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I don't think protocols are the solution.

Didn't the original facebook only show you posts of friends? Made by them or intentionally reshared by them.

Stop at that and you get rid of the influencer spam. The danger of placing yourself in a bubble is still there, but at least it's a bubble of your friends, that you could have got yourself into even in real life.

Of course, there's the question of how you finance this.


> Didn't the original facebook only show you posts of friends?

The feed was added a few years later. Originally, if you wanted to see someone's posts, you had to go to their page and look on their wall (a term I haven't heard in some time).


The question is, has this had anything to do with Asimov the writer? Was he involved at the start or endorsed it somehow?

Judging by the .press domain it's too new for that.


Judging by the fact that you DNRTFA, we can't help you.

Actually I did look them up and that Asimov was never involved with them or their parent company.

A bit dishonest don't you think?


Hmm I've always had a manually configured low power generic box as router.

But I've never even tried to set up my own access point, I just pay Unifi for that [1]. The software part is doable but I don't want to learn to handle the signal issues.

[1] Switched to Unifi in anger after my first consumer level 5 Ghz wifi needed reboots weekly because it was overheating. Do yourself a favour and get the semi pro stuff, Unifi or others.


I've been running a custom router for about a decade, but I too have haven't tried handling the wifi on my own. It's always been easy to get an external access point and there's a bit of a guarantee that it's done correctly.

I kind of feel like that's cheating though; I've outsourced the hardest part of the project to someone else. Maybe one of these days I'll take an old NUC or something and buy a decent wifi antenna for it and try and do it properly.

[1] Initially pfsense, then OpnSense, then ClearOS, and now some custom firewall rules in NixOS.


So it's been awhile but the best and simplest way I think is use an access point. I don't want my wireless gear doing routing. From a logic stand point they acts as wireless "bridge" to the physical network, and nothing more. DHCP, etc. stay handled in one place for the entire network, back on the physical router.

> Then the rasterizer for fonts and for graphics renders correctly everything at a visual size that is independent of the display resolution, so it is completely irrelevant whether a display is HiDPI or not.

Well that sounds great in theory, but then you'll get only one button per screen on your laptop and maybe two on your desktop. More likely one and a half.


> we depend on the platform more than the individual apps

The only way you actually depend on the platform is if you do Mac OS / iOS development.

However, I happen to work on a project that requires both Windows and Linux, so I get reminders every day of why I should stay on Mac OS as desktop.

Caveat 1: no, I'm not upgrading to Tahoe or iOS 26.

Caveat 2: I wouldn't dream of running a server on anything but Linux. Desktops with a GUI though...

The problem that fucks us over is that Mac OS only has to be better than the competition.


With all the valid reasons not to upgrade to iOS 26, here's one strongly suggesting doing so:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...


That only reinforces Apple being assholes. They are perfectly capable of delivering security updates to ios 18, they just choose to not do that for phones that can run 26.

By the way does that mean you can root a phone that's on iOS 18.6? :)


> The problem that fucks us over is that Mac OS only has to be better than the competition.

I'm with you here, but I'm having a _much_ better time on my Linux machines (KDE and Cinnamon Mint) than on my (unbelievably-powerful-but-for-what) M4 Max MBP. It's so much cleaner, even without having upgraded to Tahoe, and imagine that I don't even like tinkering that much, it just works.


I was using KDE when I switched to Mac OS from Linux as my main desktop (2013 ish).

Must admit I've only looked at the default desktop in Ubuntu in the past years, and that's ... disappointing.

Maybe I should look at how KDE is these days, but it's a second class citizen in most major distros isn't it? Except in this Mint i've never tried.

I also have this fetish for cool and quiet. Can I run KDE on a box that idles at 10 W and never turns the fan audibly on?


> Except in this Mint i've never tried

Well, Cinammon is the windows manager for Mint, it's the barebones experience that's the closest to Windows (?) style, it's mostly what you see is what you get, but still very customizable.

KDE used to be extremely buggy 5-6 years ago and since testing it on my Steam Deck, from my experience, this is no longer the case. It's a bit more feature-rich and flashier than Cinnamon.

> Can I run KDE on a box that idles at 10 W and never turns the fan audibly on?

No laptop I'm aware of will do this, no idea about ARM adoption.

Personally I'm glad to have a windows manager that doesn't force dumb decisions down my throat. On MacOS I have to wait for half a second for the focus to land on the next window when I switch desktops, the only workaround exists as a minor feature recently introduced to BetterSwitchTool called instant desktop switching or something. And it's to be mentioned ofcourse that for all similar fixes you _must_ give full screen recording and accessibility permissions to 3rd party software. And don't get me started on the stupid windows management (maximize != full-screen, minimized windows not recoverable with keyboard only etc)


> No laptop I'm aware of will do this, no idea about ARM adoption.

Oh the 10 W is my mac mini. The macbook pro idles at 5 W, display included :)

> you _must_ give full screen recording and accessibility permissions to 3rd party software

Well what do you expect? If Linux/KDE had a permissions system you'd have to grant it too.

> maximize != full-screen

Um. Yes. They should be different. They've been different ever since we had windows on screen in any system that I'm aware of.

Not that I'm a major fan of window management on Mac OS, I just got used to it.


> sandbox it to the point where it is completely unable to do the things you're trying to stop

Why are permissions for these "agents" on a default allow model anyway?


What do you mean? By default, Claude asks for permission for every file read, every edit, every command. It gets exhausting, so many people run it with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`.

It does not ask for permission for every file read, only those outside the project and not explicitly allowed. You can bypass project edit permission requests with “allow edits”, no need for “dangerously skip permissions”. Bash commands are harder, but you can allow-list them up to a point.

> so many people run it with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`

It's on the people then, not the "agent". But why doesn't Claude come with a decent allow list, or at least remember what the user allows, so the spam is reduced?


You have the option to "always allow command `x.*`", but even then. The more control you hand over to these things, the more powerful and useful (and dangerous) they become. It's a real dilemma and yet to be solved.

> Out of all places to doomscroll

Doomscrolling is on you, other people use the resume and jobs parts?


You forget that all modern UI toolkits brag about who has the highest frame rate, instead of updating only what's changed and only when it changes.

I opened gitlab.com and it starts with

"Finally, AI for the entire software lifecycle."

Not very trust inspiring, that.

Can I even have git hosting without anything else being crammed down my throat, or it's just like Microsoft?


How does that help if you don't go to the github site but just use git from the command line?

Can you use git's Copilot from the command line? If you can't, then you have nothing to opt out from.

It's not git's Copilot it's Microsoft, or at best github's, Copilot.

And Copilot is integrated with IDEs. Doesn't need any interaction with the github site beyond the initial sign in...


They also sent an email.

Did they? Not to me, and I have a 'review this new sign in' from 4 days ago so them emailing me works.

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