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foob4r··on I Am Deleting the Blog
Your morality is not relevant to good journalism.
foob4r··on I Am Deleting the Blog
Regardless, revealing someone's real name is orthogonal to clicks or ad revenue.
foob4r··on The Brave web browser is hijacking links, and inserting affiliate codes
This. HN is so entitled - I want the perfect thing, then complain about them trying to be sustainable.
foob4r··on Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
I was at a peaceful rally in Seattle last night, and a bunch of cops kept closing in and started shoving people.
foob4r··on Please Pay for Your News
That's a good discussion, but improving the model and sustaining the institution are orthogonal.

I do agree though that a lot of the problems are structural and systemic - that also does not negate the public's negative outlook towards journalism, or the sense of entitlement (read the comments here).

I do agree though that not enough tech people who can afford to don't pay for their news. Why? IDK. How to make them? Well maybe this post will persuade a few to do that.

foob4r··on Please Pay for Your News
News is not perfect, just like any other platform or business you use is not perfect.

I think paying for news and not reading all of it are orthogonal. If you don't like curation, RSS is still solid.

foob4r··on Please Pay for Your News
Do you ask for per-movie pricing from Netflix?
foob4r··on A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression
The different is that in the 90s, there was no clear evidence for pessimism about the future. The same is not true now.

Standard of living for most Americans is actually bad right now - trillions of student loan, no prospect of home ownership, no jobs, extreme income interest, weak authoritian governments,and let me know even start of climate change.

But hey, we have a new iPhone so I guess it's all fine.

foob4r··on A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression
False optimism about the future from older generations is nothing new - been happening for years now
foob4r··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
No my upstream is Cloudflare. Weirdly, I trust them.
foob4r··on NextDNS Is Out of Beta
That's awesome and I've tried nextdns and loved it. But - and this is just me - I just don't trust anyone to delete my logs or not log in the first place.

That's why I'll probably not move off of my pihole

foob4r··on Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies
Why should I give the benefit of the doubt to a billionaire autocrat who had done objectively more global harm than good?
foob4r··on Facebook Novi: Wallet for Libra Digital Currencies
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foob4r··on I won’t buy ebooks anymore
For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.

I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.

foob4r··on The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020
Here's mine: Jekyll blog with no js. Git push to my home server [1]. It runs in a docker container with a watch. The simplicity means adding a tor proxy in front was as easy as running another container.

[1] https://goel.io/blog-2020

foob4r··on Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
If Rogan is MSM, then Spotify killing the open RSS ecosystem is even worse that I thought.
foob4r··on Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
Since when is thinking about others you work with called "political correctness"?

I go to work to do my job and get a paycheck, ideally without drama. I don't give a day's ass about your MAGA hat.

foob4r··on Notion for everyone
Seems like people in this thread want an E2EE alternative. May I mention https://standardnotes.org/.

It's a very well built notes app, cross-platform. The dev team makes really solid decisions (they say no more than any other company to feature requests).

I'm in no way affiliated to them, just a happy paid customer who agrees with their mission and values.

foob4r··on Notion for everyone
I would recommend looking at Standard Notes. It's paid only but it's so worth it.
foob4r··on Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google
If this sets a precedent to sue say the telcos or banks or oil companies, I'm all for it.
foob4r··on Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
I use ovh (although the tor network is saturated with ovh) and https://tor-relay.co ; literally takes 5 mins after vm is provisioned.

Here's a giant list of hosts you can look into - https://community.torproject.org/relay/community-resources/g...

I spent maybe an hour researching based my in criteria. You can host just an exit (most helpful), or a couple of relays (aim for 100mbps+, and decent bandwidth). You can get a lot for $5/month for each relay.

foob4r··on Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
True although it's getting better every day.

I do use it frequently and do run a few relays, and that's probably the only way to improve it.

foob4r··on Patriot Act amendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails
I would be surprised if many of the common public believed that warrantless searches of anyone are reasonable, while exempting federal elected officials from the same law.

Now's a good time to call you senator (if they voted against this) and tell them that they fucked up by weakening your rights and freedoms.

Then, get a VPN or better use Tor as much as you can.

foob4r··on Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order
Tesla has said that employees that feel uncomfortable can stay at home, but that will be unpaid.
foob4r··on Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order
It's great that they are promising that, but I'm just going to leave this here:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26727/tesla-had-3-times-as-man...

Tesla Had 3 Times as Many OSHA Violations as the 10 Largest US Plants Combined

CEO Elon Musk once called California OSHA the 'most stringent' safety organization in the US.

foob4r··on Pi-hole 5.0
Woohoo been waiting for this for months.

I host pihole on a home server in a docker container and spend 5 mins a month just updating it. No other administration. Definitely use it to get rid of trackers and ads.

(I should add that I also pay for about dozen publications/newspapers that I read frequently in lieu of not seeing ads)

foob4r··on Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
Over an infinite period of time, sure.
foob4r··on Getting Back to Work
I see you've posted this at least once more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129942

Seems like you're just spamming without staying relevant to the topic here.

foob4r··on Getting Back to Work
Cancelling my Tesla pre-order - this is an abuse of workers (more blatant than before).
foob4r··on 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This x1000 is why I subscribe to a dozen publications (even though I don't read them all), and donate to non profit newsrooms whatever I can.
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