cameronbrown

In the UK, gas & electric is also privatised and in a poor state too :)

Almost like private investment generates return for investors, not customers. Sometimes those align.

I’m in the UK and we recently got the Online Safety Act. We failed, this legislation is very popular with voters and not getting rolled back. Those that dislike it use a VPN and aren’t interested in fighting. I’d say most of the public here is exhausted with cost of living and internet freedom just isn’t relevant to their voting habits.

I grew up around a lot of the hacker ethos, open internet, Information Wants To Be Free etc… feels like a part of my identity is being striped away by my government.

I also wonder if they are glad they published it

https://youtu.be/ue9MWfvMylE

Jeff Dean is asked this question by Geoffrey Hinton at 37:35 - might worth watching. Overall an interesting video.

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-googles-priv...

Disclosure: I worked on Privacy Sandbox.

Try watching until Season 2 if you can. The show got much better and it's honestly a shame it was cancelled when it just got good.

The best carbon capture technology is to plant trees. As in, billions of trees per year, which is carbon negative only if the net number of trees is growing. Maybe even get creative on the biology side of things to make them easier to plant in harsh environments.

Good luck!

As other people have mentioned, landing pages + waitlists aren't the best nowadays. I do think a better way to get traction is to go and find 1-2 customers who will work closely with you to build a product. You mention this is for creators, so if possible, leverage their follower base to drive viral growth.

Far easier to develop a culture of using something physical like yubikeys - over flimsy cardboard QR codes. The key metaphor makes a lot more sense that way, too.

I think a lot of these things are less important by the day though. Are VPNs or advanced security software even necessary if everything is in Notion/Google Docs and something like Codespaces is being used?

(Opinions are my own.)

It used to be entirely custom, but is currently being re-based on VSCode. Overall very similar feel to Codespaces, just tailed for how Google works.

Is there anything like this, but for visualising the connections between git commits, files, GitHub issues, maybe even classes etc...?

Craigslist has been utterly disrupted by FB Marketplace where I live, unfortunately.

Real estate and job listings, for one.

email subscriptions to RSS for example, or perhaps even the other way around

There's actually quite a few powerful services to do this. I made a service called http://feedsub.com to do this a couple years ago. I'd also recommend http://mailbrew.com which has a nice digest format.

I think there's a lot of value in RSS as an underlying data layer for the web, and I think it's criminally underused on the consumption side nowadays.

For example, I'd very much like to see blogrings make a comeback, and there's probably room for a website community driven entirely by mailing lists and one of these RSS-to-email tools.

Awesome stuff. A couple years ago I built my own bespoke service (which I won't plug here) to do exactly this, but in a generic way. In retrospect, it would've been far more useful to build around this idea of following online creators, rather than letting people figure out the use cases on their own.

Have you thought about expanding this beyond just the people here? There are more casual use cases like following specific creators across Twitter/YT/Patreon are also be valuable imo.

Could one see a table-sized satellite 200 miles away?

We could see many of them with just eyesight when they first went up. Proper instruments are definitely going to pick that up.

I would challenge the assertion that Android hasn't had an impact on software support for Linux.

For example, most game engines and hundreds of pieces of middleware are generally supporting Linux now (site note: middleware was IME the worst part about porting games to Linux, only second to the graphics stack), even if just for Android games. Vulcan rendering is widely supported for a similar reason.

You are right about userland though, and what excites me is this might be the first mainstream device with a traditional Linux desktop setup. Even if people aren't going to be running Photoshop, they will run Discord, and they will likely be hungry for other software after that.

Maybe. I think it will solve the bootstrapping problem of all games being Linux compatible. The demand for proper software might not be far behind.

This and the recent Steam Deck news makes me think we might have a few million Linux gamers soon. That might even be enough to tempt software support from the traditional vendors like Adobe.

I also built http://feedsub.com for RSS to inbox. There's better tools out there nowadays but I find it useful.

Hmm, wouldn't it make more sense to keep batch jobs outside the monolith? Everything else makes sense to stay in a single binary.

Then that boss is failing to scale his/her team properly. It's not really a point of pride if one person can singlehandedly replace all their reports, imo.

I've been working on a game in my free time recently[0], and I can't stress enough how important it is to identify a "critical path" for developing. Games are such a visual and auditory medium that you can make a really polished and interesting experience that falls flat on it's face when it comes to depth or game mechanics.

Get to the very core of what you want your players to feel, their mindset, etc... and then build on top of it.

Part of doing this well is playtesting (note that this is not QA or usability testing, and especially not focus testing). Think of game designs as hypotheses and playtests as experiments. You can learn an absolute ton about your game just from doing this every week or two. I've found that using Steam's Remote Play Together feature made this quite feasible during WFH.

[0] Link in bio if anybody is interested.

I actually built something that was the complete inverse, RSS to email. Avoiding email because your inbox is full is like deciding not to drive because you didn't fill up the petrol tank. It's just putting a problem off to the future.

What's sorely needed is a way to stop the exfiltration of private data when it's not provided for a specific reason. I bet very few people who share their contacts with WhatsApp know they're getting uploaded to Facebook.

My guess is that companies dumping have an advantage over legit companies, and they're growing much quicker when nobody is spending on normal companies anymore.

Supply and demand, I'm guessing.

"Let's save the Earth by letting loads of people die"?

Unpopular opinion for sure... But I think you're right, in that, nobody is considering other costs of lockdown.