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m9731526··on Web3 is not Decentralisation – it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge
The fundamental problem with Web3 IMO is that in a perfect web3 world, if your address/hash/id is compromised, you lost everything.

Most people are not ready for this kind of responsibility--living without social contract. (Maybe I am using wrong words)

m9731526··on GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17
Minecraft itself it good enough for... pure Minecraft gamplay most of the time.

But it can overwhelm itself. There's a equipment called Elytra you can wear to slide down the air, and if you use Rocket when sliding, you gain a huge momentum boost.

If you keep boosting on a server, being fast enough to challenge the serverside world-loading, you can crash the server.

Another big defect is it's rendering is deeply tied to cpu time, and the game itself has limitation. My recent experience with a 200+ mods & shader setup is that with RTX3080TI (also better cpu) and GTX980TI it runs at same fps (20~30).

m9731526··on SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
There's a browser plugin named Decentraleyes does this.
m9731526··on Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
(Firefox)

- Sidebery: Vertical tabs, personally feels it's better then TreeStyleTabs

- Enhancer For Youtube

- Custom Scrollbars

- Decentraleyes: Use local javascript libs over remote ones

- Dark Reader: Dark mode for pages without dark mode

- To DeepL

m9731526··on Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence
There is a social app of similar idea called Slowly.

The time cost for "letters" to be delivered depends on the distance between personal selected location.

m9731526··on Why Tokyo Works
Yeah I am thinking about the possibility too...
m9731526··on Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived?
My recent experience of keeping 1000 tabs around and auto unloaded (managed by Sidebery, a vertical tab bar plugin), is that it usually occupies 3~5 GBs.
m9731526··on Crystal 1.2.0
It's interesting to see comments like "It's 2021 why can't you get Linux, you should or you are not qualified for a dev or even a CS student".

Though I manage my own cent VM, I'm really satisfied with my Windows environment, I can code in so many Languages and do so many things swiftly and easily on my delicately tinkered OS, why would I give it up to just code Crystal?

m9731526··on “looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”
I've been using Firefox for like over 10 years I guess.

It's just the best browser for me, I can hack the browser UI, freely arrange the buttons and bars, and I keep 10s of plugins installed to comfortably browse, learn and work.

m9731526··on Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts
Recently one of my friends got suspended for he commented like "LMAO" in our language. This sort of low quality audits combined with the fact that in Taiwan the auditors are severely biased toward China, make it harmful on its own.
m9731526··on Unity patents ECS
Oh, I thought the general definition of ECS is just about how to organize stuff. Or is that EC?
m9731526··on A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room
This resonate me, but also it's impractical to expect something achievable with tech to never happens as long as humanity exists. It's not even about who invent it. The only solution is new tech to counter... new tech, it's no way back, I believe.
m9731526··on Unity patents ECS
It's indeed really surprising to see them _patenting ECS_. Unity's ECS is a lot about cache-friendliness, not just simple entity-compoenent-system, though.
m9731526··on Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
Daily life is not affected at all, even economic is same or maybe better after Chinese tourists stop coming to Taiwan for general public.

To be honest, the overall situation is usually better then I expected, international/domestics politics, economic, etc.

Do war breaks out tomorrow? I don't know, it could be, but it never happened in these years even though they threaten every year to subdue us.

m9731526··on Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month?
Come to Taiwan.

My rent per month is about 336USD (live alone), I spend about 400USD per month on foods, and that's because I'm too lazy to eat out that I basically Ubereat everyday. (If you choose Taipei, the cost would be a bit higher, The point to live in Taipei is the convenience and it's more approachable to newcomers)

There's a lot foreigners in Taiwan, so it won't be much trouble to blend in I guess.

We have a excellent control over the pandemic, we welcome you as long as you respect the rules and are willing to self-discipline (especially in this pandemic).

Here I got a Discord server that a lot of members are foreigners in Taiwan: https://discordapp.com/invite/zFBqpET

m9731526··on Tools for Thinking
BTW, as for now I mainly use it to help me learning Japanese:

- See/Hear some Japanese words I don't understand

- Search it on goo (Japanese dictionary website)

- Clip it with Markdownload (https://github.com/deathau/markdownload)

- Format it with my plugin

- Read the content, weave the backlinks

Keep doing this then I have the super complicated graph in the plugin demo gif you can see.

m9731526··on Tools for Thinking
Login to recommend Obsidian, too. After several months of usage, I even created a regex plugin to enable me to build knowledge database even faster : https://github.com/No3371/obsidian-regex-pipeline
m9731526··on Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style
Guys just hide the tabbar with userChrome.css tweak and install Sidebery!
m9731526··on SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)
So true, I really have to say Explorer sucks. Recently I've been bothered by an issue that it tries to fully read every ts file, like maybe it's trying to read a Typescript file, but in my recent cases they are usually streamed video files of several GBs... It just never gives up and use my disk usage at 100%, I just have to kill explorer.exe everytime. I even tried messing with Registry about ts file but that's no good.

And even its Item Handler system is flawed. Still about .ts, it could stutter when I open context menu on ts files, then freeze forever if I hover over just 1 bit on "Open with" menu.

m9731526··on Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
Yeah, as long as one is not trying to purchase a real estate he can have a not bad life in Taiwan.
m9731526··on Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?
Taiwan. The minimum wage here is about 24000 TWD ≒ 860 USD. I started at 31000 for 2 months, 36000 for 1 year, now 41000 for another half year. Quite a big company though.
m9731526··on Ethereum: A Store of Value with Cash Flow [pdf]
> very vibrant ecosystem of developers and builders

Whenever I see someone say something like this for some blockchain, I wonder what exactly is exciting for them? Most dapps is about money and more money, I played with Ethereum before (like stress testing nodes), and would really like to know really innovating dapp these days -- I mean tech that solve existing real-world problems, not create new subjects to collect.

m9731526··on 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]
Over these years a lot of words and characters got banned, some with good intention like to stop lewd or not-suit-for-kiids content from spreading, most other times with intention to stop people from talking about things CCP not willing to let people discuss about.

If you can read Chinese, you will found that on some forums people are like talking with magic spells, in extreme cases, whole paragraph or article is composed of word/characters that pronounce same but looks different, or just looks similar enough so people understand what it implys.

Even if Chinese is my native language I can't read ciphertext of that level.

Talking about censorship, I'd like to share my 2 cents. For some time I had been actively browsing Zhihu (a Chinese knowledge sharing social platform), even posting and talking with the users. It's around a decade ago, the censorship back then was much looser. I am a Taiwanese, we even talked about a political incident which is basically Taiwanese people protesting about the ruling signing CSSTA... some Chinese agree, some do not, some just left hatred comments, but people back then was really talking and sharing opiinion. You find no more stuff like this now, the censorship got strengthened over years, a lot of topics are risky and people would rather not talk about it.

m9731526··on Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide
> the Xinjiang situation was mostly a response to the non-stopping terror attacks in the region for the last couple of decades.

How does CCP define terrorists? Do they show you how do they investigate then decide they are terrorists?

CCP can define any attacks as terrorist. In case it's a revolt against inhumane treatment, can they say they are under terroristic attack from CCP?

m9731526··on “User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
No profit vs Big profit
m9731526··on China's social credit system is both unique and part of a global trend
What do this question means? Do you think they mess around with so many neighbor countries is just looking for love, peace and equality?