hn-ifs

Yeah this is pretty much my sentiment. I want to discover I teresting stuff, main reason I'm on HN. But big S social media is a cancer on attention as far as I'm concerned, it serve no benefit to society.

The only times on the internet I've felt part of a community was on old web forums.

I used some of those similar web type services for discovery in the past but they became shit fast or shut down. HN is the nearest I can find that surfaces stuff I'm interested in. Social media might have stuff on it but I'm unwilling to waste my time trying to find it

> But you're posting here, in socisl media, no? So you sought out something here that a group chat wouldn't give.

This is true, of course. I'm here interacting with strangers. But, for me, HN is about discovery not community like what the article talks about. I'd be just as content not posting if the ability wasn't there. I just don't agree that social media is that important.

I personally think what the article talks about is already available in the form of group chats on platforms like signal. My impression, from the article, is the author is extremely politically motivated and seems to believe social media is somehow a good thing, as long as the people they don't like can't control it , and likely can't use it? That last point might not be true.

By open do you mean not centralised? I don't get the significance of big S social media. Functionally how would big S improve on group chats?

I've never really got social media in any of its forms. I use messaging apps to stay in contact with people I like, but that's about it.

I skimmed this article, I still don't get it. I think group chats cover most of what the author is taking about, public and private ones. But this might be my lack of imagination. I feel there article, and by extension, the talk could have been a lot shorter.

Clickbait. The piece argues Flutter is healthy (Google Trends up, 1M+ apps, big adopters like Google/Headspace, VC-backed tooling) but the authors focus is selling a Flutter course/tools.

I was recently looking at using Nushell to do the same thing. Nushell can natively do almost all you need for this.

I disagree, I use RSS so I don't need to clog up my email with feeds or sure updates, etc. I flat out refuse to sign up for mailing lists for the same reason. RSS is the perfect solution.

Interested. I miss when Firefox sorted in natively, even if it was bare minimum. I've been looking for a lightweight RSS reader for desktop. I'd probably ditch my mobile app too if this was compatible with Firefox mobile.

I love RSS. Like all the old web tech the user is in control. If I like a page/site I'll look for an RSS to keep up to date with it, if one doesn't exist I'll likely forget about it. I'm not signing up for email updates.

I'm infuriated t

Can't of happened then if you don't remember a story like it...

I suppose the issue here is trusting Google with your personal and business data. Mining that information for targeting advertising aside, it's not unheard of Google locking people out of their accounts with no reasons or obvious recourse.

I wonder what the best non-mega corp solution there is for this.

Can you elaborate? What does IDs have to do with religion/Christianity?

If you're using ublock origin in advanced mode (really miss umatrix) with JavaScript blocked by default, where you whitelist things. What does PB offer over and above this?

I'm a masters student, I've gone with a quarto workflow. From quarto markdown to Word, little bit of VBA for tables and images, and to pdf from there if needed. Technically I could go straight to pdf, but not tried that yet.

Now I'm on the computer this is the Nushell variant, you could probably do something with reduce too:

    ~> http get https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/BOU/63,62/forecast 
       | from json 
       | get properties.periods.temperature 
       | {average: ($in | math avg) minimum: ($in | math min) maximum: ($in | math max)}
    ╭─────────┬───────╮
    │ average │ 66.36 │
    │ minimum │ 52    │
    │ maximum │ 81    │
    ╰─────────┴───────╯
    ~>

I enjoyed reading that, but understood absolutely none of it.

This is the sort of thing I use Nushell for, brilliant data focus shell!

Out of interest, what happens in the case of say an open source chat app developed outside the EU. Let's add that the developers are anonymous too, like truecrypt. What power does this legislation have then?

Came here to ask why you'd want to run an app in docker. Genuinely don't get it. Sure the app doesn't touch the host system so there's isolation there, but the extra overhead doesn't seem justified to me. I'm not docker expert, so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this running a striped down version of Linux to run the app? Lighter than a full VM but... Yeah I don't get it.

This is what I use in a VM on my Linux host whenever I need to run something Windows.

I don't game and all my software is cross platform. Windows still has a few things I miss, programs like notepad++ (for which there's no true Linux equivalent), and portable apps (with Linux equivalents not really coming close, but understandably so).

Windows really is a broken OS solely set up for spying on users.

There's 2 and both involve `rm -r`.

Best thing to happen to the shell since powershell. Yes I said it, I like powershell, but Nushell is way better.

I remember looking at red ages ago but never got round to using it. I like to learn odd non-mainstream languages. Currently learning Nushell which is an amazing alternative shell. And I like the look of roc-lang too.

I'm desperate for a truly cross platform programming language with gui abilities on those platforms. I'm slowly learning dart/flutter for this but truly wish for something simpler. I get the reasoning behind flutters declarative style but it's certainly not simple, especially when you get to state management.

I love Quarto. I used to use pandoc but Quarto has some nice extras and managed things I would have to manually set up. I much prefer writing plain text with minimal markup in a simple text file rather than fighting with a GUI.

> I am only inspired to write a blog post every few months...

> Build failures of my static site, which has maybe a few dozen posts...

> Suggestions for alternatives welcome...

Plain HTML? No build process needed.