jkestner

My battery’s at 70%, I could replace it for $50, but I consider it a feature to get me off my goddamn phone more.

I do the same, to the point that I avoid updating the OS so Apple can’t break my flow/heart.

And the cameras can provide them with solar panels.

I’m lucky to live in a walker-friendly neighborhood where most homes aren’t walled off by privacy fences. I’ve found our communal strength in talking to neighbors about the cameras that feed and feed off our fear in isolation. It’s a choice.

Agreed! It's a small but satisfying interaction to have that coordination and unspoken communication with other drivers at a 4-way stop.

I've taught my kids when crossing the street to make eye contact with drivers to make sure they see you. Drivers with smartphones unfortunately add to the challenge.

Reminds me of a mini-course I took on sound design. Lots of exercises in trying to squeeze expression out of a limited palette. Not too different from LEDs, but of course we have different cultural references for audio. Neat subject.

I have a new idea for a bike horn.

In talking with many of the older people in my community about Flock, they initially defer to what our police department says it needs. A few things made them reconsider: - This is not about our police. This is about all the outside organizations that can watch us. - Focusing on Flock specifically. Once the cameras are given a name, people can start to form a better opinion fueled by the readily available bad press Flock is producing. - With the focus on Flock, the YouTube videos elsewhere in this topic do a great job of explaining how crappy their security is and how they're lying to their customers about it. Which brings it back to, this isn't about our local police — it's about the company that's an unworthy partner.

Good job talking to your community. The first step is that people are aware of the cameras - for my neighbors, most did not know about them, and immediately found it creepy.

Benn's videos along with this one from a very chill middle-aged engineer/state rep made the difference in swaying our town to discontinue its Flock contract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwbE5ks7dFg

I bought some actual Brawndo back in the day. An energy drink company had licensed the brand. Did not share with my plants, having learned better from the movie.

Texas Monthly (“The National Magazine of Texas”) covers local news with a straight face, letting the absurdity speak for itself. Read the recent article about ranchers and rabbis searching for the perfect heifer to bring about the end of the world - you can see the movie coming (Coen Brothers or The Daniels?) https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/red-heifer-prophe...

Let's start naming things after Iain Banks ships.

That immediately made me think of the Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer got stuck in the third dimension.

Of course they do. But this is HN - not as neat as using the 15-year-old phone I have.

My kid uses a shared Google doc to chat with friends on their school-issued Chromebooks. (But still has the problem of unsupervised screen time.)

I dug out an old Motofone (the $40 eink candybar) for this reason, only to discover that it’s 2G, which has been decommissioned. Too bad, would’ve been fun to watch the kid learn T9.

I read the readme. :) Very nice. Thoughtful features. Get this on Homebrew!

I guess they assumed that a musician whose whole persona is built around weed would supply the evidence.

Maybe he’s justifiably paranoid?

He got burglarized before, and got threatened with arrest after demanding police investigate. https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/22/afroman-home-raided-police-oh...

The term I learned for this yesterday is “crybully”.

I don't feel like that's working out so great in Iran.

But they’re a subset. It can happen.

The more critical, and yet smaller, subset is the people making bank from the current system. Get their money out of politics and watch resistance crumble.

> They also know that web surfers like you would never actually buy a subscription

I subscribe, and yet they still bombard me with ads. Fuck that. One reason I don’t use apps is that I can’t block ads.

Maybe everyone’s got a different situation, but when a different department tried to put ActiveX avatars all over their site, though it offended me from a UX perspective, I was able to get higher ups to reject it by pointing out that it would shut out 20% of their customers.

We always have discussions here about how you have to learn to talk to communicate your value to clients in a language they understand. Same goes for internal communications.

Your sister has 11 kids? Smart of your parents, then. That’s a good pool of caretakers for them to live around. But I’m surprised they didn’t move sooner to help raising that many kids.

I live in Texas now, and think I’d ultimately prefer Chicago too. Don’t have to drive as much to find stimulation, and the cold preserves.

Yeah, if people were still doing LAN parties, I’d want to bring the equivalent of a sleeper car. Maybe empty out that beige AT case with the turbo button on it.

> the death of their brain before reproducing

La not-so-petite mort.

Sneaky use of an almost Garamond, but the copy ain't Chiat\Day.

> A lot of that is just that English along with much of western vernacular wasn't given standardized spelling until fairly recently

As many of us learned recently from this great article: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-u...

Hey, Chiquita needs to start paying for its own wars now.

Hmm now I want to see this done in a PowerBook 100 chassis with a Sharp Memory LCD screen.