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.

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.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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:

1. I have to install and configure syncing on every device, and make sure they’re connected
2. 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.

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.

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?

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

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.

I’m way further left now, but I still recommend Manufacturing Consent as an essential reading, as it opened my eyes to how the rich controlled media shapes narratives and enables genocides and destructive imperial wars and regime changes. It’s just hard to recommend it now with his name attached.

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.

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.

In contrast, I don’t use streaming services, where you’re not even guaranteed access to the media TODAY. I wouldn’t use Steam if it was a subscription.

Noam Chomsky, that’s what broke my faith in humanity. His work in linguistics is why I’m a computer scientist, his work in political activism was my introduction to leftist theory, so much of what I do and think every day is directly influenced by his work.

Turns out at the end of the day he’s a neo-liberal apartheid supporting hypocrite and possibly a pedophile.

5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum

I question this, it’s way too much labor with not enough compensation.

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.

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.

I did see something on pointing Claude Code to your own Ollama server

But you don’t currently? So it doesn’t.

Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.

He knows there’s video and photographic evidence and relative to that, he views notes from a detective talking to an anonymous tipper as proof it’s all made up. Or he believes his followers will view it that way, at least.

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.

Armenia apparently learned nothing from the Armenian genocide, fully banding the knees to the American empire and announcing their unapologetic support for Israel.

They are not made specifically to make chicken addicted. Some companies did, but vaping itself wasn’t made to get children addicted… It is addictive, and not as smelly, and doesn’t make you cough your tar covered lungs out, so kids who can get their hands on them get addicted.

Kids will still get them, but now they’ll have more questionable ingredients, they’ll be more expensive, and they’ll be funding organized crime. Good job government.

Teach your kids about the importance of saying no, and let them make their own mistakes every now and then. Vaping is hardly the worst thing they can get hooked on.