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@manton Thanks for the attention to the web UI!
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@mitch Yes and yes. My feet are way happier with arch support.
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@mitch The Principia Discordia is the basic text of Discordianism, of course - a religion based on the self-evident fact that God is a crazy woman.
(Explanation in my official role as Pope Ukulele the Short).
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@manton well it would certainly be easier for me if the page editor (on the web) would allow me to directly insert an image, rather than making me run through uploads and then copy the markdown into the editor. But it’s only minor friction as it stands.
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@rom If only they hadn’t escalated to breaking things like civil society and the climate.
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@mitch Good news for me: I’m still safe from being an adult.
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@ffmike Looks like Osmand+ will do what I need (including Android Auto) for $7.50 per year. I’ll pay that much to degoogle my mapping.
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@ljpuk Well for what it’s worth I just followed you on Glass. So now I’ll be expecting you to help keep my own timeline populated :)
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@jimmylittle Yep. Would love to see social media in general be de-toxified. Not holding my breath though.
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@manton I would find those changes more significant if they didn’t all depend on the “age assurance technology.” The early numbers I’ve seen from Australia’s ban on teen social media are that 60% of teens manage to evade the ban. If that holds here, then huge numbers will still be at risk.
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@jekratz The more I read articles like that, the more I think I got into software at almost exactly the right time - early enough to learn starting from assembler on up, and also early enough to retire just before this AI nonsense started to drown everything out.
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@digitalpardoe I’m suddenly less worried about my own pile of 5 digital cameras. Thanks!
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@manton To be fair, I can recall several times when things that couldn’t possibly happen took down production servers.
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@mitch Oh man, I remember getting those at Halloween. Some of the best candy of the time. Well, apart from the whole “getting kids prepared for addiction to cancer sticks” thing.
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@genehack Along a lot of the trails it’s Himalayan Blackberry vs. Poison Oak. Not sure that’s an improvement. Oh, with Devil’s Club thrown in at damp spots.
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@manton What we really need is a captcha based on Godel’s Proof: “click all propositions that are true but unproveable given these axioms.” Send those LLMs right into a tailspin :)
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@mitch If Apple does indeed ship these things, I personally will be much more suspicious of Airpods. And I hope Apple is prepared for them to be referred to as “pervert Airpods” because that is exactly how people are going to perceive them, no matter what privacy protections are in place.
This strikes me as a huge and entirely foreseeable mistake.
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@mitch Related advice that I took to heart: “Anyone can learn to write. After you first million words you should be getting good at it.”
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@genehack Yah I think the place in Eugene carries more than Birks but that’s what they plaster on their windows in very large letters. I’ve never been inside to check. More of a hiking boot/trail runner guy myself.
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@genehack I’m unduly pleased that I actually know someone who still wears Birks. My wife’s store is across the street from the Eugene Birkenstock place and as far as I can tell no one ever goes in there.
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@manton Yeah, I don’t expect Instagram to go away (well, unless Meta gets hit with absolutely devastating losses in the current crop of lawsuits). But I don’t expect cattle-ranching to go away and I’m still vegan. I’m more into making the right choices for me than I am in forcing views on others.
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@manton Well, for some of us, not using Instagram, not using Uber, not buying crypto is going perfectly well thank you. Though I admit I’m an outlier.
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@rom Losing money to build market share worked for pets.com.
Oh, wait…
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@mitch Yeah one of the few ways I’m normal (well, except for the hours I keep). Definitely envious of those who get by on 4 hours. I did go one entire grad term on 5 hours, which is why I was hallucinating during my thesis defense.
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@mitch Post-retirement, I get along fine with a steady 7 hours per night - 8PM to 3AM. This puts me awake when others in the house are asleep, often for 6-7 hours. Doesn’t bother me. I’m a non-lonesome introvert.
What all this means, I have no idea.