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Before that, when streaming was a practical option, I tried revisiting some videos I had already watched, only to be find they had been taken down. This happened often enough to be annoying.
So, everything gets saved to local storage, and eventually to on-site and off-site backups.
For debugging code, almost all compilers come with some default editor or "build environment." I just use whatever is there, for convenience.
This used to be taught as "good UI design." I disagree strongly...
Before they had ISP account data, they knew the DHCP pool sizes and watched DNS lookups to identify users with a sufficient accuracy for most purposes. Most people visit a specific handful of sites, often at specific times or in a specific order.
For users coming in countries with better privacy laws, or through ISPs too small to be "partnered", Google buys tracking cookie information from various sources. There are hundreds (thousands?) of companies in that business. Cookie tracking isn't as good for finding your specific identity, but it's very specific about where you go and what you look at, which is primo information for marketing purposes.
I don't know. But I think it's a fine idea. Pick a print head that's easily available as an aftermarket replacement part, and the rest of the bits can be scrounged from 3D printer suppliers.
I abandoned the whole inkjet thing for the same reason most people do - dried-up print heads and refill hassles. After looking at my options for lasers, I got the next best thing to an open-source laser - a 20th-century HP Laserjet "milk crate". The supply of new and used repair parts is plentiful, toner cartridges are about as cheap as they get, native drivers are available for most operating systems, and detailed factory service manuals are available if you want them.
The nice thing was, you could pass your phone number out to everyone, but it would only ring for the people you gave the code to. And it was easy to manage, just give your number as "555-1212 ext.382" or whatever. And if the code got spread too widely, you could just change it and give anyone you wanted to hear from the new code.
I keep hoping someone will make an app like that for cellular phones, but most people seem to like saving their spam calls in their voicemail boxes to review them later.
For me, a lot of the fun evaporated when I could find others had written a dozen other programs doing exactly what I was thinking of, often better than I could have.
The rest of the fun evaporated due to (this was the 1990s) compiler churn; every year there would be new compiler versions, some of which required nontrivial changes to existing code, and the compilers often had such poor documentation that their own examples wouldn't compile. "Solving problems" turned into "trying to use broken tools", of which Microsoft Macro Assembler 4.0 was surely the worst offender.
I did my time as a sarariman writing software, but it was just a job by then.
I guess you could just take pictures of the pages and save them to a thumbdrive or an SDcard, but I prefer the lower-tech solution.
Most of the web still works, though I sometimes run into odd things, like web pages where 1+Mb of cruft is delivered by the main host, but the 2Kb of text that I wanted to read was hosted on a blocked CDN. Ah, well. I'll find it somewhere else, then.
They ask for a resume and tell you when to be there.
You show up at the appointed time with the resume. After waiting half an hour. a secretary hands you a generic Office Depot tear-off employment application.
After another forty-five minutes to an hour, you get to see whoever's in charge of hiring. They're looking at the Office Depot sheet, and about half the time they don't even have your resume, which was probably round-filed by the secretary.
The hiring person isn't sure what job you're applying for, so they leave the office to consult with someone else. Twenty minutes later they return and either tell you they're not hiring, or they'll call you next week. (they don't)
My usual response was to send them an invoice for two hours of office workflow consulting at my entirely reasonable rate. None of them ever paid up, of course, but they stole two hours of my time.
I have both on-site and off-site backups; I have no desire to put personal information of that sort on anyone's web server.
It was cast by the wayside long ago. First it was the "mental health" exemptions, then various law enforcement provisions, then third-party "office solutions", then transcriptionist services, then private medical databases...
You might as well assume that anything you tell your doctor is going to be recorded and (eventually) used against you.
And then, as was alluded to earlier, there's the problem of incorrect information in those databases... and your only recourse is to give them more-accurate information to sell.
All the dice are loaded against the patient. And as anyone online for long knows, data is forever.
Then you can read up about the "space needles", when they exploded a package og 480 million small copper needles in orbit to see what would happen: https://nowiknow.com/space-needles/
It's not any great loss, I just kept it as an alternate address for when I needed to send email to someone (or vice versa) and over-enthusiastic mail admins decided to "fight spam" by blocking entire top-level domains or countries.
Sometimes I'll come wide awake in the middle of the night. No problem, get up, read, or surf the web for a while, then go back to bed. Sometimes you need more sleep than usual, but sometimes you don't need as much.
The last corporate IT job I had, they expected me to use my personal cell phone for job-related tasks. No, I didn't want their malware running on my phone, nor did I want to upgrade to an expensive cellular data plan for the required connectivity. If they wanted me to have a phone for their business, they should provide one.
Management and HR were quite upset. I suggested they check the state Labor Board. Shortly after, I was given a purchase authorization to buy a company phone and service.