Pivoting Korean spaced repetition app towards reading features:

Video demo: https://youtu.be/cJfFAh6ox84?si=WScDPzI4rJIKe99n

GitHub: https://github.com/RickCarlino/KoalaCards

On mobile, the only thing we see is a sign in banner. It would be nice to see anything about the game before deciding to sign in.

Got the same feedback from a few other people, so I decided to go a bit further. I've now implemented local storage of rating and got rid of the signin requirement. Now you can play anonymously as long as you want and only need to sign in to preserve your rating if you switch browsers or devices or want to be on the leaderboard.

Thanks for the feedback. I've added a link to the tutorial on the signing screen so you can try out puzzles without signing in.

The rating system and ability to serve appropriate difficulty puzzles relies on the user being signed in, but I don't collect any personal info, just the user ID (no email, account name, or anything else).

Illinois also has a Bill in committee right now to mandate operating system level age verification. There are lots of bad ideas to be upset about this year. If you are an Illinois resident, email your representative about HB 5511 today. Stupid legislation like this passes because we don’t speak up. Find out who your representative is, find their email, tell them your opinion.

Imagine being able to connect two computers over the internet using sockets. WebRTC is a marvel, but I miss the whimsical days of running something on a port at home and connecting to it without thinking about NAT.

Imagine being able to make a voice call to a friend without paying for a middle-man to proxy the traffic completely unnecessarily.

You can still do this! It’s just very hard and needs hole punching and maybe a stun server

Does anyone remember this quote by Why the Lucky Stiff: “When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability.”

What is the catch with these real estate auctions? Certainly a $60k house is a deal even if it had a bad roof full of asbestos.

Can't speak for every listing on here, but depending on the state and type of auction there can be lots of issues that you have to be aware of, like physical issues with the property itself, liens on the property, and even potentially people occupying the property who may have defaulted through things like not paying their property tax, but not yet left after the state has technically 'seized' it.

Well, HUD wants to sell it to someone who intends to live in it, "owner occupied", and most of them are garbage. Some from the pictures are almost certainly condemned/require significant repair before it could be considered safe for occupancy. So you need someone willing to invest the time and money a flipper or real estate investor would, to live in a really cruddy house.

In short, the people who have the money to fix it want to live somewhere nicer.

Where do you live? You can buy reasonably crappy houses all over the USA in rural areas for $5K, $10K all day.

LLMs can produce text information but they cannot have experiences. Writing about authentic experience is still a worth while endeavor. Expression of a preference is also an experience when framed correctly.

I think about Irish and British writing of dialogue, where is is extremely common for characters to only just now realize the importance of something their interlocutor said, and backtrack the conversation. Often this is done for humor. (Think about characters correcting each other with the use of “exacerbate” in Shaun of the Dead)

The only way to write like that is to have a real theory of mind for the two characters and understand that they are four processing speeds: that of both speakers, that of the narrator, and that of the reader.

I’ve been using SimpleX for a small circle of friends and it has been pretty easy to use. I am surprised it has not seen wider adoption. Writing scripts for it is also straightforward.

I tried to figure out its identity model and failed, and I consider myself somewhat familiar with encrypted IM protocols. How should non-technical users ever figure this out?

And if they don't need to, and it just works as a regular encrypted messenger: Why should somebody use this over any of the many alternatives?

Other than that, its "advantages" page looks highly disingenuous, e.g. by describing Signal as "Possibility of MITM: Yes", but itself as "No - Secure", with a footnote of "Verify security code to mitigate attack on out-of-band channel". How is that different from verifying a Signal verification code!?

> Why should somebody use this over any of the many alternatives?

- no phone number

- no account

- p2p via onion routing and public relay servers

- public and private file sharing systems via XFTP

> p2p via onion routing and public relay servers

All owned by two entities. I would buy their claim if they just used Tor or i2p as a transport layer, which are not that easy to control like a relay server farm owned by a single entity.

I am almost 40 and only now realizing “pent”ium came after “4”86.

I'm also 50 and just realized it.

A web where text/markdown is prevalent is a win for human readers, too. It would be great if Firefox and Chrome rendered markdown as rich text (eg: real headings/links instead of plaintext).

Yeah, and systems like Wordpress can support it as well, which would avoid all the overhead and fuzziness of parsing a HTML page back into markdown.