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Signed up for a year as soon as I got the email announcement. Love NextDNS and excited to see where they go — particularly would love some sort of time-based scheduling or API for rule automations.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23275308

A great essay on Georgism:

“Georgism is an accelerationism, as it attempts to unchain capital—not from the restraints of humanity, but those of land, which eats cake in the stands as it watches capital and labor fight over crumbs.”

https://gravitylobby.club/trashcan.html

>Imagine sharing a gif in Signal and still being tracked by Facebook because every person that loads it needs to first download it from FB servers.

Signal's integration is specifically engineered to _not_ do this: https://signal.org/blog/signal-and-giphy-update/

For the uninitiated, worth noting that one of the names on this post, Ryan Dahl, was the original node.js developer.

Performance is just one reason companies adapt something like React Native, the ability to have web developers* come in and string native-quality components together is another. React Native can feel better than mobile web and have access to lower level APIs.

* I think this is more of a selling point than a reality. I think in practice, to make a React Native feel and work well requires native platform knowledge.

I found myself not liking the film very much, despite finding parts of it educational and illuminating.

Particularly, I found it really bizarre that it discusses the stoned ape theory without mentioning any of the criticism or prevailing theories against it. The movie just passes it (and most other things Stamets believes) along as unchallenged gospel.

It took me out of it and made the film feel (even more) ideologically one-sided, despite the fact that the film is full of interesting detail otherwise.

That contains all of the info linked above, but not the actual HBS case study.

I am similarly curious! The only thing I could find is this paywalled link: https://www.coursehero.com/file/p49pacr/Mitchell-was-able-to...

I block all Facebook domains with the NextDNS iOS app — didn't seem to be affected by this. Blocking spyware has its perks.

Not OP, but it's also the 20 year anniversary

>infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 4 May 2000

Anyone know how to get this working with vim-fugitive? https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

Why? The products aren't similar.

How does this fare with the Apple Pencil via Sidecar? Would definitely try this out if it works well.

Today I use ngrok for this and it works brilliantly:

    $ ngrok http https://myapp

and then I can point my clients at <random domain>.ngrok.io and inspect the request contents locally. How does this compare to that?

Here's a couple (albeit macOS focused) favorites of mine:

- Deliveries: macOS / iOS package tracking https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deliveries-a-package-tracker...

- Screenotate: OCR all of your screenshots with metadata like program/webpage https://screenotate.com

- The Tagger: lightweight macOS utility to tag music / fetch metadata from discogs https://deadbeatsw.com/thetagger/

- youtube-dl: Download any video / song online https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/

It was fun thinking of these, I actually put together a blog post a while back listing my favorite software. Would love to revisit it soon: https://lukemil.es/blog/software-i-like

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byte is an app where creators make looping 6 second videos, from some of the same people that brought you Vine. Our goals are to democratize creativity and give our audience tools to make creative, interesting, and unique content.

We launched at the end of January and have fundraised enough to get us to our next goal. Our technical stack includes Go, Google Spanner, and Google Cloud Platform for the backend, and Swift/Kotlin on our iOS/Android apps respectively.

We're looking for engineers that are thoughtful and excited about helping creators express themselves, and get excited about building new tools and algorithms to help people browsing the app discover content that suits them.

We offer competitive salary and equity, great benefits, a flexible/remote working environment and fun problems. Come join us!

Feel free to apply using these links or email me directly at luke@byte.co — happy to answer any questions.

Android engineers: https://jobs.lever.co/byte-2/8969f10b-e81f-48ff-830a-7c7079f...

Backend engineers: https://jobs.lever.co/byte-2/6eb31ae6-7c44-438c-b406-45cbbc9...

iOS engineers: https://jobs.lever.co/byte-2/f4fe0b53-690b-40c4-9c7e-467bdce...

This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub's ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you'll see this there too.

I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from a US sanctioned country contribute to my repo will I be banned? Hopefully mindshare moves to alternatives in due time.

I’ve had issues with Time Machine in the past but have been pretty happy to date with Arq and Backblaze B2. Eventually want to configure it to use a local NAS as well.

I felt similarly about The Daily. I started listening to NPR's "Up First" podcast and like it a lot better; it's quite similar but less dramatized and personality-driven.

For the link hijacking, it's worth noting that Apple News only exists/is pre-installed in a handful of markets and is uninstallable. But yeah, baffling.

Don't use Hammerspoon, but I've managed to create `sudo killall` keybindings with skhd by wrapping AppleScript.

    cmd + shift - 9 : /usr/bin/osascript -e 'do shell script "killall coreaudiod 2>&1" with administrator privileges'

Here's the relevant line from my skhd configuration. This does pop a password prompt, but it works. I imagine you could adapt this to fit Hammerspoon.

Their about page[0] is interesting.

> "Pika is building a world where third-party libraries can be loaded, cached, and shared across sites" ... "With ESM and cross-origin caching, we can create a world where sites can share cached dependencies."

This is an interesting angle on a package registry. The goal seems difficult to achieve as well since the common web cache as we know it is dying[1]. It seems like we'd need some sort of "dependency" support for web browsers if we'd ever want to achieve it.

[0]: https://www.pika.dev/about

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21429621

Looks like the site fell over.

Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20191021142028/www.nikobell.ca/t...

This could probably work, but remember that there’s a lot of tracking that happens by programmatic ad exchanges. To get a sense of this, look at the dozens of sites in a media company’s ads.txt, e.g. https://cnn.com/ads.txt

A big player like Facebook could ask media companies to set up fb.cnn.com or similar, but I imagine this is where we start to enter “security vulnerability” territory, where Apple uses different heuristics to ban this approach.

This is an interesting point. Netflix has survived multiple price increases over the years, but they offer content that isn't available anywhere else. I think what will probably happen is one music streaming service will raise prices and the others will eventually follow.

Patreon also hosts mp3s and provides RSS feeds for podcasters, whom of which are among some of their largest users. It wouldn’t be inconceivable for them to start hosting video content.

Surprisingly enough, when Instagram copied Snapchat's stories feature, they credited Snapchat.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/02/silicon-copy/

Change "Suggesting" to "Viewing" in the top right to get rid of the vandalism for now.

(2018)