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I have a good friend who doesn't own a cell phone. He's a math professor. Every year he keeps living life without a smartphone, I continue to be more impressed.

by varenc 5mo ago

I have a good friend who doesn't own a cell phone. He's a math professor. Every year he keeps living life without a smartphone, I continue to be more impressed. Things like this makes me feel like he might have to eventually give in. https://archive.is https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare, this QR code backed CAPTCHAs. There seems no way to get past them without a smartphone. Sad times. I wonder at what point even basic government services will essentially require a smartphone.

gruez 5mo ago
> https://archive.is https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare It looks like a cloudflare page but it's not hosted by them. eg. https://bgp.he.net/dns/archive.is#_ipinfo https://bgp.he.net/dns/archive.is#_ipinfo It's hosted by AS49505 JSC Selectel
- j027 5mo ago
  To add onto this, cloudflare switched away from recaptcha a while ago. https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch... I think they now use their own Cloudflare turnstile if I remember correctly, but back then they switched to hcaptcha.
phyzome 5mo ago
I don't have one either. No plans to get one, even with this.
- SJMG 5mo ago
  No cell phone period or no smart phone? I'm not sure how people manage the former. Do you have a home with a land line? What do you do when you travel?
  - phyzome 5mo ago
    Ah, I have a cell phone, not a smartphone. (Didn't notice that the parent comment referred to both.)
- eks391 5mo ago
  I envy you. Before I degoogled my life, I tried going all in to no smart phone. It didn't last very long. I still would like to get there, but considering how difficult and slow it was just to degoogle, I anticipate that it may be a long time before I can operate without a smart phone.
  - phyzome 5mo ago
    The main thing that makes me think about getting a smartphone is navigation. But I never lost the skill of "looking up/writing down directions before you go" so it's not too bad. (My phone is technically Android, but really old, not a touchscreen, you can't install apps, and most websites don't work in it, so... basically a dumb phone. But I did write a map web page that works in my very specific situation: https://lab.brainonfire.net/classicmap/ https://lab.brainonfire.net/classicmap/ But mostly I just look up directions first and pay attention to signs, and the web page is a fallback that's nice to have.)

by varenc 5mo ago

gruez 5mo ago

> https://archive.is https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare It looks like a cloudflare page but it's not hosted by them. eg. https://bgp.he.net/dns/archive.is#_ipinfo https://bgp.he.net/dns/archive.is#_ipinfo It's hosted by AS49505 JSC Selectel

j027 5mo ago
To add onto this, cloudflare switched away from recaptcha a while ago. https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch... I think they now use their own Cloudflare turnstile if I remember correctly, but back then they switched to hcaptcha.

phyzome 5mo ago

I don't have one either. No plans to get one, even with this.

SJMG 5mo ago
No cell phone period or no smart phone? I'm not sure how people manage the former. Do you have a home with a land line? What do you do when you travel?
- phyzome 5mo ago
  Ah, I have a cell phone, not a smartphone. (Didn't notice that the parent comment referred to both.)
eks391 5mo ago
I envy you. Before I degoogled my life, I tried going all in to no smart phone. It didn't last very long. I still would like to get there, but considering how difficult and slow it was just to degoogle, I anticipate that it may be a long time before I can operate without a smart phone.
- phyzome 5mo ago
  The main thing that makes me think about getting a smartphone is navigation. But I never lost the skill of "looking up/writing down directions before you go" so it's not too bad. (My phone is technically Android, but really old, not a touchscreen, you can't install apps, and most websites don't work in it, so... basically a dumb phone. But I did write a map web page that works in my very specific situation: https://lab.brainonfire.net/classicmap/ https://lab.brainonfire.net/classicmap/ But mostly I just look up directions first and pay attention to signs, and the web page is a fallback that's nice to have.)