I dream of a world free from the tyranny of big tech. Moore’s law may be coming to a plateau, but there’s still so much potential for improvement.
But until we’re free from big tech’s race to the bottom, I understand where you are coming from. Might take years, but I’m hopeful.
User interfaces
And stairs
Have to show up for work most days, but I also won’t deny that I’d be tempted to stay home for a couple of months if I worked remotely or were unemployed.
Would you consider taking just a brief walk down the street and back? It ain’t much, but it’s honest work, and I’d be happy for you.
The part about insurance hits close to home. Every time I think about transitioning over to self-employment, I shrink back into my shell when I realize how much of a headache insurance will become, huge cost whether or not I turn a profit.
Not with a person, but with work. Was my dream job until I realized my dreams have changed, but it pays the bills. Don’t know what else will make me a living wage right off the bat either.
My gripe with Instagram is how it’s become a de-facto way of “staying in touch” with acquaintances and old colleagues
Is there an option to show archived conversations when you tap the three dots next to the search bar?
I rarely ever watch anime, so I’ll have to go with video games since I play those every now and then.
I’ve used Fossify SMS and its predcessor for the past few years and I’m very satisfied with it. Everything works as expected and it’s easy to export and import your entire SMS database when moving phones. Thing that keeps me on it is that it lets me block texts by pattern, including entire area codes (looking at the 410 spam texts that plague AT&T).
I won’t touch your point about most dangerous. I don’t agree, but won’t engage because I don’t want to end up in a Palintir database. Delete this post unless you want CBP searching your phone next time you re-enter the country.
A scary reminder of chilling effects, hits close.
I don’t have much to say about geopolitics off the top of my head, but I used to scoff at pedestrian-friendly designs and subscribe to the idea that car ownership is freedom and roads are for cars only. Living in Germany for a few months and enjoying public transit made me perish those old thoughts.
Among developed nations, the US should not get any awards for safety, but I would argue that there’s certainly worse out there without venturing into warzones.
I’m involved in both cases.
I was the designated trip sitter while my friends came over and got high. One decided to make brownies and being too impatient to melt chocolate on the stove, put the metal pot in the microwave for a couple of minutes. The kicker is that this all unfolded in front of me; we were chatting and I was too distracted myself to give a second thought about metal in a microwave. Microwave survived, kitchen stunk to high hell of molten plastic handles, and the pot was thrown out.
I attempted and failed to seal a leak in the middle of a pipe with teflon tape.
What kind of CPU is in that laptop? The vast majority of x86 CPUs from the past 10 years include hardware acceleration for AES encryption so that the performance hit is negligible.
I want shows like Hell’s Kitchen but for tech stuff - criticizing people’s phones, gaming setups, and server rooms
Yes. Stuff like lucky outfits for interviews, choosing lucky days when I can’t make up my mind on when to schedule an appointment, and various other little rituals based in anecdote rather than written evidence. Perhaps a particularly satisfying story or two about why the world is the way it is in the absence of a more naturalistic explanation.
But not the ghost haunting, UFO, or skinwalker kind of stuff. Won’t believe it until I see it myself. Makes finding a good horror podcast a bit more challenging for me.
idk man, but I’d still much rather have encryption, even if I’m up against the alphabet boys:
Especially on mobile devices, when a UI element repeatedly avoids or dodges your attempts to reach or interact with it. May be intentional or unintentional, usually a consequence of elements wrapping to the next row as you drag one element around. Notable examples include rearranging icons on the home screen and trying to push a tab into a tab group on mobile Chromium-based browsers.
Nyah-nyah Effect (taken from the you-can’t-catch-me schoolyard chant that goes through my mind whenever it happens)
What’s the point of life if crippling, paralyzing fear is all there is to it? I work on being a good steward of my privacy as much as it brings me joy and satisfaction, not so much that it consumes every waking hour.
Whatever it is, review your threat model. What’s done is done and there is little that can be done to redact any evidence you may have left on the internet. Are you able to stop doing whatever it is that is putting you at risk of legal trouble?
If it’s an drug or psychological problem, you need to seek professional medical attention. Many people die or suffer life-changing illness each year fearing that their doctors will rat them out for substance abuse. Don’t be one of them. Patient privacy laws, at least in the US, prevent your doctors, therapists, etc. will protect you if you go and seek help. The main thing that they would have to disclose is if you make direct, credible threats to other people.
If it’s a criminal operation or worse, lawyer up and good luck.
I suppose that works, but that’s quite drastic just to watch YT.
All the fun stuff that “society” and “etiquette” denies us: