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I run Firefox Nightly on Android, haven't seen anything like this. Besides the usual adblockers I run noscript, maybe that's the fix?

This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.

As long as I can avoid or disable "AI", I'll continue to ignore it. Consistent, reliable, predictable, that's what I want from my computers. Boring is good.

In case anyone else didn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28text_editor%29#History... I found the zed website unhelpful, but if wikipedia is to be believed, it's a successor to the Atom text editor

I'd never heard of her, so I checked wikipedia. Try that.

One domain that a little OO seems to map to without too much pain is GUI libraries. The first OO-flavoured API I ever used was Sunview, the early GUI I used on Sun-3 workstations w…

djbdns is simple, easy to understand, easy to configure; it embodies a clear understanding of how DNS works. Unlike BIND and dig, it was designed after DNS had been in use for a wh…

OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautif…

Thank you!

I find it tempting to try and shove this story into an origin tale for W.E.I.R.D. --- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. But I guess the timing is off; this is wi…

I'd heard of it from Heinlein, but never thought it might be real.

I think of audiobooks as a very different form from books; I read lots of books, but listen to almost no audiobooks, though I've bought a few, and have listened to my favourite, Sp…

I hadn't heard of this gizmo, seems to be a small e-ink display on an rpi: https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...

Can you buy a new car without a data plan anymore?

Footnote 7's "crypto pushers rebranding as AI influencers" is something I've noticed, not as much in specific names, as the overall tone of the sales pitch.

I think you're responding to your interpretation of the title, rather than the article. They aren't proposing increasing asymptomatic disease, they're discussing trying to reduce d…

I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network…

Are there any open source passkey implementations? My password manager of choice is open source, and cross-platform, and can export and later (or elsewhere) import an encrypted bac…

I'd forgotten all about that gizmo. Under the heading Steve Jobs in my memory, it got completely replaced by "the computer for the rest of them", with a GUI tuned to hide the compu…

weirdly broken

My favourite exploration of the potential novel applications of room temperature superconductors is Larry Niven's Ringworld.

Indeed, when I saw the headline, I thought this was going to be commenting on the various supply chain crashes triggered by the pandemic's sudden changes, after decades of cleverly…

I need to read more new books; I've not been seeing the benefits of this.

Seems like this might be worth bookmarking in case I ever want to learn Javascript; reading implementations of algorithms I've written before in other languages seems like it might…