EchoReflection

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   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   Meta is an addictive toxic shithole and a blight on the world. I deleted my Facebook account about 5 years ago and my life has been way better ever since. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-murder-and-the
2. 92.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   so appropriate, literally just saw incoming email from "Shop" (a company I'm sure I was "obliged" to use because some other company that I actually wanted to use told me "we now process all of our transactions
3. 93.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   depaywalled version: https://archive.vn/2023.10.02-162231/https://www.nytimes.com...
4. 94.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   I remember reading this years ago. happy to see it again, in the sense that it's a fun read.
5. 95.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   I am not really in IT either, although for a few years I worked for a software company (as customer support, not programming or engineering). I've only ever posted 2 things here, and they were things I was sharing, not my own writing:
6. 96.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   I make no claims as to the presence of malware (or lack thereof) in the links in this comment, and I'm not condoning or endorsing anything, nor am I stating an opinion on the ethics of downloading YouTube videos for any purpose, but fo
7. 97.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   Modern white-collar work wil never go back to the way things were (nor does it need to). Pros and cons to that of course. The path of least resistance (saving the costs of lighting/heating/cooling/plumbing/office-main
8. 98.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   It does calm down, but never stills. But the ocean never stills, so I would still give this full credit/an A+
9. 99.▲
   by EchoReflection 3y ago

   several years ago I became an "ultra high net worth individual" (through unexpected events involving a car accident and an inept (but very large) insurance company, and with the help of my closest family members I/we decided
10. 100.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    Oh awesome, maybe California can overtake Colorado for "most in-debt state in the US". Economic stewardship is nonsense anyway.
11. 101.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    https://archive.vn/M2Qe1
12. 102.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    The Internet is too global/ubiquitous (except in evil shitty countries like North Korea, China) to make dividing content availability by region realistic in the long run.
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    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    I've been "trapped" with evernote for a long time because I put more than a decade's worth of stuff into it, and their exporting tools are shit. Literally I "exported" whole notebooks and what I got was just t
14. 104.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    so one doesn't have to deal w/ WaPo paywall nonsense: https://web.archive.org/web/20230701144801/https://www.washi...
15. 105.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    That is such an elegant, concise, and accurate description of the situation. Bravo
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    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    Video removed. Looks like even archive.org might not have caught it fast enough. https://web.archive.org/web/20210828142953/https://www.youtu... But Chomsky is overrated anyway imo. Really smart, but an
17. 107.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    It is way overdue for redditors to switch to Mastodon or something similar.
18. 108.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    #quitreddit
19. 109.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    Intention matters. I can forgive incompetence much more easily than I can forgive malice. Usually US law leans that way too (manslaughter vs murder).
20. 110.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    I saw this a few weeks ago and I keep coming back to it when I hear about news like this: https://youtu.be/zdlBFOp-jxE
21. 111.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    i bought my pixel 7 pro direct from Google store and i have the option to unlock the bootloader...
22. 112.▲
    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    the faster Meta crumbles into oblivion the better. Zuckface and Twitbook and Crapchat and all the other "social" media platforms are literally just data-harvesting programs that are, like the fashion industry, just trying to make
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    by EchoReflection 3y ago

    twitter and NPR are both liberal echochambers, although NPR has "high credibility". https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/npr/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/t
24. 114.▲
    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    seems like that article is/was kind of a sick joke. i feel like reading an article about "how to waste your time/other people's time" is...a waste of time.
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    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    linux has lots of flavors and one can run virtual/emulated OSes on i imagine any of them. Win11 sux big time though, no doubt. I actually had a Geeksquad dude visibly grimace when i told him i accidentally "upgraded" to Win11
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    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    nailed it. sophistry indeed.
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    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/28/bid-to-ban-tikto... https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/1137076864/fbi-says-china-cou... https://www.forbes.com&#x2F
28. 118.▲
    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    this is very disturbing, but definitely not unexpected. surprised it took this long, actually. fortunately i think it will still be a long-ish time before the thought-police can take down all the parts of the internet that clash with the &
29. 119.▲
    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    maybe time for some enterprising/interested individual at https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ to start going through...
30. 120.▲
    by EchoReflection 4y ago

    Or commas (?). "Sometimes writing for money, rather than for art or pleasure, is really quite enjoyable."