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syzo  ·  3106 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?

Yup, I got into Radiolab recently and started listening from the start. Good stuff.

syzo  ·  3107 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?

I just started listening to podcasts, around springtime this year. For me it was my goal of walking more. Constantly listening to music while walking was sort of boring, but listening to podcasts while walking is amazing. I've always wanted to listen to podcasts, but now I have a reason to.

Anyone have any suggestions for good podcasts, while we're at it? Maybe there's an old thread around here with some good suggestions?

syzo  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So, is Windows 10 spying on you? (spoilers: no more than usual)

    I don't know why all the metadata is needed, and it's possibly excessive, but this isn't the keylogger the original post claimed.

It could be, if they set up the server on the other end to capture it. But that's still only the stuff you type to the start menu.

syzo  ·  3129 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

My friends and I just play the mods, like castle fight, element td, and legion td. I'd suck haaaaaard at the normal RTS game.

syzo  ·  3129 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Oh I know dualbooting is an option. I actually go a step further and have two physical computers right next to each other, one running windows and the other linux. I used to run 100% linux before, but switched back to my current setup a little while ago.

Blizzard games (WC3, Hearthstone) and Rocket League are my current holdouts. I haven't tried them in Wine yet, but I bet they'd all work pretty decently.

syzo  ·  3129 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

They're making it pretty alluring to switch to linux full-time. I've done it before but switched back because I missed my games. But...

syzo  ·  3130 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 137th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Very interesting! I haven't thought of doing that before. Now I'm going to have to find some that cater to my music tastes.

syzo  ·  3133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski coding livestream.

Unrelated to that request, but is there an issue tracker for hubski? (github's?)

syzo  ·  3133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski coding livestream.

I'm actually still interested in <insert lisp language here> for webdev. How easy is it to get started doing Racket webdev? Any recommended readings?

syzo  ·  3134 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski coding livestream.

Ooo, a chance to look at some Arc

syzo  ·  3135 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski's Living List of Amazon Alternatives

I think i've missed some news or something. Why should I hate Amazon?

syzo  ·  3136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Would you use tag alerts?

And even mix the three.

?tag=blah&user=mk&domain=whatever.com

?tag=music&sharedby=syzo&numshares=5+

stuff like that to form your own RSS feed would be awesome.

syzo  ·  3136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Would you use tag alerts?

You can use a reader to aggregate a bunch of different RSS feeds together. It also keeps track of what you've read and not read. I use Tiny Tiny RSS, but there's also this, this, this, this, and more. I've been toying with the idea of making my own, too.

I aggregate together a bunch of feeds from reddit, youtube, podcasts, webcomics, and blogs, and it keeps track of what I've read and not read (I'm actually super backlogged right now). Now that I've learned that hubski supports it, I'll probably add some feeds from here as well.

syzo  ·  3136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Would you use tag alerts?

Oh! I actually was unaware that Hubski already supported RSS. RSS is the perfect solution for that, and there's already tools you can use to get email from RSS. That having been said, I'd support having an email notification if you decide that it's not too much more added complexity, but I probably wouldn't use it (I use an RSS reader anyway).

syzo  ·  3136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Would you use tag alerts?

RSS.

syzo  ·  3136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This video will make you angry | CGP Grey looks at memetic ideas

also,

    Thought germs exploit weak points in your brain. AKA, emotions.

Oh, CGP Grey.