I try to take regular breaks from my handheld device. I can spend hours on my desktop PC however, but only because I get paid for that. My phone is mainly for consuming, so it's more addictive since you're doing it purely for leisure.
I've always wondered: how much of time-consuming mental tasks will I have automated and abstracted away via computers in my later years, since I already try to automate away everything these days (I'm 45 with a bad case of RSI and arthritic pain). I even wrote a tool to automatically generate blogposts and churn out content on-demand. It's trained on the content of 100 blogs and pulls in content from Wikipedia to sound authoritative.
It makes me wonder: how much automation is too much automation? Will it be the case that I turn on my PC, login, then it just automatically comments on Hackernews, picks the best news from Slashdot for me to read, automatically updates my blog, etc I would miss the manual effort and mental tasking of all that. Is automating everything necessarily bad or good?
Just to avoid confusion, this post has nothing to do with an ALIAS Record[0].
I've used ALIAS records in the past to serve content both from `www` and the naked apex domain. I tell crawlers what the canonical URL is via a metatag, like as follows:
I used an iPod 5th generation for a few years as a phone (it's basically an iPhone 5 without a baseband chip). I used the Skype app to ring people and send messages.
Whatsapp is not compatible with iPods which I always found annoying. This is because Whatsapp requires a SIM, which iPods don't support.
Skype nagged me to update, which I couldn't since 5th generation iPods are tied to iOS 9.3.5 forever and can't update. The 7th generation iPods however have a later version of iOS and support more apps.
Currently I have two phones. One is a dumbphone for normal calls and SMS (You would be surprised at how much business is conducted with SMS and calls). Then a smartphone which I NEVER use for calls, just use it as a mini 'tablet' for surfing the web and using Maps etc
Everyone going on about lung disease when you can just vaporize it or use edibles. Edibles are tricky since you can either add too much or too little so you get an unexpected high.
Vaporizing doesn't produce harsh carcinogenic smoke and it's the best way to consume cannabis IMHO. By not combusting the plant material, you use less of it to get high and it's better bang for your buck. You can make 25g of hashish last 6 months if you want to.
> "Climate change impacts are contributing to wildfires that are increasingly dangerous and destructive across the Western U.S.,"
It's baffling that here we are in the full motions of global warming, and we can find all manner of distractions to take our mind off it, and divert attention. Yes, there is a movement to halt global warming or slow it down, but it needs more traction. The topic needs to be the frontpage of every newspaper. The world is burning before our eyes.
There is something similar to this: `Spotify granted patent to use mic to infer emotional state, age, gender, and accent`[0]. Not surprising, given how data hungry most tech companies are now. Without data, they are dead. But how much is really needed to serve ADs? Do we really need to be doing creepy things like 'sentiment analysis' or peering inside the brain? How much access is too much access? I think we are slowly learning the threshold piece by piece.
> Transactions made using cryptocurrencies can provide more anonymity to senders and recipients of money
Well, yes, providing you use something like Monero. We all should know by now that Bitcoin has a transparent ledger and your kids in 20 years time will probably be able to see what you spent your Bitcoin on.
I love tinkering with Medium URLs
Here's four URls that all work
https://kgizdov.medium.com/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea...
https://kgizdov.medium.com/@the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50e...
https://kgizdov.medium.com/@@the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50...
https://kgizdov.medium.com/@@@the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e5...
They exclude the `@` for some reason