Taken from us far too soon, what a final performance.

It’s just a bit silly considering how these companies have been leveraging publicly available information and how automated most of their systems actually are. It’s part of why customer service at many of them (not Apple so much I guess) is absolutely abysmal and they basically do their best to try to avoid to having a human being in the customer service loop at all. Automating almost all software and removing the human element has literally been the name of the game for 20 years at least.

I mean the original Google ranking algorithm itself was partially made by checking the publicly available information (via web scraping) of how many times a site had been linked to from other sites. And to keep it accurate, they had to keep scraping constantly to keep updating the publicly available data for their own purposes. All of which was automated as well, by the way.

I wish this was talked about more. So much hay being made about this on the assumption that Google maintains their own database of locations instead of pulling from sources like GNIS like they actually do.

Fuck Google, but we don’t need to make shit up to hate them. In fact, making shit up makes us seem crazy and hurts our position. These companies do enough real evil shit, we don’t need to piss our time away on this non-issue.

Where’s this fucking energy for Google removing sideloading from Android, for example. I’ve seen way more mainstream news about this one item on a fucking map than I have about the loss of sideloading and the loss of actual ownership of the devices we purchase.

I’d personally suggest Tuta over Proton simply because of the sketchiness of the Proton ownership and their conservative, business-first, citizens-second views.

Aegis is tits and it makes it easy to transfer TOTP codes back and forth between Aegis and KeePassXC.

It’s near the bottom but Tarn Adams notes the same thing, that it has been happening far longer than just starting when LLMs became popular.

“It’s been going on forever. That was before AI—or this form of AI,” Adams says, before lamenting: “They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can’t even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn’t exist. It’s dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes.”

Debian 12 is one of the last holdouts of 32-bit support if you’re like me and have some pretty old devices still kicking. Just a couple years left.

Originally I was an advocate for dropping 32-bit support, but now that getting newer devices is increasingly unaffordable… I actually think it might be a good idea to reverse course on that just a little and keep 32-blt support for just a little longer. At least until after the AI bubble finally fucking pops.

I legit thought they were joking.

Thanks for the info. I didn’t really understand the add-on, just that it was trying to add it in an unsafe manner. I figured someone with more knowledge would show up with more info. Cheers.

Bypass Paywalls Clean:

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads

The only reason it is hosted in Russia is because it was kicked off Firefox Add-ons, then Gitlab, then Github due to DMCA takedown notices.

Sounded interesting until I hit their “web app”

No Firefox (and derivatives) support can and should be a fucking dealbreaker.

Worse, they’re also quite prominent in Valve game communities (TF2/DOTA2) as well, so they’re poisoning in-game interactions, too.

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I guess being severely allergic to doxycycline means I can just go fuck myself.

I’m accepting that I’m becoming a little of a pointy head boss here.

Dilbert fans are almost always as big of losers as Scott Adams was.

Scott Adams once made a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to make positive comments about himself, got outed almost immediately, then claimed that was always his goal. What a fucking loser.

I’ve done the work. It’s Amazon’s Mechanical Turk on steroids because you’re actually simultaneously the Turk and fixing the Turk

but to be fair, the first post ever on Reddit was the Downing Street Memo.

I found the missing pixels.

You’re welcome.

If a guy won’t tell you it’s because he’s igneous.