Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
Converting the book files is dead easy; Calibre can make pretty much any format you want. I'm visually-impaired so I prefer eBooks, but screw DRM. If I buy a book, it's MY book. Screw Amazon too.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It was talked about, but this was either the first or one of the first academic articles to mention it, if I recall correctly (I may not). Similar to how discussions about how to save things online bubbled up before IA was established or th
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think it's because it's not possible to know if that would have happened without the internet and therefore causality hasn't been established. Like if someone is self-harming, is the problem the tool or the fact that they&#
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by Mezzie 5y ago
This is similar to the problems faced by people recovering from Eating Disorders. You can't just NOT eat; you have to build a healthy relationship with the thing that almost ruined you. I wonder if anything in that field has been succe
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Those are all socially constructed to a degree, though. When I was growing up in the 90s, my strong preference for online communication prevented me from making/doing some connections that were, at the time, considered mandatory: It wa
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> Again, we don't accuse people who spend most of their free time reading sci-fi books as being addicts, even if taking their sci-fi books from them would send them into a state of withdrawal while they found something else to repla
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by Mezzie 5y ago
The claims are missing an important variable when trying to determine if a behavior is harmful: The social context of that behavior. In the context of the 90s (and especially for adults), spending too much time online was, in some ways, an
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think it has to do with the number of people who've adopted the advancement. I've spent hours a day online since before this article came out, and it's much less of a social 'problem' than it used to be because no
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I remember when this article came out. I was 8 and definitely fit the criteria and have ever since, but for some reason it's not a 'problem' anymore since now everybody has internet access to the point where it becomes logist
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's also a nightmare for software preservation. There's going to be a lot from this era that won't be usable 80 years from now because everything is so interdependent and impossible to archive. It's going to be as messy
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> For instance, I got hammered by COVID, and was almost useless for about 4 weeks. My boss was only concerned that I get better, and wasn't concerned that I go on some sort of short-term disability or FLMA. The person who wrote that
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by Mezzie 5y ago
In my experience as somebody who's worked as a freelancer/for myself and also as an employee, I like that I don't have to find my own work. That tends to be its own job on top of the work I actually like to do. I also don&#x2
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Because it requires lawyers to prove that the claims are unenforceable, and most smaller companies aren't going to have the pockets needed to sustain the legal back-and-forth, which forces them to settle even if the big company is in t
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's technologically possible, but the 'user intent guessing' makes this messy. The Venn diagram of people who understand information seeking behavior and science well enough to design this and people who have a deep enough u