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jmm5··on The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page
The issue is that all of those articles have to be maintained. Every so often some insignificant professor has their article edited by a student to say that they were sanctioned by the university for sexual misconduct when they were not. That's just one example, as it's easy to meet notability guidelines as an academic. It's a problematic to have tons of biographies for living people with marginal notability. On the other hand, any random hurricane or rural highway merrits an article because these pages don't lead to the same problems.
jmm5··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Any self-respecting Apple user has at least three iPads.
jmm5··on ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains
...or that's just what they want you to think.
jmm5··on You Know Who Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters
Yes, but that's still like 20 states that don't have strict CPOM laws.
jmm5··on GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Google makes money, I'm not sure Pixel does.
jmm5··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
It's nice to be the customer, instead of the product.
jmm5··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
They heavily limit the number of lifetime subscriptions they sell to avoid it becoming a sustainability issue. That product isn't available right now, for example.
jmm5··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
By the time Apple drops support for the M1 I imagine that Asahi will be fairly mature.
jmm5··on The Joy of Folding Bikes
Pretty much any decent mass transit system in the world is packed at rush hour. The whole advantage over private vehicles comes from the fact that people take up less space.
jmm5··on To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
Courts have held that people have less rights while driving then they do in other settings (such as walking down the street or as a passenger in a vehicle). For example, the doctrine of implied consent allows the government to compel you to submit to a blood alcohol test without a warrant. I wonder if something similar could be applied here.

I certainly support civil liberties, but they need to be balanced against the government's strong interest in preventing the bloodshed that comes from the reckless operation of vehicles.

jmm5··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
In a scenario where you are losing a significant part of the population to war, it's better that it be men.
jmm5··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
I am a social worker and SharePoint is unfortunately widely used by nonprofit agencies for storing client records. It's a real shame, but they can't afford anything better.
jmm5··on Helium Browser
Most of these chromium-based browsers are intended to address privacy concerns. Firefox (mostly) respects your privacy.

There are also sometimes compatibility issues with Firefox because web developers only test on chromium and webkit. Anyone opinionated enough to put up with that is just going to use Firefox.

jmm5··on Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
That and satellite communication.
jmm5··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Even Google Search relentlessly nags you to download the Google Search app.
jmm5··on LLMs should not replace therapists
As a therapist, I very much agree with the last sentence.
jmm5··on Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android
The Pixel "Private Space" feature should prevent Meta apps from running in the background. It also prevents you from getting notifications.
jmm5··on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
Large companies with fleets of vehicles often self-insure.
jmm5··on Photographers Are on Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits
Yes, and they even let you email them in to make it easier.
jmm5··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
Qualcomm still owns the patents.
jmm5··on Shared iPad Overview
They want you to buy a separate device for each family member.
jmm5··on The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)
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jmm5··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox
MS Office webmail works well for me in Firefox under Ubuntu.
jmm5··on The Timer in WatchOS 10
No no more turn-by-turn directions when navigating, instead it just shows you a map. Dangerous when on a bike.
jmm5··on A WiFi color eInk picture frame
Looks like it's black and white?
jmm5··on BugMeNot Is Gone?
They used to be hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.Net
jmm5··on ‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania
In addition, gyms in particular often make you give them your bank account instead of a credit card.
jmm5··on A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
Obviously you can't have a competition with a monopoly in place. Regulation could help to keep prices down and to expand access in areas covered by only a single broadband provider.
jmm5··on Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests
Same reason you can’t just set up a salt lick in your back yard and camp out.
jmm5··on Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages
A fax confirmation sheet can be shown in court as proof that the other party received the document in some cases. Email is a lot trickier.
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