It actually does work for me, the audible ticking and vocal time status updates keep me aware of the time and constantly brings my attention back to what I'm supposed to be doing. Of course it's only supplemental and not a silver bullet.
It also has alot of customizable options and I think that fact that it's just a single Vue file wrapped in Electron makes it super hackable and easy to adjust to your own preferences too.
There's no nuclear option yet but I could see it being added down the road if there's enough interest. It's possible in Electron to prevent the user from closing or minimizing an app. Preventing the user from uninstalling it would be a lot more difficult but I've seen other apps accomplish it.
I built Cringe Clock, a Pomodoro timer app for us—procrastinators, and the chronically distracted. You know, the ones who find themselves an hour deep into a YouTube rabbit hole when there's work to be done.
Cringe Clock is like that friend who's a bit too much but always gets you to the gym. It's loud, it's flashy, and it absolutely refuses to be ignored. Perfect for anyone who's ever lost track of time.
What's different?
In Your Face: Always on top, because out of sight is out of mind.
- Flashy UI: Designed to draw your wandering eyes back to work.
- Ticking Sound: Nothing says "deadline's looming" quite like it.
- ADHD-Friendly: More than just a timer, it's a focus booster.
- Customizable: Because we all get distracted differently.
- Developed with Vue and Electron and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux
This is super interesting. Looks like it's not just an emergency fallback, but could be part of our daily lives. I doubt it'll fully replace the internet, but it could be a game-changer for rural or disaster-hit areas. The off-grid culture angle is cool too. Could pave the way for some more decentralized use-cases.
I'm curious about why you would want (or, expect) an institution to resolve a cultural or interpersonal phenomenon. Maybe I've misunderstood your meaning or intent. It strikes me that this is a behavior, and if it's common, the best way to address it is by changing the norm through positive examples and gentle feedback.
Off the cuff, looking to an institution to shape some behaviors has not generally gone well for humanity. I'm sure that we can think of counter-examples, but this seems to be contrary to what makes Western culture successful.
It must come from outside pressure. Internal dynamics of institutions work in the retrograde direction: Individuals most easily rise to power by flattering prevailing opinions.
What's your point? That someone at the Guardian does not share your personal opinion?
As for me, I'm not okay with either banks discriminating against free speech and banks discriminating against porn. For example, I was vigorously against banks blocking Wikileaks payments. Therefore, I'm fine with the Guardian article.
That's an absurd false dichotomy. We don't need to choose between being okay with banks discriminating in all circumstances and discriminating in no circumstances. If you support banks serving the Proud Biys are you okay with them serving Jihadi terrorist groups and autocratic dictators? Porn isn't trying to establish a white ethnostate.
I think you are drawing a false equivalence between the Proud Boys and jihadi terrorist groups. A better comparison would be between Proud Boys and members of Antifa.
The article is an Opinion and not representative of The Guardian. It is written by Jillian C York, the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism.
Trying to conflate this opinion piece with The Guardian itself is dumb and shows a failure to understand what an Opinion is.
Remember, the tech workers coding the algorithms that enable these censorship biases are reading HN and I don't think they like reading comments that counter their ideology. Hence downvotes with no comments or justification.
It also has alot of customizable options and I think that fact that it's just a single Vue file wrapped in Electron makes it super hackable and easy to adjust to your own preferences too.