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Rudis Muiznieks
Personal blog · rudism.comprogrammingculturesystems
Rudis Muiznieks's personal blog at rudism.com covers programming, culture and systems. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Brave browser post that commenters cite as a case that Brave is an ad company posing as a privacy company, and for a Vim essay, "Vim, you complete me".
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-03-07
- Vim Creep (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-10
What Hacker News says?
https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22510008 TL;DR It's an ad company posing as a privacy company. Brave replaces other ads with Brave's, created a crypto currency for the purpose of sharing profits with website owners, but in reality pockets almost all of the money since site owners rarely become aware of it [0] or more likely because it's spr…
Comment linking /the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/
on “Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users”Submitted Vim Creep as a story · 482 points
HN discussionHave fun: https://rudism.com/the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
Comment linking /the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/
on “Brave Browser Passes 20M Monthly Active Users and 7M Daily Active Users”Submitted Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them as a story · 316 points
HN discussionRudism originally posted the story here: http://www.rudism.com/s/vimcreep . Just submitted it to HN, upvote here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876 ) if you found this story insightful and beautifully well written.
Comment linking /s/vimcreep
on “Vim, you complete me”Submitted The Brave browser is brilliant, but probably not for the reasons you think as a story · 303 points
HN discussionI wish advertising didn’t exist. Not just on the internet, but everywhere else too. Ads encourage people to buy stuff they probably don’t need. They incentivize clickbait and tracking. And most online advertising is probably a waste of money anyways. [1] How then, you might ask, will content and services be paid for? Sponsorships are not a solution for the same reasons. The Brave browser is not a solution. [2] I thi…
Comment linking /the-brave-browser-is-brilliant/
on “Ask HN: What is your unpopular opinion about tech?”Submitted Vim Creep (2011) as a story · 194 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinebook Pro Arch Linux Alternative as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT as Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Brave Browser is Brilliant (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim Creep as a story · 2 points
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