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ethagnawl

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About ethagnawl

https://peterdohertys.website

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49210532

    And, as a result, the market is ... up?

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    Comment #49207638

    > I'm amazed that someone was able to do that This is a bit "woo" but I've always thought of this experience/phenomenon as souls touching across time and space. LLMs either don't h…

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    Comment #49196826

    > I use adb to uninstall all of the system apps like facebook I've only ever used Cyanogen/Lineage or Graphene, so I had no idea this was a thing. I'm not surprised but ... WOOF.

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    Comment #49177335

    I've always found YT's comment features to be worst in class. I never see notifications, there's a way to find your own past comments but it seems purposely hidden and the Android …

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    Comment #49165623

    You left out the best part: > The planet is fine, the people are fucked.

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    Comment #49140550

    Well, everybody _did_ use Google+ but nobody _wanted to_. I remember constantly finding myself redirected to it and them doing shady things like automatically connecting you with e…

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    Comment #49140517

    > ... when I first stumbled on to the internet ... StumbleUpon used to be an endlessly entertaining way to find new content on the internet.

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    Old.reddit.com is now requiring users to log in

    This was announced a while ago and covered by Ars Technica but it's finally been put into practice.

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    Comment #49053098

    I've been meaning to write something up about this myself but, suffice it to say, I've been asking myself this question a lot lately.

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    Comment #49037499

    That's pretty much how I feel. I've been extremely lucky in that, for the last ~15 years, work often hasn't felt like work as a result. I also think I was (am?) _average at best_ b…

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    Comment #49036739

    > ... why would we even want to do this manually? All it did was lead to burnout and cynicism. Speak for yourself. If anything is leading _me_ to burnout, it's this bullshit hype c…

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    Comment #49025323

    At the risk of oversimplifying things from a distance, this site -- especially the free, public-facing part of it -- seems like it would be an ideal candidate for a rewrite using s…

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    Comment #49017235

    Thank you. I had to scroll past way too many unqualified references to No Agenda before seeing this. That show is hot garbage and would not be out of place on (the old) InfoWars.co…

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    Comment #49006295

    Right. It's effectively a toll.

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    Comment #48982832

    Oh, come on, don't be a decelerationist. We're supposed to just ignore that aspect of our Brave New World. Don't think too hard about the unparalleled resource consumption, either.…

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    Comment #48952671

    Thank you!

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    Comment #48952458

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48924299

    > Maybe I don't want to move at light speed and would rather stop and smell the roses. This really struck a chord with me. I've spent the last 15+ years building up a craftperson's…

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    Comment #48924152

    There's no shortage of other clocks to cite.

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    Comment #48921960

    With complete sincerity, I wish you the best of luck if you wind up needing to defend your definition of Fair Use.

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    Comment #48921934

    I've worked with Shotdeck. They're a great service and great people to work with, too.

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    Comment #48899317

    I actually don't disagree with that aspect of it. What I was saying is that there are absolutely cops who do _like cracking heads_. I (very personally!) know cops and they're often…