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Original comment was definitely a Poe's Law contender. Hacker News, despite its "gratify curiosity" motto, has never strayed far from its Silicon Valley VC roots, and so these comment threads are brimming with corporation lovers: tech money, people adjacent to tech money, and people who simp for tech money in the hopes that they might be given a slice someday.

In the American South, you're likely to hear "coke" regardless of whether it's actually Coke, or even cola-flavored. It's "pop" up north, and "soda" in the northeast and southwest (plus a couple of pockets near Milwaukee and St. Louis, which would otherwise be "pop" territory - fascinating stuff).

To fix the broken timestamp in the upper right, open your JS console and set timeZone.diff equal to your negative UTC offset.

I'm in US Pacific Time, so I ran

  timeZone.diff = 8

Right - there's no good way for a non-technical user to avoid being exploited like this.

I personally think hackers have a moral responsibility to make fixes like this more accessible to the average person. Tech corporations have made it clear they have no qualms about attacking their users in increasingly creative ways, and it's up to us to reclaim control over the devices which, in an ethical sense, are rightfully ours.

You can use adb to remove this kind of crap without having to root the device, can't you?

  pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.spam.bloatware

Most of the laissez-faire fundamentalists I'm in contact with have been fairly silent on this issue. I'd honestly be interested to hear someone rationalize how it would be a good thing if everyone had to rent everything from BlackRock for the rest of their lives.

Maybe this works, maybe it doesn't, but I'd think the contingent of unvaccinated people who are intentionally avoiding vaccination are going to see this story and think, "Why would they be spending so much time and money trying to convince us to get the vaccine? Now I really think the vaccine has mercury/5G/mind control, etc."

Right? It hit 116°F in Portland, Oregon last month, hotter than the record highs in such places as Dallas, Miami, New Orleans, and downtown LA.

The notion that there's a climate change safe zone is an optimistic one, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of supporting evidence.

Humans have more than just stereo vision sensors. Like GP said, we also have robust schemata, seeded by biology and improved over our entire lives, that allow us to make sense of the things we see. These heuristics are trivial for us to access, but relatively difficult to describe and implement in a software system. That's what "common sense" means in this context.

In broad strokes, Zuckerberg says some things I agree with here re: interoperability, but I just can't look past the fact that it's Zuckerberg... I'm not sure there's any single entity I trust less than Facebook to make this vision happen in a way that isn't completely user-hostile.

Yeah, I've used both. I think the main things that Obsidian does better are its UI (which is pretty good, some annoyances around creating new notes and managing folder structure), and the fact that its notes are one-to-one with actual .md files on disk.

In comparison, Joplin keeps its notes in a more opaque format, where the notes database is a bunch of files with garbage filenames and so on... and the UI is, er... functional.

I've been trying to switch away from Obsidian to Joplin though, because Obsidian is payware (with add-on subscription services available too!) and Joplin is simply open source.

Yeah, that's fair. I can't imagine being that person, but perhaps I'm uncommonly neurotic about making sure I'm muted.

Yeah, every so often I'll encounter someone who somehow still hasn't figured out basic conference call courtesy, and it boggles my mind especially given how we've all been remote for over a year. That should have been plenty of time to smooth over any rough habits...

But still there's the odd meeting where, with 30 people attending, one person shows up and blasts everyone with heavy breathing, dog barks, screaming kids and forces the presenter to say "hey, we've got some background noise, can everyone make sure they're muted?"

In my mind this kind of thing is akin to failing at basic hygiene, and it probably infuriates me more than it should.

Leaves me feeling a little contemplative... will the stuff I'm logging in my project's issue tracker still exist in 2040? Will my project be relevant, or even remembered? Is the company we're working for even going to be around?

I mean, actually using Goatse here would probably be a bad idea, but what I really meant by my comment is "maybe you ought to treat this like any other hotlinking abuse situation, for which there are many commonly employed mitigations."

Serving shock images or other rude content is just the particular mitigation that makes me giggle.

Have you considered serving Goatse to API hits from their IP ranges?

If you liked this, WIRED has done several videos with Jonna Mendez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUqeBMP8nEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD841NmJbjM

Maybe this is a dumb answer, but batteries?

On one hand, I think the world would be much better off if people generally understood the hidden privacy cost of using "free" platforms like this... but I'm not thrilled at Facebook quietly threatening to start charging money if people don't keep allowing their data to be harvested.

Kinesis Freestyle Edge here. More traditional layout, but is a split keyboard, and each half tents upwards toward the center for a more relaxed wrist angle while typing. Really enjoy it.

Found a link with a meaningful type sample for each of the new possibilities: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-365/249574/microsof...

Found a link with a meaningful type sample for each of the new possibilities: https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-365/249574/microsof...

I didn't realize The Wayback Machine had so much YouTube content from the early days. Really interesting going back and seeing what was on the front page on some random day in 2006.

Looking at what people were uploading and what people were watching leaves me feeling a bit wistful. It seems like it was a more authentic place before the money caught up with it.

I thought I was getting stuck in insert mode, and I got fairly frustrated before realizing my Vim keybindings browser extension was grabbing ESC and keeping it from this weird browser-Vim.

We brought this abomination on ourselves.