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al_be_back··on Is this the end of social networking?
no - but the context is shifting, from Chat -> Clips -> Streams. Though it's still mainly a medium to deliver adverts.

Social networking has pretty much replaced TV & traditional press - now it too must morph.

the biggest obstacles though I think to the social network are the app stores - not necessarily their own decisions but what politics of the day may impose on the store.

al_be_back··on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
not unless there is such a change, and it has to be significant to loose such weight. what does happen though is an increase in mental strain as the tournament progresses.
al_be_back··on What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
Bought a book at a lovely 2nd-hand bookstore in Utrecht, Netherlands - reading it weeks later I noticed there was a 1.5 inch wooden-wedge jammed tight into the gutter. It's still there.

That's one serious bookmark!

al_be_back··on Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk
> There's a business to be built in this space, I'm sure of it. I wish I had the expertise to take advantage of that

;) that's what an MVP is used for - prove key business assumptions.

as I see it, space is hardly the issue, nor build/engineering - as a species we are pretty apt at abstracting around them.

I've not had need to use VNC, remote desktop etc for years.

al_be_back··on Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk
It's just a client, written in C/GTK apparently [reddit - About Remmina](https://www.reddit.com/r/Remmina/)
al_be_back··on Twitter acquires Quill
wow - it's 20months from they first showed quill on HN (April 2020) - let's say it it had taken them 4 months prior to dev first version (Beta) - that's ~2 years to startup. Giving user 4-days to export data, it's it's pretty similar to pulling the power cable on the server to shut it down ... unless they just had friends & family (piloting) using it, it's very odd. that's also not taking into account data protection / retention periods that business have to comply with local/regional jurisdiction laws.

having said that, concrats on exiting - acquhire or not, it's no mean feat.

al_be_back··on How to Exit Vim
safe-rm voids that command ( https://launchpad.net/safe-rm )
al_be_back··on How to Exit Vim
one could use emacs instead - it's a sure way to exit vim ... :\ :/
al_be_back··on Krispy Kreme mule will be allowed to continue operating
that's an impressive hack - an entrepreneurial trait indeed.
al_be_back··on I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock
more like "I tried to adjust the time on my projector-cloaked-as-a-clock. I failed."
al_be_back··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
10/10 for accessibility - worth mentioning that at next performance review.
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