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emptyparadise··on Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from creating JSON5
Having a tolerable experience when forced to hand-write JSON?
emptyparadise··on 3Hz Computer, Hold the Transistors
Curta Assembly! What a cool idea.
emptyparadise··on Electron 20.0.0
Why is it that every time something goes wrong in the Linux GUI world, GNOME is involved?
emptyparadise··on What ever happened to the transhumanists?
Imagine buying a Facebook neuralink and having then datamine your thoughts.
emptyparadise··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
But ISP dangers are at least mitigated by HTTPS/proxies/VPNs/public Wi-Fi/Tor. Does Kagi have any comparable protections? It would actually be extremely cool if it did.
emptyparadise··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
I think what scares me about Kagi is the privacy aspect. One thing to look up "hot steamy decompiler software in my area" in an incognito tab (even if it's not particularly that private) and another to do that logged in to a service linked to your credit card linked to you through all the KYC.
emptyparadise··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
I love DDG but it's so overzealous with rewriting queries to include more (usually irrelevant) results.
emptyparadise··on The Feynman Technique
I removed `overflow: auto` from `#__next` and that fixed it.
emptyparadise··on The Feynman Technique
Seeing DALL-E illustrations makes me worry that the whole article will be GPT-3 nonsense. Thankfully that was not the case this time.
emptyparadise··on Botspam apocalypse
But then you end up forcing people to use Gmail.
emptyparadise··on North Korean Tactics (2020) [pdf]
We'll invent evil cyberpunk tech to serve more relevant ads then governments will use it to create the panopticon.
emptyparadise··on How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into the US military (2019)
just be a kitty cat in your free time you don't have to make it about sex
emptyparadise··on Famous HNers and their sites
Does HN allow you to go negative? I'd love to see a list of infamous HNers.
emptyparadise··on Two brothers selling shares in themselves
This idea gives "hostile takeover" a whole new meaning.
emptyparadise··on Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)
I just want a really small laptop like those Vaios from back in the day.
emptyparadise··on Information that won’t fit inside your head: Journals with and without bullets
I would honestly love to see more journals that look like this.
emptyparadise··on Information that won’t fit inside your head: Journals with and without bullets
Do you have any recommendations?
emptyparadise··on Information that won’t fit inside your head: Journals with and without bullets
This is wonderful.
emptyparadise··on Information that won’t fit inside your head: Journals with and without bullets
I always get so discouraged when looking for bullet journal resources because everyone has those pretty photogenic journals while I forget where I put my pens. Where do I find more "ugly" journals?
emptyparadise··on Considering Sourcehut
Glad to hear that's coming.
emptyparadise··on Considering Sourcehut
I don't even mind the separate component approach but I wish they would just have a single consistent navigation bar on all of them for switching between all the services for a project.
emptyparadise··on A 1968 massacre in Vietnam
Please be careful with this line of thought as it can slide into whataboutism really quickly.
emptyparadise··on Long Live Software Easter Eggs
>Not doing Easter eggs proves loyalty to power and order

Power and loyalty is everything these days. Surrender to corporate or perish. All whimsy is to be management-approved.

emptyparadise··on Contributing to WebSockets – Cryptocurrency Users
>Since websockets is released under an open-source license, you can use it for any purpose you like. However, I won’t spend any of my time to help you.

>I will summarily close issues related to Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in any way.

It's a free country.

emptyparadise··on The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
Do you think Y2K fixed itself?
emptyparadise··on Cloudflare had a partial outage
Who watches the watchmen?
emptyparadise··on Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
I really hope the mobile version will support uBlock Origin.
emptyparadise··on Why the government took home prices out of its main inflation index
Humans in a slowly boiling pot seems to be more accurate.
emptyparadise··on Apple previews innovative accessibility features
Stuff like this makes me remember why I used to like tech to begin with. I wonder if the watch can be controlled without touching it at all?
emptyparadise··on Welcome to the era of the hyper-surveilled office
Somehow that's the last thing anyone ever wants to try.
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