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Moyamo commented on Twitter account deletions on 'pause' after outcry bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/herendin2

emiliovesprini · 6 years ago

As far as I can tell, there are two systems for meaningful names (as opposed to "arbitrary" ones like phone numbers or 4chan IDs):

1. A first-come-first-serve system like Twitter. I'd list drawbacks but this comment section is full of them.

2. A lease system like domain names, whose drawbacks are best explained in this tweet by @devonzuegel:

  > Domain names really hold you hostage. As soon as you've shared a link
  > from that domain, you have two options when it comes up for renewal:
  > (1) Pay the ransom for that domain registration, or
  > (2) Break the internet, specifically the part linking to your own
  > content

Does anyone know of another way to do meaningful names?

Moyamo · 6 years ago

A refinement of (1) would be Harberger Taxes[0].

1. When a person registers a name they declare a price they are willing to sell the name for. They can update their price at any time.

2. They pay an annual tax (about 1% to 5%) for the right to keep the name.

3. If someone is willing to buy the name for the declared price they are forced to sell the name to them.

This system has the advantage that the person who values the name the most will get to keep it, and the person who lost the name will be fairly compensated.

[0] https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents... (See the bottom of page 39 in particular)

Moyamo commented on Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive? · Posted by u/cogs

jen729w · 7 years ago

“...surely not Dewey Decimal?”

Close! Johnny.Decimal. https://johnnydecimal.com

I’m Johnny. Feedback much appreciated, I’m working like a busy little bee on the site as we speak. Should have a show HN app ready in a couple of months, but I’m learning JS/React as I go so it’s taking time. :-)

Moyamo · 7 years ago

The problem I'd have with that is that I'd never be able to commit to a fixed set of areas or categories since the type of work I do is constantly evolving. Plus I've always had trouble creating mutually exclusive categories.

What works well for me is to keep all things I'll need soon in the top level of my documents folder and when I'm done with it I move it into an archive folder.

This way my documents folder has few files and folders in an easily accessible flat heirarchy. While old files can be easily searched for in the archive folder.

Moyamo commented on Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive? · Posted by u/cogs

nohope · 7 years ago

Few people here have referred to the /tmp directory. This is essential in my workflow. I put a lot of things there (this is also my Downloads folder) and when the computer reboots, its clean again!

One of the computers I use stay turned on for long times, so I have /tmp/t and a cronjob that cleans all files older than 1 day in this directory:

    # Remove all files in /tmp/t older than 1440 min (one day)
    */10 * * * * find /tmp/t -cmin +1440 -delete > /tmp/.find-delete-1440.log 2>&1

Besides that, I have a lot of bunches in $HOME. dot.files, dot.vim, dot.mutt, etc., are all in private git repositories and I have a "~/s" directory I keep synchronized among different machines with rsync (I don't trust Google nor Dropbox). I was thinking about starting using Syncthing [1], though.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

Moyamo · 7 years ago

Using /tmp for my downloads folder became problematic for me when downloading big files.

1. You may want to pause the download and restart it after reboot.

2. It's quick to redownload small files but a pain to have to redownload large ones.

3. Arch puts /tmp on a tmpfs, so big files can eat all your memory!

Moyamo commented on Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive? · Posted by u/cogs

Moyamo · 7 years ago

- ~/docsync: Files I edit on a daily basis and is synchronized with Syncthing to all my devices. I put all projects I'm currently working on in the top-level of this folder except for the categories below. Archived projects are zipped and then put in ~/docsync/old

Categories:

- ~/docsync/accounts: Accounting stuff

- ~/docsync/audiobooks

- ~/docsync/books: All my PDF books

- ~/docsync/dotfiles: git controlled dotfiles.

- ~/docsync/Pictures

- ~/docsync/Music: Lossy compressed music.

Other folders in home directory

- ~/hq-media: Mostly FLAC audio

- ~/git: Clones of other people's git repos

- ~/srv: File shares other than docsync.

- ~/Mail: offline copies of email

- ~/tmp: temporary stuff I'll probably don't want to keep.

- ~/Downloads: Random stuff I've downloaded

Moyamo commented on How Firefox Got Fast Again hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11... · Posted by u/bpierre

jakub_g · 8 years ago

BTW: if using Android, if FF is not for you, try Brave instead of Chrome.

It feels exactly like Chrome (it's Chromium-based), but has a built-in adblocker, tracker blocking, HTTPS everywhere, no nagging to sign in, and does not throw "suggested news" (with no opt-out) upon you. Brave's founder is ex-Mozilla's CEO (Brendan Eich).

However latest FF on Android is actually not bad, at least if you have a modern phone (the UI feels slowish though on pre-2016 phones).

Moyamo · 8 years ago

Anecdotally, I have found that Brave chokes on some obscure websites (i.e. it won't play video or audio).

Moyamo commented on Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/o... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

vidarh · 8 years ago

Often the link description is the most important thing, and may make sense without the link, so I'm not sure how well that would work.

To me putting the link first is extremely counter-intuitive, as if writing plain text I'd also be more likely to write out a description of what I'm referencing first, and then enclosing the link in parentheses.

Thankfully with Markdown that makes it easier to remember - the URL part is as it always was, and I just need to mark which part of the text makes up the description.

Moyamo · 8 years ago

In html the link comes first <a href="link">Link Text</a>. So I would bet that most people are more comfortable with the link coming first.

Moyamo commented on Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/o... · Posted by u/pmoriarty

geokon · 8 years ago

I love orgmode, but what's the advantage over asciidoc? asciidoc looks cleaner to me

the other small disadvantage is that text isn't really bound to headers. So headers and text just kinda float around meaninglessly. So you can't have:

* Header topic1

introductory text

* * Subheader

some descriptive text related to the subheader