I think shortly we may see "Apple forced me to switch to Linux" because of Tahoe and subsequent releases.
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chang1 commented on Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling · Posted by u/angelochecked
For channels I care about, I subscribed to the channel's RSS feed.
For instance, there's an RSS feed at https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/videos.
I combined this with the Distraction Free YouTube browser extension that worked really well — no recommendations would display on the home page or on an individual video page.
So I'd only look at the videos that came through my RSS reader, and I'd see no other recommendations on YouTube — in and out. There are trade offs. I'd miss out on content that I'd probably be interested in. I trusted that if there was something interesting enough, a friend would tell me.
The extension broke when YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers. I still get alerted to new videos in my RSS reader. Except now, I get sucked into recommended content sometimes when I watch a video.
I think I just realized in typing this that I need to find another extension like DF YouTube.
Found a uBlock Origin filter list that seems to work reasonably well:
https://github.com/BevizLaszlo/UBlock-Filters-for-Social-Med...
chang1 commented on Ask HN: How do you fight YouTube addiction and procrastination? I'm struggling · Posted by u/angelochecked
For channels I care about, I subscribed to the channel's RSS feed.
For instance, there's an RSS feed at https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/videos.
I combined this with the Distraction Free YouTube browser extension that worked really well — no recommendations would display on the home page or on an individual video page.
So I'd only look at the videos that came through my RSS reader, and I'd see no other recommendations on YouTube — in and out. There are trade offs. I'd miss out on content that I'd probably be interested in. I trusted that if there was something interesting enough, a friend would tell me.
The extension broke when YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers. I still get alerted to new videos in my RSS reader. Except now, I get sucked into recommended content sometimes when I watch a video.
I think I just realized in typing this that I need to find another extension like DF YouTube.
chang1 commented on It's rude to show AI output to people distantprovince.by/posts/... · Posted by u/distantprovince
I get annoyed when I ask someone a question (work related or not) and they don't know the answer, they will then proceed to tell a prompt for ChatGPT in a stream of consciousness sort of way.
Then I get even more annoyed when they decide to actually use their own prompt, and then read back to me the answer.
I would much prefer the answer "I don't know".
chang1 commented on “Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps smithsonianmag.com/smiths... · Posted by u/arbesman
He also has that rare Fred Rogers-esque gift of talking in a way children understand without talking down to them.
Not unheard of in today’s tap-obsessed world of YouTube Kids & streaming apps, but much harder to find.
As a child in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember watching Star Trek TNG as new episodes were coming out, and also watching Reading Rainbow (I loved both shows).
The episode where Reading Rainbow visited the Star Trek TNG set was one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRz_qpgD-0
chang1 commented on I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search bloggeroo.dev/articles/20... · Posted by u/josecodea
I had a similar experience with DuckDuckGo several years ago, but the difference was that I got paid as I progressed through the various stages.
I had to submit a short written design proposal and was told to cap it at a few hours and was paid for it. It was accepted and then I spent time implementing a solution. The pay again was capped at a certain amount of hours, but I ended up going past the recommendation because I was actually having fun trying to figure it out.
I submitted the solution and after a while I got a response with basically, "it was a difficult decision, but sorry we're going to pass" and they wouldn't provide additional detail. It's been over 5 years, but I still wonder why they passed.
I can only assume they had a lot of candidates and they may have had other very strong submissions that were better than mine. However, it took a lot out of me emotionally and affected me for quite some time... more than any other interview in my ~20 year career. I feel for the OP.
chang1 commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude
Anecdotally, Apple Music has deteriorated exponentially for me. iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software, but I can't get reliable use out of Apple Music for the life of me. It _feels_ like a shoddy Electron app. But that's not fair to the actual Electron (or similar) apps that actually work. For all its many design and product flaws, Spotify actually works.
I am not an Apple Music subscriber and don't stream much music besides SomaFM, so I may not be in the norm.
I always have selected on the sidebar Library -> Songs with View -> Column Browser enabled. And I search only using the "Filter" text input on this view. It's as close to how iTunes used to be in the early days of OS X (sans brushed metal).
What I see on the screen is just mostly dense text except the small thumbnail at the top for whatever is currently playing. There is no other related artwork or graphics loaded. I fear once a re-write of this app happens, this view is gone... replaced with lots of fancy graphics and loads of whitespace padding everywhere.
It certainly doesn't feel like there's a trillion-dollar-company difference between those two and Tahoe.
I haven't had this much fun with computers in years. It has certainly helped with my Tahoe grief.