JohnFen

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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I use a wiki for all of this. > search is keyword-based and only works if you remember exactly what you wrote. For whatever reason, this has never actually been an impediment to finding what I'm looking for. I almost always remembe
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I wasn't commenting on whether or not the tech is useful. I was commenting on how such a rhetorical approach is counterproductive and doesn't offer any sort on insight.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
That is an interesting question. My read of the published policy is that it does. If this is actually coming from a security concern, I'd think enterprise equipment would be even more important than consumer.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Sometimes I do, but I have a long list of projects and don't have time to implement everything I need myself.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
It's not rare that I wish there were software that would do something, but it doesn't exist or what does exist is terrible. So yes, there is at least some need and demand for more software.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> If you're reading this and your life hasn't been thrown into disarray you're likely just behind the times. I'd love for discussions of the tech to stop with the genAI version of the cryptobro cry "have fun bein
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
No. That's not how it works. If you're the one making the positive claim, you're the one who has the burden of proof.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
The reporting on this keeps saying "WiFi routers", but I don't see anything in the announced policy that limits it to just those (I could have missed something). It appears to apply to all routers, whether they include WiFi o
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I think I may have found the reason in the Maxwell's Spot PDF the article links to. It says: "The reason why this illusion [Maxwell's Spot] does not tend to be clearly visible with LCDs may be because the peak wavelength of b
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I can't remember a time before when an optical illusion didn't work for me, but this 100% doesn't work for me.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
If this is how it all shakes out, then I guess that's the end of mass-market music for me. GenAI has already made me extremely hesitant to pay any attention to new music that isn't from artists I already know and trust or from sma
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Recommendations from other developers.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Those keystrokes have never had a standard behavior that you can rely on. As a result, since I use a wide variety of applications on a wide variety of operating systems, I've never incorporated them into my workflow. I can't remem
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I'm sure it's done something for someone at some point in time, but never for me and I've never heard of it doing anything for anyone else.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
The real sin is combining security updates with feature updates. An argument can be made for enforced security updates(1). There is no good argument for forcing feature updates. Most security-only updates have a low risk of interfering with
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
None of those need to, or should, be done at the OS level.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Windows has been going downhill for too long for me to take them at their word. I'll believe it when I see it. > Windows is as much yours as it is ours. Microsoft has been inflicting unwanted crap on me for years now, and they keep
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> There is no learning curve*, that's the nature of AI. There isn't? Then why is it that whenever devs have tried it and not achieved useful results, they're told that they just haven't learned how to use it right?
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
> For all of you repeating "learn to sharpen" - that's nice, but if you deal with people in the real world, you know that they don't want to be bothered with sharpening their knives. It is better for them to get new k
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
The part of my firewall setup I most wanted to extend to my smartphone was my policy of whitelisting outgoing communications. I don't want applications to be able to talk to the outside world without me explicitly allowing it, so I blo
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I've been doing this for many years, and I don't know why it's not more common. The most common thing I hear when I explain to people, though, is they don't see the point if the VPN isn't shielding your traffic from
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
Subliminal messages don't actually work, so it doesn't matter.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
That's a really vague question. What do you mean by "managing relationships"?
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> How about Holmes comes back and works at Starbucks? I wouldn't trust her to make my coffee.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Nope. There is nothing online that I need so badly that I'm willing to subject myself to that kind of thing. Perhaps that means I'll be excluded from the internet entirely. So be it.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
> when it's done well, it's a subtle and pleasant effect I've seen it quite a lot, but apparently I've never seen it done well. It's a very annoying effect that chases me away from the site using it.
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
I see your point, but I can't resist a bit of pedantry here. Since the phrase "the wild west" originally referred to the level of development rather than lawlessness (the modern idea of "the wild west" never actuall
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Downvote and move on
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
Indeed. His lack of care came before the actual hike, though. I regularly go hiking in mountains in the winter, and occasionally I'll take someone along with me. Because this is an activity that can easily lead to disaster for the unpr
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by JohnFen 8mo ago
That sounds a lot more like premeditated murder than manslaughter.

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