PurpleRamen

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by PurpleRamen 9d ago
> Why do people (or at least politicians pretend to) believe that social networks are popular despite the content algos and not because of them? Some are, some not. But the motivation is the harm of algo-feeds, the potential for manipula
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by PurpleRamen 13d ago
Probably no big external dependencies or any assets. It looks like something full of handwritten code, down to the self-rendered UI-elements. Also it's written in C/C++ and assembler, so there is no unnecessary bloat shipped out-o
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by PurpleRamen 22d ago
> what is it that you want from your library management tool? Custom fields for metadata and accessibility from different devices. Usually there is only hardcoded metadata, tags or categories and one or more systems for collections. And
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by PurpleRamen 23d ago
> Having built a tool in this space, I enjoy seeing all the Calibre alternatives that have been coming out in the last few years! If there would be just anything actually good. But for some reason they all have just very basic organisati
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by PurpleRamen 1mo ago
> Ask Grandma whether she needs a chemical engineering degree to bake apple pie. Grandma doesn't bake with "common sense", she is using the specialized knowledge of cooking & baking.
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Yes, it can. Many public services in Germany are legally private companies, which just happen to be owned by public entities. Main reason seems to be that they can act more flexible and independent of public rules. On a more nasty side, it&
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
I think the main problem is to see Berlin as a city. Even the official city is more a bunch of divided, but connected middle-sized cities. For example, the City Berlin has ~3.7 Million citizens, which is nearly double the size of the next b
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
> a lot of German natives complain and some are even leaving the country (around 100k left last year) It's actually 300k, but 200k also returned. The "funny" part is, there is even a long-running TV-show (20th season this
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
The plans also include that you have to have some relevant personal relation with the data. This will make it unlikely that an NGO can just request any random data under their staffs name. Additionally, requests should also mirror the real
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Yes, it's his job now doing this. But as long as he doesn't directly say it, we can only assume his personal motivation for taking this job and making this proposal, as also the motivation of those supporting him. So for legal rea
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
The problem is not to restrict it to German citizens, but removing it for everything which is not a citizen, like civil rights organizations, environment organizations, and everyone else who has a legit interest to check on the governments
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Rumour goes that too many high ranking fraudulent CDU-politicians were exposed with this (Philipp Amthor and Jens Spahn for example).
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
I don't use threads, because people in my business are very active in sending the whole history in EACH mail, and others communications have a web-frontend. But if you need threading so much, you could also just move your send mails wi
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Thunderbird has a folder-based organization, so out of the box can it only group mails per folder. What you want is a GMail-view/organization, where all mails are in one folder. But this will probably not work well with bigger amounts
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
We do have some degree of it, but it's more on the realistic side of performance. The remaining body has to handle them after all, so it's hard to enhance performance beyond human limits for real. Maybe with some more decades of d
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
The focus being here: community. Gaming is an option, not the sole purpose, and community is always adding games to everything, but that's not the designers fault.
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Cyberpunk specifically has also been outdated fast by real world developments, and other genres emerging with similar topics, but different design(?)-language. The whole cyberspace-element for example kinda died (or evolved) with the rise o
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
> If upvotes alone mattered I did not say upvotes alone matter, but they should be the final say after all other mechanisms. > The bar is whether "good hackers" would find this interesting. If this were true, the majority of
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
RIP legend. I'm curious now when this was announced. Yesterday, out of nowhere, TikTok showed me a video about someone praising "Total Eclipse of the Heart", despite not having this bubble in my profile. Kinda spooky to see t
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by PurpleRamen 2mo ago
Can this be a necessary legal framing for technical purposes, to allow converting of pictures to different resolutions, or adapt the content to mobile views, and such things?
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
> I actually don't even think the US should have given the internet to the world. Then European countries would have continued using their own networks. > It's basically been one giant gift. And Europa gifted their own part
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
EU can live fine without US cloud services, and it's not very dependent on AI at the moment. If access would be cut off, companies would just switch to other solutions, which BTW are already there. The question is more how much time th
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
They track what you lend, not what you read. Many people just read on location.
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
Maybe, that's why they want Greenland so bad. Low temperature, many free spaces, no significant nature and if there is one, not enough citizen who can complain. And if they still need water for cooling, there is probably enough from th
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
Policies change or have subtle context-specific details. Even after 7 years, people can lack basic knowledge for certain situations.
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
> But on the last day they announced that they were moving the day-to-day conversations from IRC (an open protocol) to Yahoo Messenger (a closed protocol). IIRC they had a partnership with Yahoo around that time. Interesting to hear it w
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
There is a type of videos, where people mock US-citizens for their ignorance about the rest of the world and how things are working there. Those mocking EU for their efforts, usually have that same smell.
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by PurpleRamen 3mo ago
HN is full of people which EU is fighting against, so of course is there little chance to find sane discussions here. You could try some european subreddits, or local tech-sites from Europe, there is usually a better chance to find people w
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by PurpleRamen 4mo ago
Isn't Trinity just maintenance and small improvements of KDE3? I don't remember to have heard about any revolutionary changes, or even just significant evolutionary improvements.

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