JohnFen

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541.
by JohnFen 5mo ago
Yeah, it's a term I won't use because of how awful and obsequious it is.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I think this varies wildly from person to person. I've also intentionally gone long stretches without working and those are the times when I've had a dramatically increased sense of purpose and fulfillment. Working for others redu
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> Dropping Google Analytics on a page is not an active conspiracy. It absolutely is that website deciding to trade data about their visitors in exchange for getting something for free. That's "active sharing" in my book.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
So that means you have to watch what you say if you call such a line. That seems risky enough to discourage me from calling if I were in such a state.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
This kind of thing is why I wouldn't touch a site like that. Websites, service providers, and internet-connected software that collects data from you can't be trusted even a little, so I avoid them to the greatest degree I can. Th
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
That was the very first thing that genAI was capable of.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Yes! I'm sometimes surprised at how many people don't know that you don't have to have an ice cream maker to make ice cream. Like with a toaster, the specialty machine is purely a convenience item and not actually necessary.
548.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
I dread genAI because the cost/benefit ratio of it is incredibly unfavorable. I see it tangibly making all sorts of things worse, and haven't seen it make much of anything better. It looks to me like that's a trajectory that
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I always prefer that. When I buy something online, it's always because I couldn't find something suitable in a real store.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I use eBay for certain things, although I decided to stop when I heard that GameStop was going to buy them. That would have been a bridge too far for me.
551.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
I follow blogs through RSS feeds. If a blog doesn't have an RSS feed, then I don't routinely check it. I don't sign up for newsletters at all.
552.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
I don't know anything about Walmart customers, but I know what I did in response to the destruction of ice cream. I just started making my own instead of buying it at the store. It's easy, much less expensive, and produces a very
553.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
I recently had to help a friend configure Windows on a new laptop she bought. Both of us found the passkey onboarding to be very confusing and it made us nervous. Admittedly, my exposure to Windows hasn't been very large for years now,
554.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
Absolutely not. The risks are just too high to tolerate.
555.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
I'm confused by this. Bitcoin isn't cryptocurrency?
556.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
You're not kidding. That was a tough read.
557.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
In my experience, only young people think "old" is that young.
558.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
Enjoy it
559.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
Still works for me
560.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
Prediction markets are nothing more than gambling. Most people who gamble end up losing. If it were otherwise, running a gambling operation wouldn't be the enormously profitable endeavor that it is.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
This. I do all of this (except 6) on my own servers and don't rely on service providers for it. > But it is not hands-off and will never really be as hands-off as what google offers True, but it's also not a lot of work. I thin
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Gamestop is one of the companies that I refuse to do business with. eBay is a company that I am reluctant about, but use anyway. If this goes through, that will be the final straw that gets me to stop using eBay entirely. That would probabl
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Acetaminophen is almost worthless to me as a painkiller (the exception is that combining it with aspirin makes a very effective headache remedy). Ibuprofen is a miracle worker for pain that is caused by inflammation, but otherwise has minim
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Are these gift links time-limited or something? I don't think I've ever actually had one that lets me read the article.
565.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
> You're right, a bunch of extensions weren't working initially, large parts of the community were upset about that. Honestly, I'm still sad about that. It caused a hit to the usability and functionality of Firefox. Some o
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> I've never liked habits that must be shared by those who just happen to be nearby That encompasses most things people do, though. Part of living in a society is having to put up with the annoying things others do, and in exchange
567.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
> However, the idea that people have a right to remember and process what they see and hear in full fidelity is pretty basic, in my opinion. If that's what we were talking about, I'd be much less bothered. But it's not. Wh
568.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
> It is not up to you to deprive anyone their right to use them. I don't see anyone saying that people don't have the right to use them. I see people saying that they have the right to avoid being anywhere near the people who
569.
by JohnFen 6mo ago
I don't understand what you're upset about here. Firefox added this feature and, like all features, it gets in the way for some people. This article is explaining how to disable it if you're one of those people. Nobody is say
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Except that none of the genAI companies are an improvement over Oracle. There's no win in Oracle's passing if it's just replaced with a different company that behaves no better, or even worse.

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