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jeffgreco··on CDC data are disappearing
Requires a law abiding administration.
jeffgreco··on Bloomberg Announces Effort to Ensure U.S. Honors Paris Agreement Commitments
If the new ruling regime is intent that the federal government is meant to be feckless and we are to be beholden to oligarchs, then I guess I am glad this oligarchs is doing this.
jeffgreco··on ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War
The red states decide to ship the migrants via bus to us in the blue cities, frequently under misleading circumstances, in an attempt to demonstrate hypocrisy on our part. We accept them, understanding the value in growing our population, productivity and tax base.

Now they’re coming back instead to terrorize our cities with gestapo tactics.

If only Elon was actually concerned about population growth instead of disgusting racial nonsense.

jeffgreco··on Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads
YouTube Premium does not serve ads.
jeffgreco··on Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads
Google does charge if you don’t want ads. It’s called YouTube Premium and if one doesn’t like watching ads but do like watching YouTube, I would suggest putting one’s money where one’s mouth is.
jeffgreco··on A very Chicago gamble
Some truly hideous AI art on this one.
jeffgreco··on Show HN: LLMpeg
Why did you create this account just to post repeatedly complaining about this project?
jeffgreco··on GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta
It's a good point, Anthropic is being VERY choosy and winds up knocking it out of the park with stuff like Artifacts. Meanwhile their MacOS app is junk, but obviously not a priority.
jeffgreco··on Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO
Bluesky has the best of both worlds: reverse chronological primarily, and then rich alternatives for all sorts of content. Some are analogous to lists on Mastodon (though seem much more heavily used on Bluesky to me) and others more advanced.

Reverse chronological can suffice if you’re spending all day looking at the timeline but algorithms can be helpful! Not all algos are engagement muck.

jeffgreco··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
Student builds tool to circumvent common university registration rules, is surprised when university objects.
jeffgreco··on Facebook is removing stories about pornographic ads
Believe it or not, $100 provides a wealth of journalism for the year, not just the single article!
jeffgreco··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
That’s about what Paul Tyson was looking like at times.
jeffgreco··on I tried every top email marketing tool
Wow you're telling me he didn't try every one of 12,000 marketing tools that exist?
jeffgreco··on Maybe Bluesky has "won"
They do. Since July. https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-namecheap
jeffgreco··on Maybe Bluesky has "won"
Bluesky app is becoming a fine React Native exemplar, and it's been a blast watching former Facebook React guy Dan Abramov, now working at Bluesky, start using Native for the first time. https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov
jeffgreco··on USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
Yes, you should take the bus.
jeffgreco··on Figma Retrospective on the "Make Designs" Feature
I'm curious what number of design systems were included, if they were all first party generated, and to your point, let's see the offending template.

Seems this is less of an "AI" issue, more like if Squarespace offered a template that was identical to Apple.com.

jeffgreco··on Winpopup (2001)
A friend at high school was suspended after discovering the whole district shared a network and spammed our rival school with messages.
jeffgreco··on Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6
Go on!
jeffgreco··on The Corvette that Windows zip folders bought
Aren't you both saying the same thing? Someone who cares about performance will use 7zip.
jeffgreco··on You almost never see a clock at the mall
Where do you see clocks?
jeffgreco··on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
I was a young internet user at the turn of the century so kept waiting for a jump scare -_-
jeffgreco··on The disastrous communication from Apple to apps developers
Also of note, updates count as downloads.
jeffgreco··on Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well
Why, is Apple Music going to have fewer podcast ads?
jeffgreco··on Mastering DOM manipulation with vanilla JavaScript
This looks like some helpful refreshers as I try and mess with building a browser extension.
jeffgreco··on Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
I did this just last week with my Chicago Public Library card and Pass4wallet and it’s great, even though CPL scanners still can’t scan screen codes.
jeffgreco··on Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks a Pay to Play Strategy Exposed
This is almost a decade old so kinda undermines that point.
jeffgreco··on A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet
What?
jeffgreco··on Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?
The argument seems more “is this the guy we want running the plurality of American comedy” not “what do we want Lorne Michaels to do?”
jeffgreco··on Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?
What on earth is this linked piece? Bizarre behavior.
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