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guptaneil commented on European-alternatives.eu Experiencing Massive Traffic Increase Since January   mastodon.social/@european... · Posted by u/pentacent_hq
guptaneil · 9 months ago
This is just shifting your eggs from one basket into another. Yes, the current basket is on fire but we should assume any basket can be lit on fire just as easily.

I’d love to see somebody nail the UX of distributed compute in your home that you own. A box I can buy that is similar UX to managing a SaaS account after plugging it into my router, with automatic management, updates, encrypted backup across cloud providers, and an App Store for services I can install on this appliance that gives self-hosted apps a means to monetize. Then scale that foundation up to business needs and really profit.

These ideas have existed before but IMO nobody nailed the UX and most people didn’t believe we’d light our own basket on fire for fun back then, so the market wasn’t there.

guptaneil commented on How I use Obsidian   jasonheppler.org/2024/07/... · Posted by u/speckx
itsmemattchung · a year ago
I envy individuals who organize their digital information in this way. Yes, I can practice discipline. Yes, it is possible. And it has always been (and continues to be) an uphill battle to keep my information tidy in this way, when my is scattered at best.
guptaneil · a year ago
It’s best to lean into that. Even though it looks pretty, I (and I assume you) don’t need to be as organized because the organization wouldn’t help us surface the knowledge later anyway because we wouldn’t follow all the tags and links around systematically. Different systems work for different brains. For me, I’ve found just taking flat chronological notes with a good search engine is best, and there’s no point fighting that.
guptaneil commented on FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules   nytimes.com/2024/04/25/te... · Posted by u/throwup238
richwater · 2 years ago
Remember when the Internet freaked out and "when dark" to protest how the lack of NN would ruin the internet?....and then nothing changed?

The boy who cried wolf...again.

guptaneil · 2 years ago
The fight for net neutrality may not have been as public anymore, but it kept going over the last 5 years. Plenty of court cases challenging the FCC's ruling have been ongoing and California even passed their own net neutrality law. Congress attempted to pass a bill that would enshrine net neutrality as well, though of course the Republic majority never allowed it to get to a vote.

All this is to say despite net neutrality technically not being federally required between 2018 - 2024, it wasn't feasibly for ISP's to roll out metered plans that would go unchallenged. I suspect most were stuck in a "wait and see" stage, and likely expected this eventual rollback anyway given the landscape is still so rapidly changing.

So the protests and constant pushing back against NN did have a positive impact on our eventual outcome, even if it's not obvious or a direct line from reddit blackouts. Like most things, the truth is complex.

guptaneil commented on VR porn a no go for Apple Vision Pro users as capability blocked by Apple   notebookcheck.net/VR-porn... · Posted by u/revscat
guptaneil · 2 years ago
To save you a click: webXR is not enabled yet in VisionOS Safari
guptaneil commented on UUID v7   commitfest.postgresql.org... · Posted by u/Recursing
nodesocket · 2 years ago
What’s a use-case for a v7 UUID vs using a v4 UUID which is entirely random based? Is it just that v7 includes a timestamp for better sorting?
guptaneil · 2 years ago
> Is it just that v7 includes a timestamp for better sorting?

Correct. The sortable nature of UUIDv7 improves database performance and index locality by helping the index be more efficient since rows are inserted in a predictable order instead of scattered randomly.

guptaneil commented on Apple Vision Pro and ADHD   dansalva.to/apple-vision-... · Posted by u/dansalvato
guptaneil · 2 years ago
This is something I am very curious about too. I’m kind of hopeful the fatigue and limitations imposed by Vision Pro will make my overall computer usage more intentional, similar to how wearing an Apple Watch and tossing my phone in my backpack made my overall phone usage when I’m outside more intentional. The Apple Watch is a pain to use for anything productive, and I appreciate that.

The biggest question will be if it’s too much of a pain that I don’t want to use it at all.

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