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spacebacon··on The Treachery of Signs: Why Feeds Are Turning Societies into Adversaries
In hindsight of writing this I also wonder if Grant Wood understood the significance of the pitchfork bifurcation?
spacebacon··on [dead]
It’s intended as an interruption to reflexive opposition. Thank’s for reading.
spacebacon··on [dead]
It’s your right.
spacebacon··on My First Meshtastic Network
The Meshtastic list of networks is nice, but it is missing several. For example, the lack of listings in North Carolina led me to find https://ncmesh.net/.
spacebacon··on Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)
That software box on the shelf at Babbage’s is a cherished memory—a tangible oddity of software distribution prior to broadband, now just a relic in memory. Most of us assumed it would last forever. We get our software at the click of a button now, but we traded something for that.
spacebacon··on Show HN: I am relaunching the app I made to talk to my Danish girlfriend
You know very well this is not acceptable. The ad network chosen and the click jack tells me you have tarnished your romance with bottom barrel scraping baddies.
spacebacon··on Show HN: I am relaunching the app I made to talk to my Danish girlfriend
Download ready, click to proceed for me. Clicking the X on the second time I loaded the site click jacked the ad itself.
spacebacon··on Aerocart cargo gliders
I agree, I don’t see this working on existing commercial cargo planes without significant engineering challenges. I also don’t see this working for existing air control systems. I do see it working for private airfields designed for it and tow planes designed for it but that is out of scope. I wonder if they get their own adsb signal?
spacebacon··on The Crete Fleet – Concrete Tugs and Barges from WWI
In short it seems like a combination of high labor cost, high corrosion risk (concrete chips and salt water erodes the rebar inside) and technological advancement (fiberglass). Also the steel shortage that birth these in the first place was short lived.
spacebacon··on Vercel CEO meets with Netanyahu to discuss AI education
I know one, can you elaborate?
spacebacon··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
Pay to open this room option. Allow a sponsor URL.
spacebacon··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
Create premium object properties that make premium objects more fun maybe. Object properties and rate limits may be enough to get payments flowing in.
spacebacon··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
Many right people definitely already have. They are waiting for your next move … one or two may help ferry you across the channel but I would expect they are mainly waiting for your next move! Get busy.
spacebacon··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
I believe you have discovered a good balance of crap and potential. Pretend you are Markus Persson and this is your first Minecraft prototype.
spacebacon··on I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it
Just charge to put something in the room. Problem solved. People pay for less.
spacebacon··on New US curb on high-skill immigrant workers ignores evidence of its likely harms
One more reason for employers to invest in their local communities now … This comes down to cheap education. The skills can be acquired cheaper abroad. Companies can provide free education now or pay the 100k which is close to the cost of education here.
spacebacon··on Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL
SELECT 'Hacked!' AS result FROM Gibson_AI WHERE memory='SQL' AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM vector_graph_hype WHERE recall > ( SELECT speed FROM relational_magic WHERE tech='50_years_old' ) )
spacebacon··on American students are getting dumber
Fake News
spacebacon··on How can I influence others without manipulating them?
Strongman argument style here and I agree. If you argue with enough people you will be changed. If you keep arguing you will develop hardened identity around these positions or fold into humility. Only politicians shape their views inside a box. At that point one chose power over progress. They learned power can be leveraged far sooner than wisdom can be applied.
spacebacon··on The Gold Card
Imagine if The Gold Card had an affiliate program.
spacebacon··on Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
Vouched lmao
spacebacon··on Migrating to React Native's new architecture
Rust is a strong pick in 2025. As a designer, I valued familiar frontend tools, but I built My Rust CMS with the RAYDT stack anyway (Rust, Axum, Yew, Diesel, Tower), which I coined. WebAssembly ensures fast performance, memory safety adds reliability, and my visual page builder streamlines editing. Still evolving, yet it’s built to last with minimal maintenance. React feels less necessary now.
spacebacon··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
** yeah
spacebacon··on Windows-Use: an AI agent that interacts with Windows at GUI layer
Probably just ask it to use native image analysis versus writing code. I have done this before extracting usernames from screenshots.
spacebacon··on Visual programming is stuck on the form
Fundamentally underestimates the chaotic, exploratory essence of innovation. I challenge you to write the argument for form over function for good measure. Form follows function inside the box.
spacebacon··on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]
Everyone knows it’s a complete and total ripoff however people like that with good narratives write the laws all day.
spacebacon··on Flunking my Anthropic interview again
Influence may be intentionally avoided by managers. Applicant should try the marketing team.
spacebacon··on Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps
Build for the web. App stores are overrated. They will continue to make the same mistakes until they are irrelevant. Eventually.
spacebacon··on Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
Yes, thank you for your attention on this matter.
spacebacon··on Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
Let’s talk about the willingness of so many to hijack an unconscious process (breathing), This forces you to reflect on control, and then plunges you into a recursive semantic loop: Did I do this? Or did this happen to me? This is the basis of consciousness hacking through sign activation. It only gets stranger.
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