Not sure about the technique wiby uses to filter garbage, but I could imagine a search index that contains only HTML4 pages could be quite resourceful.

Nice idea. Another option albeit way more reliant and resource intensive, checking the wayback machine for page is very old + content hasn't changed much. A lot of these alt search engines look at signals of lack of JS and tracking but that is sort-of a cross-section of more non-commercial stuff.

I’d really love to find this dictionary of filthy terms that exists on Apple device for the sake of cleaning passwords. Is it compiled in the code or encrypted? I can’t imagine it’s just laying around in clear text. In a way, both cases are kind of funny when you think about it.

The "Comparison" section of the Product Ownership also seems rather ridiculous, where NextCloud is just a questionable "fork" while ownCloud glouriously carries the torch of product ownership. Especially since it's placed directly below the "License" section. Apparently, someone didn't quite understand the idea behind the GPL.

Especially since ownCloud was started originally by Frank Karlitschek who left to fork and create Nextcloud!

This is just like Oracle claiming OpenOffice is the better project and the LibreOffice fork is a shady knock-off.

After all, reading is mostly thinking with someone else’s brain.

You'd get by just fine. It's not uncommon to speak three languages fluently in CH (given it has 4 official languages), and usually English is in the mix. I lived there for a couple of years and while not speaking French or Italian, I got by quite easily in the respective regions.

Get by, yes its often enough. Job search - that limits your choices maybe to 10%, in a job market that is consistently overcrowded (100-500 applicants for any good position, not all are brilliant and with right experience but some always are, whole world tries to get here).

You will regularly hit the language wall in places like shops, post office, neighbors etc. where answer in given language if they speak english is consistently "no". Integration outside big cities is a lot about you becoming like them, not vice versa, better keep the differences compared to locals behind doors of your home. Smaller cities, more rural places - forget english outside tourism, many young speak it but otherwise there isn't much will and often neither skill. French part is worse than German part in this (just like French from France are much, much worse when it comes to will to speak english than Germans from Germany are).

I'm not sure where this fax myth originates. I've been living in Germany for most of my life, and I'm no longer in my thirties. During this time, I have sent a total of zero faxes. I can't even remember anyone ever asking me to send one.

I've lived in Germany for 30 years and I've sent zero faxes as well. That doesn't mean the administration doesn't run on fax. The number of times I've been told by the tax agency or my healthcare provider to send a fax is astonishing.

When doing my taxes, I've asked if I could send some required documents of my deceased father via email, and the lady _didn't even know if she had an external facing email address_. I was just to send it to info@, tell them to print it and put it on her desk. She also didn't have a direct phone line, so I had to call the central office first and ask them to connect me to her.

My mom runs a small business there and luckily she's got fax-to-email and email-to-fax. Just because younger people use other means of communication now doesn't mean it's a myth. It's very much there, and other means very much aren't.

I live in Germany, and while I never used fax as well, I did use paper mail a lot, and I don't know how I would live without a printer and a scanner. It gets better, e.g. taxes have been completely digitized in the recent years, but still a lot of paper there.

I don't live in Germany and this is all based on accounts I have seen posted in HN. Everytime there is a post that journals the process to setup a startup in Germany or do other business functions, it always included something that needed to be faxed.

FAX is still a leaglly accepted way to send official papers, e.g. to courts. As is paper mail. True.

One can so easily set-up a company without it so. 90% of what you read about companies and how to run and set them up im Germany on HN is wrong.

I work for a large German company and some of our suppliers and business partners have had a fax machine for a long time that they used exclusively for our purposes.

Fortunately, these times are over, and the company has celebrated the long overdue abolition of the fax machine ;-)

Lawyers, administrations and corporations still send each other faxes because it is a way to provably deliver documents instantly. At scale it’s cheaper and quicker than a registered letter.

Last time I had to fax something was probably around 2018. It were legal documents, sending it to a lawyer. Most faxes I've sent in my life as a private person were legal documents. This is not something common for most people, but it can happen. There are several corners in administration which are famously still use fax, but the good part is, the normal citizen will barely encounter them these days, and they are working hard on removing them.

Then you clearly don't work in healthcare or law.

That‘s not funny at all.

It was not supposed to be funny.

Ridicule is not supposed to be funny. I was ridiculing the the parent posts and their nihilistic language.

ps. Since humor is subjective, "that's not funny" is either subjective statement or attempt at grandstanding.

The USSR comment is even less funny.

Yes, let's take very seriously every joke random people do online. Dude come on, been 300 years, you should have discovered humor by now.

Just like that bullshit about today's "censorship" being in any way comparable to what happened in Eastern Europe. Tell that to my father who was banned from schools or to my grandfather who was in prison, both of them would punch you for it.

If any of your relatives would punch me for whatever reason, the correct reaction would be to go to the police and take them to court. Just because you are upset does not mean you can suggest physical violence like that, just casually. Sticks and stones, you know...

I am not suggesting anything, I am just telling you what would happen. Don't go near them spewing bullshit like that.

Consider that even getting a fair hearing at a court is a privilege to them. They grew up in a world where they said the wrong thing to the wrong person (not even a crime or anything morally/ethically wrong, or even offensive at all) and it affected three generations of their family with no end in sight if the USSR didn't collapse. No courts involved - the municipal Party Committee's opinion was enough to put my grandfather in prison for years. That's censorship, not some ban from a single inconsequential private website with million alternatives.

You know what upsets me about this? When people use words like censorship to advocate for a world more like it was before 1989. Not wanting to enter into a business relationship with somebody is not censorship, it's freedom.

> my father who was banned from schools or to my grandfather who was in prison

We have those in the west today.

The West is a too broad term, we have very different political systems among Western countries. In some of them cancel culture and big tech aren’t that strong. Besides, it is really different from USSR. Do you know any example in the West in XXI century where a poet or a writer were censored to death?

By the state, no, but Salman Rushdie probably doesn't care who's doing the stabbing.

It's very different. A stabbing is a crime that is prosecuted, state sanctioned imprisonment is not.

the chilling effect is the same.

No, the chilling effect is very different. One is a tragedy that needs to be brought to justice, the second one is never going to get any semblance of justice from its very principle.

tell that to the school teacher from Birmingham that is in hiding because they showed a cartoon to children. I'm sure they're real happy about justice.

What they are experiencing is terrible but still doesn't compare to actual censorship. I'm sure they still appreciate that the state didn't put them in prison and ban their children from education and employment except the hardest, most hazardous jobs where it is actually expected it will kill you sooner than later. State sanctioned violence hits very differently - the power disparity is unbearable and nothing you do will help you or your family, you can't move, you can't run, you can't negotiate, you can't fight, and unless you're very lucky and the entire regime falls it will never stop.

once again you're conflating censorship and retaliation. the censorship is still the same in both cases: unless you want to live the rest of your life in hiding and looking over your shoulder, you can't draw/share certain cartoons purely because it offends certain individuals.

In the countries with free speech the effect is not chilling at all. Do you remember “Je suis Charlie”?

do you remember how they changed their profile pictures to include a transparent french flag? do you also remember how the majority didn't share the actual cartoons that were used to justify the attacks? if the virtue signallers did, the social media companies would have censored it. if the virtue signallers did and the social media companies didn't censor it, there would have been additional riots and the companies would have been banned in ~20 countries.

Where in the west? Certainly not anywhere in EU. In the US... Could you send me some examples please?

Background: He is wheelchair-bound.

That’s not true. He lives in SF and enjoys going out dancing.

I apologize if that was wrong, but this article on wired.com mentions that he is “confined to a wheelchair by a rare muscular disease”. https://www.wired.com/2010/12/mf-spotify/

There is no mention of the word Blow in your link. Are you an LLM that is hallucinating?

EDIT: "Ludvig Strigeus is wheelchair bound." Did you miss that the quote you were replying to is from Jonathan Blow, not Strigeus? FWIW, you still have not passed the Turing test, as you got confused by tangentially related inputs ;)

I accidentially hit the reply button on a reply of the post I was actually referring to. Parent was about Strigeus. Besides: Since every mid-sized LLM appears to pass the test I’m not even trying anymore.

Thanks for the insights. It seems to me that this interesting explanation focuses primarily on the tactical level. On a strategic level: What drives you? That is, what criteria do you use to apply the thought process you described above?

I'm extremely motivated by 2 things: 1) solving puzzles 2) freedom (and by proxy, money)

First, when a puzzle gets in my head its extremely extremely difficult not to solve it. I love architecting solutions to complex problems in ways that are simple and elegant. I find it difficult to sleep, eat, or do anything else.

Similar to when I was a kid and I realized I might be capable of doing a backflip on a trampoline, the very moment I had the idea that I COULD do it, i got sick to my stomach and laid on the ground wrestling with fear, but it consumed me for hours and hours until I just got on the trampoline and did it. I dont know what that is, but the same thing applies to puzzles, just without the fear.

I also have a friendly relationship with money. I absolutely love it, because it gives me freedom. freedom to wake up whenever, focus on whatever, do whatever, travel whatever, learn whatever, help whoever, etc etc.

These 2 things added together I think are a good combo for "success" (by my definition)

I thought of one other thing thats very important... ill write it as a reply to another commenter.