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ryu2k2on Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

The announcement is a marketing stunt to direct people to their website.

ryu2k2on Everything you do is being recorded

People wouldn't want this if they were adequately educated.

We're already seeing it.

ryu2k2on Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy

It sure is our business if companies are misappropriating science to sell harmful products or advertize harmful misuse of their products.

ryu2k2on Lego building instructions through time

The problem is that modern sets are made up of much higher numbers of parts (especially small ones). Building them would take forever if you had to pause and think every other step, or had to play where's Wally with a dozen new small pieces all the time. Lego would first have to backtrack to simpler sets again before fixing their instruction manuals.

ryu2k2on When the Internet Was a Place

You can't even do it ironically anymore because the average user doesn't pick up on it and whatever insane joke you pull will become internet norm in the future

ryu2k2on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

I made an account on twitter/x specifically to promote my site at some point. I was shadowbanned by default and had to follow other people, like and share their posts and comment on other's post just to get my own posts to show up on people's feeds. When I checked again at some later point I was shadowbanned again.

When I tried reddit I also noticed that I was shadowbanned by default and didn't even bother to do anything about because I assumed it would turn out the same way. Like I said you can use those sides to get the word out, but only if you're actively using them as a user to begin with.

ryu2k2on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

>syndicate elsewhere

That's almost a job in itself because you have to constantly make sure not to get shadowbanned. This is probably only an option for people who already use "social media" sites in the first place. Putting a link to your site in forum signatures was the way to go. Unfortunately, forums are 99% dead.

ryu2k2on Google is hurting new apps that have less users than competitors

Don't worry. The time when our computers will be locked down the same way will come in our life time.

ryu2k2on Show HN: A website/app to help manage your game library

I built mal for videogames too over 10 years ago. A friend also did individually. And I know at least 5 other sites that are "mal, but videogames" or have similar features.

Imo the concept is a waste of time until there are APIs for each console/store to fetch user data and automate libraries. Most users don't bother and the few that do already have accounts spread on like 10 different sites for this kind of thing. Personally these days I just keep csv files of my collection and play history and turn them to HTML via a ssg.Turns out that I don't need anything more than this.

But good luck!

ryu2k2on Ask HN: Where do you browse and chat outside of here?

The new layout, putting attached images and videos on the index, ruined Reddit forever. I recently went there to see what thoughts people on there had on a specific subject, only to find nothing but a stream of meme and social media posts. You really can't call it a forum anymore.

ryu2k2on Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

I only have an X account and got no censorship for #fucktrump

ryu2k2on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users (2022)

Honestly, I barely understand how Firefox's cookie protection works anymore. It used to have the simple option to block third party cookies that I had running all day and felt good with. That was until they started becoming necessary in certain scenarios (I can't even remember the details of what that was).

And then these days I have no idea if I can just accept a website's advertising cookies and expect Firefox to block them anyways, or if clicking on such a button would disable the browser's tracking protection.

ryu2k2on The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis

A few years back SO used to be the common top result for my search queries regarding tech and development. I'm not sure when the shift started, but these days it's always a list of content farm links with maybe a link to SO somewhere in between.

The result for me was that I started to rely much more on documentation and writing down notes of stuff I found myself looking up a lot. I never used SO directly for looking up stuff, always relied on search engines, and as they declined in quality I just stopped visiting SO almost alltogether.

I imagine I'm not the only one with this story. Considering users also abandoned the site for LLM assistans and the strict moderation on there, I'm not surprised it is in heavy decline.

ryu2k2on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community

Sounds like you're proposing the Matrix. No thanks.

ryu2k2on Not a single emperor penguin chick survived spring in parts of Antarctica

We did. As can be inferred from the title alone.

ryu2k2on Ask HN: What are the big/important problems to work on?

Sucking the carbondioxide out of the atmosphere doesn't seem to be a feasable plan, considering how vast earth's atmosphere is. My growing feeling is that we are long at the point where we need to start putting heavy restrictions in place to avoid desaster. Carbon capture technologies are already in development, but that alone isn't good enough to avert the coming crisis.

ryu2k2on Google vs. the Open Web

I don't want to play devil's advocate, but when I consider the history of personal computing it would almost surprise me if this didn't get through. From locked-down smartphones having become the norm to windows having turned into a carrier for advertisements, this just seems like the next step in some inevitable evolution of IT.

Maybe news agencies aren't much interested because this is still only an early proposal, but considering its implications I find it striking how little it seems to be talked about on the web (outside of hackernews). Rossmann seems to be the only one with a video on the topic up on Youtube. There's only a handful of Twitter results for "web environment integrity api" with next to no replies to them. When I look the keystring up on reddit the only result with a noteworthy amount of debate is not related to WEI at all. Social media is probably just on its last legs, but it doesn't seem like too many people that care are left to fight for what the web, or even general computing, used to be.

ryu2k2on The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality

>You don’t have inheritance [..]

Modern PL features are more or less wrappers around comparatively complex C code. Object inheritance is actually one that isn't too difficult or complex to implement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&t=4275s

ryu2k2on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.tohya.net/blog/index.html

It's mostly opinionpieces and reviews on videogames, but I occasionally publish programming related posts too.

- https://www.tohya.net/blog/programming/overthinking-web-app-...

- https://www.tohya.net/blog/videogames/the-evil-within-2-revi...

- https://www.tohya.net/blog/videogames/blasphemous-review.htm...

ryu2k2on Discord monetization: microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'

I think there's a real market for a non-profit discord-like platform on the open web, especially with all the reddit drama going on.

Part of me wants to build this. The larger part knows I'll never ship a game when I keep letting web projects get into the way.

ryu2k2on We need a more sophisticated debate about AI

I find it a little worrying that nobody seems to be considering the implication for society at large. We're having enough trouble with the disconnect of people brought about by social media.

What's going to happen to us when people are less and less required to work with each other in collaboration to get their work done?

ryu2k2on Vim Splits: A Guide to Doing What You Want (2010)

I use dwm for my windows and both tabs and splits in vim

ryu2k2on The Web We Want

Can they help building a time machine to undo the iPhone?

ryu2k2on Where we see shapes, AI sees textures

Just a temporary restriction until we start training AI in robots by interaction with the real world.

ryu2k2on I forgot how to manage a server

He didn't forget how to manage a web server. He knew his problems, how to look for solutions and how to apply them. That's an important skillset to. Especially since it enables one to keep up with change. You're not a professional sysadmin if you only mindlessly keep using the same configurations that were taught to you.

ryu2k2on Mastodon and Keybase

just call them "posts" or "microposts" if you don't like "toot"

ryu2k2on Exposing the Wayland lie (2018)

Why do we need the power of GPUs meant for fast and complex 3D graphics applications to draw 2D text, lines and icons?

ryu2k2on Why do all websites look the same?

All webdevs use the same tools that push certain directions. No webdev has the time to be creative and try out new things so they build each website the same way.

Diversity is found near exclusively in the domain of homepages built by people not in the business that didn't make their website to put on a resume to proof they can use whatever tool is currently in.

ryu2k2on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

Valve really needs to roll out a 64bit client though. I always have problems just installing the client because of the 32bit architecture.