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zenosmosis··on Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
Yes, I have a browser extension to turn off JS to see how a site will render with it turned off.

And I do most of my coding w/ React / JS, so I fail to see your point.

zenosmosis··on Scalability is not your problem, getting people to use it is
It's funny because it's true.
zenosmosis··on Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
Cool project.

One thing I noticed about the website, however, is it is written using Next and doesn't work w/ JavaScript turned off in the browser. I thought that Next was geared for server-side rendered React where you could turn off JS in the browser.

Seems like this would improve the SEO factor, and in doing so, might help spread the word more.

https://github.com/LAION-AI/laion.ai

zenosmosis··on [dead]
I clicked the link to read about it and it started downloading a .msi file on my phone instead.
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: DigitalOcean vs. Render
Vultr might be an alternative option.
zenosmosis··on Discussion regarding create-react-app's future
More specifically, the comment: https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/pull/5487#issuecommen...
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
https://speaker.app - Group peer chats with high quality audio suited for audiophiles.

Currently rebuilding all of the tooling for greater stability and better connectivity.

https://github.com/zenosmosis

zenosmosis··on GoldenEye 007: the beloved classic that reshaped video games
It's recently available on Xbox Cloud as well if anyone has that service.

I played it a little bit last night.

zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Is Social Audio Dead?
The telephone system audio quality is horrible for audiophiles; those who want to share real-time music w/ their peers.
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Is Social Audio Dead?
I think that it has a lot of potential, but too much "social" anything seems more like an effort to collect a bunch of user data rather than deliver a product that people actually want.

Once someone makes the effort to build an actual tool (think, a "hammer that doesn't require the builder to log in, in order to build a house") that is actually useful w/o massive data gathering, that's where the gold lies.

Unfortunately, it seems not many people are in that mindset when they build a product.

Which is why every social network is fueled by ads.

The least common denominator path of least innovation resistance.

Will such a path lead the creator to massive income? Probably not, unless the creator is smart enough to build on top of it. (i.e. WebKit is open source, and Apple uses it to monetize certain types of apps)

So, no, I don't think social audio is dead at all.

The practice of massive, non-transparent data collection is what's dying.

zenosmosis··on Why code lines still should not exceed 79 characters
I do a soft limit of 80, typically only ever exceeded by a comment w/ a link in it that might bust the cap.

Despite using a 4K display, it is nice to be able to put individual code windows side by side, multiple times, and be able to read it all w/o horizontal scrolling.

I also feel that a lot of code reaching past 80 characters could be refactored.

zenosmosis··on The colors used inside Apple computers
Thanks
zenosmosis··on Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript
The link to the book on Amazon appears to have been changed. I clicked "Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript" w/ the Amazon link in the page.
zenosmosis··on Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript
Nice interactive demos!

I may just buy this book.

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On a somewhat related note:

It would be nice if there were more information / tooling centered around doing SVG animations w/ CSS alone.

The reason being that you can animate SVG on GitHub README pages using CSS, but cannot do it using JavaScript (to my knowledge).

zenosmosis··on Detect breaches with Canary credit cards
I second this. In a year's worth of using Privacy.com, I've been very pleased with the service.

I like how you can set a budget for a particular card, as well.

zenosmosis··on Should you use a VPN when Gaming?
If doing cloud gaming in unsupported regions of the world, sometimes VPNs are about the only option.

I live in Nicaragua, don't game a whole lot, but did subscribe to XBox Cloud Gaming to see what it's like, and while it's not supported here, I can connect to it as long as something is proxying it from a supported region.

Previously I was using my own OpenVPN instances that I set up on some servers that I manage in the U.S. and the results have been okay.

Subscribed to ExpressVPN the other day to try it out, and the latency seems much improved, though there are periods of stutter that seem more pronounced than my own network.

zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Teaching 4-year old about computers/programming?
To my knowledge that feature is only available if you have 500 or more karma.

However, I could bookmark it another way in the future.

zenosmosis··on Best strategy when company/product domain is taken
I've been there. Nearly purchased a domain for thousands because I really liked the name.

Probably the best advice I can give is don't make any impulse decisions if you find something even just a little outside of your price range (unless, of course, you are determined to use such a name, and you consider yourself staying determined through the thick and thin).

I wrote down a list of domain names that I wanted, whether they were available or not, and what their price points were if they could be auctioned.

And decided to not buy any of them immediately.

What you may consider is starting w/ an umbrella name which would theoretically, encompass your SAAS and more, and either making a subdomain off of that, or using it as the "powered by" (or whatever) for your SAAS when you do find a proper name.

zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Teaching 4-year old about computers/programming?
I have a 4-year old daughter, so I'm leaving a reply here to more-or-less bookmark this thread.
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Do you use co-pilot or ChatGPT for code?
Me neither, but I'm curious how useful it could be for code review (but only in open-source projects).
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Is create-react-app no longer maintained?
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I just read through it.
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Is create-react-app no longer maintained?
I just started using it last night and came up with the same conclusion.
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Is create-react-app no longer maintained?
Thanks for the link.
zenosmosis··on Ask HN: Is create-react-app no longer maintained?
Indeed, I figured it was something related.
zenosmosis··on Are Black Holes Time Machines? Yes, but There’s a Catch
The loops in time section was really interesting.
zenosmosis··on Use-Click-Away (React hook)
Does it really respond to touch events?

Looks like you're only binding mousedown.

https://github.com/geobde/use-click-away/blob/master/src/use...

zenosmosis··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
Parallels. I use an Ubuntu VM via Parallels on a Mac Studio M1 Max and the performance feels native.
zenosmosis··on YouChat – Even better alternative to ChatGPT
This is really cool.
zenosmosis··on Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
No, I don't think it's a web app at all.

It would definitely be using native UI components, which a normal web browser won't give you via the rendering engine.

But that's as native as it gets. The control logic for how those components operate outside of how they're internally built is likely done w/ React / JavaScript, instead of native.

zenosmosis··on Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
The "XML is just an abstraction layer" part is exactly what makes it not native. It's a big abstraction layer, it uses React under the hood, it's not native.

It's easy, instead.

It may render native components, but those components are still controlled by the non-native runtime, thus extra baggage.

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