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>I am resisting the urge to disagree, but since you did (literally) write a book about building a browser, I will defer to your expertise and try to learn from you

Respect

I hear you, but being able to read books on my phone is a game changer for me. I wasn't able to do that with my old 5" phone. Also, along the same line, not straining my eyes to read a text or work email is pretty great too.

Does this stiff actually work? I feel like if your reputation is bad enough that a name change doesn't really do anything. For example: no one thought Academi was anything other than Blackwater. In my mind those those names have always been synonymous.

Libreboot has no binary blobs, Coreboot still has a couple. But modern CPU architectures require some of those blobs to function correctly. So Coreboot has broader compatibility with modern hardware than Libreboot.

Both are good, but I've always leaned towards Libreboot just cause I think ThinkPads from 2005-2008 look amazing and it's fun to know that there is no proprietary software on my computer.

Gentoo is great, but similar to LFS it is kind of a time suck. I migrated from Arch to Gentoo and it took me a while to figure out the right kernel parameters and USE flags for my system.

Not really open source, but I feel like http://zisworks.com is an honorable mention. He does custom FPGA's for high resolution monitors. It isn't as impressive today, but he's built boards that are capable of doing 4k @ 120hz. What I thought was particularly cool was 540p @ 480hz. Its wild! I've never seen something so smooth! Its like I experienced true level [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zBtJhgwBI

Obligatory https://wiby.me/ plug. If you're looking for a decent minimalist website search engine, this fits the bill pretty well.

>five fewer dollars in your pocket

>fifteen fewer dollars in your pocket

Definitely gave me a chuckle

Go to the reddit sidebar/wiki's. For example, if you want to learn another language, r/languagelearning has a very helpful wiki that is pretty comprehensive[1].

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/wiki/guide

>This web page does a terrible job representing the necessary install steps. It looks super combined but can be combined into three or maybe four commands.

  git clone <git-repository>; make; make update-assets

It's literally three commands, assuming you have all the dependencies like I did, all of which is written clearly on the project page. Even if you don't have the dependencies, it's trivial to install them. I don't understand what's so terrible about it.

Thanks for sharing your project! I've been messing around with it for the past couple of hours and I gotta say, it's a lot of fun! I really enjoy the aesthetics of it too. You clearly put a lot of thought into it and it really shows. I'm excited to see where it goes. :)

I was wondering, is there any interest in implementing a kind of single/two player mode? Something where, for example, you can operate the weapons systems while being able to do simple navigation durring a battle (essentially evasive maneuvers). I can see something like this being handy with limited players. Maybe this is already feature that I haven't discovered yet.

Either way, it's really cool and I've been having fun with it!

Good lord. Why is everyone so upset by this CSAM scanning? Google scans every email you send, Facebook tracks every gesture and post you click. What makes you think that apple hasn't been scanning, or at least had access to, all your stuff in the cloud anyways? The instant you trust your data with a third party, you forfeited your privacy. The whole CSAM thing isn't a revelation.

If you're upset by the thought of a third party entity looking at your stuff then stop using products by these companies. Use FOSS for your computer programs and OS's. Use a phone OS like graphene, /e/, or something else privacy oriented.

The only way to stop being a commodity is by sacrificing convenience and the only way to gain that convenience back is to build your own tools. Talk to the old timers here that have been using minimal OS's and building custom scripts for the past 20 years. They'll tell you that you get a level of speed, efficiency and customizability you can't get with name brand OS's.

The learning curve is worth it considering you build knowledge and skills not a lot of people today have. Not to mention you gain technological independence, which is worth its weight in gold.

More evidence to support my belief that everyone should just opt out of providing their identities whenever possible. Some people might call it fraud but things that occur on the internet isn't real life anyways. Why should I blend the two?

Though to be fair, whenever If I think I might get into trouble for not providing my real name I just use my initials.

IMHO this is how computers were meant to be used. The whole desktop environment thing has added too many layers of abstraction from the heart of computing.

I understand why everyone doesn't exclusively use console desktops, but it makes me a little sad to see so few people that do.

Maybe its because I'm on mobile, but your link brings me to a faculty page and nothing there suggests Pythagoras wasn't a person.

I even went through the syllabus of the most closely related of their past lectures (a quick history of ancient mathematics and mathematical ideas) and I quickly realized that I don't even know which book to read to try find anything related to Pythagoras' existence.

Is there a specific piece of text I could read that would verify your claim?

I should have clarified...

>Emacs seems to be in the same position as LaTeX: Outdated paradigms that would probably need an entire redesign from the ground up to start "making sense" in the modern world.

I was really responding to this. You're right though: there are aspects of Emacs that are dated, the UI isn't very spiffy, and I've never dealt with elisp before so I'll take your--and everyone else's--word for that. I was just suggesting that it gets the job done for a lot of people and maybe, as a result, shouldn't be classified as outdated.

Why redo something if it works? People are still using Fortran because it works well for certain applications. Just because its old doesn't mean its outdated.

I could even argue that since Emacs hasn't been phased out (and still has a decent user base) that it does something that other text editors don't (or can't) do.

Honest question: why does apple think this will help anything? From what I've read, it looks like the sheer volume of the problem out weights virtually any solution (within reason) [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...

For laptops I'd recommend the framework laptop (https://frame.work/). It's thin, powerful, and modular.

Good. I hope they all go out of business. Their predatory practices are the reason why social media is so toxic. I'm honestly amazed that companies haven't figured out that advertisements are far less effective than they claim to be and they are probably over spending on them [1].

[1] https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/research/resear...

>I don't really get what makes it UNIX-style

I think what they meant was that it's an entirely text based program. Perhaps they are conflating UNIX with CLI.

    >It's insanely hard to avoid that main stream media content

It's very easy. I modify my hosts file with lists such as Steven Blacks [1] or the EnergizedProtection host lists [2] which are both continuously updated files containing know ad server URL's and whatnot.

I can honestly say that I haven't seen an ad in years, let alone any form of divisive content. But I also might just not visit many websites where they show that stuff. The best solution to that is to avoid those sites if possible.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[2] https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block

Are there any Firefox equivalents to Falcon? I'm very interested in something like this.

They have over 140,000 points, post multiple times a day and never write any comments. They sure look like a bot.

I've seen lots of profiles made around 2012 as well that post regularly but only have a tenth the amount of points as this one has.

Also, not sure why you're so quick to defend them. Bots are very common now a days. Its not unreasonable to assume most of the profiles that produce massive amounts of content on most social media platforms are bots.

Probably a karma bot

Am I the only one bored by virtually everything on social media? Everything feels like its been curated for either teens or people with exceptionally low attention spans. I find it all very annoying (With Hacker News being the exception).

I wish they had a transparent or even translucent option for the case. I think that that level of honesty, where a company can show off the internals of a product with confidence, is very much missed.

Plus, considering the complexity of the hardware, it would look amazing with a transparent case. It'd be almost like swiss watch.

Just wondering, it notes that the base model has 64GB and it has an SD card slot. 64GB isn't enough space to play most modern AAA games. Do SD card really have the bandwidth to play AAA games or Will the memory be upgradable post purchase?

I'm pretty sure millennials don't want kids because children are expensive. I think this has more to do with the phasing out of the middle class than anything. You can't buy a house on a blue collar paycheck anymore.

Also, for many women, its very hard to juggle motherhood and a career----if they chose to go that route.

There is also a choice now. Women can use a plethora of contraceptives that weren't as common in my parent generation.

Honestly, this whole "antinatalism" thing is all smoke and no fire.

>When the millenial zeitgeist has drifted in a direction where this is a common opinion, I take it to indicate that our socialization has taught some of us that humans have little inherent moral worth as individuals, the values of a family are subservient to the values of globalism, and all is nihilistic considering that we have a poor shot at solving the worst of our problems.

Uhhhh, What?

What a well written blog post. I couldn't agree more. I've almost entirely given up on movies as form of entertainment. Just like the author of the post notes, just about every new movie that comes out is predictable and boring.

I've been trying to transition to reading more literature for entertainment just because the variety of stories are a lot more diverse and interesting.