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I like that wsl is a thing when I'm on a windows machine, but it can also serve as a reminder of the often unnecessary frictions that exist between operating systems. When the answ…

I like the idea of converting the executive branch to be just the cabinet and not the president or vice president. National elections for a few of the most significant ones (e.g. s…

The bar for "the greatest calculator app development story ever told" it should be noted, is quite high :) https://www.pacifict.com/story/

cool, seems like the ideal device for something like Circa Solar as watch face https://www.circa.bio/ Although as far as I can tell, Circa Solar isn't open source. But maybe there'…

Ross, you can set up identities on decentralized social platforms now! https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc...

bluesky was made for the purpose of decentaralized social networking, by people who wanted to do that, many with a background of working on that. Then they got an unexpected rush o…

This got me curious enough to skim the article looking for the answer to whether 3M "convinced" her. It looks like the answer is: * They kept relevant information from her, includi…

Try posting some CSAM somewhere and declaring that no government can censor it, and see how that goes, and who you find yourself allied with and who you find yourself alienated fro…

agreed, and it should be great for form factors in the range of apple tvs, mac minis, soho-size network switches, NUCs. If what you want is a homelab cluster, a 19 inch rack seems …

"Meta AI", an AI assistant with a website at http://meta.ai/ , as opposed to "Meta AI", an artificial intelligence laboratory owned by Meta with a website at https://ai.meta.com/ h…

if you're going to bother syncing your shell history across machines, you probably also would strongly consider syncing your entire home directory.

In my view, he has already tainted Twitter beyond redemption. Now it's a matter of getting more people to make the switch already. So yeah, that's a lot of people and a lot of iner…

Since I've been bothered by giant centralized social networks like facebook and twitter ever since they rose to wealth and power in the aughts, and have had an interest in the buil…

While not built for the purpose of voting, there have occasionally been some coin-weighted polls using the Zcash blockchain. The ability to post encrypted and immutable transaction…

That's not really an impediment in the Zcash case you're mentioning. Upon making a withdrawal to a transparent address, you can immediately do another transfer to a shielded addres…

I feel like tossing in a radical idea here: instead of carving up time zones, just ditch all the step functions and smooth it all the way out. Make local time really local: solar t…

Thanks, I forgot to mention the safety part. Then I saw this which seems to confirm that there's an issue there. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/e-scoot... Re:…

Jump just landed in Denver a few days ago with dockless electric bikes. I've taken two rides so far. These blow scooters right out of the water. I can get exercise and extra speed …

You're right, of course. My experience has been that the social norms and cues in the workplace are generally stacked against people doing these things, and in the past five years …

If “maximise skill development” were really so central, I would be much happier with the working environment. I think that would involve some combination of: * Choice over what kin…

That was exactly the question I wanted to ask about sandstorm's capabilities. Glad to read this :)

If I could choose one app I'd love to see on sandstorm, I'd choose https://github.com/cantino/huginn Or to generalize just a bit, any good app in the category of "automate all the …