Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.
Brother: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?
Brother: You’re not going to believe this…
Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.
Brother: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?
Brother: You’re not going to believe this…
Me: Man, that’s a pretty tasty beer.
Coors: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get precision ceramics for aerospace and medical applications do you?
Microbiology: One of the few professions where you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
We call them MAGA now.
Well I think it does, because they don’t know literally everything about us yet. But they will one day if we don’t fight back.
As Doctorow points out, ‘Saying security and privacy don’t matter because you have nothing to hide is like saying freedom of speech doesn’t mater because you have nothing to say.’
It’s a very short-sighted view. Those rights will be taken from you if you don’t protect them.
Wait, what? I’m wrapped around my skeleton?
Queue Edgar Allen Poe
Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on this problem.
Let’s not forget you can edit your html and fake things like this.
This one is hard to believe.
I’m using kagi as well and have been very pleased with it.
It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
It’d still be physics if they had used glue.
I also thought it odd that the strip had such a nice setup for a crude fat joke.
Dude. I’m 59 and big. Just looking at that picture made my knees pop.
I have a 1984 Model M. Love it.
Understandable. Unfortunately, this is the world we live in.
Use kagi.com. By default it indicates pay walled sites and you can also block whole domains if you choose. Listicles are broken out separately and if you’re feeling ambitious Kagi supports regex-based redirects, so you could redirect paywalled domains to a paywall bypass website.
I write embedded firmware for my own business’ products and I fall into this trap myself.
I wanted to whip out a basic little product for my business thinking it would take two months of hardware design and a couple weeks of C.
A year later it’s a neat little product…
Anecdotally, the odds are near zero that my wife and I can talk once about maybe buying some obscure thing like electric blinds and suddenly targetted ads for them somehow pop up on our devices.
This happens a lot.
I think you’re being naive if you believe they don’t locally distill our discussions into key words and phrases and transmit those.
I tent my fingers upside-down over the sink with them splayed a little. Surface tension pulls most of the water off pretty quickly. Then I towel if one is available. Otherwise air-dry for the win.