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I have been successfully using the Consent-O-Matic extension [1] to auto-decline all cookie and GDPR banners. As much as I'm not comfortable giving potential access to every websit…

Lumon is currently hiring new candidates willing to undergo severance :-)

I wouldn't be surprised if the EU and ISPs are funding fibre to remote locations _because_ of Starlink competition. Taxis and minicabs all over the world were unreliable, expensive…

The killer feature of Organic Maps and OSM is the POI markers for small things. If you are cycling, knowing where the nearest bike rack is to your location is crucial. Google Maps …

What's the status of banking apps, Google / Microsoft authenticator, and Google Wallet? Those were the things preventing me from abandoning stock Android.

Nobody in the chain of command thought this was a real emergency situation. The point of turning Bluetooth off or having to turn around the aircraft was to follow the airline's rul…

> Example: Point at a date in an email to instantly set up a meeting, find good spots to meet up, or draft a reply. This is actually a good use case for AI. My university sends a l…

It was originally going to be scrapped by a Web 3.0 app-only proprietary events system, but we did a small campaign inside the university to keep the site on. As far as I know, the…

The Cambridge list of talks at https://talks.cam.ac.uk is unbeaten. The site loads in less than a second, you can do anything intuitively with a single click, all pages have a lot …

I used to slay with this in code golfing competitions from TopCoder, where you had to implement a function to solve a particular problem, thanks to C pointer maths and the gcc gene…

My impression was that the EU did it to prevent people doing visa-free layovers from claiming asylum, while the UK did it to negotiate a dual exception with the EU in the future. E…

> We’re also adding a fill tolerance slider, giving you control over how precisely the Fill tool applies color. To get started, select the Fill tool and use the slider on the left …

Is this the first type of sum-type option choosing statement present for C++ unions? I've been waiting for this feature since the year 1978. Still, it's a wasted opportunity not to…

Why do we need a log viewer at all? My browser can handle tens of thousands of lines of logs, and has Ctrl-F that's useful for 99% of the searches I need. A better runner could jus…

Good place to ask: I'm not comfortable with NPM-style `uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@1` for actions that should be included by default, like bumping version tags or uploadi…

I found that "Agentic Search" is generally useless in most LLMs since sites with useful data tend to block AI models. The answer to "when is it cheaper to buy two singles rather th…

If you go to Settings -> Personalisation -> Memory, you have two separate toggles for "Reference saved memories" and "Reference chat history". The first one refers to the "memory u…

I've been impressed by how good ChatGPT is at getting the right context old conversations. When I ask simple programming questions in a new conversation it can generally figure out…

You can tell that they consulted 0 scientists to verify the clearly AI-written draft of this video. The target audience of this tool is not academics; it's OpenAI investors.

Because there is only so much programmers and companies will pay for AI coders. The big prizes is AI-generated TikTok. The entertainment industry is by far the easiest way to tap i…

I was very disappointed with Supernova in the East. What started as a telling of the Pacific War from the point of view of the Japanese empire morphed into the usual "war is bad bu…

Robin Pearson ended the 1000-year long epic of The History of Byzantium earlier this year: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ The podcast started as a sequel to Mike Duncan's class…

The thing AI miss about the internet from the late 2000s and early 2010s was having so much useful data available, searchable, and scrappable. Even things like "which of my friends…

You -> Gear icon -> Revanced Settings -> General -> Navigation Buttons -> Hide Shorts. You need to also hide them from the feed and a few other places. You are not stupid; Revanced…