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It's the reasonable thing to do when context collapses so easily on tweets.

Otherwise you get species popping up later to find the device one of your people left that kills you in the plane of existence you transcended to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta…

Needs a seizure warning. Other than that, it's a lot of fun.

Probably the same reason people used IE6 after it went stagnant. What was your choice? It's not like most YouTube channels have websites they publish stuff to as an alternative.

This is something that hit me when I found out how to translate between decimal and binary. If an A on a screen can be a grid of numbers, and those numbers can be reduced to a seri…

He lets people run their mouths for hours. That means they run out of talking points, realize they're going in loops, and sometimes say something worthwhile. He has on some people …

Sometimes the detour is the journey.

The 2018 sci-fi/horror movie Tau showed the endgame of in-home security drones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(film)

Things done in the name of religion are a net negative on my life. It's not the fault of all religious people, but the people doing it are hard to avoid if I get involved, even if …

Kids have to worry about money up to a point. I heard "we can't afford it" a lot growing up.

I switched to Joplin. It's completely seamless once I authenticate with the service I sync with and toggle the web clipper support in the desktop app. You can even clip those pages…

I'm coming around to management being a key part of Mozilla's problem. Firefox did legitimately find itself in a situation even the best turnaround artist would struggle with, but …

I wish epub would catch on for more than books. An epub is just HTML and CSS in a zip file, and a large part of the world population has a device than can load it and present it cl…

This looks promising! I'll try it in five years, or when Google commits to keeping it alive long enough for it to have a chance.

While PDF is an open format on paper, in practice it's as proprietary as any ancient format. Supporting it in full is not trivial.