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Doom scrolling is part of the free labour we are providing, in exchange for digital goods.

I actually linked a whole article about this point. Yes BP popularised personal carbon footprint to deflect responsibility. But actually in yge short term dramatically reducing met…

Totally, a huge swathe of things are better and cheaper when your make them yourself, you just need the time. Shame we've given up all our free time to work so we can buy worse alt…

Also "Access to information" is a funny one, most of the useful information is crowd sourced via direct sources like wikipedia and now indirect sources like LLM's regurgitating all…

I suspect its popular in part, because it feels like fixing "the problem" without actually having to change your own behaviour at all. Don't need to change my gas guzzler, or fly l…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098167

Maybe "Code was never the hardest part" is more accurate. Code can be hard, though as others have said, 90% of code out there is crud apps plus forms. The other really hard part of…

Elixir gives you the productivity for humans and machines alike without the performance costs. Plus you get 25+ years of Erlang battle testing as a foundation.

Its not only a question of five eyes access. There is also the concern of being subject to the whims of a regime that might decide you shouldn't have access to services hosted in t…

Not a fan of the "no AI" signs on things, much rather focus on the positive than what is not included.

The opposite of short exists. https://tuhat.net/about Also open source.

Ideally without using substack at all...

Nice, I tried something similar but crowd sourced. https://tuhat.net/external Lists chronological posts from everyone that anyone on tuhat adds as an external source. So you can fi…

Its been trickle up economics for a long time now.

why?

It doesn't have to be _that_ extreme, Many of us just wanted vaguely what the promise of a good job was supposed to offer. A decent wage, the ability to afford a home one day, supp…

My my knee jerk reaction is to agree, I really hate the obvious looking AI images, though I suspect ultimately it comes down to having good taste. As much as I like to be on the an…

https://tuhat.net has comments via email, but only when responding to a newsletter post. Then the replies are put in the authors letter inbox connected to the post. Though all comm…

Pre LLM's I used to get this from managers, but what they would do was quote verbatim from stack overflow or some random blog post of how to do a thing with no to little context or…

Exporting your subscriber list isn't perfect. I did it after moving to https://tuhat.net , and then after posting from tuhat, got emails from subscribers asking who I was and why I…

I'm with you, tech should be a means to an end, not an end in itself. I've been spending a lot of time recently thinking about using tech for good, to do things we couldn't do with…

They've already started requiring you to be signed in to view content, so I'd argue that have already become, not going to become.