doublepg23

Weird I scrolled this far for “friends”.

That’s the killer feature. I haven’t met a person who couldn’t use PLEX.

There's a phallus in unicode but an emoji would be welcome. https://unicode-explorer.com/c/130B8

Covering my blob turtle's ears from hearing this heresy rn :(

The Google "blob" emoji was the peak of emoji design.

Funny enough, neither the PS4 or PS5 support CDs. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/play-vide...

I’m a heavy Tailscale user, so I do trust them quite a bit, but I never used the Tailscale SSH feature. I feel like OpenSSH’s security record is pretty unbeatable, not sure why I’d swap over for such a security-sensitive tool.

Perhaps “Jobs for new families” would be better phrasing?

This isn’t a hypothetical scenario though - the lack of economic opportunity across the border is a key reason of why I’m married.

I think you’re tilting at windmills here.

The industries sustaining the city are healthcare, finance and higher edu. There’s no invasion of m fedora-toting tech bros building B2B SaaS AI Agents.

This is a group of current inhabitants who do want the city to improve who are submitting -honestly minor - proposals to keep Pittsburgh from going the way of many of the other Rust-Belt cities.

Is this not the Rust-Belt writ large?

De-industrialization for decades on decades - of which Pittsburgh did an okay job of pivoting (many many other towns nearby faired far far worse) - pile on brain drain to the Coasts and a opioid epidemic to boot, I don’t see how this is an indictment of Yinzers.

How can you sustain a city if the existing inhabitants children would rather leave?

Jobs and new families?

I’ve become intimately familiar with Youngstown, OH - about 70 miles away from the Pittsburgh - and it’s a great case study of how far a once-powerhouse city can fall if it doesn’t a actively reinvent itself.

Unexpected to see this talked about on HN.

I actually went through the Allegheny county “newcomer tax” just some months ago.

It was a bit of a strange process to appeal (I lost; my house is very weird for the area).

While I do see the benefit for not raising taxes so consistently for long-term owners (and could definitely see gentrification-esque effects) it does seem like a pretty obvious - if bitter - pill to swallow if the area is going to have any chance of continued growth.

Great video on the theory: https://youtu.be/Ado90kMT_FM

Have people (smarter than me) come up with a good equation - or at least heuristic - to determine what inventions are morally good?

I suppose it'd be from a utilitarian perspective?

Ex: My gut feeling is nitrogen fixing would rank "low" on "terminal ecological impact" against "positive benefits to humanity"; the Vinyl resurgence would be around the middle; private jets for the Epstein class would the highest etc.

Will Butlerian Jihad be on the 2028 ticket?

My hobby horse is the lack of a “modern” filesystem on obsd.

Without journaling I really don’t agree with the oft repeated claims it makes a good “router”.

Any networking gear I’ve used is treated as an appliance and I don’t want an unfortunate power outage causing data loss.

My Subaru Solterra / Toyota bz4X is the same way.

Epstein used Gmail

Doesn't Aldi work against that theory?

The point is "America Bad. Upvotes to the left."

If I recall correctly, I was obsessed with the PBS show "Cyberchase" and had Googled the main antagonists name "Hacker" which lead to me HackForums.

It ended up being a very significant influence on my computing career!

I went to urgent care a few months ago to get tested for COVID and two other flu strains and it came out to almost $500.

They have at-home COVID+Flu tests are my local CVS for $35, why go to an urgent care?

I enjoy a local Pittsburgh bakery Mancini's. That's my benchmark for "good bread", I've never been to Europe though.

Jacob's Ladder (1990) is one I'm thinking of too.

Nostr is basically this.

It's a cool idea, in practice it kind of sucks as an experience.

It's been developed adjacent to the Bitcoin community and I can't say there's much going on besides spam.

Perhaps ATProto vs. ActivityPub will been seen as the Fediverse's East-West Schism.

Instead of decrees over the "filioque" we get blog posts about the definition of "federation" where both parties talk past each other.

read Marx

read Popper

..as opposed to other green energy programs that received no government investment?

...or the externality-free fossil fuel industry?

I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management.

I dunno https://immich.app is pretty painless IME.

? it has a mute button and I find it as responsive as my old shield tv.