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- Comment on AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian 4 weeks ago:
National debt doesn’t work like consumer debt bud. Learn some economics. Nor is the trump admin actually using it to pay down the debt.
Anyway, defunding the NOAA to pay off the national debt is like skipping a coffee, once, to pay down a mortgage on a house.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 4 weeks ago:
Good to know. I only lost about 30 out of 5000 or so going from Spotify to Tidal. Seems like the catalog gaps for both Tidal and Quobuz have become less of an issue over the last few years.
The big annoyances were some playlists with orchestral and jazz albums that I had to find again via slightly different album names, but those are a mess on any platform due to re-releases and compilations being chaotic enough in that space as it is.
I’ve heard (annecdotaly) that Quobuz is much better for orchestral and instrumental music in general. Spotify wasn’t great for it. Tidal is a bit worse, but far superior than Spotify for Jazz at least.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 4 weeks ago:
I’d rather have it in my desktop workspace than nested in a web browser, plus it can integrate better with native media API’s for media buttons, notifications, and other items being aware of the audio, which the tidal web app doesn’t do out of the box.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 4 weeks ago:
Yep! It’s a good app overall, even has some improvements over what is shipped on macOS.
github.com/Nokse22/high-tide is new and promising for a better experience overall. I’d always prefer native over electron.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely! It works fairy well. A little clunky since the Linux support is bolted on after, but it’s not noticeably worse than the macOS experience. The extra options it offers over what tidal ships to macOS are also nice.
These non-native electron apps are all kinda junky for native music listening anyway. (This is a problem with Spotify’s desktop app as well)
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 4 weeks ago:
This is great to see. I ended up moving to Tidal from Spotify, and even though there are some nice to have features missing from Tidal (an equivilant to spotify’s sync between devices/speakers as well as a better Android Auto experience), it’s a far superior experience.
Quobuz is also on my radar, but they’ve traditionally lacked in the music catalog space. I need to give them a try again now that it’s been a few years.
That said, Tidal barely has Linux clients and I don’t think I’ve seen much movement for Quobuz on Linux, unless I’ve just missed it.
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 1 month ago:
I think this is pretty easy to BS through though.
For sure. So far I’ve only used it for one batch of interviews so I’m not 100% set on it, but we used it as our last round to narrow down between a few finalists and we were already confident they were not people who would BS the excercise.
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 1 month ago:
Yup, this is what I’ve always done for interviews.
Technical questions are purely to see what background someone has and how they explain or reason their way to some sort of answer. Its also nice to see if someone will say they don’t know something but offer their best guess, which is always a good indicator. I’ll usually provide the answer right away after they’ve answered, both to boost confidence for correct answers and because a quick explanation has a tendency to ease tension, especially if they then relate it to some other knowledge they have or suddenly recall the info with a little help.
The other thing I do is ask questions about disagreements with previous coworkers or managers. If someone starts explaining themselves into being superior to others, it’s a red flag. Its nice to get an idea for how someone resolves conflict or what kinds of complications they’ve run into, but I mostly just want to see how they view themselves compared to others.
I know my approach is sometimes strange to others doing hiring with me, but it’s all pulled from my time as an education major (I switched out after 3 years to another degree) and real world teaching experience. Good teachers ask questions to understand how a student learns and what they know broadly, not to get an exact percentage of points. (State/district testing requirements aside)
A new thing I’ve been trying instead of live coding is having people map out a loose architecture for some sort of API data process or frontend data process, then walking us through it. Its more or less a pseudo coding excercise, but it takes the stress of actual language knowledge away. I’m not sure if it’ll stick long run, but it’s been an interesting experience.
- Comment on The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online P̶r̶i̶v̶a̶c̶y̶ Anonymity 1 month ago:
May the Great Green Arkleseizure bless the author
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
Fwiw, they’ve open sourced the specification behind canvas, so there’s a good chance any OSS Obsidian “forks” that pop up if they do enshittify will be able to support it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ah. I think I jumped to assumptions about interledger based on the wallet terminology.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Looks like it’s based on the Web Monetization W3C proposal.
Look neat, though I’m always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto. while Interledger is the main driver of the peer-to-peer payments so far, there is nothing stopping a government or banking service from creating an OpenPayment compatible service, so long run there might be a lot of flexibility and less being tied to a specific cyrpto.
- Comment on Alternative Mobile Front-ends: A list of privacy-respecting front-ends to popular online services, including social media, streaming and information services. All of the options here are mobile apps 2 months ago:
Some people aren’t a fan of F-droid managing the signing keys and that sometimes F-droid builds/deployments can take a bit. There is an argument for developer-managed signing keys being better than registry-managed signing keys for trust, but that also doesn’t make F-droid “bad”. While I’m not fully versed on it, I think the issue here only applies to the main F-droid repo since other repos might have different policies around builds and signing keys.
Personally, I like the experience of managing my most used apps through Obtanium via the devs git releases, but I only use that if the dev is good about publishing their signing key so ir can be verified with AppVerifier. Otherwise, F-droid is safer than running an app installed without verifying the signing key.
- Comment on Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 5 months ago:
The EU is going to slap them silly for making it an easier process? Instead of needing to know a magic key combo to bypass the security check, now it acts just like any other security permission (for example, screen recording) and sends you to settings. This is absolutely better than it was and the article is clickbait.
- Comment on Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 5 months ago:
This is a million times better than the current. Using homebrew, you often have to re-approve apps that brew ended up reinstalling in a manner to remove the previous exception.
Now, worst-case, it’s the same process as any other app permission, and best case, it can be adjusted via the terminal.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
There are many tipping points, and we dont always know if we’ve hit one yet or not. The drastic increase in sea temperature the last two years is possibly a tipping point we’ve passed, esp since the warmer the water is, the less co2 its able to absorb. OMAC shut down (if it happens) is possibly a tipping point, which will only feedback loop into warming waters.
Honestly, the permafrost melt is more likely to be the KO punch after one or more other tipping points accelerate it.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 5 months ago:
Agreed. I don’t like the magic mouses size, but the weight + multitasking gestures makes it the one I put in my laptop bag for use on the go.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 5 months ago:
Meh. I got one for free from a job’s tech allowance, and it’s never really a problem. It charges fast and the OS warns you early enough to plug it in on a lunch break or at the end of the day well before it runs out. Not ideal but def not garbage. Honestly, I get more frustrated with noise canceling headphones and keyboards dying at inconvenient times than I ever do the mouse.
I dont use it daily, but it is a pretty good mouse for my laptop bag. Charge holds a long time for once/week use. If it’s dead when I get to the coffee shop or wherever I’m working, itll be usable in 15 mins or less anyway. It also works nicely with Linux out of the box, which is a rarity among Bluetooth mice (in my experience).
The other elephant in the room: not having multitasking gestures on a mouse when using macOS is a serious drawback for any other mouse out there, so there is a reason people are willing to put up with the annoyance (if they ever get annoyed in the first place)
- Comment on Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog 6 months ago:
No, but if its prohibitively impossible to do so, people with legitimate good ideas will never be able to do anything about it. Barriers to entry only serve the wealthy.
- Comment on Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app 6 months ago:
I’m not in a rush to move over from K-9, but once they add account sync with desktop to the mobile app I’ll def be migrating. Getting to be a not of a pain toanage Thunderbird on a few PC’s + phone and i’m very much looming forward to simplifying all of that
- Comment on Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app 6 months ago:
The main thing they want testing for is the migration tool from a k-9 app installed and configured already on the device, which would be net new code.
- Comment on Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure | The Mozilla Blog 6 months ago:
I, personally, think that you should not have a website if you can’t pay for it yourself
You might want to consider how expensive web hosting can be, depending on the content and traffic. A belief like that can shut out a huge portion of the world from being able to even bother with a web site. Even a simple blog can get very expensive due to traffic. Maybe not expensive enough for your average 1st world individual… But that still excludes a large portion of the population with internet access.
- Comment on With Newsom’s Veto, Big Tech Beats Democracy 6 months ago:
The central point of that article is certinally valid. Something that was worked on for a while with broad congressional support and public support getting vetoed isnt ideal for a democratic process. No resolution on issues is not a good thing since another 3-6-12 months of no regulation for a theoretically netter bill to work through the system will allow for continued abuse by AI behemoths. Newsom is a corpo dem, so idk what people expected, anyway.
I don’t buy into the AGI FUD. These are word calculators. But these tools are being hooked up to all sorts of things they shouldn’t be hooked up to and the lack of broad privacy regulation in the US puts LLM usage that handles sensitive data and/or decisions firmly into dangerous territory. Business decisions made by irresponsible management with no regard for data privacy or human safety are already a massive problem that actively cause harm, and hooking current AI tools onto these processes only seems to make the problems worse, especially while AI usage is in this gray space where no one wants to take responsibility for the outcomes.