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multjoy··on The AirPods Effect
The ambulance with the bright flashing lights? ANC doesn't dim your eyes. This is absolute nonsense.
multjoy··on The AirPods Effect
You should be wearing ear protection in any case. The fact that the AirPods have a published SNL is a bonus.
multjoy··on The AirPods Effect
No it isn't. Presumably you're trying to ban radios in cars as well?
multjoy··on The room the economy can't see
Why do you think these are board games? The article is describing a youth club, for which there is no market as there is no profit to be made from it.
multjoy··on The room the economy can't see
What people generally want is time, and then if you have time you obviously need to spend it somewhere. If not work or home, then literally a third space.

>t’s hard to answer and I think partially for better or worse why markets are often a useful tool to o help figure it out

The point of the article is that the markets are blind to this sort of social good.

multjoy··on Midjourney Medical
anecdotes aren't citations.
multjoy··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
I have found that the fog generating alarm systems are the ones that will stop burglars in their tracks.

If they can't see, they're not going to hang about and if they've tooled up with NV then that's a whole different threat model.

multjoy··on Midjourney Medical
Yes, because it's nonsense and those 250m humans need to get off Twitter.
multjoy··on Midjourney Medical
Citation very much needed.
multjoy··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
“Its riff”
multjoy··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
I migrated from gmail to Migadu. They have a webmail client, but they make a point that they Do Standards.

They also let you host as many domains as you like and the servers are all EU based.

multjoy··on macOS needs its grid back
No. Mac window management is inexplicably awful.
multjoy··on Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler
That’s because they cannot invent anything. They’re reductive, not creative.
multjoy··on AI and the Courts – A Cautionary Tale
A judge hearing a routine administrative order in the English insolvency courts spied something amiss in the drafting and the judgement takes us through the perils of a) poor chatbot use and b) the reputational risk of said use.
multjoy··on The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble
1) there is more to the world than software development

2) there is no profit. There is barely any revenue, the only money is continuous injections of VC cash and some frankly Enron-like book keeping.

multjoy··on Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages
Those offences also include, as well as ‘hurty words’, threats to kill, bomb hoaxes and harassment matters.

The legislation covers all types of communications including phone calls and letters, and because the authors haven’t bothered to drill down into the stats it is impossible to pick out the ‘hurty word’ offences from (for example) someone threatening to rape and murder an MP on X, or engaging in a campaign of harassment against their ex-partner.

multjoy··on AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
I think it’s safe to assume that they are bleeding cash.
multjoy··on Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
The only time I go into a bank is to deposit cash, and that is very rare.

I have no idea why people think in-person banking is superior, it is a pain in the arse.

That said, my bank predates all the fintechs by decades and was phone-first before smartphones.

multjoy··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
It has no judgement at all.
multjoy··on Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
There are plenty fleeing Substack, and at considerable cost when a Substack subscriber decides to chargeback because they're no longer writing on Substack.

I am regretting letting my schlubstack.com domain expire now.

multjoy··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
Oops, someone forgot to not be a bellend in public.
multjoy··on Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
Perhaps you can show the statistics for harm and death caused by the shots?

>The reality you want is government overreach and a removal of individual choice.

Have you not met the general public? The infants are incapable of advocating for themselves and they risk death all because an incredulous new mother has been influenced by some lunatic on TikTok (or, indeed, in Government).

multjoy··on UK Fuel Price Intelligence
Good work, that. The area data is very interesting as well, but what surprises me is the relatively low spread excluding motorways.

I would rather push the car then pay motorway prices.

multjoy··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
"Am I the problem? No, it must be the employees"
multjoy··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
They were hunting elephants. It's quite clear that they weren't being forced to subsist on small herbivores.
multjoy··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
>But we want engineers who will respond to a slack message after 5pm during a P1 escalation.

Then you're going to have to pay, aren't you.

multjoy··on Dav2d
The commons were never unregulated. This is a tragedy of enclosure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

multjoy··on Codex for almost everything
Yes, mainly because I will continue to know the difference between a truth and a lie.
multjoy··on Codex for almost everything
>Anyone trying to stay safe will be on the gradient to a Stallmanesque monastic computing existence.

As a proud neo-luddite, I'm watching the AI hype with grim amusement and I'll tell you hwhat, it doesn't look like a good time. Even putting to one side the planetary scale economic crash that is incoming, all the hypers seem to be on some sort of treadmill that is out of their control and it simply doesn't look like fun.

multjoy··on The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
The author is blocking UK ip addresses, presumably out of principle rather than because they’d fall foul of it.
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