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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, a family member and I had to basically throw studies at a doctor to get him to agree to prescribe a medicine he insisted "doesn't work" (even despite studies clearly showing it does, like indisputably). Even after that
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by amatecha 1y ago
Dunno, anecdotally, I've heard repeatedly in the recent months "I won't travel to the US until he's gone", etc. .. partly the tariffs and hostile economic behaviour, partly the whole "sending innocent people t
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by amatecha 1y ago
... justice.gov is an unreliable narrator? There's also https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas...
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, back in the day we used to just put a 160x120 or 320x240 .mov or .avi or whatever and link to it with a thumbnail .jpg. Ah, now I'm remembering how sometimes there would be low/med/high quality with a resolution/f
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by amatecha 1y ago
For real - computers come with a shitton of nice fonts these days. Plus like, font styling allows fallbacks -- choose a nice font stack where all the fallbacks look nice, and you're good to go.
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by amatecha 1y ago
"Old web" still alive on my humble (and sparse) personal site, https://matecha.net/ ... I had WordPress for a while but I have gone back to plain HTML and use a static site generator (Hugo).
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yes, true, that describes it even better than "people weren't trying to make a profit". Luckily there are lots of people who still just make and post cool stuff, for the purpose of creating and sharing.
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by amatecha 1y ago
Same yo, matecha.net live and ad-free since 2004. Not that I have ever had a ton of content, but I have my little slice of the old-school web and always will as long as I'm alive (and as long as the web is around, I guess!)
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by amatecha 1y ago
I remember when I saw less bullshit ads because I used a Mac and my browser literally didn't support the JavaScript features used to display pop-under ads. All my friends on Windows were plagued by this crap and the only effect I had
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by amatecha 1y ago
That's exactly right. They were REALLY chill in the early days: "The only code that we require to be on all of your html pages is a reference back to GeoCities. This can be a reference to the main Neighborhood page that you resi
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by amatecha 1y ago
Ads back then were pretty unobjectionable because they were like, a GIF or JPG on a page. It wasn't even until like 1998-1999 or something where they really started being JavaScript-driven from ad delivery shit like DoubleClick and so
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, I remember when searching and browsing the web meant finding tons of legit, information-dense content that had absolutely zero monetary interest behind it. Sites of university professors and students, random personal websites (countl
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah I was thinking, for the price of this Pi 500+ I can get a pretty badass secondhand ThinkPad and it will probably be more powerful, too. /shrug
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by amatecha 1y ago
damn, for real? I still haven't played it -- I didn't have a Windows machine when it came out, and by the time I did have one, it slipped through the cracks.. it's really that good? That reminds me I do have one friend who
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah because everyone who has a user experience feedback about a piece of software is magically a skilled programmer? The smug "PRs accepted" doesn't help anyone. Expressing hope for a feature at least shows potential imple
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by amatecha 1y ago
Had to dig up this link, 1999 review[0]: "Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them
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by amatecha 1y ago
It feels reassuring that none of these surprised me, and I strive towards a lot of these views/learnings already. Hopefully a good sign! Packard's writings help give me a little more clarity too, especially when written in such
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah plus you can take out the physical SIM to (mostly?) guarantee your cellular service won't be utilized by the phone. I mean, barring some hidden back-door eSIM, I guess.
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by amatecha 1y ago
That sounds terrible. I want less computers in my car, not more!
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah it kinda puts it all into perspective when you think of how every home used to use 60-watt light bulbs all throughout. Most people just leave lights on all over their home all day, probably using hundreds of watts of electricity. Mak
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by amatecha 1y ago
Right? It's blatantly obvious, but apparently a 3.5 trillion-dollar-market-cap corporation has apparently forgotten this simple concept. It's so disappointing how far Apple has fallen, in terms of usability of their software.
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah, I started somewhere around 6-7 Slack communities. I use exactly zero of them anymore. I still feel guilty for roping multiple communities into the service and helping multiple group of people have somewhere to hang out, only for the
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by amatecha 1y ago
Oh, it already has taken off sufficiently. There are some 10-20 million users[0]. Like I just said in an adjacent comment I've been using it nearly-exclusively for almost 10 years now, myself. It's not built for "growth&qu
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by amatecha 1y ago
I used the correct dates, at least the text is copied/pasted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Go At least they released an update in 2021 that allows people to "root" the device so it won't
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by amatecha 1y ago
I know they aren't? The person hinted at something but didn't say anything concrete, so I don't actually know what they're saying, which is why I asked them to clarify. I've been using mastodon for nearly 10 years.
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by amatecha 1y ago
Word. Leaving the made-to-be-accessible/engaging hyper-capitalistic walled gardens requires some initiative and/or agency, which unfortunately only the minority of people are willing to bother with. Either way, I like to make it
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by amatecha 1y ago
What are you saying? Fediverse is bad because scary transgenders?
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by amatecha 1y ago
cries in Oculus Go :( > released on May 1, 2018 to generally positive reviews. By July 2019, the Go was estimated to have sold over two million units. On June 23, 2020, Facebook Technologies announced it would be ending the sales of t
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by amatecha 1y ago
Ah totally, I exclaim frequently that there should be government-backed open source and decentralized software[0], putting power of technology into the hands of everyone (rather than letting this power get consolidated into monopolistic cor
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by amatecha 1y ago
Yeah no I get what you mean, but my argument is like, you should try to be resilient against the arbitrary whims of the powers that be regardless of what their flavour of the week is. Asymmetric power/influence is a dynamic that will

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