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Agreed. I'm hopeful to see if their research into synthetically created hydrogen fuel powered cars will get us fuel created by green energy that we can run in hydrogen fuel cell ca…

> The HN guidelines are clear about political topics. I agree with that guideline. I don't want HN in general to devolve into standard tribal mudslinging. But I don't believe this …

Do you happen to have an opinion re: how this book compares with "The Power of Habit"? I'm trying to decide whether to purchase "Tiny Habits" and the blurb on the seller's page is …

these tasks are similar to the 'intellgent dumbing down' talked about in Getting Things Done, no wonder they work! Having said that...I'm not diagnosed as ADHD but I definitely fee…

Not to be a grumpy old man, but I will say, my known original definition of Web 3.0 was the Semantic Web [1] but I have no idea if that definition came before the one in TFA about …

I would swap over to basic locksmithing. And / or swap to starving artist mode writing my manual AI-free fantasy novels.

Per [1], PWAs on webkit lacks push notifications, full-screen display, hardware acceleration, web bluetooth as major headline features needed, which Firefox on mobile appears to ge…

I like #2 because, while I do have subscriptions lasting years, at some point, I will turn them off. Life circumstances change. But having a 'rent to own' model for digital files i…

I don't know. I know that nothing digital is truly permanent outside of like CD-Rs and Project Silica, but websites you own tend to be way, way more permanent than services like Xa…

I do understand that there is much more flexibility of content to be hosted on Substack. It is, as it were, a OneNote page that can have access charged for. Pretty nice! What I don…

Thank you! I first went back to vector legacy, but then I saw monobook which is the wikipedia of my memories and have swapped there, so now I'm happy. Kudos to WM for keeping the o…

good news! the delta chat application is available for PC, Mac, Android, iphone and gives you signal-style clients but powered by (encrypted if you want) email messages.

> Even if office space were as comfy as home and more fun than free beer, a couple hour drive would be a deal-breaker. Private offices on a spoke with a collab/whiteboard room for …

I would offer docker containers as helm charts so I can bake in preferences and defaults. If a customer has never used kubernetes and just wants to run a few containers from you, I…

I use the multimedia and handwriting touch capabilities of my tablets and phones. Since Joplin does not have handwriting support, nor image embeds, nor file embeds. This is not to …

What are the chances that type of story could be repeated today? Seems pretty unlikely, but corporations are in some ways 'dumb' and we do base a lot of our society on trust.

I agree. I picked signal over deltachat to replace group MMS threads because it was less startup friction than getting everyone to login to their email accounts on a mobile account…

Paperbak[1] is a good program for that. [1] http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ [2] https://github.com/gxurma/PaperBak

I'd like Microsoft Project Silica to come to the market. Basically laser burning your data onto a cube of glass, like CD-Rs it is write once read many, but it can store so, so much…

It feels like everyone keeps repeating the same dialog tree that 'but thou must store their contacts list' and I don't see why. Solution? Store your contacts list on your device. B…

I was about to say, wikipedia by citations was a big help to me. I just had to do Words citation feature to make it look right and poof the teachers were happy.

I agree. Yes, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE have been the big 3 for a long time, and I doubt they will go away, but Cosmic Desktop is currently the main thing I'm watching for a pos…

Maybe it's just the contrarian streak in me, but Firefox being on Gecko is why I haven't left. There must be more than just one browser engine to rule them all! We got rid of our t…

Google's recorder app for android will let you record audio files and make some transcriptions, right on the device.

yeah. I've made the 'not going to do nothing but also not going to dedicate my life to self-hosting everything' choice: I bought a dumb spectre generic tv, then hooked up a roku st…