Readit Newsreidjs commented on A modest critique of Htmx chrisdone.com/posts/htmx-... · Posted by u/wibwobble12333
I set up HTMX for a toy project recently, seemed fine to me. I think the philosophy of HTMX is the real selling point, sending structured content instead of passing JSON around. There is an opportunity here to either improve HTMX or build a competitor.
reidjs commented on Should Sports Betting Be Banned? maximum-progress.com/p/sh... · Posted by u/paulpauper
I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion but I'd like to know how you arrived there. What makes gambling a part of free society but not gambling advertisements?
The difference is self harm vs harming others. The distinction is that advertising may convince people who do not gamble to start gambling.
reidjs commented on Takeaways from the Vision Pro after 6 months matthewball.co/all/applev... · Posted by u/retskrad
> To sum it all up, I think the 'killer app' here is the one that's so simple it seems kind of self-referential - having a display on your face instead of in the world.
The problem is that, at the end of the day, that's just a feature, not a benefit.
It reminds my of the ongoing push for speech interfaces. Supposedly they are "more natural" but in reality, even when you have a screen, the keyboard is still significantly better (even if it's virtual like on a phone)
speech interfaces have gotten amazing in certain contexts, especially now that speech to text is decent. Think times when you can't call the person but need to send them a quick message, eg noisy festival or loud bar while you are moving and aren't able to stop to type.
I know that some people even use voice assistants to do things like set timers, reminders, or initiate calls
reidjs commented on What is the ideal chapter length? (2023) penguin.co.uk/articles/20... · Posted by u/samclemens
I too used to believe that, but I've since met too many children who have told me they don't like going to the movies because you have to pay attention for two continuous hours during which you aren't allowed to use your phone.
Perhaps it’s the movies fault for not being interactive or engaging enough
reidjs commented on How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed dillan.org/articles/how-t... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
Why does a bed need to run Linux? Why?
Of all the possible timelines, we live in the dumbest. What was wrong with a plain old bed without 1GB of RAM and a full OS running on it?! It is the same everywhere. Finding a washing machine that was not WiFi-connected was a chore and I dread doing it again in ten years.
As a person who's broken into O(1000) "smart" devices (for fun and for profit both), I do not want them in my house, and avoiding them is getting harder due to insanity like this linux-running bed! Please make it stop!
At least it doesn't run windows
If you create a standardized test it will be gamed. Even with the small modicum of standardization around interview questions that we currently see, people have published books like Cracking The Code Interview, making it easier for people who don’t have the skills for a particular job to pass interviews at any place that uses standard-ish questions.
Furthermore, as an avowed enemy of “Clean Code”, I don’t want to see standardization because I fear that well-promoted ideas that I think are terrible would become required dogma. I prefer chaos over order that I don’t like.
Just out of curiosity, what are some of the problems with "Clean Code"? I thought most of it made sense as basic guidelines. It's been a while since I read it though
reidjs commented on Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway? scottarc.blog/2024/06/02/... · Posted by u/chillax
Check out:
https://rsync.net/resources/howto/borg.html
… both of those are very concise (especially the bsd one) and, while they can be used as a general how to, they have rsync.net examples.
Related: I have, personally, recently started to use ‘borg mount’ and it is fantastic.
Oh thank you, not sure if that existed when I first set it up
reidjs commented on Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway? scottarc.blog/2024/06/02/... · Posted by u/chillax
I've read the article and the entire comment thread and nobody is talking about the cloud provider itself ... ?
When someone borgs[1] up their data to store at rsync.net we just assume that we are the threat. Of course I don't believe that but it's perfectly rational and we encourage people to think of rsync.net as a threat as they design their backups.
Comments in this thread are actually discounting the threat of Amazon personnel, GCS personnel, etc., as if that threat was zero.
Not only is it non-zero, I would go further: if you're storing the data on AWS and generating your keys on AWS and managing your keys with AWS ... you're doing it wrong.
Hey I do exactly this! Borg into rsync.i know it’s not exactly your domain, but are you guys working on making this flow easier? I found borg difficult to set up, and tbh I don’t really trust my setup long term. All the borg tutorials I found are on random people’s hobby blogs, it would be nice if you had one specific for rsync.net
Either way, Thank you for providing such an affordable service !
I don't know that there's much we can do about that potentially becoming the new normal in the future, but it bums me out.