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Hehe, I was confused like -- no yes this what I think too!

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Still waiting on e-ink laptops. This just seems like a no-brainer.

One thing goes through my mind on this; why the hell is this so hard for people to just pick individually? We could have built the web and apps differently to just more-or-less work the same as most ebook readers. PICK WHAT YOU LIKE.

Do your part; remind people that Github is not git. Git is decentralizable and people should know this.

Sure. I trust people follow this to its logical end, which is how bad our mental model of "work" is. The more I think about it, this may get to the heart of all of our (bad) economic theory. Which is that, in a simple survival sense, there is no requirement whatsoever that "everybody works," or even contributes, but to have a functioning society, we do whatever it is we're doing now.

Something like UBI with extra steps.

And perhaps the bigger issue to get over, there perhaps ought not be a moral component to this, in a world where technology + a small number of people can easily take care of ALL actual needs.

Yeah, I'm a long time user/disciple of https://zim-wiki.org ; it was basically Obsidian but 15-20 years early. To do some of the things that are now trivially easy with Obsidian I learned scripting and such, so I'm familiar with this very weird coincidence/name collision.

And for those who are only vaguely familiar, this ZIM file format is not the same as the https://zim-wiki.org one.

Are we disagreeing? It sounds like we agree.

eh, look up Richard Stallman et al. This isn't about "user preference," it's about preserving freedom in computing.

No, double down -- You personally are not forced to use it, but today this is a terrible argument that, perhaps subconsciously, reinforces the falsehood that "you don't have to use it" is an okay and reasonable response, when it's really merely a selfish one.

Again, Linux is everywhere and the better thing to do is to consider how the bad rollout of Wayland affects everyone -- especially, e.g. that rising 2 or 3 percent who are going for it on the desktop. It is FAR more important to raise that marketshare -- or at least to consider the possibility of it -- than it is to preserve some notion of "well it works for me."

"Who is forced to use it" is an extremely dated argument strategy that has absolutely no place whatsoever in modern computing. Linux is far too ubiquitous for such a notion to be taken seriously. It's not far from "who is forced to use Macs instead of Windows."

Feels like some unfair downvotes, so I'll ask again.

In what other countries could one publicly shame the authorities this severely? I think that's what was meant here.

And yes, it's great.

Other way around, right? Those types select that job. You're weak but you want to appear powerful, so...

"Of course?"

Where is that coming from?

Do you seriously not believe (well, know) that sadly, many cops do this ALL THE TIME?

Yes, but also I often argue that the Wii is better "VR" than VR, because you can play with your friends, which is probably the real "killer app" of gaming?

It's almost hard to tell even if I'm right about this because Meta's marketing was side-splittingly hilariously awful.

"Put on your headset and go into an office meeting!"

It really boggles the mind.

As I've heard and said elsewhere -- VR Games are absolutely like a day at the fair. But no one wants to go to the fair EVERY DAY.

I mean, the heading of the video says "he solved the problem," which I think is wise to pay a lot of attention to.

I think quite the opposite for precisely the reason you're saying?

Which is to say, he's doing a very good job of reminding you/us nerds that "there should be no excuse for this, technical or otherwise." The technology exists to make this work very well and has for sometime; I GET why it's not working now, but that doesn't make it any less garbage.

This may be the most wrongheaded and intellectually lazy post I've seen on this site, and I'm glad to see folks responding accordingly.

To go up one level of abstraction; any thoughts on to whether or not we might actually be able "solve" the time old problem of "which data format" thanks to ubiquitous AI tooling?

Just kind of spitballing here, but in a world where can point AI at some good, or badly formed -- XML, json, toml whatever and just kind of say "hey, what's going on here, fix it?"

Came for this, I use it a lot as someone who has a ton of rando different logitech things.

One deal that I haven't dived into -- what is up with the ones that appear to limit how many times you can change devices? Is that real and not hackable?

I would be very comfortable with - re-run 100 times with different seeds. If the outcome is the same every time, you're reliably good to go.

No clue what that refers to, it's not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is -- we can observe that "don't post what you don't want posted" is an insufficient response to our current internet in terms of safety and publicity.

I'm also putting forth the idea that the ATProto thing for social media makes us marginally less safe, due to its technical "centralization via confirmation" of the data it "broadcasts."

Fair, I'm aware and I am conflating what people do with Bluesky and what ATProto can do. I absolutely do see the value in ATProto doing things that aren't "social media"

Y'all. Every year for attendance in one of my classes I just pass around a sheet of paper, first and last name on the left, school id code (which does incorporate initials of names) on the right, with space in between.

I'm thinking there's no way an AI can get it right. 50 IT students (like people who don't write on a regular basis) different handwriting, and it's not lined paper and the names and ID are NOT aligned.

Tried Copilot, not even close or usable.

Gemini gave me a perfect spreadsheet/csv. I'm not sure if this is impressive to others or whatnot, but that one blew me away.

AGAIN, we are way past SIMPLE SOLUTIONS like this. We have enough data and information to be able to see the potential for harm that we can mitigate through smart policy without falling back on this simple argument.

Unfair characterization. You can make informed prediction about these 2nd order effects without thinking they are dumb. I don't think people who send nudes with Snapchat behaving as if they will be definitely deleted are dumb either because, you know, the heart wants what it wants.

That doesn't mean that there is no danger of people having "buyer's" regret later, or more importantly that there are issues beyond the individuals.