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I love it! This is so fun.

You picked a non-ideal time to post HN. I recommend posting it again on the weekend, so it gets the visibility it deserves.

I'm so grateful to be a freelancer when I read stuff like this. Upwork has plenty to complain about but at least they don't dictate where I can live and work.

I'm a massive fan of epunk and I feel like I can't talk to anyone about it without looking crazy lol. Cyborg9k is my idol but I also love osquinn (which I guess is more hyperpop)

This is a perilous line of thinking! Let's try it with race - "Black homicide rates are seven to eight times those of whites".

And yet, here in Latin America, there are posters in every major city decrying the crisis of "femicidio" (murder of women). Not because they are disproportionately victims (quite the opposite), but because that's what's interesting to the American NGOs that decide what political issues are trendy and important.

You live in a bubble. America also doesn't have a gun violence problem if you live in Montana. Lots of us don't live in Montana, unfortunately.

Labor stats are not as good as they're advertised, and these jobs aren't as bad as we're told. Both sides exaggerate (while still being kinda true)

I've done all of that except the butchery part (because that wouldn't make sense). She is homeschooled, and working with me on software projects is part of her homeschooling. Sometimes if the project is fun it could take all evening (like when we make videos demoing stuff for documentation).

As a kid, I went into dirty crawlspaces, helped my dad weld, and went on roofs, which for a little boy was pretty much the coolest thing imaginable. Whenever we were with a client who had a pool, my dad would ask the client if I could jump in, and they always said yes. I learned so much about technology from working on air conditioners. The process of troubleshooting, how machines work, and tons about sales and how to work with customers. My dad was also aggressive about SEO once that became a thing, but even before then, he did all kinds of marketing stuff himself.

I'm a freelancer today and wouldn't be able to if I hadn't been "forced to skip school for long evenings in the butchery", to put it into a phraseology that more matches your own. I think people have an idea of kids working based on school textbooks, which is sometimes (but not usually) accurate. When school textbooks teach the history of laws, it's always in this naive, doe-eyed kind of way.

Right now I'm in Guatemala, and child labor is everywhere, and to be honest, none of it seems as dreary as school does. Imagine as a kid being forced to do an office job where you sit down and do nothing for 6 hours, surrounded by friends who you cannot speak to, skipping play hours so you can study textbooks that teach a completely made up version of your country's history.

I'm discussing child labor, not child labor laws!

Thanks, I sent you a friend request on Discord!

I read a bunch of your comments and you seem like a very erudite person. Is there a way I can contact you?

>Now adults have to compete with children??

Yes and no. Most children share homes with adults. I went on calls with my dad (he's a plumber) since I was 7 and helped him more and more as I became adolescent. Similarly, my current daughter sometimes helps me with coding jobs. It helps our home. So I guess child labor helps families and hurts single people, because it means families can grow additional workers.

>Especially as most GPG tools are very unfriendly to use.

Install FlowCrypt (or Mailvelope) and it will become the easiest thing in the world. At least, that was my experience!

lots of nostalgia for partyvan.org during the chanology days

No, not common at all

To be fair, you couldn't self host jitsi meet in 2003 either

Exactly what it sounds like, me trying to do basic tasks without Googling. It was fun and interesting for me, maybe it will be for you. Really I'm curious how bad I really did, so any corrections for things I did poorly are very appreciated!

>TikTok is most likely to become the first mega app

Why is this likely? Seems like it just does one thing well, and even that one thing now has serious competition from Youtube shorts (which are kinda better). Plus it's not cool anymore. Facebook seems to want to be a mega app but no one cares and it's just not happening because Facebook is a dinosaur.

Twitter very likely won't become Elon's X app, but I think TikTok is even less likely.

The thing you said and the thing I said are both true imo.

>Search right now for any insulting, racist, negationist trope and you'll find tons of tweets.

Sounds like the hostile community I'm describing, which turns a lot of people off from Twitter!

>managing the exodus of users (size:?) that will happen regardless

In the same vein, the influx of new users who had avoided Twitter due to its censorious, hostile community norms.

I'm also annoyed that I can't sort for oldest videos.

I remember being a 10-year old and reading these kinds of threads on the Neopets forums everytime a UI change happened. Back then, everyone would promise to switch to a competitor. Then everyone would forget, get attached to the new UI, and then if they ever changed it again (even changing it back to be more similar to the old one!) we'd hear the say peans about how they are ruining it.

See also: livejournal users threatening to go to dreamwidth, and /b/day (the 4chan exodus to 7chan).

I know it's cliche to say here on HN - but this kind of comment is why I love this site. Silly, unexpected ways to use technology are so satisfying to me.

Kind of a fun barely-related historical script kiddie note, but due to the way the jpeg and zip file formats work, you can store both in the same file, then just change the file extension from one to the other and it will work correctly.

The "Dangerous Kitten" pack of hacking tools was famously shared this way on early image boards: https://web.archive.org/web/20110902044711/http://partyvan.i...

Nowadays must image parsing is done via libraries that will strip out extraneous info to prevent this, but back in the day when most people would roll their own code for this (or copy paste poorly thought out implementations) this was commonly, if unintentionally, supported.

I was using PayPal for this and got shut down, they never gave me a reason. I assume I just seemed too "suspicious" by some vague algorithmic standard.

>they want governments to take a much larger share of their inherited wealth, arguing that these unearned fortunes should be democratically allocated by the state.

I respect this person a lot but honestly I'm skeptical of the actual democratic accountability of the modern state, especially when it comes to allocating funds.

>fact that it has become completely disconnected from real world value

Yes, but in this post I really mean "banking". As someone born in a rural area in a 3rd world country, I've seen how people struggle to interact successfully with the banking system. To this day, my documents are a mess but are finally in order enough.

I would love for the promises of DeFi to happen. Cheaply send remittances to my relatives? No more navigating KYC laws that always want the particular document I don't have, and not worry about PayPal just randomly shutting off my account and taking my money?

But DeFi doesn't really do this imo. As I put it in the post, it's like trying to solve loneliness with Omegle. It makes sense kinda but just isn't the right path forward.

I really, really wanted to like DeFi. Banking has been a huge hassle and hurdle for my family throughout my entire life (for lots of personal reasons I can share privately if you're curious).

Yet DeFi doesn't really help at all imo. I wish all this energy went into making the system we have better, instead of trying to replace it with DeFi.

Honestly, I've always preferred other Lisps (specifically Racket and Clojure). But among desserts, flan has a special place in my heart. I don't let myself indulge these days but thanks to the delectable drawing in this article, I might go get some this evening!

Thanks for understanding. Security engineering is growing so complex. I don't know how major corps on the scale of Boeing ever achieve compliance. And even then, they have a whole market of different compliance standards to comply with.

Phew.

More of a rant than anything. I spend a lot of time doing this and there are so many little things you could harden a little bit.

Kind of a rabbithole of energy!

This is marvelous! The really annoying thing about doing this then was that I had to enter my programs manually via the calculator.

Now that I'm free I could connect the calculator to my laptop and code via a fancy TI-BASIC IDE. On the other hand, now that I'm free, I can just use Godot or something if I wanted to make games ;)

Edit: this code uses a lot of features I didn't know about then (since I just had the manual that came with the calculator, which didn't go into a ton of depth about TI-BASIC features). I wish I could have watched this back then!