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lloydjones

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lloydjones··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
Is this using ATProtocol? I wasn’t clear from the site.

Congrats!

lloydjones··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
Me too!

And a load of fake DMARC setup confirmation emails for a domain I own.

lloydjones··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
They are, yes
lloydjones··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
Having said that, I have become a lot better at being direct these past few years, so I'd likely just say "I'm not able to, sorry. I can recommend some good hotels though".
lloydjones··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
I think guessers agonise over HOW to say "No" in contexts like this, and what it says about them as people.

"Can my family and I stay for two weeks?".

Then:

"No." (looks cold and heartless; do I want to project cold and heartless? Will they hate me?).

"I'm so sorry but I'm not able to. The house is a mess and it's really small" (performative, hand-wringing reluctance; we both know I'm lying).

"I just don't like to share my environment" (most truthful; might look petty to those who don't understand the need for privacy to that degree).

lloydjones··on Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost?
I feel that his pretentious, overwrought and unctuous writing was perhaps all because of an emptiness or inadequacy… His final years as a nice old gay man seem much more _normal_ and real, and he seems less of a fantasist at that stage…
lloydjones··on AI agents break rules under everyday pressure
I’m more optimistic. I see there being iterations developed in conjunction with industry. It will sooner or later become strongly enforced and then to whatever extent it provides guardrails will be down to provisions in the act, plus interpretation.
lloydjones··on Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
I don’t really relate to many comments here stating “my approach is X”, or “I went from servant-leader to process-master-whatever leader”.

I’ve found that trying to be anything but flexible to the environment is unrealistic and even egotistical.

E.g, There are some environments where the CEO is so “command and control” that the “I want us all to bring our authentic selves to the peace circle of work, and from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, we will figure out a synergy that works for all” just won’t ever work.

And for me, being unable to adapt the approach to environment suggests ‘one trick pony’.

lloydjones··on AI agents break rules under everyday pressure
I tried to think about how we might (in the EU) start to think about this problem within the law, if of interest to anyone: https://www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/dq249o3c/release/1
lloydjones··on AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
Perhaps sovereign compute is the answer? We have open weights models, as a sort of ‘public commons’ that democratises that layer, but compute is still the bottleneck for big companies..
lloydjones··on Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella
How so?
lloydjones··on [dead]
My company (live with a few design partner users, but still on waitlist publicly) just experienced “search hijacking”.

Our site is https://visibil.ai, and somebody has created “visibili.ai”.

Our response is to throw more vowels at the problem: https://visibilii.vercel.app/

lloydjones··on Affinity Studio now free
I expressly bought this software (Designer, Photo, Publisher) out of principle, against Adobe's enshittification and monopolisation, and because it was premised on "pay once; own it forever".

This is obviously the 'tech circle of life' in action, but... how depressing...

I've always been guilty of preaching market diversification but sticking with the big(ger) players, but this sort of thing illustrates the need for multiple, viable players that all have good market share, so that – whenever one gets cannibalised and debased into some VC-money-addled marketing funnel – there are others to which people can flock in support/protest

lloydjones··on Make any TypeScript function durable
"use turnMyBrainOff";

"use blackBoxWrapperForEverything";

lloydjones··on HP SitePrint
You beat me to it!
lloydjones··on Ask HN: Why is LinkedIn's job search so bad?
I suspect none of it is a mistake. Allowing granular search would not get companies the job advert views they might be “paying for”, and also might reveal the sparseness of the jobs that match your exact criteria.
lloydjones··on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
To be clear: I am currently _not_ paying for it; I can just foresee a day where I'd have to.
lloydjones··on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
There's a cloud-based sync service (500mb of books; 10k translation chars). I'm currently storing 24 books (as I haven't moved them all across from the Kindle app yet) and I'm using 12% of this storage.

I suppose if you want to implement your own cloud-based (Dropbox? Google Drive?) storage service and circumvent the author's monetisation model, you could.

lloydjones··on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM
I’ve been using https://readest.com and very much enjoying it. I just wish there were a “lifetime purchase” option.
lloydjones··on Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
Okay, thanks for the info!
lloydjones··on Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
How (if at all) does /dev/push fundamentally differ to Coolify? Or does it not, but it's just an alternative?

(I saw the comment re: Streamlined UX, but is there anything else?)

lloydjones··on Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps
Thank you!
lloydjones··on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Try using a Bluesky-based solution so that everyone owns the content?

I made Bluniversal Comments partly for this, but there are other Bluesky-based solutions out there if you prefer.

lloydjones··on Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps
How does this differ to Mastra?
lloydjones··on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website
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lloydjones··on Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit
I encountered this exact issue (no buildkit with Podman) months ago. I gave up and used Docker desktop, but I'm glad you didn't. Well done!
lloydjones··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
Yes — I (as somebody who posts to promote my startup) wonder what the true goal is sometimes, as it’s ambiguous.

Certainly target customers and industry peers, but probably recruiters and VCs too.

My interpretation of how a very experienced recruiter once explained it to me is:

It’s “public life” online, and your public persona (in a “The Fall of Public Man” sense), and if you have no presence or a minimal one, when the time comes that you NEED attention (job seeking; shilling your business) you won’t have any listeners due to the algorithm.

Therefore one must constantly be telling the LI gods that they are an active user by posting perfunctory mediocrity.

It’s algorithm-gaming and cosplaying as a table-stakes activity for being “seen” or acknowledged to exist.

lloydjones··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
This is fantastic!

Sorry, ahem:

#Inspiring #CastTogether

lloydjones··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
In a sea of down to earth people, strive to stand out with pretentiousness #differentiate
lloydjones··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
Damn — HN strips emojis, putting my pastiche in danger of looking sincere
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