The marketing culture for announcing hardware exploits is so strange to me. The norm seems to be getting a custom domain, logos, demos, an FAQ... why do all this instead of just reporting the exploit and releasing a paper?
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artisanspam commented on I ditched the algorithm for RSS joeyehand.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/DearNarwhal
> Highlights from my reader sync automatically into my Obsidian vault. It's great.
Which RSS reader do you use?
Readwise Reader. Yes, as another commenter stated it costs money, but it has many other features that I find useful such as good text-to-speech, integrations with other apps like Obsidian, and a good export feature if I want to switch to another feed app.
artisanspam commented on I ditched the algorithm for RSS joeyehand.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/DearNarwhal
I love RSS. I use RSS daily. I use link-aggregation websites like HN to find interesting authors and subscribe to any RSS feeds that they have. Highlights from my reader sync automatically into my Obsidian vault. It's great.
But I know I, and everyone else posting in this thread, are in the minority. It's clear that most people prefer algorithmic drip in a walled garden. There's a reason everyone flocks to those platforms when RSS superseded them. I don't think I need to re-hash why those platforms are bad for the health of the internet and society as a whole.
So what can be done at a structural level to fight this? What can be done to incentivize people to leave these algorithmic drip feeds to reverse this trend?
artisanspam commented on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it? · Posted by u/zackoverflow
I primarily write code in a DSL which has no good FOSS LSP implementation. If I’m writing this code on my personal computer I’m out of luck. My employer pays for a language server that requires a license.
There are a non-negligible number of my coworkers who don’t use the licensed LSP implementation and they write all their code in vim – or worse, gvim through a VNC. It’s very easy to tell that their code quality is worse.
artisanspam commented on Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/jarko27
May I ask you why you did install it in the first place, if you then hack your way around it?
Maybe the goal was to motivate you to find a hack anyway :)
Because I am not always driven to type 128 random characters or even use my phone camera, so it does successfully stop me from procrastinating much of the time.
artisanspam commented on Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone play.google.com/store/app... · Posted by u/jarko27
I tried LeechBlock for a while and had that 64-char random string passphrase thing on. Turns out I became really quick at typing those 64 characters to get my dopamine fix.
You can make it up to 128 characters. That's impressive that you are able to type a random string of nonsense so fast.
My hack was to take a picture on my phone, have Apple's image recognition copy the string to my iCloud clipboard, and I'd paste it on my mac.
It's too easy to defeat the purpose of these things if you're even slightly driven.
In an outlook only company, reactions make a ton of sense. They save tons of "great, thank you " emails.
Of course you can still send real thank you emails when you're genuinely thankful!
That’s the ideal but it’s not what I’ve observed in practice. In my org, people send reactions and reply all emails like this. It’s just more distraction.
artisanspam commented on A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4 binwang.me/2024-07-12-A-R... · Posted by u/chazeon
Yay, that sounds promising. Which protector do you use?
Not OP but I use this and like it. It gives a slight scratchy feel when I write on my iPad with the apple pencil and it removes all of the glare for when I'm reading. It's magnetic so you can remove it whenever you want to, but I never take it off.
I can't be the only person who doesn't want to be a successful person. Most problems worth solving won't be solved in a way that benefits individuals in the manner described. Optimizing for self-gain just leads to more investors and fewer problems getting solved.
I do really think that PG often glosses over what he really means when he says "success." From a critical view, you could interpret the word to mean solely financial/economic success. Given his occupation, I would imagine that's his intention with the term.
But if you replace that term with something like "virtue" or "eudaimonia" and read from that perspective, there can sometimes be some truths to glean from his writing. Nothing really novel, but interesting to read nonetheless.
Thank you for making this post. I always love chatting with people.
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