Not sure if a part of your post got cut off? As framed, it seems rather inflammatory without much direction or practical addition to the conversation. Perhaps I'm missing something.
Nope, nothing got cut. My post stands as I wrote it. It is not ad-hominem and not what-aboutery. It is very much a reasonable question to ask what they use their much-touted AI on and how this relates to the well documented privacy concerns around Google.
Genuine, honest question. Are posts like this written by bot or bought propaganda? Nonspecific, knee-jerk overreaching generalizations, inspiring fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Who aims to gain, if it's the case? It's that incentive enough to warrant a smear campaign. I can't prove it. It just feels off. That's my hunch.
Even if it is astroturfing (my hunch is no), it taps into a genuine, honest zeitgeist that gets plenty of air on HN. Google is practically a cliche for bad-faith acting these days, and the apostasy of abandoning its nobler founding sentiments (the "don't be evil" hypocrisy) rankles many. Knee-jerk it may be, but it's closer to war-mongering within a sympathetic circle than it is to smear-campaigning.
I'm reasonably certain I'm not a bot, and I'm 100% certain no one is paying me for my unpopular opinions.
So: who aims to gain from my comment? Well, if Google were to be broken up, and some amount of privacy restored to all of us, I'd say society would gain.
No one needs to mount a smear campaign against Google. Their own actions are damning enough.
Perhaps if you existed outside your karma coma, you'd see it. Perhaps if I existed outside the anger and rage that makes me comment as "srswtf123", I'd take your point of view. But I doubt it. That's my hunch.
Note that you can scroll down (white screen) and scroll right (only background) if using Android mobile device, even post recent fix. Still cool, though!
Apps Script is so convoluted and difficult to use. LAMBDA seems a straightforward feature with an obvious and immediate payback. Google’s Sheets PM should just schedule this.
Have to admit, I had this exact same suspicion. Actually, several posts throughout the forum seem very close in tone and style to what I'd expect Fakespot to detect as mildly deceptive. Apologies if I am incorrect, but my Spidey sense is tingling something fierce.
Do you have an opinion on Zettlr, which was specifically designed to accommodate the Zettelkasten note-taking technique? Discussed previously on HN here:
1Writer has totally worked for me. It isn't a clone of Obsidian, but it is good enough for me to work on notes, do my daily journaling, and link things together. Also, the fact that you can have multiple windows stacked on iPad helps.
Foam and Dendron Extensions for Vscode offer this functionality So you can publish your notes to github pages or any other static site hosting platform.
