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Stories by trinsic2

Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state (scottrlarson.com)
Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems? (scottrlarson.com)
Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux (scottrlarson.com)
Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation (404media.co)
Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School (404media.co)
The Internet Was Weeks Away from Disaster and No One Knew [video] (youtube.com)
Ask HN: Does sentience put stress on the brain?
I'm working on this idea that the brain might be going through stages of evolution and wondered if high-level forms of cognitive function cause stress on the brain enough to create distortions in thinking? I wondered that maybe the brain is evolving to a more stable state at some point in the f...
Apple's China Crisis – $1T Payment to Xi Jinping Exposed [video] (youtube.com)
Ask HN: Why doesn't Linux have a native text editor as feature rich as Notepad++
After switching from Windows to PopOS a few years ago, I spent countless hours trying to find a GUI text editor as good as Notepad++ but failed. I have tried many of the native variants NotepadNext and others.
Ask HN: Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization?
I started working with computers during the golden age of home computing[0]. I'm noticing the return to closed systems that General Computing aimed to change. The centralization of computing by cloud services, forced AI, and the commercialization of general computing have pushed us toward a fut...
There will Never Ever be another movie like Office Space [video] (youtube.com)
Apple's Activation Lock is becoming a barrier to recycling (youtube.com)
Ask HN: Submission not going live, not flagged
I submitted this article about 3 hours ago and so far I don&#x27;t think it has going live. It not flagged and it doesn&#x27;t appear to be against the rules. Anybody know why it hasn&#x27;t gone live?<p>Its the top article of my submission list &quot; Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and ...
Is an AI Catastrophe Inevitable? [video] (youtube.com)
Are Hardware Manufacturers Trying to Lock Down Consumer Hardware? (scottrlarson.com)
Ask HN: Does downvoting get to a point where you cant upvote?
Im seeing some downvoting of naysays in this thread[0] with no option to up vote. I feel there is a gang up happening and want to up vote some of these comments.<p>[0]: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47255662
Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (techcrunch.com)
Musings on "The Internet After YouTube" (scottrlarson.com)
Ask HN: Streaming a Bittorent Video from a Webpage?
I&#x27;m wondering if there is a way to stream a video uploaded to Bit torrent from a web page.<p>I am working on a video essay that I feel might get censored by our current administration. I looked into PeerTube and i&#x27;m hesitant to get into decentralization because the point of censorship can ...
Told ya, Apple's Activation Lock is becoming a barrier to recycling (youtube.com)
Ask HN: Gracefully handing off domain name management if incapacitated
I am an independent IT consultant that sometimes handles Mail and Web hosting for various customers.<p>I was wondering if anybody else in this line of work has a good way to handoff control of at least the domain name if for some reason you become incapacitated.<p>Obviously, I set the customer for t...
Obsidian's Ownership Model (forum.obsidian.md)
Decision Brownouts (ribbonfarm.com)
Handeling RSS Links in the Modern Firefox Browser
I have been recently getting back into RSS feeds and I was wondering if anyone how to get Firefox to handle RSS links so I can open them automatically in my Thunderbird email client?<p>Right now the just get parsed&#x2F;displayed as an XML file.<p>There are various Firefox Extensions out there but t...