Just curious, why? Performance reasons? Compatibility? Something else? Speaking for myself, I run Linux on the desktop and Windows in a VM for office applications and so forth and it works fine. But obviously I'm not…
Wine? Virtual machines?
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…
> It could be that the screenwriter used to use that MS-DOS program back in the day, and already knew and liked it, had a well-developed workflow around it, etc. Then running it on DOSBox or an old machine you happen to…
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…
> As cited in this article, Frances Haugen is arguing against allowing Facebook to use end-to-end encryption because she suggests Facebook should have more surveillance of private communications:…
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…
Eh, you can get that distraction-free experience with modern technology if you want it. When I want to focus on writing, I have a Vim setup that gives me a screen with a cursor. I run that full screen, turn off…
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…
Again: Your point being what, exactly? Does your little observation, here, have any bearing on the article? Does it make the facts less factual? Does it make the numbers less number-y? Hell, I tried to go back to the…
> It just gives people with bad thoughts a thing to look at. The word "just" is doing a lot of work, here. By your line of reasoning, propaganda isn't anything anyone should worry about. Not to go full Godwin, but the…
Honestly, as a pedestrian and cyclist myself, wearing closed-backed, ear-obstructing, or noise cancelling headphones as a pedestrian, cyclist, or driver, is pure insanity as far as I'm concerned. And yes, I'm looking at…
> There is a significant population of folks who are car-hostile here on HN And there's a significant population of folks who are bike-hostile here on HN. In fact, there's probably a significant population of folks who…
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…
> But my lawn is not a platform. Sure it is. It's a platform of one. Or are you now saying these rights kinda depend? If so, what's the threshold? What makes your lawn special? Does it need to be a particularly big…
> The whole point of free speech is to allow for speech you find reprehensible No one is stopping Gab from speaking. FDroid is just refusing to amplify their speech. Since when did "free speech" == "freedom to force…
> Yeah. If people don't have a problem with gab being blocked on fdroid for essentially dressed-up political reasons, then they also shouldn't have a problem with the play store or apple's app store blocking stuff for…
> 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…
Just curious, why? Performance reasons? Compatibility? Something else? Speaking for myself, I run Linux on the desktop and Windows in a VM for office applications and so forth and it works fine. But obviously I'm not…
Wine? Virtual machines?
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…
> It could be that the screenwriter used to use that MS-DOS program back in the day, and already knew and liked it, had a well-developed workflow around it, etc. Then running it on DOSBox or an old machine you happen to…
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…
> As cited in this article, Frances Haugen is arguing against allowing Facebook to use end-to-end encryption because she suggests Facebook should have more surveillance of private communications:…
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…
Eh, you can get that distraction-free experience with modern technology if you want it. When I want to focus on writing, I have a Vim setup that gives me a screen with a cursor. I run that full screen, turn off…
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…
Again: Your point being what, exactly? Does your little observation, here, have any bearing on the article? Does it make the facts less factual? Does it make the numbers less number-y? Hell, I tried to go back to the…
> It just gives people with bad thoughts a thing to look at. The word "just" is doing a lot of work, here. By your line of reasoning, propaganda isn't anything anyone should worry about. Not to go full Godwin, but the…
Honestly, as a pedestrian and cyclist myself, wearing closed-backed, ear-obstructing, or noise cancelling headphones as a pedestrian, cyclist, or driver, is pure insanity as far as I'm concerned. And yes, I'm looking at…
> There is a significant population of folks who are car-hostile here on HN And there's a significant population of folks who are bike-hostile here on HN. In fact, there's probably a significant population of folks who…
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…
> But my lawn is not a platform. Sure it is. It's a platform of one. Or are you now saying these rights kinda depend? If so, what's the threshold? What makes your lawn special? Does it need to be a particularly big…
> The whole point of free speech is to allow for speech you find reprehensible No one is stopping Gab from speaking. FDroid is just refusing to amplify their speech. Since when did "free speech" == "freedom to force…
> Yeah. If people don't have a problem with gab being blocked on fdroid for essentially dressed-up political reasons, then they also shouldn't have a problem with the play store or apple's app store blocking stuff for…
> 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…