Very very interesting, and stupid

How many years?

The amount of utility I accidentally extract from my phone over the course of a day on one charge is pretty incredible.

Hey thanks for the deep context & lore, that was refreshingly orienting!

I’m ok with continuing to talk to people who aren’t ready or willing to understand that.

I’m not sure if I want Google to be the ones to do that. Ideally there would be some involvement from a proper standardization body like ITU.

But in my shallow understanding of RCS, it seems like a good candidate. I thought I read that Apple was starting to roll it out this year…

Looks like it doesn’t do RCS

Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.

When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid… I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.

It’s certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.

Isn’t building a CRM a sort of rite of passage for tech entrepreneur failures?

That reminds me, I once heard an irritated dad at a kids playground yell “cheese and rice”!

I love it. I’ve been enjoying “MotherFather” as a soft landing out of habitually cursing when frustrated.

Grayjay can stream nebula, so there must be a way.

Moira Fogarty and Ruth Golding

Do you ever use librivox? There are a few specific readers I found there that are great for me to fall asleep to.

Utilizing the library is a good idea, I should really do they more. I know in the US they need our support too.

Lately I have been trying to notice my doom scrolling actually using it as a cue to convert that energy into reading something I’m interested in.

I’m trying to quit scrolling like I quit smoking decades ago: with intentional anger for being controlled and then redirection.

I have, on a few occasions, rebooted my reading habit from traveling by airplane.

I have found that if I do everything I can to feel as good as possible before a flight, and bring a book in my carry on, it’s one of the rare situations that there is nothing pulling me away from reading. I went somewhere for work last month and I finished 2 books on that trip. That made me really happy and motivated to keep it alive.

Yeah, I think asymmetric warfare is they key word I was grasping for.

I guess I wonder what other games, besides geopolitical competitions (or conflicts specifically) represent similar asymmetry

Chatbots can’t “admit” things. They regurgitate text that just happens to be information a lot of the time.

That said, the irony is iron clad.

This is probably true of a lot of covert operations. Thanks for the history, I did not know that!

But those are just different debuffs!