xk3's recent activity
-
Comment on US President Donald Trump says he will impose fifty percent tariffs on Canadian goods in thirty days in ~society
-
Comment on The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill in ~tech
xk3 Link ParentMin wage is about $1.60 USD/hour or even less in provincia. Some Minute Burger employees are probably flipping burgers right now for about $3 per day in the Visayas... so there are definitely...Min wage is about $1.60 USD/hour or even less in provincia. Some Minute Burger employees are probably flipping burgers right now for about $3 per day in the Visayas... so there are definitely people earning less than minimum wage...
The Philippines is the largest call center ecosystem in the world with something like 1.5 million call center agents. $7/hour is easily 2-3x the median call center wage.
-
Comment on I built another damn To-do app in ~comp
xk3 Link ParentI think this might be a timezone bug which may run deeper than just the Today button. I clicked the button and it loads the correct date (and as far as I can tell it has not been updated since you...a bug, today button
I think this might be a timezone bug which may run deeper than just the Today button. I clicked the button and it loads the correct date (and as far as I can tell it has not been updated since you checked it so it wasn't a hotfixed bug: https://github.com/hobblyhoy/TrueTodo-Pages )
-
2,871 abandoned and little-known US airfields
25 votes -
Comment on Geo-tech? What kind of professional do I call for evaluating safety of a home? in ~life.home_improvement
xk3 (edited )LinkContractors can't fix your broken heart or your wallet but they can fix most everything else. Every house has some amount of settling, especially over 100 years time. If you don't like sloped...that can't be fixed
Contractors can't fix your broken heart or your wallet but they can fix most everything else. Every house has some amount of settling, especially over 100 years time. If you don't like sloped floors then yeah you'll want to just buy a newer house. I've read some stories online where people fix the foundation but it does more harm than good.
If buying the old house saves you $100k vs a newer house then I'd save that money for the time when something breaks (eg. plumbing) and only fix that one thing when it breaks.
Maybe a freelance structural engineer could give a recommendation for the specific house and that might be cheaper than $5k. General contractors won't know how to give accurate urgent/not-urgent/don't-fix-it recommendations but they will have a better idea for how much fixing it might cost.
Source: I live in a concrete slab tiny house with no crawl space that is over 100 years old and 50% of the floors are very inversely slanted toward the middle of the house but it would probably cost more than my house cost to fix it and if my roof falls in on me and I still survive I'll move to a different country I guess
-
Comment on How long can I go with an obsolete phone? in ~tech
xk3 Link ParentSome people are still running Android 2.3 and even older: https://old.reddit.com/r/androidafterlife/ From the security side of things it's definitely better to be running Android 12 or newer as...Some people are still running Android 2.3 and even older: https://old.reddit.com/r/androidafterlife/
From the security side of things it's definitely better to be running Android 12 or newer as these older Android releases have unpatched exploits like Stagefright where an attacker could trigger an RCE simply by sending a specifically crafted MMS message or hosting a malicious media file on a website.
eg. https://blog.checkpoint.com/research/certifigate/
If you are looking for a cheaper but still extremely capable phone (except the camera quality is a bit shit) definitely look into the Xiaomi POCO phones like the POCO X8 Pro. However, if you're paying for a mobile phone plan you might be able to get a "free" phone or partially subsidized by future phone plan payments.
-
Comment on eBook management for Kobo in ~books
xk3 Link ParentFWIW Syncthing is pretty resilient to being killed and started so even if you wanted an out of band script that only ran Syncthing for a few hours every night via timeout it should be perfectly...FWIW Syncthing is pretty resilient to being killed and started so even if you wanted an out of band script that only ran Syncthing for a few hours every night via timeout it should be perfectly fine.
Either should work fine so do what works for you. Let it fully sync the first time then only turn it on when you want to sync deletions or add new content
-
cool original - Funny Before (2019)
3 votes -
Comment on Miracle of Sound - Nameless (2013) in ~music
xk3 LinkThis is a Planescape Torment tribute song. Surprisingly good! just heard it for the first time right nowThis is a Planescape Torment tribute song. Surprisingly good! just heard it for the first time right now
-
Miracle of Sound - Nameless (2013)
4 votes -
Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech
xk3 Link ParentNext step is verifying your age to see if you are old enough for old.reddit.comNext step is verifying your age to see if you are old enough for old.reddit.com
-
Comment on Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"? in ~humanities.languages
xk3 Link ParentIf someone pronounced "milves" in a sentence I wouldn't know what they were talking about... maybe I would hear "mills" (like windmills)?? Additionally, if you write MILFs I can Ctrl+F "MILF" and...If someone pronounced "milves" in a sentence I wouldn't know what they were talking about... maybe I would hear "mills" (like windmills)??
Additionally, if you write MILFs I can Ctrl+F "MILF" and still see relevant content whereas "milves" will mismatch on "v"
-
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
xk3 Link ParentThat's interesting! I've used StreetComplete before but wasn't aware they are porting to KMP / CMP. I would be using MapLibre Compose but it doesn't support addProtocol() so I'm using the native...That's interesting! I've used StreetComplete before but wasn't aware they are porting to KMP / CMP.
I would be using MapLibre Compose but it doesn't support
addProtocol()so I'm using the native SDKs per platform. So in my case using MapLibre Compose would require running an HTTP server inside the app rather than Direct JNI. But maybe I will switch later if it turns out to require too much platform code -
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
xk3 Link ParentRight now it's kinda a mix between CoMapeo and "Google My Maps" where it's up to the users to upstream their data to OSM but a lot of the data templates will be OSM inspired. It's a mesh map so...Right now it's kinda a mix between CoMapeo and "Google My Maps" where it's up to the users to upstream their data to OSM but a lot of the data templates will be OSM inspired.
It's a mesh map so everyone's map will look different depending on what other maps they've subscribed to. Like an RSS client for maps
-
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
xk3 (edited )LinkI'm building an collaborative P2P mapping app with iroh and Kotlin Multiplatform / CMP. It's my first time building a GUI that can compile to such a wide variety of platforms (Android, iOS,...I'm building an collaborative P2P mapping app with
irohand Kotlin Multiplatform / CMP. It's my first time building a GUI that can compile to such a wide variety of platforms (Android, iOS, Linux/macOS/Windows desktops, Server [via Ktor]) where it doesn't feel like I'm having to special case everything. Things mostly just work and that is a great feeling.One very cool crate that I came across is
iroh-topic-tracker:Serverless, decentralized peer discovery for iroh-gossip topics using experimental DHT Signed Peer Announcements.
This crate uses the implementation of the experimental Draft BEP (PR #174) for announcing and discovering cryptographically signed peer identities (Ed25519 public keys) on the Mainline DHT by Nuhvi. This enables overlay networks like Iroh to discover peers without centralized trackers, utilizing signed announcements to verify identity before connection.
I'm using it to build a "Discover" page based on the nearest level 7 H3 Cells (~5 km) using the user's location (or they can choose a different location on the map). by broadcasting to an iroh gossip channel of the given H3 Cell name. It's a bit social media-y but it's pretty cool that it all works without a central server.
-
Comment on Esteban Morgado Cuarteto - Milongueros (2007) in ~music
xk3 (edited )Linkkinda reminds me of vgm bg music or Studio Ghibli-esque "library music" but a bit more attention grabbing than that due to more complex orchestration kinda reminds me of Astor Piazzollakinda reminds me of vgm bg music or Studio Ghibli-esque "library music" but a bit more attention grabbing than that due to more complex orchestration
kinda reminds me of Astor Piazzolla
-
Esteban Morgado Cuarteto - Milongueros (2007)
2 votes -
Yawning Man - Rock Formations (2005)
3 votes -
Comment on We can fix the future, Star Trek shows us how in ~humanities
xk3 (edited )LinkOne of the big problems with a post-scarcity future is that there are some things which really are scarce. Like land. Lots of people want to live in New York City but there's only so much density...One of the big problems with a post-scarcity future is that there are some things which really are scarce. Like land. Lots of people want to live in New York City but there's only so much density you can build until the only remaining options are not in New York but New Jersey.
In the United States, probably more money has been made through the appreciation of real estate than in any other way. What are the long-term consequences if an increasing percentage of savings and wealth, as it now seems, is used to inflate the prices of already existing assets - real estate and stocks - instead of creating new production and innovation?
Erik S. Reinert and Arno Mong Daastøl, Production Capitalism vs. Financial Capitalism (1998)
There is still a lot we could do to increase density in New York until we hit that point. Post-artificial-scarcity is a much more tangible goal. We could reconstruct New York City (5 boroughs) into a mega-structure apartment building: 303 square miles / 8.3 billion people * 150 sq ft per person = 147 floors (if we used the full Tri-State Metro Area we would only need 10 stories, around the same as Kowloon Walled City).
Very quickly this megastructure would stop looking like New York City--and that is the main problem. It seems like there is a certain threshold that would be crossed which would turn NYC into something that is no longer NYC. Building replica cities could go a long way... but there are still many people who would be frustrated to not be able to live in the original NYC: without money, how do we decide who gets to live there?
edit:
The ParPolity participatory democracy thing led me on a pretty interesting web binge:
-
Comment on Are there any video games that are/were popular in your country, that the rest of the world hardly knows about? in ~games
xk3 Link ParentI think one way to do it is to look at NTSC-exclusive games which sold over a million copies: Xenogears Dragon Quest VII EarthBound (didn't sell well outside Japan but it is pretty well known now;...I think one way to do it is to look at NTSC-exclusive games which sold over a million copies:
- Xenogears
- Dragon Quest VII
- EarthBound (didn't sell well outside Japan but it is pretty well known now; didn't get a PAL release until 2013)
And PAL-exclusive games which sold over a million copies:
- Hugo the Troll
- LMA Manager
- Asterix, Titeuf
- Brian Lara Cricket
- Moorhuhn (@shu already mentioned this)
I think you may have a point. While there are many Americans who are appalled by the state of things. Nth level stage of grief. There are still a great many Americans who feel mostly apathy or indifference. To get back to your question:
Because rural America is insulated from reality through willful ignorance and radicalization pipelines. Because people feel they are benefiting from it. Because people feel like they are the robbers (but they are the ones actually being robbed). Because people can afford to be detached from reality. Because it takes a long time to feel the effects that incumbents have and so it seems like it doesn't really matter who is in power. Because people want America to be seen as the place for rich people to go to where your dreams can come true if you have a bit of money. Because people feel like they lost to the other team (red vs blue) but still want to have the last laugh even if it means burning down the building. Because pastor says it is right. Because people don't have to do anything for it to happen because it is already happening or it has already happened. Because people feel disempowered.