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Do you mind sharing what Ed said or did that convinced you to stop trying?

>Moreover, during this process, MSSB also learned that the local devices being decommissioned had been equipped with encryption capability, but that the firm had failed to activate the encryption software for years.

Please share more details. This is incredible and defies belief.

They couldn't even find a hi-res logo for WhatsApp on the bottom. [1]

[1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jv09_Bj8cea5-_S6DdpoA_MolG...

I think eventually more people will realize that the modern web is terrible and they will get fed up with it. People are already building alternatives. There are several situations that could cause Google to lose a foothold as the search behemoth and drive consumers to find alternate ways to find products.

Possible catalysts include: regulation of search or advertising negatively affecting google, an unknown search competitor entering the market, another of the behemoths competing (amazon with search, bing getting their act together, etc.), antitrust suits, insert black swan event here.

I think the pendulum is also swinging towards smaller, local communities. Maybe that's just my bubble. Eventually everyone will get sick of it though, and something will change. I don't think we can predict what will replace it, but I hope it's not another big, centralized source. We've seen the negatives of that.

I don't know how to build it, but to me the ideal Google search killer would be:

1) Decentralized somehow. Hosting search indexes collectively in order to reduce the need for a single entity to host the data. Crypto has this possibility maybe. But I don't know how well it could be implemented, and whether you could have search still be "free" like Google is. How do you solve for that problem?

2) Filters out the SEO spam. Yes, this is a huge problem. My idea to fix it is manual curation. Not scalable. How do you solve that? I think something like StumbleUpon. A curated list of sites that is searchable in its own index. Perhaps there could be a trusted network of curated indexes. Members only to host the curated indexes to keep out the black hats, but free to search for the public at large.

I also think we need to educate everyday users to host their own sites on their own hardware. Making it super simple to spin up a web host in a VM that is running on a laptop in the bedroom. Or off a raspberry pi 0. Or whatever is cheap and available. Turn it off when you need to and the website goes offline. Yes, but that is okay in the interim to get Joe Regular hosting a website independently. Sure it's not okay for a business, but for your hobby site about bonsai trees, why not? Of course this is against most ISP's ToS so how do you solve for that? How do you give Joe Regular the ability to deploy a simple, secure website easily? How do you incentivize them to get out of the walled gardens? Give them a garden of their own.

That was what made the early web (as I knew it in the 90s and 00s) awesome. You were figuring it out on your own. Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo can stick around and be the digital yellow pages. They are good at that.

We need to build a new web for ourselves.

How do you know there's not one already?

I didn't use or play Zelda Classic but I was a young kid and later teenager trying to make games in Qbasic, RM2K/3, GameMaker, BYOND, MUD makers, and so on. It was a huge part of my life and inspired a life and passion in IT.

I miss the forums and communities from back then. Gaming World aka gamingw.net was my old haunt. Rival GamingGroundZero was another popular community at the same time. Late 90s early 00s. I had a lot of really close friends that I may never talk to again. That's life though.

Code by Charles Petzold for a month or so after seeing it recommended here over and over. It's highly recommended for a reason! Petzold's explanations are phenomenal. Can't wait for the 2nd edition so I can reread it.

I'm curious why you want to "like sports," because it sounds like you might already. Maybe not at a devotional level, but what do you think you're missing out on? Is it because you think it would make it easier to bond with other guys and make more friends? No pressure to answer if you don't want to.

Going to a live event can be a catalyst for how you feel about them. I used to hate sports as well, but live games have a certain energy about them that does not come through in television. Find a friend who likes a team and ask to go to a game with them.

Add ricotta cheese and pepperoni. Delicious.

I am very intrigued by this system which smacks of Getting Things Done (he even mentions how to integrate it) but its so disorganized and all over the place it seems a bit schizophrenic.

Eternity is a long time

Smart assumption to make.

On the flip side, people install the app because they usually are how the rewards programs are implemented now.

From the app page:

Mobile Order & Pay

Select and customize your favourite food and drinks, choose your preferred Tim Hortons location, and pay from the app. It’s now that easy to order your favourite Tim Hortons items from your phone.

Personalized Menu

Add recently ordered items with one tap. Customized orders are saved on your menu so you can get your order just the way you like it.

Tims® Rewards

After just seven eligible purchases, receive your choice of a FREE coffee, tea or baked good. Keep checking for more special offers to come. It’s time to reward your routine!

Scan for Tims® Rewards

A digital version of your loyalty card that you can scan easily when ordering in the restaurant – never miss an opportunity to earn rewards.

Scan to Pay

Save time and pay for your order right from the app -- no need to carry cash or a credit card!

Take Out, Dine In or Drive Thru

Choose your pick-up method. Payment is completed in-app, so you can grab your order to go, or dine in with us. Your choice.

Except we've seen that this doesn't really work in practice. Kids are not all getting a decent education. Poor kids are still at a huge disadvantage compared to wealthy kids. There isn't a one size fits all education. Different roles which are needed by society require different skills. Everyone doesn't need to go to college. The world still needs ditch diggers and it likely always will. Not everyone is equal when it comes to intellectual or physical capability. When you try to shove everyone through the same system, you get a lot of square pegs going through round holes. This prevents those with high intellectual capabilities from reaching their full potential by reducing education to the lowest common denominator.

You have a text error in the description. A daily horoscope podcast for Aquariums. Also the episode for May 22nd narrates the date as April 22nd. But I love this concept. Is this an AI speech engine or pre recorded snippets? Where did you get the text snippets from? Have you thought of incorporating GPT-3 into your horoscopes ala co-star?

Buddhism?

Pure speculation on my part, but I would hazard a guess that it's a call out to the song "Pinball Wizard" by The Who (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Wizard). Some pinball wizard goes to the movie theater where it's common to have a few arcade and pinball machines in the lobby and racks up an incredible high score that is unbeatable by your average movie-goer while waiting for popcorn. This discourages other customers from playing and the high score is adjusted down to encourage more play.

Possibly, but the component level repair could be a good triage solution while awaiting that replacement board. Not a soldier, but I imagine in warzones and combat areas a good enough solution that works now is more important than awaiting the "right" solution that takes 3 days.

>When I was in Iraq (08-09), we had a juniper firewall go down, didn't have another on back up, and they had to fly a contractor out from the states to Iraq, to change it out. Took 10 minutes to diagnose the problem, and 3 days of waiting, and 15 minutes to install it. We lost feed to the predator drones in the area, phone, internet, coms, and several other mission critical things for 3 days.... a real s** show.