AI…
China…

Note to sell: keep my old car running as long as possible.

As an older man, I have realized two very important things, that I’m hoping will keep me from turning into a grumpy old man who hates everything around him:

• My world is gone. My present is in the past. That was between the time I was a kid old enough to remember anything and a young adult - say 25. After that, I kept living in an evolving world with the knowledge, values, truths and comfortable familiarities of my youth. And as time passed, they became more and more irrelevant in a world full of new young people with different knowledge, values and truths.

• As a consequence, of course, when the world increasingly becomes dissonant with what you know, you become angry. You reject the world. You hate it and you think things were better when you were young. “Those damn kids and their rock and roll!” my Dad used to say. And I realize now that I fucking hate rap music like my Dad used to hate rock and roll. But crucially, I realize it’s a me-problem.

The truth is, the kids of today are fine. I don’t understand how they talk most of the time, but then my grandpa didn’t understand me either when I was a kid. The world is no better or no worse than when I was a kid: we had the Cold War and the nuclear scares, you have Fascism 2.0. But the sun shines just as bright today as it did when I was a kid.

I have chosen to leave the world to those to whom it belongs: the young. I enjoy what I enjoy in it, and ignore what I don’t. And most importantly, when I don’t like something, I always ask myself whether it’s because it’s bad or because it doesn’t match my outdated expectations. More likely than not, it’s the latter. So I shut up and move on.

The second butcher was Neanderthalal.

Rule #1 of the Internet: don’t click on .su links.
Rule #2 of the Internet: see rule #1

And now you know why the Medicaid cuts only kick in later, to give time to the ICE Gestapo to round up as many recipients as possible before they get kicked out.

I would love it if the Ayatollahs came on TV and said “How about the Epstein files Donald?”

I run CalyxOS on my Fairphone4 and have zero issues.

Well, whichever it is, I don’t expect them to have Luigi’s best interest at heart. Not that they ever have anybody’s best interest at heart beside their shareholders’ anyway…

Oh yeah well spotted 🙂 I’ll fix that for sure

• Are you a felon?
• Are you a sex offender?
• Have you been close friend with a notorious pedophile?
• Have you organized an insurrection to steal the elections?
• Are you a fascist?
• Does anybody say of you that you’re a fascist?

If the canditate failed any of the above, I’d pass.

But of course, it’s not like it was possible to know any of these things before 2024 (random date chosen for no particular reason…)

Turning off AI in your web searches is a great first step.

Woohoo… Yeah… Go slop…

As someone with hand motor problems, I can tell you it’s a non-insignificant setback for me. And I’m not the only one.

I don’t mind the cap being captive. Actually, it’s even kind of handy when trying to take a swig from a bottle one-handed while riding my bike.

The problem is, the retainer creates friction when unscrewing the cap.

This is not new. Here’s the solution:

"The District Attorney has subpoenaed Mr Mangione’s health insurer

Would that be UnitedHealthCare by any chance?

To that dumb bitch’s credit, she’s just doing what Trump told her to do.

Same old broken record as with previous Fairphones.

Their holier-than-thou attitude towards security backed them into the corner of being virtually unable to run GrapheneOS on any platform other than Google’s own Pixel phones, and now Google is pulling the rug from under them.

The GrapheneOS people were tedious when Micay was there, and they haven’t really changed.

A slimeball like Trump can’t touch a journalist with spotless integrity like Woodward.

AI pushers should follow the drug dealers’ rule. never use the merchandise.

I don’t use them. I make the effort to remember my passwords - or rather, my recipes to recreate any complex passwords.

The only safe storage form for your passwords is your noggin’. The next best thing is probably a password manager - although that depends on how trustworthy whoever coded it is - but it certainly isn’t as secure as using your brain if your brain works properly.

Also, something else that goes a long way to making any password secure is 2FA. If you can, use it!