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dltjon "We Couldn't Generate an Answer for Your Question"

Controversial search terms highlight flaws in Ex Libris AI Research Assistant

dltjon Ask HN: Should I Leave Twitter (as a user) ?

Wait and see, but be actively planning your exit strategy.

dltjon Fastmail to end support for operamail.com email addresses

Your email address is too important to leave in the hands of a third-party provider. This isn’t to say that using a third-party provider to run your email is a bad idea. You should own the domain, though.

dltjon Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS

In addition to size of the data transmission being a poor measure of privacy implications (XML versus JSON anyone?), this paragraph is nonsense: "The University of Dublin professor says that this expansive data collection raises at least two major concerns. First, that the telemetry can be used to link physical devices to personal details, data that both companies are most likely exploiting for advertising purposes."

Apple doesn't have an advertising business, nor does it share that information with advertisers.

dltjon Why are Hart Taxis more expensive?

Had any experiences with them? (Good or bad?)

dltjon Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

Take a look at _Robustify Your Links_.[1] It is an API and a snippet of JavaScript that saves your target HREF in one of the web archiving services and adds a decorator to the link display that offers the option to the user to view the web archive.

[1] https://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/about/

dltjon How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

Thanks for leaving your Gist up there describing the process, Jed. I do some work in VMs, but still found it very useful.