Ah, well, in that case what you're getting out of older technology is "externally imposed self-control". Douglas Adams' publisher famously locked him in a hotel room because he was such a chronic procrastinator. I can…
On the first point, I agree, the article was very much misleading and I hope they correct it. As for the rest, frankly, this just adds more fuel to my belief that the first thing we need from these companies is simply…
Digging up and using some old piece of technology instead of using an existing, multi-purpose computing device is the definition of "[building] his life around it", as it requires adapting your workflows to the…
Man, there is a profound lack of self-awareness when you cite 1984 in an article defending Facebook, when Facebook is complicit in the creation of modern surveillance capitalism and the slow but inexorable shift to the…
I really wish I could see an industry/education level cross tab. Anecdotally, we're seeing a lot of churn in tech where education levels are typically quite high, but in the data in the article, if you don't break down…
And that's ignoring the fact that code is a terrible spec. Trying to reverse engineer a file format from a software implementation is a godawful nightmare, and I say that from personal experience. Given the choice…
This was actually a pretty even handed article compared to others I've seen on this topic. It's fascinating because it sheds light on internal work Facebook is doing; work that, if they were more transparent, might have…
They're absolutely related. In fact, a lot of discussions around the Right to Repair specifically center on the issue of e-waste. For example, you'll find that all over Framework's website. From…
> So having a platform deny access when it values such spirit is somewhat disagreeable. If Android required a platform for software distribution, I might agree, but Gab can (and does) post their APK right on their…
> I don't use my lawn to distribute other people's apps/signs, it's not its purpose, and I don't advertise it as such. And I suppose somewhere FDroid advertises itself as an open, censorship-free site for app…
> If I (today) said I had a word document and needed "an old version of Microsoft Word", I'm sure most people would know what I mean, and that I'd find someone with a Windows XP machine and a copy of Office 97'.…
TBH, IMO this is all a non sequitur My point is that the nature of digital technologies is such that information is far more ephemeral and closed off than it's ever been, not just for historians but for we, the people…
> This is tangential, but I really wish that their would be legislation, valid retroactively, to enable old unsupported devices to still be utilized. Not at all. This is precisely on point, and directly intersects with…
> Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback…
And 33 comments and counting on HN, most of which can be broadly categorized as "Twitter sucks too, here's why". Flame on!
> Also interesting - it's being touted as proprietary code, but View Source (which as we all know is a clever hacker tool only) revealed that it's a fork/instance of Mastodon. Complete with not changing the error page's…
> Once I saw a father who was separated from his kids by an ocean get down on the floor with them and draw together in VR Man, that family must be doing very well for themselves to afford at least two full VR rigs.…
No, that's just a different kind of blindness: not recognizing your own experiences might not extrapolate to others. I'm sure there was pockets of people who thought 3D TV was the greatest thing ever, and look how far…
Man I'm really looking forward to this story blowing over so HN can stop being spammed with this flamebait.
> AR is going to be bigger than mobile and the PC AR will be a niche product constrained primarily to industrial applications. There, we've both made our blind predictions, now we get to see who's right!
Yeah, I truly do not understand what's causing Hacker News or Reddit to drag their feet. My guess is they've simply done the calculus and decided the number of impacted users doesn't justify the cost, and meanwhile,…
> What is it with this guy and his desire for a hero narrative? LOL, that's practically every SV CEO. They all want us to believe that a) they were the underdog, and b) they were the hero in their own story. What I can…
And this debate is why Framework's approach to port modularity makes so much sense and why it's not just a gimmick, despite what early critics were saying around here.
The short answer is: yes. Loans expand the money supply.
Paranoia.
Ah, well, in that case what you're getting out of older technology is "externally imposed self-control". Douglas Adams' publisher famously locked him in a hotel room because he was such a chronic procrastinator. I can…
On the first point, I agree, the article was very much misleading and I hope they correct it. As for the rest, frankly, this just adds more fuel to my belief that the first thing we need from these companies is simply…
Digging up and using some old piece of technology instead of using an existing, multi-purpose computing device is the definition of "[building] his life around it", as it requires adapting your workflows to the…
Man, there is a profound lack of self-awareness when you cite 1984 in an article defending Facebook, when Facebook is complicit in the creation of modern surveillance capitalism and the slow but inexorable shift to the…
I really wish I could see an industry/education level cross tab. Anecdotally, we're seeing a lot of churn in tech where education levels are typically quite high, but in the data in the article, if you don't break down…
And that's ignoring the fact that code is a terrible spec. Trying to reverse engineer a file format from a software implementation is a godawful nightmare, and I say that from personal experience. Given the choice…
This was actually a pretty even handed article compared to others I've seen on this topic. It's fascinating because it sheds light on internal work Facebook is doing; work that, if they were more transparent, might have…
They're absolutely related. In fact, a lot of discussions around the Right to Repair specifically center on the issue of e-waste. For example, you'll find that all over Framework's website. From…
> So having a platform deny access when it values such spirit is somewhat disagreeable. If Android required a platform for software distribution, I might agree, but Gab can (and does) post their APK right on their…
> I don't use my lawn to distribute other people's apps/signs, it's not its purpose, and I don't advertise it as such. And I suppose somewhere FDroid advertises itself as an open, censorship-free site for app…
> If I (today) said I had a word document and needed "an old version of Microsoft Word", I'm sure most people would know what I mean, and that I'd find someone with a Windows XP machine and a copy of Office 97'.…
TBH, IMO this is all a non sequitur My point is that the nature of digital technologies is such that information is far more ephemeral and closed off than it's ever been, not just for historians but for we, the people…
> This is tangential, but I really wish that their would be legislation, valid retroactively, to enable old unsupported devices to still be utilized. Not at all. This is precisely on point, and directly intersects with…
> Because they are so JS-heavy, and reliant on CI/CD pipelines for deployment, on custom CMSes, there is no way to archive them in the way that static pages containing just text and images can be archived on the Wayback…
And 33 comments and counting on HN, most of which can be broadly categorized as "Twitter sucks too, here's why". Flame on!
> Also interesting - it's being touted as proprietary code, but View Source (which as we all know is a clever hacker tool only) revealed that it's a fork/instance of Mastodon. Complete with not changing the error page's…
> Once I saw a father who was separated from his kids by an ocean get down on the floor with them and draw together in VR Man, that family must be doing very well for themselves to afford at least two full VR rigs.…
No, that's just a different kind of blindness: not recognizing your own experiences might not extrapolate to others. I'm sure there was pockets of people who thought 3D TV was the greatest thing ever, and look how far…
Man I'm really looking forward to this story blowing over so HN can stop being spammed with this flamebait.
> AR is going to be bigger than mobile and the PC AR will be a niche product constrained primarily to industrial applications. There, we've both made our blind predictions, now we get to see who's right!
Yeah, I truly do not understand what's causing Hacker News or Reddit to drag their feet. My guess is they've simply done the calculus and decided the number of impacted users doesn't justify the cost, and meanwhile,…
> What is it with this guy and his desire for a hero narrative? LOL, that's practically every SV CEO. They all want us to believe that a) they were the underdog, and b) they were the hero in their own story. What I can…
And this debate is why Framework's approach to port modularity makes so much sense and why it's not just a gimmick, despite what early critics were saying around here.
The short answer is: yes. Loans expand the money supply.
Paranoia.