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woleium commented on What Is Stoicism? stoacentral.com/guides/wh... · Posted by u/0xmattf

Stoicism is an ancient (yet timeless) philosophy from the Greek and Roman era. Basically, Stoics cultivate the basic virtues of Courage, Wisdom, Temperance and Justice, which lead to lasting happiness, success, love and all good things in life. “The man who has virtue is in need of nothing whatever for the purpose of living well.”

Famous stoics include the philosopher Seneca and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius

woleium · 2 days ago

This reads like google home speaks

woleium commented on Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning seekingalpha.com/news/454... · Posted by u/hn_acker

ArchieScrivener · 4 days ago

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but PoW is going to become a liability in a world of energetic production. It is irrational to spend the same amount of energy on mining a digital token when it can be used to build and power actual productive robots.

If Bitcoin Core decides this is true and alters the algo to save the chain, it too will lead to collapse as a Balkanization will occur across the mining pools. The most likely outcome is disintegration.

woleium · 4 days ago

I have no idea if it’s true, but i did see some estimates that the visa and mastercard systems also use the same order of magnitude of energy.

woleium commented on Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/bhouston

nashashmi · 7 days ago

> I filed with the SEC because I felt the company needed to be held accountable for this double standard

How did Israel get away with so much leeway from tech companies? It can't just be money. They are too small a market. What else is there?

woleium · 6 days ago

they have world leading cyber offensive

woleium commented on Bye Bye Gmail m24tom.com/bye-bye-gmail/... · Posted by u/tklenke

soraminazuki · 16 days ago

Except it's not the '00s anymore and most emails don't come from personal gmail accounts. Almost every single email that people receive are automated ones that come from corporations.

woleium · 15 days ago

Google Workspace + Microsoft 365 together around 95% of hosted corporate seats.

Total people using email (2024–2025): about 4.5–4.6 billion.

Google (Gmail consumer + Google Workspace): ≈3.0 billion active users/mailboxes.

numbers from perplexity, but probably good enough for casual conversation

woleium commented on Bye Bye Gmail m24tom.com/bye-bye-gmail/... · Posted by u/tklenke

goku12 · 16 days ago

They never said anything about keeping their messages away from Google. It's about having some agency.

One fine morning, you'll find yourself locked out of your gmail account and every other Google service because they just decided that something you said isn't politically correct. You'll also be locked out of any external thrid-party services that rely on Google's OAuth service, email 2FA or verification. You'll never find any help to restore any of that, except to write a whiny blog post and hope that it goes viral on HN or something. It's not an indignity you want to live with.

Another scenario is Google changing their ToS or their service degrading (especially like their really bad spam filters these days). You don't really have a choice of migrating, because you'll have to change your email address as well.

That doesn't happen when you have your own domain. If they do something wrong, you just take your domain to another provider. And all these are worth doing while your gmail is still active, because it will take a few months to migrate your third-party services and your important correspondences over to your new account.

And finally, I really hate the pervasive argument and attitude on HN in the lines of "They trample on us regardless. Might as well learn to live under their feet". Why do you deny yourself self-respect like this? Even if the odds seem insurmountable, it's worth resisting the tyranny in voice and in action. And your voice is important to other people, even if you don't know it. Your defeatist attitude can influence them as much as your relentless defiance can. Choose how you want to influence the society.

woleium · 15 days ago

I think it’s more about picking your battles.

I don’t use google oauth, prefer user pass and email

I use google for email and docs, it’s convenient. i use my own domain though, and i backup my data nightly.

I feel like i have de-risked the relationship as much as is reasonable and am happy to move if i have to with minimal data or access loss (time to restore all data somewhere may be a bit of an issue, but there are workarounds)

woleium commented on Bye Bye Gmail m24tom.com/bye-bye-gmail/... · Posted by u/tklenke

palata · 16 days ago

> My email is now being hosted by Microsoft, [...] Then I guess it's off to Switzerland ( https://proton.me/about );

I am all for moving away from Gmail, but I think this is completely the wrong way to do it. Why go through the hassle of changing your @gmail for @microsoft (or whatever it is?), already thinking about moving to @proton.me in the future?

Get your own domain, and then you won't depend on the service provider anymore. Try Proton, or Fastmail, or Migadu, whatever you want. Once you own your domain, you can change every year while keeping the same email address (e.g. me@m24tom.com)!

Note: I won't accept "it's too hard to setup a domain" from someone who spent more time writing a blog post than it would take to learn how to do it.

woleium · 16 days ago

google hosts 1/4 of all emails. They will probably have most of your email anyway

woleium commented on We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable eclypsium.com/blog/xray-c... · Posted by u/aa_is_op

ChrisMarshallNY · 16 days ago

To be fair, this story is basically an ad, but a pretty good one, and many featured HN stories are really marketing. Personally, I don’t mind marketing stuff, if it’s interesting and relevant (like this).

But the fact that most comms cables, these days, have integrated chips, makes for a dangerous trust landscape. That’s something that we’ve known for quite some time.

BTW: I “got it right,” but not because of the checklist. I just knew that a single chip is likely a lot cheaper than a board with many components, and most counterfeits are about selling cheap shit, for premium prices.

But if it were a spy cable, it would probably look almost identical (and likely would have a considerably higher BOM).

woleium · 16 days ago

My apple thunderbolt 4 cable has a computer more powerful than my firs computer in it (ARM Cortex‑M0 core running at up to 48 MHz vs a 286 at 25mhz)

woleium commented on 30 Years of ReactOS reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-o... · Posted by u/Mark_Jansen

grishka · 18 days ago

Of course not. You would be surprised how many developers don't even consider using an LLM in their workflow, myself included. Can't wait for this hype to end.

woleium · 18 days ago

from what i have experienced in the last couple of weeks, it is not going to. There is a new paradigm.

woleium commented on There is no comfortable reading position slate.com/life/2026/01/bo... · Posted by u/oumua_don17

progbits · 21 days ago

Kindle makes this easier. I read lying in bed, on my side, same as if I was sleeping, and prop the kindle against a second pillow.

This doesn't work with a paper book as you would have to flip between sides and keep holding it open.

The only thing I would like to improve is to have some small remote to flip pages, so my hands could be in more comfortable position and not have to touch the kindle.

woleium · 21 days ago

there are a bunch of clip on page turners for about $30 on amazon

woleium commented on Plunging US Birth Rate Leaves Too Many Colleges with Too Few Kids bloomberg.com/graphics/20... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

watwut · 24 days ago

> It's too bad secret societies with mystic rites don't really exist anymore.

They were, overall, strictly harmful. Yes, there is a point where it feels good to be in them. However, they are designed for abuse, for making it difficult to leave and for making it easy to pressure members to participate on harmful acts.

The stuff Epstien did and connection he had is the modern equivalent of that. A group of powerful people tied together due to shared infraction and shared need to protect each other. It worked well for them, helped their careers, made them have social connections and friends.

woleium · 22 days ago

I am reminded of the quote “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”