beto

beto, 4 months ago

Steal $50 from your employer and you’ll to jail. Employer steals trillions and nothing happens.

beto, 5 months ago

…m.wikipedia.org/…/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

beto, 5 months ago

I bought a Mobiscribe recently, for the same reasons. It’s an eReader with an eink display, but it’s an Android tablet. I installed F-Droid, and then NextCloud (to access my ebooks) and Librera Reader. I also use it for listening to podcasts (via Bluetooth, since it’s an Android tablet) and taking notes with the stylus.

beto, 5 months ago

Battery life is good, I use it with the wifi off and only had to charge it once, and I read a full book on it.

I haven’t played with the handwriting recognition yet, let me take a look and I’ll report back.

beto, 5 months ago

Ok, I played with it and it seems like the recognition only works in the “Notes” app. It doesn’t work as a general text input for applications.

It works pretty well, though. You select the text with the pen by circling it, and then you can copy it to the clipboard or replace the drawing with the actual text.

beto, 5 months ago

Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, only one patron at a time can rent a digital copy of a physical book for a limited period.

So sad that we solved the problem of knowledge scarcity, and because of greed we need to add it back artificially.

beto, 5 months ago

I thought the same. Definitely the same vibe.

beto, 5 months ago

This is amazing advice! Saving it for when I have a kid.

beto, 5 months ago

There’s was a scanner app that I loved, for Android. Turned into a subscription, even though most people use it less than once a month and even though the app was basically complete and never got updates.

beto, 6 months ago

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

beto, 7 months ago

I used to have a toaster with glass on the sides, you could see how toasted the bread was. Really neat product.

beto, 7 months ago

Singular they has been used for something like 7 centuries.

beto, 8 months ago

There’s a big conflict of interest in dating apps: if you’re successful you stop using the app, and of course the company doesn’t want that.

beto, 9 months ago

Gödel, Escher, Bach. I was only able to read the whole thing because I was in a ship for a month without TV or internet.

beto, 9 months ago

Yeah, I want to read it again! Maybe when I’m retired! 🙂

beto, 9 months ago

I worked for a startup that had as main investor a company called InterTrust. Our office was inside their building.

InterTrust was a patent portfolio that belonged to Sony and Philips. All they did was sue people. One day they were able to sue Apple on some stupid patent, and there was much rejoicing at the office.

beto, 9 months ago

Everyone should be vegan. It’s great for your health, for the environment, and more importantly, it would save more than a trillion (yes, with a T) lives every year.

In a hundred years we’ll look back and be ashamed of what we did to animals.

beto, 9 months ago

…replaced by monocultures…

Guess, what? We have those monocultures today. That’s how we feed cattle. But if everything went vegan we would be able to cut that land usage down to 75%.

Veganism is about killing as little as possible, it’s not about being 100% perfect. We would need those farms to feed people, and of course animals would die in the process. But it’s a smaller harm.

No doctor will tell you you can live well on a vegan diet without any supplements.

Says who? Here’s a quote for you (source):

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

You’re right, we would need supplements, like B12. Today those supplements are given to cattle, because they can’t get it when they don’t graze. That’s were you get your B12: from supplements given to animals. Maybe we could skip the middleman?

beto, 9 months ago

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

source

beto, 9 months ago

“poorly planned vegan diets that do not replace the critical nutrients found in meat, can lead to serious micronutrient deficiencies.” (from the article)

Yeah, switching your diet to anything has that risk, obviously. You need to understand what you eat.

And your daily life is already supplemented with pills, the only difference is they’re given to the animals you eat. Cattle is given B12 because they don’t graze and don’t have access to enough cobalt.

beto, 9 months ago

No, but you can just take B12 supplements, the same ones that are given to cattle.

beto, 9 months ago

No one is suggesting that the transition would happen overnight… It would be just like any other job that became obsolete in the past, it would gradually phase out.

beto, 10 months ago

O O

^ this is a Venn Diagram showing people who would fall for that scam, and people who would be able to figure out how to buy Bitcoin if their lives depended on it.

beto, 10 months ago

It depends on what you mean by better. Faster? More user friendly? More versatile?