scdnc

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Ask HN: How would you prepare for a blackout?
1 points by scdnc 8mo ago|3 comments
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by scdnc 10mo ago
A tip: degoogle, demicrosoft, defacebook (and maybe also deapple)
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by scdnc 10mo ago
I've used them for years. They're likely the most private VPN, but I still can't recommend them. Their IPs are constantly blocked, and with few servers, switching doesn't help (this was already an issue long before I was
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by scdnc 11mo ago
Isn't this textbook enshittification?
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by scdnc 11mo ago
Open source software often isn’t preinstalled, may not work flawlessly with many hardware configurations, in general hard to install, often lacks a GUI, has poor UX and UI, and high cognitive load. Also no marketing. They will be interested
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by scdnc 1y ago
If any devs are reading: please add compact tabs like safari and an extension that summarizes pages/video transcripts and enables LLM chat with that context.
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Ask HN: Is anyone here deliberately low‑tech? If so, why and how?
17 points by scdnc 1y ago|20 comments
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by scdnc 1y ago
I agree that it’s a function of moderation, but I also think moderation is deliberately done in a way to drive/keep engagement; otherwise, there would be far fewer ideological, current-events, and non-“hacker” posts that receive a lot
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by scdnc 1y ago
> I don’t think it’s “enshittification” in the sense Doctorow coined the term. While I didn’t mean it only strictly in the original sense and instead also used it as a synonym for general decline, I still think it fits the definition mor
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by scdnc 1y ago
Someone already commented this and I responded to that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254640
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by scdnc 1y ago
While this post was appropriately flagged for violating the guidelines, many other ideological posts that go against those guidelines remain unflagged. Since moderation is part of their service, I think it still aligns with the definition.
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Ask HN: Is HN slowly starting to experience enshitification?
33 points by scdnc 1y ago|38 comments
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by scdnc 1y ago
I like the idea of using a more glass-like UI, but the implementation is horrible. It looks like a school project rather than work from the biggest company in the world. I generally don't understand the idea of making every UI look mor
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by scdnc 1y ago
Like several others have said, this is probably gonna turn out like all the past EU IT projects.
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by scdnc 1y ago
I don't care much about that anymore because their VPN service has really gone bad. They are great in terms of privacy, but in every other aspect, they suck. Their VPN randomly disconnects again and again, once even without the killswi
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by scdnc 2y ago
My only problem with Mullvad is that you get a lot more captchas and blocks from websites than you get from other VPNs.
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by scdnc 2y ago
Why is there more and more talk about ideological topics on every social media platform? I don't know how it is for others, but I'm on HackerNews specifically to escape from this kind of thing.