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stallmanite··on Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'
I’ve had basically the identical experience. I swear it even seems to turn off notifications to some of the more obscure channels and I have to turn them back on again. The niche stuff (Engineering, Chemistry, Modular-synth stuff, demoscene stuff, Math, countless others) is YouTube’s strength in my opinion. It’s disappointing that they so strongly discourage that use.
stallmanite··on The global fertility rate is falling
For anyone else wondering; apparently prehistoric Nordic people practiced killing of the elderly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ättestupa

stallmanite··on Doom Eternal Privacy Policy Allows Collection and Disclosure of Medical Records
Run it on a sacrificial designated machine or virtual machine?
stallmanite··on Alternative Career Paths That Software Developers Can Grow Into
I wouldn’t put most devs in the category but the existence of “bullshit jobs” that provide little to no value isn’t controversial is it?

Edit: other reply beat me to it

stallmanite··on App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m
Thank you for laying bare the specifics of this issue. It does seem indefensible.
stallmanite··on 'Street Fighter II' Wasn’t Just a Game, It Was a Portal
Oh my god I had the SFII promotional VHS tape! I’d forgotten about entirely. Thanks for the nostalgia.
stallmanite··on Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
I think of Reddit like New York City, it’s huge and there are many thousands of neighborhoods with plenty of heterogeneity. Almost anything you can think of can be found there if you know where to look.
stallmanite··on Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows
I’ve been out of the PHP game for a decade or so but Windows, Apache, and PHP always worked no problem. Maybe Windows, IIS, and PHP is a more fickle stack?
stallmanite··on Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time
Interesting idea. I wonder if instead of requiring oxygen to hand off electrons to during respiration we could substitute a simpler system by dumping the excess charge via a wire? Anyone with domain expertise care to comment on whether this is possible?
stallmanite··on Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains
Would work on a vaccine really slow down? There are many thousands of patients and how many does a vaccine study require in practice?
stallmanite··on Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date stable Linux kernel
The analogy between retrocomputing and classic car enthusiasts really captures the spirit of what’s going on well.
stallmanite··on Show HN: 70% of startup ideas suck. Yours doesn't have to. Alpha testers wanted
Very cool, thanks for your detailed response. Hopefully one day I’ll be in a position to use your services.
stallmanite··on My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards
I avoid all solicitation in general. If I want something I research it and buy it. I never make a purchcase based on an incoming offer of any sort even if I want the item or service and it’s a good deal. It avoids 90% of scams before I even enter the funnel.
stallmanite··on Show HN: 70% of startup ideas suck. Yours doesn't have to. Alpha testers wanted
Looks interesting. How does it work under the covers? Do you have an army of testers of various demographics?
stallmanite··on Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
I’m talking in the studio when the actual work is getting done. A soldered down ssd and ram is not a good investment for a studio musician who wants to be able to expand. Definitely for live shows fashion plays a role so you’re gonna see more macs. Re: the latency thing everybody I know just drops the $50 for a Focusrite 2x2 and installs the right ASIO driver.
stallmanite··on Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
Weird. What genres are your musician friends into? Must just the circles I travel with but in the parts of the techno/house/drum and bass scenes that I’m privy to in the US, UK, and Germany I see less than 5% macs probably and as the hardware has gotten less expandable (soldered ram, soldered ssd) that number has been decreasing further. Odd that we see such drastically different trends in our respective subcultures.
stallmanite··on A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune
Now’s your chance to become an obscure YouTube birdsong maven.
stallmanite··on Show HN: Getting fit in virtual reality with open source and Godot
I’ve been wanting something just like this. Thanks and thanks for providing source as well.
stallmanite··on Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
Thanks for your work on Ardour by the way. I’ve been attempting to move to a fully Linux-based solution for audio production on and off since the mid-2000s and Ardour is one of the best tools on the platform in my opinion.
stallmanite··on Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
Ok I don’t have a citation other than amongst the hundreds of djs and producers I’ve had contact with in the rave/club scenes over the past couple decades I’ve seen that Macs, Atari, and Amiga were dominant in the early 90s and by the early 2000s the tide was turning and now it’s almost exclusively Windows everywhere other than people doing all-hardware sequencing and modular stuff.

I haven’t exactly pestered everyone with a notepad and pencil taking a survey so I do not have a citation. I’d be VERY curious to hear a credible citation to the contrary showing that Macs are growing in use or even maintaining steady market share. That’s not what I see out in the world.

stallmanite··on Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour on fixing big Linux audio issues
At least in the electronic music world, production has long ago moved from Mac to Windows.
stallmanite··on Why do electron shells have set limits? (1999)
3blue1brown is most likely the greatest math teacher alive. I’ve looked far and wide and found nobody who competes. Any HN’ers have suggestions for other math educators working on his level?
stallmanite··on Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless
You’re right and I absolutely will be voting. I actually regret my earlier comment it didn’t contribute to the discussion.
stallmanite··on Hazard pay in focus as essential workers earn less than the jobless
I’d love to send that message but the other team seems dedicated to throwing the game. Biden is garbage
stallmanite··on Quantum fluctuations have been shown to affect macroscopic objects
Hmm, at least with an audio waveform one can have a DC offset wherein the average is not zero.
stallmanite··on NODE VOL 02 – A zine featuring open hardware projects and decentralized software
Gives me the feel of when I first read Phrack. Nice work
stallmanite··on 'It's hard to find maintainers': Linus Torvalds ponders Linux's future
Like the US “rescued” Iraq.
stallmanite··on What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (2011)
You may be onto something there. I wonder, has anyone done any real digging on why the heck so many people think being a morning person is morally good? It makes no sense to me.
stallmanite··on Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” released
Would encourage anybody on Ubuntu to give Linux Mint a try. It’s displaced Lubuntu as my go to distribution due to it being very polished overall while still being about as lightweight and fast as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
stallmanite··on Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
So the black site is somehow justified by the fact that there is crime in the area? This makes no sense. The black site is itself illegal and an example of lawlessness. How is an Abu Gharib clone helping solve the gamg problem? Did Abu Gharib really help out the efforts in Iraq?
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