Given_47

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by Given_47 7mo ago
Totally unrelated, but I just came across ur comment [0] from last month about indexing ur search history etc, and ik of a couple programs that fill that niche. The first is spyglass [1], but it's no longer in active development, and t
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by Given_47 2y ago
Somewhat ironical, but I'd be a bit more charitable and simply chalk that up to edge cases; additionally it's no different than typical ideological signaling. I find it less interesting to care about the extent people can bastardi
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by Given_47 2y ago
Yea, I dislike that frequent atheist rejoinder cuz it totally misses the point; religion is concomitant and merely used as a pretense. Which I equally dislike, I wish there were more transparency about one's innate will to dominate rat
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by Given_47 2y ago
Yea, Spinoza effectively argues that the Commandments were necessitated by practical utility to control the unruly and uneducated masses and have since become even more bastardized by sectarian religions that wield these appeals to control
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by Given_47 3y ago
Awesome, looking forward to starting this! And thanks for all your work Beej
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by Given_47 3y ago
You know, that highlights the idiocy of my workflow. I typically search through my bookmarks or history with Vimium, and not through my open tabs because I want to open the link in my current context; not the context where that tab reside
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by Given_47 3y ago
Haha, I use session buddy for that but I reopen all tabs every time I restart my computer because the fallacious thinking of "THIS time I'll go through some of them!" My above comment did prompt me to seriously start lookin
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by Given_47 3y ago
Love lunar. Dev is super responsive and it has a pretty feature-full cli tool as well which makes it easy to script
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by Given_47 3y ago
> Gentoo's biggest draw for me however is its philosophy and dedication to "choice". Same. I remember when I was going through the install handbook its three stated "design principals [sic]" of openness, choice,
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by Given_47 3y ago
> I have once been to told to see a doctor or psychiatrist for having a few hundred tabs Yea that's nothing, haha. I currently have 3592 open. Like you mention, research and tab hoarding go hand in hand. Even recreational research:
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by Given_47 3y ago
Non-paywall version: https://archive.is/RG2Mg
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by Given_47 3y ago
Disabling js was the only way to make it bearable for me. Breaks some functionality here and there, but for general “browsing” the trade-off is worth it. Eg zero ads, popups, paywalls.
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by Given_47 3y ago
iOS FF is pretty subpar. You can’t even crudely disable all js like in safari. Though I still use it, as Brave crashes on launch half the time and refuses to open (1.3k tabs) and safari also has a 500 tab limit
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by Given_47 3y ago
Prog house not trance, but Hernan Cattaneo’s Balance Presents Sudbeat Continuous Mix 2 [0] is my absolute go-to as a complement for focusing/thinking etc. Not his overall best work, but for my criteria for focus music it’s amazing (bu
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by Given_47 3y ago
Not parent, but Marginalia's list[0] of blogs is a great aggregation. I've also stumbled upon some webrings through some of the blogs (have them open somewhere among my 3000 open tabs haha). [0]: https://github.com&#x2F
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by Given_47 3y ago
Noticed the same recently but with some others such as nitter.tux.pizza but with the main instance working (which I’ve avoided cuz it seemed like it was overrun for a good 1-2 months)
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by Given_47 3y ago
Super happy for you! Funny coincidence, given we just talked about your “modest” specs last week haha. -“John”
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by Given_47 3y ago
Wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing that out. And full disclosure, I haven't seen any tiktok book reviews so these are my thoughts on tiktok globally (which is perhaps unfair). I guess my general annoyance then is the, let&#
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by Given_47 3y ago
Tin foil hat time: I've started writing down companies behind ads that happen to slip through my defenses that are obnoxious/offensive/etc. Because, as you mention, so much of advertising is psychological manipulation. It&#x2
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by Given_47 3y ago
> This rings a little hollow to me because as a consumer, wouldn't I have noticed a lack of non-amazon options? You haven’t? What sorts of products do u typically browse/shop for?
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by Given_47 3y ago
A five second clip of <the area where thing happened> is useful. But for anything recommendation/opinion based, tiktok vids are absolutely terrible. There’s not enough time for any nuance and everything is engineered lest u scrol
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by Given_47 3y ago
Same. Started using Apple Maps years ago when I would occasionally hop on a Lyft ebike and have used it ever since
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by Given_47 3y ago
> 3. Along the same lines, selecting or editing, say, a URL from a browser address line is painful. When the URL text exceeds the screen width then trying to get to the end of the text is a damn awkward. Because editing text on mobile is
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by Given_47 3y ago
Did not expect a reference to that viral common projects vid on here haha. Though I did snatch a decently used pair of achilles for $60 and have been my go to for the last three years (the soles r now smooth as a rock so I have been wearing
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by Given_47 3y ago
On my iPhone X I zoomed all the way out and it got the page to render well and scroll to work
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by Given_47 3y ago
> This article is even an example -- I scroll down just to be interrupted by a call to action modal requesting my email and making me find the "continue reading" button just to read the content. That substack popup drove me ins
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by Given_47 3y ago
Yea I’d imagine the feed change and Twitter fully embracing low effort memes and jokes for its “virality” effect were a big factor
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by Given_47 3y ago
Haha, there’s that meme about five websites or so that r just screenshots of the other websites. And yea it enables those stupid posts so I try to refrain from engaging
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by Given_47 3y ago
Ok was just wondering because anecdotally images have been a staple of engagement optimizing posts/accounts. E.g. something like ESPN won’t post a minute clip of an interview or simply a transcript excerpt, it’s always a quote graphic
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by Given_47 3y ago
When was this? Sometime in the last couple of years?

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