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Just recently found about his youtube channel and have found his content to be quite beneficial. Did not know that he'd done this. Can I read about this anywhere? There seems to be a lot of folks who are critical about him.

>when I got to about four thousand open tabs.

Thank you for putting my tab hoarding in perspective.

> complexity merchants

I have never heard of this term before. But I do think it is quite apt. Is this an established concept (can I read more about it somewhere)? Or did you come up with it on the fly?

I am not here to engage in whataboutisms. This was my critique on Brave, not my critique on every other browser. Do you work for Brave? Otherwise, I am unsure why you are being this defensive.

> The URLs that were being overwritten were only a few crypto exchange websites that partnered with Brave. The affiliate URL was supposed to be a suggestion but the bug made it overwrite the URL.

I'm sure the outcry from folks who recognized this was happening did not have anything to do with the affiliate program being canned and this 'bug' being patched ASAP. It's quite an egregious thing for a browser to screw up. That kind of trust can't be bought back by saying "Nothing of that sort happened again", because now that statement is permanently "Nothing of that sort happened again...yet" because that trust is gone.

If this issue wasn't "blown way out of proportions", one can only theorize how how long this bug would have stayed. The way I see it, the CEO apologizing is basically an apology that they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

I'm shocked at folks' willingness to use a browser that has a history of tampering with a user's URL input (among other shenanigans). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027&p=2 for more.

That's the bare minimum a browser is expected to do. Not touch my URLs.

In the absence of someone's ability to give consent - ie. Informed consent in medical terms- the responsibility is assumed by the parents or guardian.

Since an infant or fetus is unable to provide consent, why would you think a parent is incapable of doing so?

This is a baffling line of thought to me.

Why is this news?

>Why don't you think you need your unborn child's consent before birthing them?

Is this satire?

Unless rooted, you're basically relegated to two options. 1. You can set your dns to a custom dns (adguard's dns is commonly used) to block ads systemwide. 2. You can use a vpn proxy style adblocker via Blockada, Adaway, or Adguard.

If you're rooted, you can just modify your hosts file manually or use something like adaway to do it for you.

>I get about 30x the value in 1/2 paragraph of fiction than TV.

How do you even begin to quantify this

Higher likelihood that pandas are just cute

>But c'mon, we all know vim is all you need.

That's a funny way to spell emacs.

But who am I kidding, I don't code. I could, but then who would waste all of my time reading HN?

At what point does an "interview" become less an interview and more of an advertisement? Because that's what this post feels like to me.

>the people I'm close with who struggle the most with finding day-to-day happiness are usually the ones who spend the most time in therapy

Funny, I thought the same thing about the amount of sick people visiting doctors. The healthiest people I know don't ever see doctors.

> KDE connect - basically apple's handoff but open source and for Linux and windows.

AND Macs :)

How is that different from pinboard's dev getting ill? Both are single-dev projects

How do you figure?

Raindrop.io is aggressively priced for all that it provides (I have switched from pinboard to this, and it is a near 1:1 replacement). In fact, it provides features such as highlighting / annotation that Pinboard.in will never implement.

Wallabag, Linkding, and Archivebox are three selfhosted options that come to mind, that serve similar purposes.

I've moved to self-hosting a miniflux instance and have been pleased with the performance for the past several years. Highly recommend.

>Adobe does the exact same thing of buying competition and then destroying it

Oh. That's why they bought Figma. My heart breaks

I actually have something to contribute here! I had found myself using my phone too much earlier this year. So I wrote a tasker script that loads (randomly) one of 9 different apps. None of them social media. 1-4 are apps like Anki, Duolingo, and such to remind me/ force me to do some chinese review 5-8 are book reading apps Kindle (2x) , Moonreader, and Libby. 9 is my camera. It enables Do Not Disturb while those apps are running as well. My own rule is that I have to spend doing a minimum of 5 min review/reading on any of the apps. And if by chance the camera opens, I have 30 seconds to set up and take a shot.

99% of the time I'm done with all these little interruptions, I don't want to look at social media anymore.

My mental health has improved tremendously after setting this up. Would recommend 10/10

long answer : Read "Four Thousand Weeks".

Short answer: You have to chose a few and eschew the others. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. There doesn't exist a reality in which you can "test your limits" in all of the areas. Because by its very definition - testing your limits means giving your -all-.

>so I really need to do better and find a way to focus. I just don't know how to do so

Makes it seem like you've bought into a fantasy that there exists a way to focus and do all of these things. It is tempting to think that, especially with all the so-called gurus and their productivity methods. Each technological feat and progress makes it seem like this timeless future is right around the corner. But the reality is that you will die. It could be tomorrow, it could be twenty years from now. But your time here is finite. So you must choose. If you don't choose, you'll fall prey to the curse of middling interests. You'll hang around all of these interests and never really commit to any. One practice that helped me with all my interests is to list them all in a spreadsheet and weigh the time investments I'm willing to make (they have to equal 1, and two hobbies can't have the same value).

When you think with that kind of urgency, it's easier to pick one thing to do. And really commit to it. E.g I sold/donated/gave away the tools for my other hobbies. Nothing says I can't get those back if (in the future) I decide not to continue with my current choices.

Is that you Taddy Mason?

Not sure, the page has since been updated. Thanks for providing the links (and having the logos link to them.

That looks really useful indeed! It also lets you access your track pad easily. I use a keyboard with the same formfactor as you do but never thought to do this. Will have to play around with this idea a bit

Is that bad?

Something that has always bugged me about sites like these. What's the point of "TechCrunch, Entrpreneur, New York Post, Mashable, AppSumo, NBC News" splattered on the top. It doesn't give any context at all why they're mentioned. Is the platform owned by them? Did they (at one point) mention the product? Were they favorable?

Note, none of these icons / logos actually link to anything either. I can't pinpoint it, but it absolutely feels like a dark-web pattern. You're not claiming anything, but allowing your readers to infer potentially dishonest information.

Text density is a bit too much for me to get any use out of it. Just looking at it hurts my brain.

>Mozilla takes donations, so it isn't necessarely free.

This is a wild take. Taking donations doesn't invalidate the fact that it is available to everyone for free. By definition donations are voluntary. No part of Thunderbird is behind paywalls of any sort.

This is all sorts of brilliant. Being able to use container tabs was already a reason for sticking around with firefox but this makes it so much easier to manage. Being able to slide tabs into other containers and auto-reload them is icing on the cake. Being able to duplicate a tab into another container would be a great addition!