anotherevan

> I switched to Brave because Firefox no longer holds the technical or moral high ground.

Every time I see mention of "Brave" I'm reminded that Brendan left Mozilla because of his contributions to anti-gay rights causes, and then immediately founded a company called "Brave". In essence, to me, it felt like he was thumbing his nose and saying it was brave to be a homophobe.

So yeah, nah, comparing the moral high ground between Mozilla and quote Brave un-quote is not a compelling argument to me.

I have at least one box of old A/V cables and such sitting in my cupboard that I've been thinking I need to sort through and probably throw out.

Things like big, thick composite cables and extra long VGA cables.

Now… maybe not?

Yep, ziploc bags with the type of cable written in permanent marker.

Pro-tip, use a hole punch on a corner of the bag. That way, once zipped you can just squeeze it to get the air out.

Ha! I use CD spindles for… wait for it… CDs! Just opened the second drawer of my desk and counted four spindles of blank CDs and DVDs that I haven't used in years.

(I also hoard blank CD/DVD jewel cases. Who says technology ruins lives?)

“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”

http://www.azquotes.com/quote/362838

Except that it will get it wrong infrequently but often enough that you should really proof-read the result properly. All of which you end up taking more time than if you wrote proper if the first case.

You just gave me strong memories of using voice messages for a couple of months some years ago. In my defence, I had dropped a circular saw blade through the tip of my finger which slowed down my typing for a while. (I did manage to get surprisingly fast as a nine-finger touch typist, sans the left index finger.)

Fortunately my colleagues were very understanding, and I reverted back to text once I could type reasonably well and with minimal pain again.

"You millennials and your obsession with public healthcare. Back in my day we just died."

While I don't always agree with everything Drew writes, the title of his blog post[1], "Please stop externalising your costs directly into my face," really resonated with me.

At the end of the day I don't care how much of what you're presenting is your own words vs AI generated, as long as I can see evidence that you have reviewed and understood what you've passed to me. My resentment and ire is raised when the onus is pushed on me to be the first real human reviewer, having to do all the weighing of merit, practicality and in some cases plausibility that the quote un-quote author should have done before ever hitting send. It's passing the buck and an abdication of responsibility. It is lazy and makes more work for those you foist it upon when your role should be making the effort in your communications to make it easier for the recipient. Not wasting their time having to spend orders of magnitude more effort refuting bullshit you shouldn't have put out there in the first place.

It is something that has always pissed me off, however AI has made it fair easier for lazy people to think they sound smart and externalise their costs into my face.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/blog/Stop-externalizing-your-costs-o...

My problem is I thoroughly learned HTML and CSS twenty years ago and am only incidentally aware of how they have changed and improved since. (I'm mostly a backend programmer with some frontend skills. I work with another programmer who is the other way around. I also learnt during the time when new features to the specs moved into browsers at a glacial pace, making them hardly worth keeping up with.)

For example I was spinning up a new project and added SASS so I could do nesting to make things cleaner. My frontend counterpart pointed out that CSS already has that.

Anyone know of some good resources that would bring my knowledge up to date without trying to take me through first principles?

I must admit that I paused before hitting enter on that command and thought to myself, "Maybe I should download Ghostty and open it with that as a virtue signal." :-)

Watching my mum's descent into dementia, if (when?) I ever go down the same route, I plan to have, "You have dementia, be calm," tattooed on one arm, and pictures of my loved ones tattooed on the other.

Yeah, I'll add the abbreviated day ("Thu 3 Jul 2026") where it makes sense to.

Although my (AU) locale is dd-mm-yyyy, I'll use yyyy-mm-dd anywhere I have to write a date in all numbers to avoid any ambiguity. It also has the advantage of sorting correctly in things like file names.

For something more likely to be read by a human and not parsed by a computer (and is not locale or i18n/l10n flexible) I'll use d mmm yyyy, e.g., 3 Jul 2026. To my thinking, for English speaking this is the friendliest unambiguous format (although I'm sure opinions will differ).

Australian's use mostly the same, except for the time format where AM/PM is still predominant. Also Celsius for temperature and 1,000.0 for number formatting.

Only reacting to the title and/or the first couple of paragraphs instead of reading the whole thing?

The ctrl-tab tab switching behaviour being round-robin instead of stack[1] is what is keeping me on Konsole. None of the newer consoles (for Linux) seem to have this.

[1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2393

Truth social is unsuccessful?

Humour — it's so subjective.

Update: I am sorry. In case it's not obvious — I could not help it.

FTFY

This is why I find using speech-to-text tools quite difficult to use: because the parts of my brain that I use for writing and the parts of my brain I use for speaking are a little different — although with significant overlap.

With writing I find I'm drafting the flow for readability and clarity as I'm writing, so I go back and rework bits and pieces — sometimes even while I'm in the middle to typing a sentence. Maybe it's because I write code for a living.

Speech only moves forward and you have to state your retractions or clarifications on the go. You can't go back and edit what you've said.

I've been trying to use speech-to-text a bit to: a) give my hands a bit of a break when I'm writing prose, and b) see if it's faster than typing.

I find there are long pauses while I'm struggling to draft what I'm going to say to what I want written, so I'm not sure if it is faster (given that I'm a ten finger touch typist so can type pretty fast is short bursts, and the time spent going back and tidying up the output which is somewhat tedious). It might improve with more practice.

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It's possible you have a touch of prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness. It would make sense as you would recognise people you interact with more regularly by other things (e.g.: voice, or even body or posture as the grandparent comment mentioned), but unfamiliar people tend to me harder to identify.

Welcome to the crazy lolly shop that is Hacker News. Be warned though, as is written on many a candy wrapper: may contain nuts.

Also, it is positively charming that you think most of us took the time to properly read something before coming here to espouse an opinion. :-)

I still clearly remember in my early twenties being stunned to discover that the Astérix comics are originally written in French and then translated. Coming up with names like Getafix in English for the druid — incroyable.

You'd be full of shit.

Oh, sorry, I thought you said colon…

First personal little thing was a little mobile friendly website for taking coffee and tea orders. Two pages, one for someone to enter orders, second for listing orders and marking them as done. Was a bit of a gimmick idea I'd had in the back of my head for family lunches to save me running around with a scrap of paper and a pen asking what everyone wanted. Thought it would make a good little exploration of "vibe coding".

Second is a utility that will take a text file export from Wallabag, and use text to speech to convert it to an MP3 file. I then integrated it into a utility that I already wrote for managing articles so if I tag an article with listen it automatically gets converted and gets shunted to the podcast listening app on my phone.

Last was to recreate a little directory listing utility that I've had a 32-bit binary of for ages, but no longer (if ever) have the source code for. I'd always promised myself I would write it once I learned Rust, but decided try using AI as I was getting impatient to have it now. The utility lists all files, including hidden, in a directory, grouped by type. Below is an example listing the directory for the project itself:

    Directories:
    .hg            src            target         tests

    Files:
    .hgignore      AGENTS.md      ARCHITECTURE.md               CONTRIBUTING.md
    Cargo.lock     Cargo.toml     GEMINI.md      README.md      gemini-log.html

Some command-line flags to just list a particular type, such as only directories, or only unsatisfied symbolic links.

I've been saying this about Amazon with ebooks, and DRM'd goods in general for years.

I think comparing American AI to OnlyFans is in extremely poor taste. If I were OnlyFans I would sue. /s

Bear in mind that beacon is something of a hail Mary, though. No way to tell if it was successful or not or react if it wasn't.

I'm not blaming it on misogyny. I thought I was very clear that "medical misogyny" is a commonly used term, and was very specific on the definition.

Also, in this sibling comment thread[1] to yours I discussed with haldujai why we both dislike the term, specifically because of the animus is implies, which is inaccurate.

It is however, a term you will hear in discussions like this, so it is good to know what it means, and the fact that the problem as defined exists, no matter what you call it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392371