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3rd bullet. I do a ton of WordPress at work. Clients asked for it because they know how to use it.

Yes. How gray is your beard?

"Don't be evil."

> This isn't inherently bad - Twitter wasn't a great place for anyone's mental health *and is even less so now.*

This kind of thoughtless, evidence-free garbage undermines everything else in the post.

The issue with inkjets isn’t running out of ink, it’s long stretches between prints resulting in clogged heads and terrible print quality. Usually followed by dozens a of minutes of cleaning, or a clogged not-empty cartridge that needs replacing anyway.

After yet another clogged inkjet which might print again if I buy a full set of inks for more than the replacement cost of the printer, I’m shopping for a small laser printer.

Dropbox, OneDrive and others are dangerous because they default to cloud-first. To "save disk space", they upload your files and provide a proxy/placeholder for your actual content.

If something happens to the provider, or they decide they don't like you or your files, your data is gone. Worse than gone, because you still have the empty proxies -- the husks of your files.

I personally know of more than one instance where seemingly innocuous data triggered some automated system at Dropbox and the user was locked out of their files without recourse.

If you're using cloud storage, make *absolutely certain* you have it set to download all files. If your cloud storage exceeds the drive space of a laptop (small businesses, etc), get a cheap dedicated PC and a big drive, then set up at least one dedicated cloud mirror.

Local-first cloud storage is great, but the potential for catastrophic data-loss is not even remotely close to zero.

as an occasional tinkerer who's very fluent in JS, getting to play around in a known language is a bonus. Side projects that require learning or re-learning languages usually go nowhere because the language itself becomes the side project.

They've already got natto

   > The good thing is that, after 5 years of 
   > construction, a beautiful new mall stan… just kidding!
   >
   > This is Canada. The place where construction
   > has to stop because you’re not allowed to uproot
   > a tree on your own property. Or a vindictive neighbour
   > holds up your project in Committee of Adjustments, until
   > you build them a new deck as a bribe. Or construction
   > is blocked by a surprise Heritage Listing on your
   > building. I could keep going!

Little throwaways like this are brushstrokes in a much bigger picture.

I miss my O'Reilly bookshelf.

Advertisers are sort of benevolent here, if not lesser victims.

Google, Facebook and now Amazon realized the big money is in brokering ads. As brokers, they know everything and control everything, exploiting both the viewers and advertisers.

“hello_stranger.txt” feels like something I would’ve written as a 11 year old pretending to be a mad scientist.

I’m going to start leaving those files on every system I touch. Thank you Nikita.

Wait, this whole confusing click-through mess of a rant about privacy and protecting our data ended with a Google sign-up form and a post on LinkedIn? Seriously?

> Pro tip: Use landscape mode!

No.

One of my greatest misconceptions and disappointments was believing anything on the internet would be permanent.

Not an option on mobile (iOS)

Can we give the cats a few months to take down the rat problem first?

Mostly foe.

Today, I've got two laptops stuck behind an Apple Business Manager MDM error. Thankfully I'm not in a hurry, but several hours have already been burned trying to get these past the Remote Management setup screen.

I was asked to help a woman who worked as a housekeeper. She had been given a used iPad as a Christmas present by a previous employer, but the previous owner did not remove it from her iCloud account. Months had passed and the new owner was no longer working for the giver, and reluctant to ask (language barrier) so the iPad was a paperweight.

My daughter recently lost her iPhone in a big city. iCloud lock allowed us to remote-lock it, send messages and see its last location on the map, but the device was never returned. We sent a remote-wipe command, but I assume it was smashed for fun, since it was useless thanks to Activation lock.

All I really want from Substack is an all-you-can-eat model where I pay a base fee and they sort out who gets what based on what I read. It can’t be that hard, lynda.com did it ages ago and was always profitable.

how big is the secondary browser market on iOS? I can’t imagine searches on iOS-Chrome are worth very much.

Just me, or was that a very low-energy video?

> They can’t ban you from your own blog. They can’t silence you.

Imagine believing this in 2023.

Was this backported from Microsoft’s work on Edge or were those energy-saving features just proof-of-concept?

How do you say it?

A truly marvelous proposition, which these comments are too narrow to contain.

Horrifying. I would like to see this brought to Governor Abbot's attention.

Define acronyms the first time they appear.

Here's the actual report:

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/circular-claims-fall-...

Why can't journalists ever link to their sources?

Too many cookie notices are only to accommodate Google Analytics.

Curious to see how this affects contributions.

It would be interesting if we could Ender’s Game this with actual real life drones or something. But then, I can think of a million ways that could go horribly wrong.