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Overall, I prefer my old thinkpad to my old latitude. Typing on it right now. A proper keyboard.

I’ve been having better results with searx than ddg for the past month or two. Especially because ddg seemed to have forgotten what to do with quoted text.

Hurray! My wish for Ocaml is that it could somehow be popular enough to have more… casual users, let’s say. I enjoy playing with it more than any other language I’ve run into, but …

Todd Weaver is such a con artist.

Thank you for this. I’d never looked into this far enough to learn about organizations working to make a difference here.

You guys are probably aware that what you end up with is a safe space for nazis.

I know sometimes on Reddit I would reply to people with something very short when all they’d been getting were lots of downvotes, or even some upvotes, but I felt they needed some …

I’m not any kind of downvoter because it’ll take me a decade to have enough internet points to be permitted to contribute in this way.

I like how they get halfway through the article before deciding it could also be a raven. And talk like it would just not be possible to distinguish one from the other.

When I go to youtube, I'm looking for something. But I will see the front page of crap in my peripheral vision and wonder about the millions of people who click on that garbage. So…

The evil corporation writes the law "requiring" it to behave evilly, and their pet legislature passes it.

It's "drivel". But you're totally right.

What I miss most of all from the Good Old Days was getting as many hits back as I could read. Rather than being told "No, there are only eight pages of results on anything in the g…

What I had read was that Cosmo used Mediatek, who was hostile to openness.

This is so fawning and… something like name-dropping.

I had an upbringing where I was very much judged. And even in adulthood, my experience is that I like myself fairly well, but I am well aware that other people do not normally take…

Yes, a realization I came to awfully belatedly. As a kid, all those speeches and essays where I struggled anxiously with topics I didn’t know much about or care much about, and bul…

It’s so clickbaity I can’t even click on it.

I fully expected there would be a fair amount of discussion of RSI here.

This brought to mind something from Bertrand Russell’s Nobel lecture (all of which is interesting, btw) "I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover twen…

The people who buy something are the ones who pay the taxes on it?? Gosh.

bald-faced

The nature of attention and publicity is sad. Of all the things you could do with very hard wood, we lead with knives because knives can threaten us, and therefore attention.

Yes. As our time and energy is consumed by the corporations, our social needs - maybe "interfaces" - are all replaced with cheap mock-ups. I’d like to think I’d have more commonali…