I think no matter what Mark does to shake things up. ~Facebook~ Meta will always be out-innovated by a startup and forced to keep acquiring and gobbling up anything that becomes remotely successful.
Readit Newskilroy123 commented on Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again nytimes.com/2025/08/19/te... · Posted by u/voxadam
This is what Swarm Technologies, acquired by Starlink, was for. The utility here is not to think of the normal/typical internet usage but for the likes of IoT devices at remote places or moving objects. For $5 /mo (I think per device/connection) is a lot for their use cases — ping the location and some metadata once an hour or so.
Yup, or to go after Iridium's market share.
Intriguing, for sure, but the human-curated part is actually a pass for me. A curated list is nice, but true randomness is priceless. Sad to miss those horrors.
Thanks for the feedback. It _is_ random from the list of approved sites. But what goes on the list is human-approved and/or added manually.
kilroy123 commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
> What this shows to me, as someone who has committed some of the unholy crimes above, is that people want their system, however esoteric, to come naturally to them
I think this is a vocal minority. Outside of internet comment sections, most everyone I know doesn’t care that much about their todo list software.
The most productive people I ever worked with all had really minimal productivity software. For one person it was a Google doc with nested lists. I know several people who preferred physical sticky notes or 3x5 note cards.
A lot of the people I’ve worked with who built elaborate productivity systems and custom software weren’t all that productive. They seemingly spent as much time doing productivity rituals and rearranging their productivity software stack as they did doing actual work. I count the really heavy Notion users in this category because I’ve recently been pulling my hair out dealing with a couple PMs who think “reorganizing Notion” and adding more rules for Notion is a good use of their time each week.
The most extreme example I remember was the eccentric coworker who was building an AI-powered productivity tool that was supposed to optimize his todo lists and schedule them according to his daily rhythms. He spent so much time working on it that our manager had to remind him daily to stay on track with his real work. He was obsessed with “productivity tooling” but the productivity was secondary.
Not everyone is like this, but it happens a lot.
I strongly agree. I think it's a form of procrastinating.
I read about all these complex systems for notes and second brains and whatnot.
All procrastinating imho.
Honestly, the root of most of our current problems can be traced to Congress not being able to effectively pass legislation and ceding ever more power to the Executive and Judiciary as workarounds.
Strongly agree. I also think this has been going on for the last 20 years.
The root issue has always been Congress.
kilroy123 commented on DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024) theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/georgecmu
This is a tragic story, but I think the bigger issue is some places have high levels of cultural acceptance of consanguine relationships.
Not wrong. My Turkish ex's parents were first cousins. Married for 50 years and they had two kids.
No one cared. It wasn't that big deal.
Possibly worth noting that import export markdown is coming to Apple notes in ios26
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/17/heres-everything-new-for-appl...
Wow, I didn't know about this. Awesome news.
kilroy123 commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders
Been using proxmox for a home lab and I still can't believe how much value they provide for free.
I use it with Cursor and create vm templates and clone them with a proxmox MCP server I've been adding features to and it's been incredibly satisfying to just prompt "create template from vm 552 and clone a full VM with it".
Yes, same here. Big shout-out to https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE as well.
Just getting a lot of mixed signals right now. Not sure what to think.