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dwhiton I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

for a less misanthropic take on the same idea, I recommend Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”

dwhiton What will enter the public domain in 2024?

I do think it’s bad that almost everyone will die before any work that influenced them enters the public domain

> I have a few qualms with this app: > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. > 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue. > 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

dwhiton Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules

Should you get a ticket for accidentally driving over the speed limit because your speedometer was broken? Should the company who made the speedometer get the ticket? What if the speedometer was broken due to a bug software the speedometer company bought? Should that company get the ticket?

dwhiton Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night

They voted to become a state in 2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_ref...

dwhiton The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”

Ironically, if enough people gave them a penny they wouldn’t have to run those quack informercials.

dwhiton A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)

Pol Pot did want to teach history, after all.

dwhiton Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat (2014)

Because the toxo doesn’t want us to sound the alarm

dwhiton California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate

Taking degenerates makes you a psychedelic?

dwhiton I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled

It’s just Hacker News confirmation bias. San Francisco has roughly the same level of property crime per capita as Toronto, Canada.

dwhiton 'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West

I don’t want to starve

dwhiton Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account

I would think the margin comes from their cut of software sales. Seems to work well for Apple.

dwhiton Programmable Search Engine

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=tf+idf

dwhiton The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election

Do not ever allow an election for who gets to control the nukes be decided by an e-vote. I don’t want Boaty McBoatface to be the president.

dwhiton [dead]

Wow what a fair and balanced headline.

dwhiton Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

Baltimore police are not exactly inactive, they are more like an organized gang (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b...).

dwhiton Shopify Goes Digital by Default

If you don’t need to be near Manhattan you don’t need to live there. Or maybe your loud neighbors won’t need to live there. Ceteris paribus working from home kinda sucks, but if you think about how many systems will change, I think it’s gonna get better.

dwhiton Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing

Current non-foldable phones have gorilla glass on top of their display.

dwhiton I Now Have a Cardiologist

A toilet that monitored urine and stool samples would be a major lifesaver.