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Org markup should replace Markdown

2 points·by freedsoftware·last year·2 comments

Windows 3.x's Program Manager as an X11 window manager

github.com
6 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·0 comments

The strange political history of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency

flux.community
3 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·1 comments

Learning to lie: AI tools adept at creating disinformation

apnews.com
3 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·0 comments

NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past

nasa.gov
7 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·1 comments

Bilingualism as a Deterrent for Alzheimer’s?

bigthink.com
1 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·1 comments

Developers Created AI to Generate Police Sketches. Experts Are Horrified

vice.com
1 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·0 comments

Record $3.8B stolen in crypto hacks last year, report says

cnn.com
4 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·8 comments

Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked

theregister.com
6 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·1 comments

Neo-Nazi leader and girlfriend accused of targeting Md. power stations

washingtonpost.com
13 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·3 comments

Elon Musk's right-wing turn is tanking Tesla's reputation

forbes.com
7 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·7 comments

The Breadth of the Fediverse

eff.org
8 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·1 comments

The failed promises of tech liberation

flux.community
86 points·by freedsoftware·3 years ago·89 comments

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freedsoftware
·last year·discuss
Everything you said is actually true of Org. It is a markup language that looks like plain text but is far more capable.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
This talk already happened but for some reason it's not posted. Very odd.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Slowness and memory bloat is the main problem of Thunderbird. I don't know what the cause is, but it is frustrating that there are no full-featured open-source mail apps that have decent performance.

Kmail's UI can be fast, but its IMAP support is so horribly slow and buggy at least for me.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
The original headline is sensationalistic and referencing a specific language learning product so I didn't include it. But this is some interesting research.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Rather overstated. How you perceive the wavefunction has no bearing on how it works.

But it is a valid to be concerned about quantum woo which deliberately misapplies quantum mechanics to macroscopic ones and even the idea of consciousness, all of which is total bullshit.

I have a distant relative who is a religious fundamentalist who thinks that quantum mechanics means that his belief about the veracity of a faith claim is in fact the determinant of its truth. No surprise he likes Jordan Peterson.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
This defeats the entire original appeal of Twitter, which was to avoid the ginormous walls of text that Uncle Rico would put on his wall talking about his love for Jesus.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Wallets do not have to have 2fa. A currency could force them to have it.

Interestingly enough, one of crypto's biggest critics, Elizabeth Warren, has also been after Wells Fargo for Zelle scams.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Coins could be made to require two different keys to perform operations.

Social engineering attacks getting people to divulge their private single keys are a huge method of crypto theft.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Coins should have 2FA themselves. Without it, theft is obviously far easier.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Even the most rinky-dink banks have 2FA. Crypto is eventually going to consume itself once enough marks realize they will never make money from it.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
I largely agree with this. But one thing that better AI has revealed is that a lot of human performance is also bullshit. If ChatGPT can pass an MBA final exam, then this would suggest that MBA exams are not good at determining business aptitude.

And I think many people here have seen first-hand that this is true.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
I've seen this as well. VCs are actually terrible at their investments by and large. They mostly use gut instinct or personal networking as their determiner of whether to invest in stuff.

That's a poor heuristic and it is why so many people continue to fail upward.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
It's also that good marketing of a product is probably more integral to its success than its engineering. There are so many stories of superior technologies failing because of bad marketing.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
"Nate Fick, the inaugural US ambassador at large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, on Saturday announced the hack of his personal account (not the government agency one) with - of course - a tweet. "
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is going to become a lot more common.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
You can criticize LLMs all you want, they will still be a huge thing in our economy and civilization.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
This article really needed to be longer and have some illustrations. What's the point of publishing an essay about interface design without including any graphics?

I'm sympathetic to the points made, but as someone who has not used Flutter, I really do not have a sense of what the tooling and output is like based on this short piece.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
"Currently, just 13.4% of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Tesla, compared with 16% last month and 28.4% in January 2022, according to survey data released on Thursday by Morning Consult Brand Intelligence. That’s a 15% drop year over year. Driving the decline is Tesla’s loss of popularity with people who identify as Democrats. Just 3% of those adults view Musk’s EV company favorably, down from 10.3% in December 2022."
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
An interesting look at how the open protocol of ActivityPub has built a much bigger network than it may seem.

I still think Mastodon needs to be made easier for people who aren't techies, but it has a lot of potential since that is only a UX challenge.
freedsoftware
·3 years ago·discuss
He is absolutely scared of Mastodon. Can't let the proles decide where to microblog for themselves!