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No, just a retired programmer, and sick and tired of all the spam I keep receiving. Don't have "fantastic opportunities" and am not looking for any.

Send me a "cold email" or any other sort of spam, and I will never see anything more from you, as your address will be blocked. Spamming is against the law here in EU, and for a go…

I don't like the idea of a persistent id for my machine. Would there be any harm in rewriting the machine-id at every boot? Or just deleting it as part of the shutdown sequence?

And you need to stop telling everyone what we need! "You might be interested in this if you have this and that" sounds so much more reasonable.

... And watch stupid people do stupid things even faster

I am sure there are reasons why this won't work, but could it really be so hard to show both the faked number, and where the call actually comes from, so I could choose which one t…

Interesting idea. But why audio? I can't be the only one who prefers to read text.

> Oh no I got 5 emails I better write a post complaining about this massive inconvenience hmph ONE unsolicited unlawful (EU) spam mail is quite enough reason to get angry, block ma…

> Every interaction I have with a store or site signs me up for some promotional thing, which I unsubscribe from immediately, only to find it's one of 4 different lists I was added…

Sounds interesting. But I suspect my astigmatism would kind of exclude just turning the lenses around

I am not so sure about the eye tracking and autofocus stuff, but would love a simple focus knob on the frames to adjust instead of changing to a different pair of glasses. I suspec…

The comments here say that all Android phone manufacturers do stuff like this. I have never noticed that kind of things on my Fairphone. But then again, I don't have many apps and …

I don't buy "Anywhere, anytime, by anyone" - no language can be that. Different people and different projects have wildly different needs. It looks like it tries to provide a singl…

Oh yes, I cut my teeth on a Finnish 1802 based TELMAC in the 1970s. It all of 2 kb of RAM (in 16 chips manually soldered on the board), and room for another 2kb if anyone would nee…

> It's patently insane to demand that humans alter their behavior to accommodate the foibles of mere machines You mean like stopping at a red light?

> Of course all governments want to control every move and thought of their citizens. It makes governing easier. We expect that in autocracies. Are you implying that all government…

Ownership is one question. IMO, a more interesting question is who is responsible when the code does some real-life damage.

I started to use github copilot with vscode, but have never been too happy about the system. Over the months I gravitated to much more agentic workstyle, hardly ever editing much c…

Why would FBI ever announce that they are investigating something? Is it that time of the year where they have to convince budget makers about their importance? Or are they trying …

Yes, that is the law here in the EU. You are not allowed to send me emails unless I took some positive action to subscribe. Rightly so.

I use SqLite for a small hobby project, fine for that. Wanted to read the article to see why I should not, but it attacked me with a "subscribe" popup, so I stopped there. The comm…

I guess EU will have to retaliate, and forbid any US based routers, for exactly the same kind of reasons

> Saying you are not your work is wishful thinking. Try giving it up and check in on how much of you is still the same. I retired a few years ago, and I believe and insist that I a…