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westernpopular··on Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
> It also links to a Telegram exporter.

Telegram has this natively already

westernpopular··on Bugs I've filed on browsers
For what it's worth I do the exact same thing (although not on Mac so I haven't encountered this bug), so not too niche I suppose!
westernpopular··on The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
Bemoaning people maximizing terminals - what a weird hill to die on.
westernpopular··on Werner Herzog on beer, yoga and what he would ask God
Nobody ever talked about beginnings. The question is, even if the universe always was, why does it exist? It wouldn't be impossible for there to be nothing and never have been anything.
westernpopular··on The Beatles’ collaborative notes: Three ways to write a song
Why does this only talk about lyrics?
westernpopular··on Show HN: Speech Meter – Improve Your English Pronunciation
Well that's probably because Indian accents are not present as a category and everyone is forced into the US/UK/AU categories?
westernpopular··on A case for the capacity to reason of GPT-4
> To be able to predict accurately sentences that make sense, GPT-4 must have a internal way of representing concepts, such as "objects', "time", "family" and everything else under the sun.

[citation needed]

westernpopular··on Replit AI for All
Reminder that Replit's CEO bullied an open-source maintainer into killing his independent project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
westernpopular··on Numbers in Various Languages
Fun fact: the unusual way of saying eighty in French ("four twenties") actually came about through the local contact with Celtic languages! I'm linguistic terms this is called "substratum influence"
westernpopular··on Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
You can use https://www.composerize.com/ to see what a `docker run` command would look like as a docker-compose file
westernpopular··on EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
Not men, businesses. And businesses can and should be coerced to serve the people.
westernpopular··on Gmail and Instagram are training AI, and there’s little you can do about it
You do in some countries
westernpopular··on Reasons to not use your own domain for email
If getting access to your email is all it takes for someone to empty your bank account, you need to find a different bank.
westernpopular··on The case for Nushell
> Along those lines, a quick way to drive adoption could be a huge "how do i do x" or recipes page to Ctrl+F through. If I have to search the internet for how to do x in nushell/fish/etc, I might as well stick to arcane bash - at least you know someone has had the same problem before.

https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

westernpopular··on Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
I can tell you that in my passport, my name appears in two different places and it's spelled differently been them.

Also, a lot of people in the world don't have passports.

westernpopular··on Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack
What does time horizon mean?
westernpopular··on AI real-time human full-body photo generator
Your description had me curious, the picture had me laughing out loud
westernpopular··on Why it's so easy to ignore your to-do app but get distracted by Twitter (2016)
I especially liked the section about notifications in this article:

> In their article The Psychology of Notifications, Ximena Vengochea and Nir Eyal call notifications “the Pavlovian bell of the 21st century.” For app designers and users alike, this is a double-edged sword. While notifications are exciting and a way to engage users repeatedly, they’re also numbing. When half of your notifications aren’t relevant and you’re waiting for an important reply, it can be like getting phone calls from everyone but the pizza delivery guy. > [...] > A research paper published by Florida State University tested students’ reactions to a simple game against a group that played the same game but had audible notifications distracting them as they went. Even though the participants never acted on the notifications, the test indicated that the notification sounds or vibrations distracted them noticeably, and just as much as a phone call would.

Stuff like this is the reason that I've had notifications turned off on my phone for years now. I still see them when I check my phone "manually" (which I do more often than necessary anyway, sign of the times), but they don't make a sound or make the screen turn on. I think it's definitely helped me.

westernpopular··on Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
WhatsApp and Chrome is apples and oranges - not using WhatsApp comes at a social cost (especially in countries like Germany and India where almost everyone uses it) because you can no longer communicate with other WhatsApp users or participate in group chats.

Not using Chrome comes with zero cost - you can use the same websites everyone else is using, just use Firefox.

westernpopular··on Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API
This particular attack is actually not a concern if you're using fish (or zsh for that matter I think), as it will not execute pasted content without an additional pressing of the enter key.
westernpopular··on Use multiple Git SSH identities on a single computer
Not everyone lives in C world either
westernpopular··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
Even just removing it from that country's app store would mean 99% of people who might have used it otherwise won't use it. It doesn't need to be Impossible for the policy to be successful.
westernpopular··on Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law
*citizens and residents
westernpopular··on When Work Didn’t Follow You Home
Counterpoint, I work in an international company where teams in Europe often need to liaise with teams in the US. The policy is: if it needs to wait, it waits. If it can't wait, you need to reorganize your teams' responsibilities so that those who are reliant on each other are timezone-aligned.
westernpopular··on Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student
I second that. The time it took me from when I started to learn programming to getting paid for a project was just a little over year, and three years to steady pay (i.e. employment).

In contrast, I've been making music for over ten years of my life and have gotten paid a handful of times.

westernpopular··on Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student
This is just "capitalism breeds innovation" with extra steps, and the answer remains No.
westernpopular··on Devtools for mobile browsers
What if you're on the go and only have a phone available? I reckon this is intended for quick experiments, not in depth debugging.
westernpopular··on The Case Against Travel
Except people rarely ever do get a real insight into other people's lives and culture from just travelling, do they? You're not sharing your life with the locals, you're not friends, you're just walking around the city centre looking at sights and eating in restaurants. You're not going to work, commuting, having coffee with friends, going to house parties, etc
westernpopular··on Svelte 4
Alpine.js is instant coffee that's surprisingly decent?

Disclaimer: I <3 alpine.js

westernpopular··on Why Tcl?
Last I checked Elm was getting negative publicity not because of the language itself (heard a lot of good things about that) but because of the leadership?
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