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slightwinder··on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
> Probably true. Do you have examples of what you're thinking of?

Bookmarks, contacts, notes for example, they are usually not time-based but by context, category or whichever organization their usage demands at the moment. They can be time-based in a journal, but usually I do not remember websites or people by the time I encountered them, so I would not search them this way.

The other question is how personal is personal in this project? Are my IMDB-ratings valid data for this? My Ebook-collection? My Steam-account? Those are usually things I would not manage in a timeline or a map, but with different interfaces and features.

slightwinder··on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
Interesting. But this seems to be limited to the supported data-sources? No generic format to build your own sources? Also, why the focus on a timeline? Not all personal data or tasks are time-related. So is this more about personal data, or a timeview on personal data?

If you want to have collaboration on this, maybe think about splitting it into backend and frontends. With the backend being the storage, and it's import-mechanism, and the frontend being open for anyone to put their own view onto the data, and maybe work with them.

Maintaining personal data has demand here, but so far there is no real unified project catering to a broad range of services and different types of data. So there is a space to fill and a community to build IMHO.

slightwinder··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
> And if you're doing serious AI, you basically go for a real computer with real computing power, and in that segment, the Arduino brand means nothing.

What about cheap AI for toys and gadgets? Maybe the next Furby or some smart Toaster could run on their chips. AI is spreading, moving into casual corners outside of hobbyists and high professionals, maybe they aim to get a foothold there?

slightwinder··on Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
But the analytics were not made in China or by a Chinese researcher. So unless they tampered with the skull's age somehow, they would have little influence here.
slightwinder··on German government comes out against Chat Control
How is that related? The other parties are not defining their opinions based on AFDs stance. Brandmauer only means they are not working with them, if it can be avoided, not they have to be different on everything. And most parties will have a different stance from the AFD naturally, simply by the fact that AFD are far right fascists.
slightwinder··on German government comes out against Chat Control
AFDs operation-mode is to be always against the government and most others, so usually they are always debating against it, just because.. And in their case its far more than the usual playing opposition, they often switch even on their own stances.

Additionally, this is something that would be in their ideological background. I guess they just fear to become victims themselves.

slightwinder··on German government comes out against Chat Control
> Many German political parties have extremist elements in them.

No, they don't. Extreme in this context is defined as anti-democratic, those who want to dismantle the system at its foundation and destroy democracy, usually while removing certain groups. That's not something other parties aim for. Sure, they want to change the system, but only to improve the democratic.

> but not okay calling out the far left

There are not many real far left parties in Germany, and usually they are very small, irrelevant and called far left. Most of them are also not against democracy, they are fine with the general system, but argue about details or the economic system. The biggest far left party is "Die Linke", and they are radical left, not extreme left. Maybe they do have some extreme voices, but they are irrelevant.

slightwinder··on Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
I don't think anyone seriously believes he will win. Despite making up all kind of wars and conflicts he claims to have solved, there hasn't been any real peace coming from him, yet. Maybe Gaza turns out to something real, but it's not done yet, and I kinda doubt they decide on these prices on a short whim. And if development in the USA continues like at the moment, I doubt he will be considered next year. It will be just one conflict cancelling out one peace.
slightwinder··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
> The fearmongers are the Greens who believe that nuclear reactors will generate 3 headed fish.

Nobody believes that, WTF?

> In the meantime, we increased energy production through coal

Partly true, but not really. Coal is also used for other energy-forms than just electricity. Nuclear Plants cannot cover those areas. In the grand scale, it might have been better to first reduce coal-usage and transition to purely electric usage, while phasing out of nuclear slowly and use the save money for building up on renewables.

But that was never an option with all the sabotages from the fossil anyway. Nuclear in Germany was never a real option, it always has been fossil vs electric, with nuclear being a minor source for electricity, weaponized by the fossil lobby against the renewables.

slightwinder··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
> This supply abruptly stopped, but instead of using the remaining nuclear power plants to mitigate the supply shock

There was nothing to mitigate. The nuclear plants deliver electricity, which was never a problem in Germany.

> he even accelerated the shutdown and sold it as inevitable.

That's a lie. They even prolonged the usage for some months to appease the fearmongers. But without fuel, there was a limit on how they could run anyway.

> unless he wanted to hurt German industry on purpose, which is not even unthinkable.

Ah, you're from the conspiracy-bubble...

slightwinder··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Nuclear has no relevance in Germany, never really had. The plants barely added any value to the market. When Habeck became Minister, most Nuclear plants were already gone, and the last remaining were phasing out, lacking nuclear fuel and permits. Habeck even gave a permit for the last plants to run some more months, squeezing out even the last parts of fuel as much as they could, just so they could serve as an additional supply in a problematic winter, which turned out to be unnecessary in the end.
slightwinder··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
It's mainly corruption, ignorance and incompetence. Germany has a strong fossil-lobby, because of industries and ancient home-tech. Around 15 Years ago, Germany had a strong solar-industry too, until the government basically buried it and sold it out to China, because of "failures" happening. Till today, there are forces trying to feed on nuclear-power and cheap Russian gas, while simultaneously sabotaging all renewables and electrification. It's so bad, they are willing to destroy whole industries for this BS.
slightwinder··on Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser
I've seen in the docs that the config does not support imports and also uses a special function for including config from other files. Will it stay this way? And does also prevent code from loading&eval via network? Maybe flesh this out more explicitly in the security-doc. It's not quite obvious from being in-between the docs.

Also, what about 3rd-partys? Can other webextensions access glides functions? Or even worse, websites? I guess this is prevented by Firefox itself, but explaining this more explicitly might be also an enhancement for the security-doc.

slightwinder··on Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser
Does this support DRM? Like playing Netflix and other commercial streaming-sites. I remember this being a big problem with Firefox-forks. What about Firefox Sync?

Is RPC from external processes possible with this? For example, calling the URL of the open tab, or a list of open tabs and their URLs and/or content? Or remote control a tab, navigating to other URLs, etc? This would be interesting for integrating it with other apps and scripts, and Firefox is somewhat lacking in that field.

How secure is this?

slightwinder··on TigerBeetle is a most interesting database
JSON-Messages over WebSockets. And proper path-format.
slightwinder··on TigerBeetle is a most interesting database
Isn't DNS a catastrophic clusterfuck which also had to be patched up multiple times to not allow people burning down the whole world? I mean, yes, it's doing its job, but mainly because of people doing their job.
slightwinder··on I only use Google Sheets
> A spreadsheet gives you a DB

They can emulate behaviour of databases; but the missing parts missing will haunt you. Spreadsheets are a jack of all trade, mastering nothing, haunting you with everything;.an amplifier for the Dunning–Kruger, where people are misguided about data-quality.

Spreadsheets are indeed a great tool, but the implementations we have today are bad, with too many booby traps, not enough safeguards, not even much comfort for those with higher demands.

slightwinder··on AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by Sag-Aftra: Tilly 'Is Not an Actor '
> Then what are they worried about?

Maybe that the industry is getting destroyed by greedy managers, before they figure out that it's harmful?

> But Pixar proved that it isn't true for their actors made of pixels, so why would it become true when the pixels are arranged with the help of AI?

Animated Characters are obviously fake, while still having real humans creating them. AI-Chars are somewhere in the uncanny valley, unreal, orchestrated.

slightwinder··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
Then you also stay away from US-productions? Japanese Games? UK? Germany? South Korea?

And this still has no relation with the quality of the games.

slightwinder··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
Why? Both are probably also buying to participate in the media/culture-war. So it's in their interests to also have some good products to sell. The worst that might happen is that all the good games are now leaning more to Arabian/Chinese culture, instead of US/Europe, which is not even a new development, Asian culture has been quite prominent in Western Countries because of Japan and South Korea, and China has been also growing in the last years. And China has some really funded productions, usually playing in the top of their genre.

Though, the cancer of gambling will continue spreading.

slightwinder··on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
It stopped Russia and other conflicts for the last decades... It's still preserving peace in Europe.

But there is no perfect solution. There always will be a maniac doing stupid shit because their personal benefit is more valuable for them than the greater good of everyone else. We are now in such a phase again, where all kind of maniacs have become loose, wasting societies for fun and giggles... We will have what we will make of it.

slightwinder··on The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers
Saving a dime today, to waste a dollar tomorrow, is not good.

DOGE has prominently trading long-term-benefits for short-term-gains. Some are already showing today, but many will show their harm in years and decades, too late to fix it, and when it will cost significant more to handle them.

slightwinder··on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
The flatpak-client starts here, but has permissions-problems with installing games. Probably because I have to use a different ssd from the one where the flatpak is installed at.
slightwinder··on The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol
Is there any serious medication without this warning? I was under the impression they all have it, as they can't 100% rule out any kind of sideeffect, even if it wouldn't be harmful.
slightwinder··on Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator
This reads as if he started Calibre when Python 2 was already deprecated..but to be clear, it was started some years before the first release of Python 3, 14 years before the deprecation.

And at the time of the beef, many bigger apps were not ported yet (some even till today). The authors' opinion was more an extremer version of something the whole community felt at the time.

slightwinder··on Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
Oh, is that why steam still depends on trashy 32bit-libs? Last week, after updating my Debian, steam broke because of that s**, and now I have to think about using a separate windows-machine just for this, until steam removes the 32bit-dependencies (which seems to be planned for 2026).
slightwinder··on New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death
Yes, those nutheads who are twisting it, not all nutheads who are in spiritual stuff. There are many old and ancient creeds which are barely changing for decades and centuries. Those can be also problematic, but usually their believers are more pragmatic and won't tell you how you can cure cancer by just praying hard enough while sipping the 200 dollar tea they sell you.
slightwinder··on New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death
I never claimed that everyone is doing this. Are you reflecting?
slightwinder··on New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death
I prefer to call it heat. Just to clarify the picture.
slightwinder··on New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death
Sadly, that's not how it works. Those nutheads are twisting everything to their convenience, and sell it to idiots, even at the cost of someone's live. And any "proof" of their BS is just solidifying all the other BS.
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