“As harmless as a kitten”

Pretty much 50% of the reason I started selfhosting

Probably blacked out for privacy.

Yep. It is a time-suck to see an interesting new project only to check it out and find out it’s AI slop. For some apps, it doesn’t bother me… They may not require the access or stability of critical apps. Other times, I just can’t trust a slop app, and it would be very helpful to know which it is in advance.

A centaur is a human that can do more than an ordinary person… A person plus a horse is able to do more. Making our tools work for us allows us to do more.

A reverse centaur is when our tools are using us instead. Rather than a driver using a computer to navigate more efficiently, Amazon drivers are more like computers that use humans as a component to drive more efficiently than the computer itself could. Not great for the human.

Yes, by “most any” of course I mean that you can find a device with almost any spec or form factor you choose. If you like pixel, you can choose lineage or graphene. If you have an old phone lying around - with hundreds supported by lineage - there’s a good chance it works.

This can easily be achieved with most any Android phone.

• Switch to a degoogled OS like GrapheneOS or LineageOS
• Install a minimalist launcher (there are dozens)
• install CoMaps for private gps and navigation
• use whatever chromium browser comes on the phone or install a privacy browser like Firefox (again, there are dozens)
• add a notes app (there are dozens)

There is a conflict between confidentiality and mandatory reporting. The ideal of confidentiality is that anything you say in private that you don’t want recorded or repeated should be kept private. The ideal of mandatory reporting is that if anyone finds out about a crime a person has committed, it should be reported for the sake of justice.

The solution is that we limit both of them in different situations. Confidentiality is generally limited to those who have a crucial and necessary role in keeping information confidential. In other words, those positions or professions that are deemed essential by society and which require confidentiality to function properly. That’s lawyers, medical professionals, and in some cases, religious professionals.

Mandatory reporting is generally limited to those who are in a position that allows access to vulnerable individuals. That’s teachers, social workers, police officers, and sometimes also medical professionals or religious professionals.

Because those include some of the same categories, the law gets very specific and sometimes even contradictory in different jurisdictions.

An addage I live by: An expert is someone who has already made every mistake in an area.

Trick question. Time dilation means nothing ever actually enters a black hole. It just keeps getting infinitesimally close.

Same in Korea, but it’s actually effective:

Several commentators said this was the plan all along. Before the IPO, many people speculated that the outrageously high valuation was designed so that current shareholders could sell of stock and make up for their losses in Twitter, etc. They predicted an early spike and a quick sell-off accompanied by a massive drop.

Where did that money come from? A lot of it came from public pensions (specifically index funds), which are required to hold a certain amount of all listed public stocks.

Part of what caught my attention is a feature that the current version removed with a note that it was being re-worked for the next release. It has been reliable for me, but there is also regular activity in the bug reports.

Tempus is phenomenal. I switched to navidrome on my server to use it. Chora is also good, and I use it on my TV (works well on any screen). If you don’t mind closed-source, Symphonum is excellent.

If you are using Jellyfin, it works well on PC, with Fintunes on mobile.

You can find a number of good apps for navidrome here. I quite like Strawberry, which is cross-platform. I use it locally for library management.

I connect everything with Tailscale, which may or may not work on your work network, depending on how locked down the network is. I never had an issue.

Like I said, it’s rational, but people are not rational. Not sure why people are downvoting it if they all agree.

Lots of NYC mayors have tried to pivot directly to national politics without success. The rest of the country will just see “mayor” and think about their little town without understanding how massively different it is.

Every president since Kennedy has served as a senator or governor.

Edit: thanks

New York mayors always think that the size of their constituency and budget puts them on the same stage as governors and senators. It’s a rational thought, but people are not rational.

Who says pi has to be a constant at all?

The proper way to eat salad is with chopsticks. Ever tried to pick up a flat piece of lettuce with a fork? A chopped carrot? A crispy crouton??

Me, an old man: “There’s too many dang Shreks!”