No, you don't need a video walkthrough. You need that damn web page to explain – in plain language – what this is and what it's good for.

They can't, they never did the work to discover what it's good for because they skipped over implementation and concept validation.

This concept will never work outside of their own head. People continue to think producing something is the hard part my word.

Would the above explanation be better? The website is there because stripe needs a landing page and the text is there because I'm trying to communicate the aspiration the instantiation I can always explain in detail if someone wants to hear how that would work.

> Would the above explanation be better?

No idea. I certainly didn't get it. Goal tracker is one thing, ad blocker is another thing. Why would I want to combine them? And why would I want to see any ads at all? Perhaps I'm just not the target audience...

Maybe not, but you might want to see ads because 1) they fund a huge part of the free internet so you would at least want other people to see them and 2) if they were targeted not at what you're most likely to buy today but at what would most help you achieve goals you'r struggling with, they'd be a constant source of useful information and motivation as you go about your day. Aligning incentives between you and advertisers turns ads from friction to tailwind, and advertisers already want to align with what incentivises you if the alternative is having their ads blocked.

That second point is the part that seems obvious to me but I have a hard time communicating.

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I didnt get it either on first glance when scrolling down the whole page

Wow, that us useful feedback, thanks! I'll update that this weekend.

> It's like someone claiming that automobiles don't improve personal mobility.

I prefer walking or cycling and often walk about 8km a day around town, for both mobility and exercise. (Other people's) automobiles make my experience worse, not better.

I'm sure there's an analogy somewhere.

(Sure, automobiles improve the speed of mobility, if that's the only thing you care about...)

> Tech needs Jesus in ways tech is too corrupted to understand.

Fortunately Peter Thiel is really into Christianity, so we're good!

Oh yeah, the anti christ. Yeah, that’s been warned about as well.

"The Parable of the Two Programmers" by Neil W. Rickert is pretty much about this, from the year 1985...

> "Even 4gb of memory is fine", "even 720p is fine", "even 2ghz CPU is fine", "even a membrane keyboard is fine", "even USB 2.0 is fine", "even 2 hours battery life is fine"...

No these things aren't. 60 hz is fine though. What does it matter that it's "old"? It matters whether it's functional.

I for one prefer battery life over refresh frequency and will always choose 60 hz when available.

> I love Ghostty, especially the UI is so much nicer than Kitty.

What are you talking about? What UI does Kitty have?

He probably refers to the fact that Ghostty aims to use the native window decorations etc.. So for example on Ubuntu it uses gtk, on mac the native macOS tab bar etc. Same goes for the scrollbar and search window.

I really like this a lot.

Big one are the tabs. Kitty has tabs, but rendered in the text rows, so it's missing features that the native OS tabs provide (drag and drop, easy to move around and split into windows...)

The parents aren't lonely, but they're tired and mostly miserable.

I haven't asked "why should I even try" in ages. The question "how do I even manage this hell" has been on my mind more often.

Well, unfortunately I also have asked myself that question way too often, but I cannot agree on the "mostly miserable" part when comparing childless single persons and parents. Life can be hell, but with kids you don't ask the question so much why even get up - because the purpose is clear. There are people depending and counting on you.

> but with kids you don't ask the question so much why even get up - because the purpose is clear.

No question about that. My life has become simpler in many ways: the annoying big questions have gone away.

That doesn't disprove anything. Peter Norvig is about as far from "not good programmer" as one can get.

It's not about Peter. Of course, he's a great programmer. The point is that you can follow nicely written tutorials and have your own in a very short period of time. It's not particularly difficult to build a Lisp.

> in 10 years we will look back into the present with disbelief.

You mean in 10 years, when the US is a stable and high-functioning democracy with independent media, a universally liked, charming, and polite president, supported by both the right and the left, who finally manage to overcome their minor differences? Is... is this the direction this is all heading?

Maybe the feeling will be "I can't believe I didn't get out of there while I still could".

> a sincere belief that these apps contained content unsafe for minors

Hey I believe that too. If people are entitled to believe whatever is written in those books, surely people are also entitled to believe it's nonsense and actively harmful.

You’re free to believe that. But the topic here is F-Droid and its board of directors, along with the context that governments are attempting to censor operating systems and app stores. The question is, if you controlled an app store, would you prevent users from making religious choices for themselves? F-Droid is, probably, the biggest and most mainstream free software app store for mobile operating systems, and is trying to drum up community support (“Keep Android Open,” etc.) in response to the new laws. But F-Droid initiated a sudden change in policy—censoring religious apps—wilfully censoring content that’s never been illegal by any reasonable interpretation of the law. Such decisions obviously negatively impact parts of the free software community, and bring up questions about how effective F-Droid and F-Droid’s leaders can be in this fight.

The recategorization removed them from search results by default.