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emptyparadiseon Writing down what I do in Obsidian

Personally my Obsidian notes are a reflection of the chaos in my head. The neurons (notes) of my second brain all interconnect without rhyme or reason or folders or tagging...

emptyparadiseon Twitter Suspends Kathy Griffin After She Changed Her Handle to ‘Elon Musk’

i thought comedy was legal now on twitter

emptyparadiseon Twitter’s Entire A11y Experience Team Let Go

dude do you expect the guy to say "my entire team were utter dipshits; never hire them"

emptyparadiseon Silicon Valley's Horrible Bosses

good bosses don't despise their employees

emptyparadiseon Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing

Of course, but it doesn't seem that any currently available text editor has this. Even the one mentioned in the Stack Overflow post is now gone, it seems.

Still, this looks amazing - thank you for implementing it. Would love to see this formatting UI used in more apps going forward.

emptyparadiseon Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back

Employee hazing?

emptyparadiseon Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing

I'm surprised that no other text editor has these text caret features already.

emptyparadiseon Searchable List of Mastodon Servers

That seems like a really nice way to do it.

"You can sign up with one of these main instances and follow people no matter where their account is. If you find make a lot of friends in a specific corner of the Fediverse, or just want to switch to another instance, you can do so whenever you want."

emptyparadiseon Searchable List of Mastodon Servers

I don't think Linux desktop has had its "Windows might implode and randomly shut down in the next year" moment yet. I can kind of see why Mastodon is getting discussed here again.

emptyparadiseon Goodbye, Elon

surely there's greater things to aim for in the world than shitposting on twitter

emptyparadiseon Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC

I mean of course those tik toks will show them drinking wine and attending yoga because showing actual work would violate their employment rules?

There's a lot of bad takes floating around, but "Twitter employees deserve it" is really unfair.

emptyparadiseon Tesla devs at Twitter misunderstand Slack privacy; leak fire lists based on LOC

The mental image of Elon Musk firing 100% of Twitter employees is quite funny.

Well, if you ignore the fact that 7000+ people would suffer.

emptyparadiseon Poll: How Old Are You?

    INT_MAX

emptyparadiseon Ask HN: Is everyone on Hacker News super charismatic?

This orange website is okay. I think the quality of links shared is very nice.

I don't particularly enjoy discussing certain topics that bring out some of the worst comments. This is usually contentious topics in the US like labour unions, mental health, LGBT rights.

Sometimes you get really nice replies, sometimes it will be absolutely insufferable braindead asshole takes. Sometimes the comments get soft-raided by people who only rarely actually post but are conspicuously invested in defending something (I noticed this happen a lot with posts discussing one website in particular that I'll leave unnamed). At least moderators eventually clean up the last kind.

emptyparadiseon SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency projects to be removed

if you do crypto i'm sure you can find a way to host your own sourcehut instance

emptyparadiseon Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet (2021)

We need to normalize anonymity online so Kiwi Farms wouldn't be able to kill people. The successful push for real identities destroyed the internet.

emptyparadiseon How I make a living working on SerenityOS

i wonder what sort of stuff these guys would even propose

"i will pay you 17 million dollars to add web 3.0 to serenity os"

emptyparadiseon How I make a living working on SerenityOS

please for the love of god let us have just one fun thing for fun and not for profit

just one thing in this rat race of a life that's not about money!!!!!!!

emptyparadiseon Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things

Personally I try to stick with POSIX sh (testing with dash), if I need anything fancier, I reach for Perl or Python.

emptyparadiseon The United States’ Unamendable Constitution

> It’s lasted more than two hundred years and hasn’t been amended in any meaningful way since 1971, more than half a century ago.

1971 again

the baader-meinhof phenomenon is following me everywhere i go

emptyparadiseon Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

about:blank gang here

personally i'd love to get a widget layer like the old mac dashboard or the windows 8 start menu. miss those a lot, but never really wanted to put those widgets in my browser...

emptyparadiseon Lawsuit filed against rent-setting software RealPage

we could've used computers for good but instead we're telling them to commit illegal price-fixing collusion

emptyparadiseon Microsoft 3D Movie Maker from 1995 Is Now Open-Source

that's not what happened

foone asked for it to be open sourced and then it was

https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1521698902579159040

emptyparadiseon Microsoft 3D Movie Maker from 1995 Is Now Open-Source

thank you foone

emptyparadiseon Why Gen X Failed

the only thing you can say in reply to that is 'ok boomer'

emptyparadiseon Tell HN: Google refusing Gmail login with Firefox

Bold of them to shadowban somebody for just following the instructions on screen.

emptyparadiseon Tell HN: Google refusing Gmail login with Firefox

Considering that Google's own login screen suggests using a private window if you're not using your own computer, you'd think that this would work.

emptyparadiseon The Canon Cat

Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface is a very good read. I didn't find myself agreeing with many of its proposed solutions to HCI problems, but it does an incredibly good job of identifying the issues that we still have to this day with user interfaces.

emptyparadiseon The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’

Calling it Prism would be especially funny in a disdainful way, given a certain NSA program.

emptyparadiseon Text generator: an Obsidian plugin that generates text using GPT-3 (OpenAI)

Finally, the ultimate optimization of your note-taking experience: just get the computer to do it for you.