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- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 day ago:
I’m stating my opinion on the matter…
I think you should engage with challenging ideas as the post says, I don’t think it’s an “ideal of intellectualism”, I just think it serves your own interests to be open to realize you’ve been mislead.
- Comment on LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back! 1 day ago:
Because you can use it on any device without having to install the whole app and sync the data separately… It’s super convenient, and cross-platform.
It’s still self hosted and you own the data.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 day ago:
You tell them to fuck off because you engaged with it and found it completely meritless/abhorrent, not because you’re above engaging with it. If they present new evidence for lizard people, you should skeptically examine the evidence and tell them to fuck off when it doesn’t hold up.
You don’t have to engage with them and waste your time debating them, but you absolutely should be open to challenge your own positions.
- Comment on Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 1 day ago:
Clearly deaf.
- Comment on Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only 5 days ago:
I bought my model 3 with fsd in 2019, back when the only thing Elon talked about publicly was the push to increase ev adoption. Always hated the guy, but loved the car. Again this was before he came out as a full blown Nazi.
Not defending him, I think he’s a moron who hired really smart engineers to build a great car. I think his drug addiction and Nazism and stupid decisions have ruined the company, and fuck it I don’t even care about it anymore. Fuck Nazi Elon.
That out of the way, yes. Destination to destination, day or night, rain or shine, stop signs, lights, roundabouts, u turns, merges, overtaking, bridges, tunnels, pedestrians jaywalking, handles it all.
It’s not perfect, while it slows down in school zones, it doesn’t actually read the posted speed sign and goes faster than it should, it does weird decisions and jerky moves at very low speed in parking lots, of the address you entered is not a coordinate of the parking lot, it will pull over and disengage on the road in front of the building regardless of whether that’s allowed there. It does still make some mistakes occasionally, so I never trust it to actually not pay attention, but it drives me everywhere.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Costco slices their ribeyes thick. 3 at ~1 pound each is right around that prime price.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 week ago:
Looking at Vietnam… Seems to work great when the imperialists fall to crush you.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 1 week ago:
Oh, forgot to ask, are mobile apps on the roadmap?
Obviously your chosen tech stack makes that difficult, but notes on the go are pretty essential.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
Now what to do about the lazy writer who used AI to write the article and didn’t bother fact check it and make sure the quotes are real?
Fixing the article, weekend or next week, doesn’t address the problem itself.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 1 week ago:
Sounds good, I’m trying out the app and seeing if I can really use it to replace obsidian, and I might dedicate some time to contribute if I end up using it. I agree with your assessment that obsidian’s customization with its plugin eco system leads to it becoming a side project that you have to baby instead of just a note taking app.
I don’t use a lot of plugins on obsidian, but I use rely on a few that make organizing notes easier, mainly:
- Daily notes: I really like being able to click one button to create a note with a date and organized into date folders, these are usually quick notes that reference bigger notes. Not being able to do it with a click means I just won’t do it at all, so my quick notes could very quickly become a giant list of unorganized files in the vault root.
- Templates: not a huge deal, I can manually apply templates from a template .md file, but it’s a nice feature.
On sync, two problems with using “whatever” to sync entire vault:
- I have to install and configure syncing on every device, and make sure they’re connected
- Merge conflict and sync order! I used to use seafile I sync, and I can’t tell you how frustrating it was to lose entire notes because they were overwritten externally.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
Exactly, copyright and priority technology means everyone that wants to innovate must first reinvent the wheel and waste enormous energy doing work that’s already been done.
Look at Google photos, since they killed Picasa and exclusively offered it as a proprietary SAAS, they completely stopped innovating for over a decade. Look at immich in comparison, it’s already a better offering and it has only been released as stable for less than a year.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 1 week ago:
Your website says “No sync. No lock-in. No bullshit”
Would you mind elaborating on the thought there? Why no sync?
I use obsidian with self hosted live sync, my notes are mine and they live on my hardware, but they are always in sync between my devices. If I’m on my desktop and take notes, I can pull them up on my laptop or even my phone. With this, I can’t reference my notes (or update them) until I’m back on my desktop.
The line “No sync. No lock-in. No bullshit” tells me you’re opposed to it on principal, meaning you don’t intend to ever add the ability to sync, and that’s a nonstarter for me and a lot of people I image. I’d love to migrate from obsidian to something open source, and I’d love to potentially spend time working on contributing a self hosted live sync like feature, but I need to know if my work and pull request will be immediately rejected on a principal I’m not sure I understand?
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 week ago:
Open source will innovate so much faster if properly funded, without the shackles of copyright and companies holding advancements secret and not releasing innovations on purpose as long as they hold on edge on “competition”. Competition is only important because of proprietary capitalism, remove capitalism and directly reward the workers and innovation happens for innovation’s sake.
Can’t wait for this to be proven in practice, and to be able to apply that more widely to society. Godspeed Europe
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I’m sick and I’m bed. Really hoped I’d get you thinking and reflecting instead of shutting down, capitalism is ruining our kids’ futures and destroying our planet, it’s a very important thing.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The worst dependency hell is when a library has a strict version dependency, and another library uses that same dependency. When the second library updates their minimum version of the dependency to one that is higher than the exact version needed for the first, THAT’S dependency hell.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
What part of what I said did you find humorous?
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard to grasp this when your mentality is coming from a lifetime of capitalist propaganda, but yes, you’re stealing from someone.
Imagine a perfect world, where spacious modem homes are constructed in a responsible manner, and where anyone can live anywhere that’s available. No rent, no mortgage, no housing payments at all; housing as a right, funded by the public, and you live in a unit that suits your family in an area close to your workplace.
Now, we don’t live in this perfect world, but to complete the vision just to rule out common talking points: In this perfect world, the housing units are modern and spacious, since they aren’t produced by corporations for profit, there is no pressure to cut corners and no incentive to deliberately keep housing scarce. Construction is planned around need instead of return on investment: durable materials, good insulation, safe wiring, accessible design, decent sunlight, green space, and maintenance that’s done because people live there, not because a spreadsheet says it’s “worth it.” Neighborhoods aren’t carved up by speculation, and empty units aren’t treated like “assets” to hoard; if something sits vacant, it’s because it’s being repaired or repurposed, not because someone is waiting for the market to rise.
And here’s the part that matters for your question: in that world, you moving to a bigger home doesn’t create a private opportunity to extract money from someone else. It just means a smaller unit becomes available to someone who needs it, at no cost, because shelter isn’t a commodity.
But in this world, housing is artificially turned into a revenue stream. When you move up and keep the smaller place as a rental, you’re not “providing housing” the way a builder or a maintenance crew provides housing, you’re controlling access to something people must have to survive and charging them for permission to exist there.
The “fair price” argument only works if the market itself is fair. It isn’t. It’s shaped by scarcity, wage stagnation, barriers to ownership, and the simple fact that people can’t “opt out” of needing a home.
So yes: the theft isn’t that you’re charging above some moral ceiling, like you’d be fine if you just found the perfect number. The theft is the extraction itself, taking a cut from someone’s paycheck not because you produced their home, but because you happen to hold the deed while they have no real alternative. They pay, not out of freely chosen exchange, but because the alternative is displacement, overcrowding, or homelessness. That’s coercion dressed up as consent.
If you want a concrete way to think about it: imagine any other necessity, e.g., water, insulin, oxygen. If you had extra and someone needed it, charging them monthly for access because “that’s what the going rate is” would still feel like exploitation, even if you charged less than your neighbor. Housing is just as necessary; we’ve just been trained to treat the tollbooth as normal.
And to be clear, I’m not saying you’re uniquely evil, or that you invented the system. I’m saying the system makes it easy to feel innocent while benefiting from harm. The moral question isn’t “am I kinder than other landlords?” It’s “am I participating in a structure that turns someone’s need into my income?” If the answer is yes, then whatever the price, you’re taking something that should never have been up for sale in the first place.
The solution doesn’t come from small guys like you giving up their rental properties, because we know the corporations won’t give up theirs. The solution would be a move to that more perfect world, which forces both corporations and small landlords like yourself to give it all up at once.
I don’t blame you for trying to find a way out of the wave slavery situation we all face, but you’re trying to get out of it by becoming part of the problem. The problem is capitalism.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 3 weeks ago:
China is not communist in any form anymore, they’re authoritarian late stage techno-capitalism with remnants of communist social structures. And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits, they never execute billionaires for being billionaires or for making those billions by exploiting the workers.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
I don’t buy games on steam so I can have them in the future. I buy them on steam so I can play them today, so I can easily reinstall them, so I can have my save files synced across devices and and reinstalls.
The day steam gets enshitified where it isn’t giving me that convenience is the day I stop using it. Most of my library was purchased for <$10 in summer sales, I’ve played their worth and then some. If Valve disappears tomorrow and my steam library with it, there’s only a handful of games I might repurchase, I wouldn’t be that devastated.
I don’t make a living off it, my life doesn’t depend on it, I don’t need it… it’s entertainment and convenience that I want today, and valve allows me to play more and more of library on Linux every day, which is great because I’ve completely uninstalled Windows.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about defending valve, it’s about not buying epic’s pro consumer rhetoric. They have a worse product, a history of anti consumer practices, and you shouldn’t let them use you to gain leverage to be able to abuse you more.
Steam is DRM, but so is Epic. And if the two, Steam/valve have contributed meaningfully to open source software and the gaming industry. In a world where capitalism rules, Steam/Valve is hardly the worst option.
I for one look forward to the Steam Deck; my HP Reverb G2 became a paperweight when it lost support overnight after a Windows update, and while it’s not completely open, I expect valve’s headset to be supported for as long as the hardware survives.
Fuck DRM, but if you want to pay for convenience and don’t care about owning your games, Steam is the best option.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
GitHub copilot within visual studio is not bad actually, if it doesn’t find anything to but typos then congrats your team is all competent senior developers…
It does cut down review time for juniors’ work, and it’s capable of implementing full features given the correct documentation and instructions. It’s a useful tool that assists and doesn’t replace competent developers.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 3 weeks ago:
I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server
But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.
- Comment on My self hosted badges of honor 3 weeks ago:
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
- Comment on YSK: starting Feb. 1, passengers arriving at US airports nationwide without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification, such as a passport, will face a $45 fee 3 weeks ago:
Not previously, currently. You still can, it just has to be “real id”.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 3 weeks ago:
Always happy to put on display how widespread the American empire’s destruction is and how pervasive their propaganda and and influence are.
Most of the world’s problems today can be directly traced back to American capitalism.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 3 weeks ago:
Armenia apparently learned nothing from the Armenian genocide, fully banding the knees to the American empire and announcing their unapologetic support for Israel.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 3 weeks ago:
businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actuall…
They literally hired people in India (Indians) to review camera footage to make their walk out tech work and to improve the AI to eventually eliminate their own job.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 4 weeks ago:
Some airlines now provide different levels of free wifi the entire flight. Some require a free account that can be a pain to setup, some limit the access to specific apps like Whatsapp, and some like Qatar airways give you full high-speed low latency access.
But wifi on airplanes isn’t new, but used to be exclusively paid for slow internet access.
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 4 weeks ago:
You think recognizing that they don’t care about your rights is the same as “not resisting”?
The problem is that people don’t recognize that their rights don’t matter anymore.
Alex Pretti exercised his 2nd amendment right and never broke the law, yet he was executed in broad daylight. It’s time to recognize that your rights no longer protect you (just like they rarely ever protected minorites) and fucking revolt already.
- Comment on Selfhosted Jira alternative 4 weeks ago:
It’s sloppy. They cobbles the existing self hosted java app into a SAAS, but it’s a horrible foundation. They should have rewritten it, but that’s asking them to pay developers instead of executives and profit was clearly prioritized.