True privacy is such a rare commodity these days. It’s a breath of fresh forest air to enter an OS unwatched, allowing your mind to be free.
Not to get too deep, but contemporary philosophy posits that our phones have become extensions of our brains (not only theoretically, but literally! See e.g. Andy Clark and David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind,” 1998). Our devices have access to profound parts of our lives— our habits, friends, desires, notes, thoughts… With something this fundamental, it’s vital to have privacy.
Thank you, Graphene team, for all the hard work you do.
Out of curiosity, what were the 4 behaviours and alternatives?
Using the post’s framework, I wonder whether his “assholery” had any positive flipsides— maybe something like speaking openly when others (politely) wouldn’t?
Yes, this always grinds my gears too. There is already a slightly larger space after periods in contemporary typefaces.
The old typewriter typefaces were monospaced, ie. every character was the same width, but this is no longer the case. Virtually all typefaces today are proportionally spaced, not monospaced. So it’s redundant to leave extra room after periods.
I’m really glad to see this side discussion on dust mite allergy happening here. I’ve had dust mite allergy since childhood, and I even had adenoid removal surgery at age ~7 to address it. Nothing seems to help.
I think dust mite allergy imitates some of the symptoms of sleep apnea, because your nasal passage gets blocked at night, waking you in a similar way to choking.
I’ve reached my mid-30s, largely ignoring the symptoms, but over the past few months I’ve been experiencing a truly terrible bout of insomnia.
I think it’s time to take the allergy seriously again. I’ll follow your guide and make some changes. If I could suggest an improvement to your guide: it may be useful to have a section (perhaps chapter 5?) on symptom relief. I’ve had friends say that a neti pot works wonders, for example.
There's an interesting "subcategory" of sleep apnea under the moniker of UARS. I'm pretty confident that a big chunk of folks in that community actually have allergenic rhinitis (or structural issues).
I actually had a home sleep study done before I figured out it was allergies. Came back negative for OSA but my RIP [1] band data showed a lot of paradoxical breathing and flow limitation indicating significant respiratory effort. So more or less struggling to breathe all night long.
The poor sleep quality really destroys your quality of life.
This site, Gwern, is really fascinating but I found it initially rather difficult to navigate and understand.
I do wish the author had provided a clear, layperson conclusion/results portion for each nootropic. For example, having read the section on fish oil, I still haven’t grasped whether the author observed positive results or not. Perhaps he is being rightfully cautious in drawing conclusions?
Can you give some examples of decentralized/open and non-commercial networks? I would be very interested to use such platforms but I don’t know of them (nor do the people in my life, unfortunately)!
Brainstorming: some subreddits are still going strong despite the overall (ipo/shareholder-driven) downturn. Some extremely niche hobby forums are still alive and well, eg. FountainPenNetwork. Specific software help/discussion forums are alive, eg. Autodesk. Those are a few places I can think of where it seems that where real humans congregate and have real conversations. Not sure how useful that is, but thinking out loud.
As far as I’m concerned, Search is the most egregious and worrisome case of enshittification of them all. Because Search is our starting point for everything on the internet. How do you find the article or blog you want to read, the plumber you want to hire, the thing you want to buy, the discussion group in which you want to comment— the answer to the question on your mind? It all comes from Search. If I could decentralize and protect one part of the internet, it would be Search. I want to encounter all the little hidden corners of the web that feel so out of reach and silent now.
I wholeheartedly agree and would say the lack of being able to thoroughly search the net like it was mid 00s is the No 1 thing that has been depowered ... enshitified - beginning in the early to mid 10s that loss what I say down to the lack of search engine competition and the most popular or main engine, Google, ensuring spam results got thicker which encouraged more clicks and thus more revenue. In the last few years since then, much more absence of results from some sites falls into shit web site building incorporating being far too clever features, must MUST track, and oh no, web crawlers and search bots might be stealing our info ...whatever reasons - for example, a few months ago I wasn't even that surprised when a once searchable site that lists music played on a tv program, (ABC - Australia's Rage) which played each weekend, web dev inserted their aren't we clever card and ... no more search results.
Not to get too deep, but contemporary philosophy posits that our phones have become extensions of our brains (not only theoretically, but literally! See e.g. Andy Clark and David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind,” 1998). Our devices have access to profound parts of our lives— our habits, friends, desires, notes, thoughts… With something this fundamental, it’s vital to have privacy.
Thank you, Graphene team, for all the hard work you do.