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mcdan commented on Starting a food co-op: Year 1 quaran.to/starting-a-food... · Posted by u/qrush

nominusllc · 3 years ago

The co-op in Gays Mills, WI has been going strong since the 80's. All you need is a homogeneous community and some hippies. It's hard for one side to get one over on the other side when everyone shares the same corner store, pool, pub, and one-eyed barber. Love that place. You can smell the spices and herbs about 20ft from the door and it's just amazing. Like a spicy masala with a little skunk to it.

I think co-ops work in more rural areas because it's not a fad to be there, it's the smart choice. Places in Cali are competing with an entire world of food on the same 10 square miles.

mcdan · 3 years ago

One of the oldest food coops is in Park Slope Brooklyn, which is not rural but sure does have a bunch of hippies.

https://www.foodcoop.com/

mcdan commented on Bitwarden raises $100M bitwarden.com/blog/accele... · Posted by u/deanmoriarty

MaKleSoft · 3 years ago

If you're a Bitwarden user and this doesn't worry you, you haven't been paying attention to the history of almost every company that has accepted VC funds.

It doesn't matter how well intentioned the founders are - once you accept that kind of money, it's not your product anymore. You are now in the business of making money, nothing else, and those skewed incentives will start bleeding into their product and business practices sooner or later.

As a company, Bitwarden has been a huge role model for me, and I hope they'll be the exception to the rule. But $100M is a lot of money, and I simply can't imagine it having a net-positive effect on the company and product. But we'll see...

For anyone looking for a bootstrapped, open source alternative to Bitwarden, check out Padloc:

https://padloc.app/https://github.com/padloc/padloc

(Disclaimer: I'm the founder)

mcdan · 3 years ago

Isn't bitwarden[0] already open source and aren't you just asking people to trust you till you take VC money?

[0] - https://github.com/bitwarden/server

mcdan commented on Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps and No Runaway Hit bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/kristianc

gdne · 7 years ago

The problem is the interface. Voice commands and their responses are linear, one dimensional. It’s difficult to represent complex interaction within that scope. Think of all the investment that has gone into telephone based automated customer support. The best interface conceived so far is the dreaded phone tree. That’s essentially the same interface smart speakers are exposing.

The opportunity is to figure out how to better utilize the voice based medium. No one has done it yet. When they do, it will also likely improve the experience around screen readers and accessibility.

mcdan · 7 years ago

This is right. No none has yet written “The Design of Everyday Things” for voice interaction. We just don’t know what works yet so we are redoing what was done before.

mcdan commented on Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services 0pointer.net/blog/walkthr... · Posted by u/type0

TheAceOfHearts · 7 years ago

I use asdf [0] for this. It lets you install and run different versions of any language. I keep a sensible global default if I'm just experimenting with stuff, but for any serious project I'd create a .tool-versions file in its root to specify the exact language version I'm developing and deploying against.

[0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

mcdan · 7 years ago

Agreed I love asdf I even use it on my Jenkins machines cause it’s a nice consistent way to enforce exactly what tool will be used where.

mcdan commented on Kubernetes Security – Best Practice Guide github.com/freach/kuberne... · Posted by u/aboutsimon

mcdan · 7 years ago

Another tool that can help here: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench

mcdan commented on New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff blog.mozilla.org/thunderb... · Posted by u/discreditable

wallacoloo · 8 years ago

Is the new Thunderbird compatible with Microsoft's Exchange email service? If memory serves, I think that was what forced me to switch to the Evolution Mail client (which uses "Exchange Web Services") since my workplace uses Exchange.

With regard to the Photon UI, I'm weary of the calendar button being in the application header like that. It's just not where I would look for it, and I don't see what's different between it and the other buttons that would merit some of them being in the header and some of them not.

Either way, I'm happy that Thunderbird isn't dead. Even version 52 has some nice features that I couldn't find in other clients.

mcdan · 8 years ago

The exchange integration ( we use outlook 365 ) for mail works fine, just set it up as IMAP.

The calendar stuff is a bit rockier, but there is project to keep it alive here: https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar/

mcdan commented on Choosing between names and identifiers in URLs cloudplatform.googleblog.... · Posted by u/bussetta

mcdan · 8 years ago

Isn't one problem with this is that intermediate caches now have two resources that represent the same thing, therefore invalidation of intermediate caches will be nearly impossible?

mcdan commented on USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources usafacts.org/... · Posted by u/neuralFatigue

mcdan · 8 years ago

Drop https.

mcdan commented on StreetScore scores a street view based on how safe it looks to a human streetscore.media.mit.edu... · Posted by u/lbotos

mcdan · 11 years ago

One thing they should consider doing is using the average of the surrounding points to rise or lower the score of a particular spot. For instance, near where I live there a number of examples where there is a green dot on one side of the street and a red on the other, just down the block they reverse, this doesn't make any objective sense at all.