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- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Whichever version it is, I hope that one day I can delete a mail, change my mind, press ctrl-z and it will actually undo the last delete and not some random one from earlier in the day.
- Comment on Can I just use my thumb? 2 weeks ago:
Why isn’t step 1 disconnecting them from the electricity?
- Comment on I'm missing an entire hour of my life. AMA. 3 weeks ago:
For many people, it wasn’t.
- Comment on I aspire to be unemployed. Hope I miss the dart board. 4 weeks ago:
Bikeshedding.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
People feel uncomfortable making big decisions, so spend longer on the trivial ones.
- Comment on This community in a nutshell 4 weeks ago:
This was explained in Roger Rabbit:
Eddie Valiant: You mean you could’ve taken your hand out of that handcuff at any time? Roger Rabbit: No, NOT at any time, only when it was funny.
- Comment on He's so negative. He's so weird. 1 month ago:
I have an exercise app that occasionally asks my overall mood, like “Have you recently felt overwhelmed?” Do you feel anxious a lot?"
I sent them feedback explaining that they never ask if there’s a good reason that I might be feeling down: I’ve variously had reason to think I might lose my job, nearly lost sight in one eye, nearly evacuated from wildfires, etc. Yes, I’ve felt “anxious a lot”!
- Comment on okra stealing whore 1 month ago:
Is that guy pointing impatiently at his wrist-sundial?
- Comment on Where is he?! 4 months ago:
Get a move on! It could be yards away by now.
- Comment on The Best Use of AI Ever: A 'Grandma' Built To Waste Telescammers’ Time - Decrypt 4 months ago:
He decided that it was unethical to have an AI/LLM impersonate a real person, but set up the “wizard” as an AI assistant for his fake crypto site helpline.
- Comment on He’s going to erase half of the tristate area 5 months ago:
Making it the one-and-a-half state area?
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 5 months ago:
The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.
Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.
- Comment on Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion 5 months ago:
My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.
So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 5 months ago:
a fisheye lens-style view of a plane making an air trail.
The trail emerging from the tail of the plane, as if it was a rocket.
- Comment on Click here? 5 months ago:
A few days ago I almost tried to pause my ebook reader before putting it down.
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
Someone once told me “meat is murder, but fish is justifiable homicide”. I hope that helps.
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 5 months ago:
I got bad news about who owns Venmo.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 5 months ago:
I don’t even mean browsing! Just trying to install something.
I search for “NordVPN” (because all the cool YouTubers use it!) and the first result is “Norton 360” with an install button.
It’s a “sponsored result” and it’s easy to install the wrong thing if you’re used to it actually finding the thing you just typed in.
If I put Firefox. I get duckduckgo. Okay, maybe not so bad and pretty obvious. But I’ve had these things for apps that almost look like the legitimate one.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 5 months ago:
Now if they could just stop putting ad results above the app you search for in the Play store.
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 5 months ago:
It can lie about it’s own emissions levels!