A long time ago.

These days, I keep both audio and vibration turned off. If somebody needs to reach me they will want to message and then wait until I check.

Immich user. I do miss the memories thing from Google photos but I expect it’s coming eventually. All the data is there at the foundational level.

My only real immich complaints are

A. The android app gets chonky slow when you have a huge library.

B. S3-like storage isn’t a supported config, meaning you have to manage your storage size somehow. I want to point immich at a Hetzner object storage bucket, arrange mirroring that to another s3 like cloud service, and then forgetting about storage forever.

Of course you are right. I was thinking about how it’s become less socially acceptable to remain disconnected as the “grid” has encroached on spaces that used to be free of it.

Off globe? That does sound like an attractive option sometimes hahaha

No place you can ever be off-grid.

Seems a little ironic this article is on a website with no mobile responsive mode

UBI is probably a good idea but it’s coming too slowly for anyone to rely on. Even if UBI is fully implemented, I suspect it will be life sustaining but not a life fulfilling. So humanity still needs to find purpose.

It’s hard to imagine a scenario where someone cannot be trained to do something new. Isn’t that a core feature of humans?

Next, how shall we define value? I argue that humans can always create some kind of value that machines cannot, even if only because a human is involved.

We still value actual art over AI generated art. We value uniqueness and rarity. We value the faults that are inherent from things that are natural and organic.

Tons of the jobs people did a hundred years ago in developed countries are now gone or have been streamlined down to require fewer people. Yet there are more people on earth now than there ever have been before and arguably worldwide hunger is at its lowest point. So somehow we have figured out how to survive despite vast amounts of automation already. It seems unlikely that our new “AI” tools are going to somehow dramatically disrupt this balance.

Echo chambers and all, yeah it’s likely TikTok has this issue too. TikTok gives you content you want to see, because you’ll stay around and watch more ads. No surprise here.

conservative TikTok users tend to stick together. They rarely follow accounts with opposing views or mainstream media accounts. Liberal users, on the other hand, are more likely to follow a mix of accounts, including those they might disagree with.

That’s weird and somewhat descriptive of my anecdotal experience with many people I know. I wonder why this is.

Websockets are often used for quality of life features like notifications and websites that are dynamic without needing to be refreshed. Almost went website with any kind of chat will use WS for example. Turning it off will make web browsing a little more annoying.

However websockets are also sometimes used for anti-fraud related software that can also leak information you may deem private. Disabling websockets might prevent that data from getting out but of course all this depends on your threat model.

So it’s a plug-in for WordPress that rips wordpress.org links out?

That’s hardcore lol. The world really is pissed at Matt Mullenweg.

Well. That’s strange.

It always involves

sudo rm -rf *

Here in Thailand a lot of people have this cert and use it to teach. These jobs are competitive so don’t pay super well. I’d suggest you start on job boards in various places you might want to live to see what they will require.

Dammit noooo there can only be one

My dad was all about this for a while, including convincing my siblings and a few of his siblings to get the report.

I guess that means I’m somehow linked in to this if I ever happen to leave my DNA laying around in the wrong place.

He’s awfully quiet about it now though.

This gives me an idea for a browser plug in that would show you the sellers direct store as you shop Amazon. Maybe something like that exists already.

Just about every serious seller on Amazon has a website or another direct sales channel. The bigger ones will even ship with a professional warehouse in about the same time. Some even give discounts or return incentives if you shop them regularly and can almost surely handle customer service or tech issues faster and more directly without going through Amazon. If they are honest in their dealings their return and exchange policies may even be better too.

Amazon really understands the lifetime value of a customer and benefits tremendously by having the biggest catalog in existence. They do a lot of stuff to keep buyers satisfied and sellers on edge. It’s a race to the bottom there and nobody wins except Amazon, while customers get cheaper and cheaper shit and sellers can have their livelihood and the funds to pay the salaries of their staff by a Monday morning email which could come after the slightest infraction.

Is it possible to use a voip based SMS for registration?

Those are a little easier to get anonymously then physical sim cards.

I think Google can never really hope to disrupt itself. The entire company is oriented towards selling those ads. So any other internal division that tries to eliminate the ads division is going to have a very uphill battle.

IMO the industry is ripening for disruption and someone will come along with a new idea for how to incentivize content generation and it will very likely continue to involve some heavy commercial marketing.

So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.

You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.