inanutshellus (u/inanutshellus)

inanutshellus commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar

cj · 5 days ago

He means in real life.

You’re at a bar. You meet someone. They ask for your insta username to follow/message you.

Making friends and meeting people is hard enough for most people. The added friction of not being reachable on the platforms people use every day for messaging isn’t ideal. It’s not ideal to say “Sorry, I’m philosophically against social media so I can’t give you a username, you’ll have to text me” - and then you risk alienating them.

(You’d be surprised the percentage of people who rarely if ever use SMS these days, all the young people I know use Snap or Insta to talk to each other)

inanutshellus · 5 days ago

group SMS/MMS really blows. It's not a surprise people look for alternatives, but man there are SO many alternatives all with their own niche.

Every time my kids start a new sport or class or group we all get a new "group text" app to download and babysit.

Very much an XKCD moment -

https://xkcd.com/927/

inanutshellus commented on In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip hitachi.com/New/cnews/060... · Posted by u/julkali

ashleyn · 5 days ago

In an early example of conspiracy theories that would eventually envelop social media, I actually remember internet commenters pointing to the previous generation of these as supposed "proof" that the government was embedding RFID chips in banknotes to track people (following a blog article by Alex Jones): https://news.slashdot.org/story/04/03/02/0535225/do-your-20-...

inanutshellus · 5 days ago

If I worked for VISA's marketing team I'd want to spread FUD like this and "XX% of dollar bills have cocaine on them; protect your children with a youth MasterCard!"

inanutshellus commented on This website is for humans localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f

inanutshellus · 11 days ago

This guy's website is missing the requisite twenty-plus advertisements, and auto-play videos and overlays (and AI-generated content) that I've become accustomed to from niche websites.

It's so prevalent and horrible that going to real websites is painful now.

... from a user perspective, ironically, the answer seems to be "talk to an AI to avoid AI generated junk content".

inanutshellus commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez

hermitcrab · 13 days ago

Every developer:

'Wow there are a 1000 of ToDo apps. I can't possibly try them all. So I will write my own ToDo app that does exactly what I want!'

Result:

There are now 1001 ToDo apps.

ToDo/productivity apps is a very tough market. I know because I wrote a visual task planner for Windows and Mac (hyperplan.com) and struggled to get enough visibility to make it commercially viable, despite a lot of rave feedback.

inanutshellus · 13 days ago

The same is true for group apps (manage a team; organize events with random people, etc. apps)... so many options... and so far every single season my kids have participated in a sport I've been privileged to try a new one... :-\

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inanutshellus commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx

inanutshellus · 18 days ago

... but dude, we're talking about how you configure VI and ... bash. Like... guys. Calm down.

inanutshellus · 18 days ago

... to follow myself up...

I went ahead and looked in my .vimrc and lo and behold there's a "security issue" in it:

    if $USER != 'root'              " Modelines let you specify format rules for a file within the file
        set modeline modelines=5    "   e.g. "// vim: tabstop=20 : shiftwidth=20" (or something actually reasonable)
    else                            "   They can be a security vulnerability (unlikely) so we don't enable for root
        set nomodeline
    endif

... so yeah... I guess there's some concepts worth being extra sensitive about... but even still, surely y'all can handle this stuff.

inanutshellus commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx

exe34 · 18 days ago

You don't need admin to install emacs packages..... I'm sure vim isn't dumb enough to require that?!

inanutshellus · 18 days ago

For me it was that each plugin would have to go through a security approval process and that was not something they appreciated. (e.g. they have "real work" to do), whilst mapping `n` to `nzz` or setting the regexpengine to `0` well, yeah, go for it.

inanutshellus commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx

r3trohack3r · 18 days ago

Not just the internet but communities too. High trust societies are great to live in, digitally and physically. Leave the doors unlocked, leave keys in the ignition, leave valuables on the table when you walk away.

But high trust societies only work when the price of ongoing admission is not violating that trust.

When you accept/tolerate/expect the violation of trust the doors lock.

inanutshellus · 18 days ago

... but dude, we're talking about how you configure VI and ... bash. Like... guys. Calm down.

inanutshellus commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx

mystifyingpoi · 18 days ago

> Configuring it is starting to get old

That's exactly the opposite of my experience. Since all my dotfiles are in Github, configuring new system is just a git clone and copying a few files around. I don't even use any config manager, since I rarely get new computers. Takes a few minutes max per machine (plus maybe package installs like zsh if it's not there already).

inanutshellus · 18 days ago

The original statement was "vim plugins" SO yeah you can have your fancy alias or whatever but I'm with the GP that adding a bunch of cool plugins that I get used to and then... perpetually can't use because 40% of my time is spent on remote machines I don't have admin on... ehh.. quickly becomes not worth it.

It's like when I tried to get used to a DVORAK keyboard when I'd spend my weekdays in a school computer lab...

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