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Totally unrelated, but I just came across ur comment [0] from last month about indexing ur search history etc, and ik of a couple programs that fill that niche. The first is spyglass [1], but it's no longer in active development, and the second is this python program, knowledge [2], that I have yet to personally set up (but obviously have an open tab for it, as I plan to eventually lol). So u might want to check these out, especially the latter one, as it's currently in development

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531526 [1]: https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass [2]: https://github.com/raphaelsty/knowledge

Somewhat ironical, but I'd be a bit more charitable and simply chalk that up to edge cases; additionally it's no different than typical ideological signaling. I find it less interesting to care about the extent people can bastardize a given idea, also because that's an entirely different, sociological issue.

Tho really any belief system that becomes so institutionalized will inevitably attract flies and become debased over time. However one could cheekily remark that by virtue of its message and who it spoke to, early Christianity was inherently debased, and certaintly ignoble.

Yea, I dislike that frequent atheist rejoinder cuz it totally misses the point; religion is concomitant and merely used as a pretense. Which I equally dislike, I wish there were more transparency about one's innate will to dominate rather than masquerading behind fictitious ideological claims.

Yea, Spinoza effectively argues that the Commandments were necessitated by practical utility to control the unruly and uneducated masses and have since become even more bastardized by sectarian religions that wield these appeals to control people and actually prevent them to fully getting to know "God", which he finds entirely possible through reason alone.

And humorously, the latter of each of GP's respective points map pretty well to the destructive effects of what Nietzsche most feared of what he sensed was impending nihilism. Tho the difference, among many, is that "belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable".

Awesome, looking forward to starting this! And thanks for all your work Beej

You know, that highlights the idiocy of my workflow. I typically search through my bookmarks or history with Vimium, and not through my open tabs because I want to open the link in my current context; not the context where that tab resides.

But overall I actually think the visual aspect is the reason, its mostly an unavoidable nag saying "DONT FORGET!" Closing tabs sends them into the abyss, unless you precisely remember what you're looking for (for someone wont to ctrl/cmd click hyperlinks, good luck finding those). And I do use session buddy to save and organize contexts (and keeps the tab situation somewhat "sane") but—and similarly with OneTab—those just get sent off to the extension's local db and you forget.

Do you end up with a “feel” for where the tab is, similar to how we get used to the contours of our camera role on a smartphone?

When I used to only have a few hundred, spread out into different windows, and designated virtual desktops for each meta topic, definitely. It's what I want to get back to.

Haha, I use session buddy for that but I reopen all tabs every time I restart my computer because the fallacious thinking of "THIS time I'll go through some of them!" My above comment did prompt me to seriously start looking into a better system, though predictably now I have a ton of tabs open for linkding, archivy, et al. The awesome-$THING project(s) are great resources but you quickly spawn fifty additional tabs for each project's repo

Love lunar. Dev is super responsive and it has a pretty feature-full cli tool as well which makes it easy to script

Gentoo's biggest draw for me however is its philosophy and dedication to "choice".

Same. I remember when I was going through the install handbook its three stated "design principals [sic]" of openness, choice, and power [0] spoke to me.

I liken Gentoo to being given a bucket of Lego bricks.

I recall seeing some comment (might've been ascribed to Daniel Robbins, not sure) about how "Gentoo was created to be LFS for humans."

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Abo...

I have once been to told to see a doctor or psychiatrist for having a few hundred tabs

Yea that's nothing, haha. I currently have 3592 open. Like you mention, research and tab hoarding go hand in hand. Even recreational research: everyone is familiar with the wikipedia spree with its innumerable hyperlinked articles and references, and now you suddenly have 20 additional open tabs. I'll read maybe two of them, but the others piqued my interest enough to warrant opening, so definitely not closing them. If you never purge, you eventually end up in the hundreds/thousands.

My tabs get auto suspended when they've been idle for thirty mins, which prevents the memory usage from becoming ridiculous enough to incentivize me to change! Though I do need a better system, such as a tagging/categorization system for links. At least half my open tabs are things not of immediate relevance (duh), but HN posts/random blog posts on $NICHE_TOPIC that I'll (hopefully) get to eventually; eg building a DIY keyboard. Especially the blog posts, I can't be sure that I'll stumble upon them again. Sites like MakeUseOf can fuck off, they always float to the top of the SERP.

Non-paywall version:

https://archive.is/RG2Mg

Disabling js was the only way to make it bearable for me. Breaks some functionality here and there, but for general “browsing” the trade-off is worth it. Eg zero ads, popups, paywalls.

iOS FF is pretty subpar. You can’t even crudely disable all js like in safari. Though I still use it, as Brave crashes on launch half the time and refuses to open (1.3k tabs) and safari also has a 500 tab limit

Prog house not trance, but Hernan Cattaneo’s Balance Presents Sudbeat Continuous Mix 2 [0] is my absolute go-to as a complement for focusing/thinking etc. Not his overall best work, but for my criteria for focus music it’s amazing (butter smooth transitions, no vocals, continuity throughout mix, ~120 bpm).

[0] https://open.spotify.com/track/1t7EJCFDDcJKBF129PvJan

Not parent, but Marginalia's list[0] of blogs is a great aggregation. I've also stumbled upon some webrings through some of the blogs (have them open somewhere among my 3000 open tabs haha).

[0] https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/PublicData/blob/master/s...

Noticed the same recently but with some others such as nitter.tux.pizza but with the main instance working (which I’ve avoided cuz it seemed like it was overrun for a good 1-2 months)

Super happy for you! Funny coincidence, given we just talked about your “modest” specs last week haha.

-“John”

Wasn't aware of that, thanks for pointing that out. And full disclosure, I haven't seen any tiktok book reviews so these are my thoughts on tiktok globally (which is perhaps unfair). I guess my general annoyance then is the, let's say, minification. And the stupidly engaging hook sentences. Very artificial and a lack of authenticity and because you're at the mercy of the algorithm, the discoverability of niche, genuine vids can be extremely hard. Not that these are groundbreaking takes though

Tin foil hat time: I've started writing down companies behind ads that happen to slip through my defenses that are obnoxious/offensive/etc. Because, as you mention, so much of advertising is psychological manipulation. It'll be helpful to have a list of offenders to reference to before making a purchase for example.

The idea occurred to me after someone here proclaimed that they're simply unaffected by ads, reasoning they don't make rash purchases. Someone naturally countered with the extreme subconscious effect of ads.

This list thing is imperfect (I mean look how omnipresent car logos are for example) but it's an improvement from thinking you're immune to ads. Memory is fickle, and why Memento is my favorite movie.

This rings a little hollow to me because as a consumer, wouldn't I have noticed a lack of non-amazon options?

You haven’t? What sorts of products do u typically browse/shop for?

A five second clip of <the area where thing happened> is useful. But for anything recommendation/opinion based, tiktok vids are absolutely terrible. There’s not enough time for any nuance and everything is engineered lest u scroll away.

I don’t think GP was trying to undersell the achievement of an author.

Same. Started using Apple Maps years ago when I would occasionally hop on a Lyft ebike and have used it ever since

3. Along the same lines, selecting or editing, say, a URL from a browser address line is painful. When the URL text exceeds the screen width then trying to get to the end of the text is a damn awkward.

Because editing text on mobile is so tedious for all the reasons already outlined, this is basically the extent the of "editing" text that I do on my phone and it still drives me crazy! Stripping the UTM parameters from a url I've pasted into the address bar, pressing down, and watching the cursor sloooowwwwly move all the way to the end is excruciating. Likewise, the cursor often disappears on me as well.

4. UNDO, UBDO! I'm typing this into my browser's HN edit box! If I accidentally refresh the page before posting

Haha, I obsessively copy all if I'm writing > a couple sentences on HN on mobile; accidentally refreshing has wiped my text far too many times

Did not expect a reference to that viral common projects vid on here haha. Though I did snatch a decently used pair of achilles for $60 and have been my go to for the last three years (the soles r now smooth as a rock so I have been wearing them less out of caution). But I absolutely love those shoes: ridiculously comfortable, easy to clean, go with literally everything.

Now I can’t say they’re worth $450 or whatever. And no idea if they’re better than Koio’s—had I found a used pair of those for cheaper, I’d own those instead. So with all things, YMMV. I agree with the sentiment of “don’t equate brand/price with quality” tho

On my iPhone X I zoomed all the way out and it got the page to render well and scroll to work

This article is even an example -- I scroll down just to be interrupted by a call to action modal requesting my email and making me find the "continue reading" button just to read the content.

That substack popup drove me insane until I had enough and just turned js off for them. Very pleasant now

Yea I’d imagine the feed change and Twitter fully embracing low effort memes and jokes for its “virality” effect were a big factor

Haha, there’s that meme about five websites or so that r just screenshots of the other websites.

And yea it enables those stupid posts so I try to refrain from engaging

Ok was just wondering because anecdotally images have been a staple of engagement optimizing posts/accounts. E.g. something like ESPN won’t post a minute clip of an interview or simply a transcript excerpt, it’s always a quote graphic with an animated expression of the athlete. Some fairly mundane quote from Tom Brady will instead include a picture of him yelling

When was this? Sometime in the last couple of years?