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Yeah this is pretty much my sentiment. I want to discover I teresting stuff, main reason I'm on HN. But big S social media is a cancer on attention as far as I'm concerned, it serv…

> But you're posting here, in socisl media, no? So you sought out something here that a group chat wouldn't give. This is true, of course. I'm here interacting with strangers. But,…

By open do you mean not centralised? I don't get the significance of big S social media. Functionally how would big S improve on group chats?

I've never really got social media in any of its forms. I use messaging apps to stay in contact with people I like, but that's about it. I skimmed this article, I still don't get i…

Clickbait. The piece argues Flutter is healthy (Google Trends up, 1M+ apps, big adopters like Google/Headspace, VC-backed tooling) but the authors focus is selling a Flutter course…

I was recently looking at using Nushell to do the same thing. Nushell can natively do almost all you need for this.

I disagree, I use RSS so I don't need to clog up my email with feeds or sure updates, etc. I flat out refuse to sign up for mailing lists for the same reason. RSS is the perfect so…

Interested. I miss when Firefox sorted in natively, even if it was bare minimum. I've been looking for a lightweight RSS reader for desktop. I'd probably ditch my mobile app too if…

I love RSS. Like all the old web tech the user is in control. If I like a page/site I'll look for an RSS to keep up to date with it, if one doesn't exist I'll likely forget about i…

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Can't of happened then if you don't remember a story like it...

I suppose the issue here is trusting Google with your personal and business data. Mining that information for targeting advertising aside, it's not unheard of Google locking people…

Can you elaborate? What does IDs have to do with religion/Christianity?

If you're using ublock origin in advanced mode (really miss umatrix) with JavaScript blocked by default, where you whitelist things. What does PB offer over and above this?

I'm a masters student, I've gone with a quarto workflow. From quarto markdown to Word, little bit of VBA for tables and images, and to pdf from there if needed. Technically I could…

Now I'm on the computer this is the Nushell variant, you could probably do something with reduce too: ~> http get https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/BOU/63,62/forecast | from json …

I enjoyed reading that, but understood absolutely none of it.

This is the sort of thing I use Nushell for, brilliant data focus shell!

Out of interest, what happens in the case of say an open source chat app developed outside the EU. Let's add that the developers are anonymous too, like truecrypt. What power does …

Came here to ask why you'd want to run an app in docker. Genuinely don't get it. Sure the app doesn't touch the host system so there's isolation there, but the extra overhead doesn…

This is what I use in a VM on my Linux host whenever I need to run something Windows. I don't game and all my software is cross platform. Windows still has a few things I miss, pro…

There's 2 and both involve `rm -r`.

Best thing to happen to the shell since powershell. Yes I said it, I like powershell, but Nushell is way better.

I remember looking at red ages ago but never got round to using it. I like to learn odd non-mainstream languages. Currently learning Nushell which is an amazing alternative shell. …

I love Quarto. I used to use pandoc but Quarto has some nice extras and managed things I would have to manually set up. I much prefer writing plain text with minimal markup in a si…