TrevorFSmith

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by TrevorFSmith 2mo ago
Is it ethical to scrape when a site has explicitly blocked bots? I know a fair number of people who run small sites who are already considering closing them down because the bots are relentlessly hammering their sites and driving up hosting
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by TrevorFSmith 3mo ago
Blogging is cheap if the writer values neither their nor your time. Blogging is also cheap only for writers who don't spend time and money to gain experience, validate information, and maintain relationships in order to writing interes
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by TrevorFSmith 4mo ago
I maybe shouldn't judge their ideas about film by their choice of illegible background and text colors, but I do.
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by TrevorFSmith 4mo ago
Definitely keep in mind that right or wrong, these hosts are unusual as far as most commercial services are concerned and it can reveal annoying edge cases in their software.
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by TrevorFSmith 4mo ago
Every effort doesn't need to address every problem, I think. You're right that individual effort isn't sufficient and many of the permacomputing folks are also activists of varying sorts but I think it's ok to separate c
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by TrevorFSmith 5mo ago
I think you're missing one of the major reasons people are against "AI": the jerks at the top. When obviously nefarious people are lining their pockets and not bothering to even pretend to care about the people around them, i
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by TrevorFSmith 6mo ago
This is a vibe coded app and isn't what I'd want but still, it's interesting to consider what a good implementation of "Figma for TUIs" could be, especially if it avoids the trap of simply treating the console as a
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by TrevorFSmith 7mo ago
The correct title is "Don't host your own transactional business email, use a transactional email provider." Hosting your own personal mail isn't for everyone but it's not impossible. It is, however, something you&#
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by TrevorFSmith 7mo ago
I saw this headline and excitedly clicked through expecting to find an attempt to make a modal drawing canvas made using lessons from and the ethos of vim. It isn't that. It's a vim plugin for writers. Which is fine, just not what
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by TrevorFSmith 7mo ago
If nothing else, it's refreshing to see nicely modern CSS and JS formatted and laid out in a legible manner. https://github.com/knadh/oat/tree/master/src
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by TrevorFSmith 8mo ago
The essence of free software is and always has been charity. Some people attempt to interface with capitalism via "open source" but that game is rigged to make previous winners continue to win so you missed the boat. It's a m
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by TrevorFSmith 9mo ago
I 3D print items that aren't mass produced, either because I'm one of few people who wants them so there's no market or I'm the only person who wants them because they're customized for me. Most reasonable 3D printe
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by TrevorFSmith 9mo ago
I am a subscriber but still would love a tarball of PDFs of each issue.
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by TrevorFSmith 9mo ago
If AI feature are on by default then no thanks! This is how to burn what little trust remains: "AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." It has to be opt-in or you're not worthy of trust.
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by TrevorFSmith 9mo ago
It's a shame they didn't ship an EV that fit the uses the F-150 serves. The Lightening is a luxury item. The F-150 is a tool, regardless of whether it's ICE or EV. I hope this puts more people in the market for the Slate truc
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by TrevorFSmith 10mo ago
I'm a happy Kagi subscriber and look forward to Orion on Linux. Every well supported browser other than Chrome is a win. I'd love Kagi to fund people working full time on web standards in the W3C and WHATNG, too.
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by TrevorFSmith 10mo ago
A similar result can be found by reading coverage of events you witnessed or topics you know well.
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
That's a sweet idea and I'm glad to see your comment about maintaining it as a patch on top of Firefox sources so you can roll in their security fixes.
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
This reminds me of gas station pumps that play ads on sub-par displays and tiny crackly speakers. I'm already paying for gas and now you think you can force crap ads on me? If an ad starts I immediately stop pumping and go to a differe
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
I would really love for new projects to find their own name instead of calling themselves the next version of something they don't like. "Web3" has never been a new version of the web, just a way to inject undeserved clout in
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
I don't know why people gave you that advice but it's pretty easy to tell when a designer hasn't spent enough (or any!) time defining their target market and then spending time with those people to listen instead of force fit
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
I would love for everyone designing a new social app to start by deciding how to handle the issues every social app will have. Abuse, hate speech, brigading, etc. We've known about these for decades. They can't be ignored. I&#x
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
A good start would be to distrust anything made by a VC funded start-up or a once-great tech co. If you do want to use something they made, create a hard fork and pretend they already ditched the project as they inevitably will.
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
So, we want incredibly profitable companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple to take their software development costs and subtract that from their tax bill? These are the same companies that file patents so nobody else can use the ideas th
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by TrevorFSmith 1y ago
I see folks suggesting emacs and others saying that they must use VSCode (or forks) because of the ecosystem of plugins. Folks, we made this mistake with Eclipse and many other IDEs. The root problem is binding the build and instrumentation
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Kagi downranks sites with many ads and also with many tracking scripts. It's not perfect but it is, in my experience, a better search service.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
The term is "build in public" not "talk about money in public". If you enjoy chatting about the esoteric details of building a useful thing then great. If you're mostly trying to attract customers and you don't
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
I regret that I was born before jobs (the "work or starve" kind we have now) are made obsolete, so in that way I regret keeping every job for any length of time.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Fedora has a Sway spin that installs all of the usual applets like volume and network config. Sway can also be installed on any Fedora machine with one dnf command. I just don't have the problems described in the article.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
If you're in the Seattle area then the SDF is a gem not controlled by a billionaire.

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