those examples of public ads were actually banned by the government. It was something I took for granted until I visited other places at which point I realized how good we had it.

The majority ads are garish, visual clutter that do not respect individuals, ruin our surroundings, and we’d be better off without them.

> if you don't like websites with ads, don't use websites with ads.

I wish this was a tenable solution as if this were practical it’s exactly what I’d do. As it stands I can’t even use basic web search without ads, or even my banks online banking service!

Even services which I pay for are increasingly getting greedy and showing ads, which is unacceptable.

I do find advertising offensive, but I’m not fundamentally opposed to the concept. In reality though online ads are heavily abused by almost company/individual and I will opt to control my network traffic as I see fit.

It was always possible to have a private unlisted number, though it typically cost a buck or two extra a month. My family and myself always chose that option, we didn’t want random people calling us.

800$ in Canada, at that price point it’s impossible to justify buying it instead of an M1 Mac Mini for 100$ more as a general use machine, especially given the sorry state of Windows-ARM.

Given it’s a dev kit companies won’t care about cost, but I can’t see many being sold to independent/small developers, the excitement just isn’t there.

I’m not speaking for myself on this one, but don’t most people profess to hate their jobs? I’ve met very few who love working.

It often does though, which is why having the right people in high positions is important. The CEO is the face of the company and for better or worse the company will be judged by their actions to some degree.

I mean you can do as you want, but I find the extra clutter and visual noise of these banners infuriating.

Block them or don’t block them, it should be up to the user.

There are, I use one that does this for FF. Fewer choices maybe, but I don’t want to be inundated with these kinds of popups on every site.

If the site can function with fewer cookies it should simply do so by default.

My mother suffers from this, and has for over a year now. It’s had serious effects on her mental health, self image, and in some cases daily functioning. In her case it has improved, but it has not resolved itself and probably never fully will at this point.

I won’t say what its onset coincided with though (you can figure it out).

A marginally updated iPad for the masses to buy, good I guess? Hard to get excited, but I’m sure some will appreciate USBC.

I’ve written a tagging system from scratch for an existing system and it was one of the most interesting things I’ve worked out. I had total control over how it was implemented and I think I came up with a really nice, minimalist, scalable way to tag things, and to search them.

Americans will get a little closer to what we deal with in Canada and reduced/nonexistent choices.

Hi HN,

This is a very quickly thrown together project I started yesterday. It's a simple Gopher server that provides very basic, plain text access to Google News. It's designed to be an even lighter weight version of 68k.news and was started primarily for my own personal use.

There's still a lot of work and cleanup todo (the initial code is a mess), but it's an early proof of concept that I'm going to expand upon. Thanks for taking a look :)

Check it out via lynx at gopher://gophernews.net:70/

More of a hostage situation given one can’t opt out of said society nor has a choice in joining it.

It’s definitely true, though I’m glad you’ve not had to whiteness such fates. I’ve seen it first hand with family members and it’s traumatic for all involved.

It’s not actually a tablet, it’s a blindingly bright white LED, one of the lights that is supposed to help with seasonal affective disorder.

I’m still not sure if it’s pseudoscience or not, but as we head into the dark half of the year I’ll try anything at this point.

I have no affiliation with Canadian Tire, but this is the exact product: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/ottlite-clearsun-led-ligh...

I’m really not sure honestly. I think there is something to be said about having the real thing, but I’m not really convinced in the physical hardware over emulation debate. I get the same enjoyment in emulated SNES games as I did as a child on a real SNES for example.

In this case? I enjoyed saving the Mac, fixing it, making a few minor upgrades along the way. Apple hardware and software integrates so well together and I think there’s a lot of reason to have the whole package. That said when using it I’m looking primarily at the screen alone.

I think it’s really subjective and depends on the person ultimately.