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- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 19 hours ago:
Yes, but the syntax and documentation on the queries is obtuse as hell in logseq. Like it is ridiculous how granular you have a to get of you want to return all links within a time period or something. If I need to write SQL to pull notes, I should just use a database, lol.
The nice thing about tags as a distinct entity is it offers the option you can utilize if you choose. It gives you two buckets you can sort into and connect between. And it does make creating “topic groups” easier than manually linking them all to a tag page in logseq, imo.
Conversely, I would massively prefer of Logseq abolished support for hashtags entirely if they are functionally identical to wikilinks. Or combine them so the hashtags auto-convert to wikilinks or vice versa. But supporting hashtags in any manner when they are frankly not a “real” feature is more frustrating. Making topic links in Logseq is harder because of this.
Also, the existence of tag pages themselves is a confusong abberation given the above…
Logseq is a great tool, but very different in terms of what it is best suited to handle. I think I will revisit it for if I do a lot of writing, but for disparate ideas or notation it is good but could be better.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 22 hours ago:
I’ve tried logseq for the last 6 months (no commercial license) at work, but while it’s really good for outlining, it’s lack of a tag function is what feels like a critical weakness to me. I realize structurally it’s different in concept. But making everything into bullets doesn’t always suit the task.
I would love Logseq for journalling or writing though.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 22 hours ago:
Holy shit this is huge. I can finally use obsidian at work! I was avoiding it due to the license and using Logseq. Which, to be fair, did admirably. But it’s much more and Outliner or journaling system than a knowledge base I feel.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 days ago:
Yea, I had like a 2nd or 3rd gen paperwhite and rooted it for this reason, but my partner’s wasn’t hackable until this moment. So now she can have it too.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 4 days ago:
Better Calibre integration.
Custom shelves and book collections on Kindle.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
So long as this is genuone, and not a stealth sabotage, that’s a genuinely good response and reaction.
I would respond to them that that isn’t a bad idea, so long as the therapist isn’t “primed” on the issue, and you’re able to actually go in with a blank slate.
Also, no idea where you live, but in the US make sure your therapist agrees to keep your therapy notes in some kind of shorthand. Musk and Trump don’t care about violating HIPPA to harm your rights, so be smart yea?
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 2 months ago:
For low res, no.
Hi res, sure. Make it optional, or let players download the region they like. Or just the airports with much lower res landscapes, etc etc.
Or just, let them have it all and make these choices. Memory is CHEAP nowadays. If you’re a flight sim enthusiast, a few terabytes for the map data is the least expensive part of your setup by far.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 2 months ago:
God I love having a future where my ability to play a fucking flight simulator depends on both internet access and server reliability.
Completely unnecessary to boot. Store a low res copy locally, offer the high res as regional packs. 0 reason to stream this data in.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 3 months ago:
“AI” cannot make rational choices.
It is a giant word association machine.
For the love of god this should never be involved in military applications.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 3 months ago:
We just decided to never go back after McDonalds decoded to weigh in on Israel/Gaza by (their regional branches) feeding the IDF for free, and McDonalds corporate letting that be.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
An online database is still a file ultimately. A SQL or other DB file stored in a webserver, accessed through a web interface.
Vaultwarden, etc, are the same, only the database file is less directly visible IMO. Keepass IMO is simple. The DB in a bespoke format, stored outside the application.
You could put the vault in system32 and name it “trustedinstaller.log”, and if someone saw you had keepass they wouldn’t even know where your vault is.
Given the number of well documented breaches of online password vaults, I would much rather do a private device to device sync via syncthing and keep it out of webservers.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
Syncthing is encrypted transfers.
The database is encrypted.
And you can set it to not use relays for data, only matchmaking between your own devices.
So it’s an encrypted file, encrypted again, and sent directly from an IP you own to an IP you own.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
F-Droid syncthing-fork is still actively developed and had a patch in the last few weeks.
So hopefully this isn’t the end.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
F-Droid syncthing-fork is still actively developed and had a patch in the last few weeks.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
Keepass vault synced over syncthing.
I keep not regretting it.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 4 months ago:
See: Kaizo Mario directly inspiring Mario Maker.
See: LttP Randomizer, along with literally any other randomizer.
See: speedrunning streams literally making the market that Nintendo then sold the Nintendo World Championships cart into.
Nintendo absolutely benefits from this. They just want to crack the whip and take over. Fuck them.
Also, still can’t buy Mother 3. Double fuck them. Tons of titles play better on emulation. I shouldn’t have to justify it.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 4 months ago:
Jesus, why not fine them 5 bucks?
What a joke.
- Comment on Google Is ‘Thinking Through’ How to Make the Pixel Watch Repairable 4 months ago:
Nope. I quit their Google bullshit ages ago. Moto 360 was a brutal betrayal.
Get a withings scanwatch or something that is “dumb” enough to be an excellent and nice looking watch, hugely long battery life, and has all the health features that matter.
It looks sharply professional, I charge it once a month, and the updates for it don’t constantly make it run worse to push features in a different part of their product line…
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 5 months ago:
Nope.
This is why anyone not huffing paintbhas stayed far away from NFTs.
- Comment on Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! 5 months ago:
I will learn how to make an orbital rocket just to fuck this things day up.
No, night is already too bright. You are not ruining this for me further.
- Comment on Cords 5 months ago:
You’d have to be pumping up quite a bit I think to reverse through the residential transformer with just your little generac home unit, but you may be correct if there are no one way circuits or backfeed fuses. Even so, hopefully it wouldn’t kill. Home voltage stepped up would lose its amperage and be like an extremely anemic taser potentially.
I’d love to hear from an electrical worker on the topic, but yea, it’s the amps that kill more than the volts.
- Comment on Cords 5 months ago:
Exactly this. It’s so insanely selfish and pretty illegal.
That said, 120v backfeed is unlikely to kill and linemen kind of expect and test for residual current because of accidents like this causing falls, but it doesn’t mean it’s okay, and the chances of hurting someone are still non-zero.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 5 months ago:
I reset my Android TV to stock before the ads, block all updates, and just run Plex and Netflix when I choose.
Probably going to take it further in the future and just use a little android media stick and nuke the SmartTV is entirely because of how badly it lags.
Absolutely insane how badly AndroidTVs perform after a year or so of ownership. If I could revert the core software updates I would.
Also, wifi causes the entire TV to become a laggy unusable mess. Has to be plugged in over ethernet. Absolutely unbelievable.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 6 months ago:
Its cool well just message the maintainers of Android to improve it, I’m sure it’s a mistake. Lemme go check who who’s behind it… /s
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 6 months ago:
Do it do it do it do it do it do it…
Smash them with a hammer. Google should not exist as it is. Not for decades.
Break up AdSense, chrome, search, android, shatter them all into separate companies that can stop selling out literally every waking aspect of life as their sole business model.
- Comment on World’s highways could host 52.3 billion solar panels, say researchers 6 months ago:
Everything has a drawback, but covering roads and highways panels would be frequently equally as prone to damage ( every time there is a downed tree or fender bender). As for dust, the exhaust fumes of 100,000s of vechiles adds up, and the panels cannot simply be hit with compressed air. The soot sticks to surfaces.
Its nice in theory but actually covering highways in panels would make them disgusting choked tunnels and ruin the panels. Covering the highways at all even with a light canvas to block sun would be prohibitively difficult to make both effective and maintainable.
- Comment on World’s highways could host 52.3 billion solar panels, say researchers 6 months ago:
This just in: deserts and parking lots exist and aren’t swarmed by high speed traffic.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 6 months ago:
Chrome is the existential threat to FireFox.
Chrome is… Also Google.
Break up Google, make chrome competitive, and then we’ll stop seeing advertisers own the web standards and implement things like AVIF and ManifestV3, and instead embrace open solutions that favor users.
The JPEG XL vs AVIF thing still makes me mad.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 6 months ago:
Man, as someone who’s cross discipline in my former companies, the way people treat It, and the way the company considers IT as an afterthought is just insane. The technical debt is piled high.
- Comment on Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR 7 months ago:
This is a total win for Europeans.
Bring more Europe to the US. Lol