I've been enjoying my Nothing Phone (1)a great deal. Very few pre-installed app - I believe just a reskinned version of the weather app; full Android experience and the updates have been very impressive so far.
Also, incredibly cost-effective.
Readit Newsdjaahk commented on Mighty: The Browser You Didn’t Know You Needed but Definitely Do jacobhrussell.com/blog/mi... · Posted by u/tosh
Curious to see if you considered Shadow Tech[1] as well, given the similar price point ($30/month) and possibly wider use case (whole cloud pc instead of just the browser)?
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djaahk commented on Ask HN: You have a fortune of $100B, how would you fix earth in 3 years? · Posted by u/huonib
The first thing to determine, as with any challenge, is goal definition and scope. What do we mean by "fixing the Earth", and for what stakeholders.
A few potential goal definitions which can be wildly contradictory: - maximise the probability for Earth to remain habitable until cosmic conditions (the Sun's decline) dictate otherwise, for humans, - ibid, but for for as many species as possible, - identify and implement the most optimal way to coexist as a species toaximised learning and knowledge advancement, - etc.
It feels like long-term, multi-national, consequential fundamental research could be undertaken on an interesting scale with such a budget. This in turn could highlight scenarii of different ways forward to inform and influence policy-making. It may be one of the best ways to spend it.
djaahk commented on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about? · Posted by u/remolacha
LeBonCoin is actually a fork of the Swedish original site Blocket.se, visit it and you will see similarities. Both are today owned by the Norwegian umbrella organisation Schibsted afaik.
I did not know that, thanks for pointing it out. The similarities are flagrant - do they operate such listing sites in other countries too?
djaahk commented on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about? · Posted by u/remolacha
canardpc.com is probably the best video game magazine and review around.
I would not advise presse-citron they have been pretty obvious about being more or less just a sold out editorial at this point.
Presse-Citron is definitely more aligned with the tech establishment, but it remains useful for general tech news - and the comments are still rather sharp.
CanardPC is a GREAT addition, excellent build! About so much more than games too.
djaahk commented on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about? · Posted by u/remolacha
It's very niche but Philharmonie de Paris has some brilliant visualized analysis of some classical music scores.
For example:
https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100008800/defaul...
https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100003900/defaul...
https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/CMDA/CMDA100004800/defaul...
Sadly they don't present the full scores, only the beginning or some part. I wonder if there are other sites where you can find something similar.
Somewhat related is http://www.critique-musicale.com/ - another great site.
I didn’t know about these viz, they are awesome! Thanks for sharing critique-musicale too, immediately added to my Feedly. :-)
djaahk commented on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about? · Posted by u/remolacha
In French you have a few interesting options, notably:
- LeBonCoin.fr (“the good corner”, a Craigslist type site that’s used for everything from second-hand selling to job hunting to meet up organising),
- LesNumeriques.fr is a decent tech review media with in-depth tests and a VERY critical community providing good balance
- Gazelle which has now become backmarket.fr (also exists across other countries like Spain and the U.K.) and offers vetted second-hand tech gear - great for bargains and avoiding buying new for ecological reasons,
- LeMonde.fr/Les-Décodeurs is the fact checking arm of the French paper Le Monde and has some really interesting visualisations and articles
- Presse-Citron.fr was one of the first tech blogs in France and continues to be a reference
- priice.fr is a price comparison site I’ve heard good things about but haven’t used myself yet
- danstonchat.com is the French version of Bash.org for IRC fun
- Legorafi.fr is a satirical paper with lots of hilarious fake news - often quite timely - akin to The Onion (it’s a play on words on the famous French paper Le Figaro)
- Gandi.net is a registrar and hosting site which I’ve been using forever - they’re awesome
The typical London lifestyle for people with a respectable income -- tech money, not finance money -- is more like living in Zone 3 and working in Zone 1. I think there is a lot of proportionality between standard of lifestyle and income between London and expensive US cities, a similar level of income buying a similar lifestyle (adjusted for local context). A big difference is that high incomes are much more widely distributed across industries in the US than London. If you are a middle manager in a boring industry like publishing, you aren't going to get £150k in London but you can in the US, even outside the big cities. The diversity of people that can afford an upper-middle class lifestyle in the US is much greater. Even dialing back US standards of lifestyle to something contextually appropriate, the kind of work that affords a "comfortable" lifestyle is much narrower in London.
An under-rated feature of US cities is the diversity of occupations that can command relatively high incomes. London does this better than many European cities but it still has a long way to go. Living on a tech salary in London is a bit like living on a good non-tech salary in SF or Seattle. Comfortable in the abstract but there is visibly a tier of people that the city culture values much more.
> An under-rated feature of US cities is the diversity of occupations that can command relatively high incomes.
I find this super interesting, especially when linking salary back to how much society values that job type. For instance it seems that many European countries value societally their teachers and professors, yet it is a rather underpaid profession, all things considered. Similarly, a maitre d’ would be quite well regarded in France or Italie, yet would not command a high-salary.
Thus it feels like your point on there being more diverse sectors being cogent with a comfortable lifestyle in the U.S. rings true.
Veering away from the main point, but I wonder if, as pointed in other comments, that is somewhat balanced by less people being, comparatively, in the poor and very poor category. That is to say, less of a difference between top lifestyles and bottom lifestyles overall. I would need to properly research that though, as salary alone won’t give us that variance.
1. Preventing Firefox going out of business -> as noted by others, Mozilla is actually doing decently well financially, and continues to dedicate a large part of its resources to Firefox -> however given some of its revenue sources, maintaining a certain share of users is important to maintain that state of affairs
2. Driving more adoption of Firefox -> Most users have pretty simple browsing needs, and a non-negligible share still don't know what a browser is (we all know a few I wager) while still using one daily, -> Competing browsers have semi-exclusive or exclusive distribution channels for their products which help drive their adoption (Google.com, some Android flavours, ChromeOS / Mac and iOS / Windows, Bing, Outlook & Office) -> Thus as with any product, driving adoption could be done by: --A. offering a killer feature many (actual) people care enough about to download the browser for - for most people, this would need to be significant speed or friction reduction (Adblock, etc) which Firefox already does well but perhaps not significantly well enough --B. get users early, i.e. partner with websites, apps and influencers that reach younger users to promote/recommend Firefox and its features, notably on the privacy and personalisation side (themes, meta filter, Adblock, password and history sync, etc) - think some viral Tiktoks on the benefits or simple product placement --C. get a series of not-just-tech ambassadors to promote the browser along with the work of the Foundation, which may be done cheaply as they do have commendable initiatives --D. Partner with like-minded organisations to recommend each other's solutions where possible, e.g. Automattic or such -- etc etc
Firefox has been my daily driver on all devices for 20+ years. I personally feel it's never been as good as it is now: it's fast, the memory woes are gone, the sync works like a charm, password suggestion and management is seamless, the Android version is great (love the bottom navbar option).
Probably not perfect - what is - but I just wanted to share a more upbeat comment here, and perhaps one more geared towards the majority of users, who will be less technical and choose their browser's (or better said default to their browser's) for vary different reasons.