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petemill··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Sounds like what a government issued card should be used for, which seems fine
petemill··on Retro-Tech Parenting
It's not social isolation it's creating a learning experience filled with resistance instead of handing everything on a platter
petemill··on Retro-Tech Parenting
I'm currently in the "misguided" group as I parent 3 kids under 10 but I appreciate your viewpoint. I had similar experience and want my kids to learn that sense that they can accomplish anything by just learning how to do it from others on the internet. But still, everything today is offered on a platter. There's little resistance to overcome. No installing, no files, no configuration. I think that's what we accomplish by giving the technology step by step, starting with offline machines with CD ROMs. If they can just Google any game ever made and play it in-browser in a JS emulator then where's the learning and the struggle before the reward?
petemill··on Retro-Tech Parenting
The difference is more of those people can use local file management than the new generation joining office environments.
petemill··on Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
Risc OS is the GOAT
petemill··on Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
It's a shame we let ourselves get to this point where creativity is limited by the walled gardens we've almost fully accepted as "worth it".
petemill··on I spoke to AI agent Claude [video]
Bernie Sanders asks Claude about AI, privacy and trusting companies with data.
petemill··on From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year
Having experienced both, and needed both, I certainly have more positive things to say on the socialized version than the privatized version. Does the US system not hopelessly strain people by its cost? Does the US system not require positive rate of insurance payers to sustain it?
petemill··on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
> Intel needs to start thinking long term instead of short term profits

Which is what the last CEO was in the middle of doing and he got fired just recently because they couldn't stomach it

petemill··on How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present
Looks more like the rate of increase started going up in 2018
petemill··on Crossing the USA by Train
Why wouldn't you want to use the SBA airport? It's lovely, scenic and has quite a few routes and airlines these days.
petemill··on Chicken Egg Production (2019) [video]
What role did capitalism have in this revelation for you? I don't think it caused the chicken so perhaps you're referring to the Internet which most certainly was not due to capitalism.
petemill··on A Linux OS that boots to LLAMA2 and has a startrek like UI
Wrong characters for the LCARS-like interface!
petemill··on Consumer software is expected to be next fast-growing segment (1994)
Important in terms of adoption.
petemill··on Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age
Tylenol / Acetaminophen / Paracetamol is not an NSAID. Ibuprofen and Aspirin is.
petemill··on New in Chrome 113
We already have response editing. You can save a file in devtools and set up workspace folders to override responses at any url.
petemill··on Mercedes-Benz will build a $1B EV fast-charging network in the US
Maybe the bucket size is what is hoped for vs what exists already
petemill··on How to stop junk mail
It didn't even accept my social security number complaining that the number was too high...
petemill··on Apple’s hidden flight tracker app
Google has had this for maybe 10 years. Type a flight number in to google and get the exact same info.
petemill··on Goodbye Brave
Brave team member here. This was not a server issue but was a daylight savings time bug.
petemill··on Two Rich Men Decided to Fund a Failing City. Some People Say They Made It Worse
Not envy, no. I think you're looking at the problem from a very limited angle. I would classify it as more disillusion at the system that enables there to be billionaire owners of a company with workers on welfare. I have everything I need, so I'm not envious. I want to live in a society where as many others can live in comfort and not just a few at the top.
petemill··on Two Rich Men Decided to Fund a Failing City. Some People Say They Made It Worse
People will lose ability to be happy for other people's "success" when there's no hope they can achieve it. Likely it's not a signal of just being rich but instead a signal of rich vs poor. When there's a disappearing middle and it's just a wide gap between rich and poor then yes I can see why "rich" is a negative signal.
petemill··on I almost quit caffeine in one year
Maybe because caffeine is inversely additive. The more you have the less its effects are.

https://lifehacker.com/what-caffeine-actually-does-to-your-b...

petemill··on Chakra UI v1 Released – Build accessible React apps with speed
Adobe's react-aria is quite like that.

https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/getting-started....

petemill··on Tesla Cybertruck
And the web team

> 429 Too Many Requests

petemill··on Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
petemill··on Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
petemill··on Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
petemill··on Brave launches 1.0
The decisions are all done locally by your browser on your computer.
petemill··on Is Inequality Inevitable?
Classic. Poor people just aren't working hard enough!
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