There maybe something more than that. Maybe modern life and the great financial crisis have put us all into more stress, more work, so that we don’t have time for real relationships. It’s part of why politics have shifted the way they do.

I am VERY online, but I don’t usual traditional social media. I mostly read Hackers News and a DC parenting forum which is pretty no-holds bar, but is a website out of the 90s so not really capable of infinite scroll or dark patterns (other than the addictive and open ended topics).

I also read a lot of news like NYT and watch TV like Apple TV, but it’s hardly the dopamine drip of TikTok or Instagram. Yet I am ashamed of my 8 hours of screen time despite my best efforts. I used to reach out to friends more but as I get older it feels intrusive and hard to make conversations.

Interesting. On my iPhone the in-call mode moves the hangup button down a slot.

So I’m guessing someone read “The Dark Forest”!

I don’t think people realize tha Wi-Fi is a brand name for 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." WiFi, Wifi, or wifi, are not approved by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Despite common belief the name Wi-Fi is not short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity'.

Would an adapter in promiscuous mode technically be Wireless Infidelity?

nice

My daughter feels all my writing naturally sounds like AI, even my college papers from 30 years ago. Maybe author has similar issue?

I have been told I am "AI" because I was simply a bit too serious, enthusiastic and nerdy about some topic. It happens. I put more effort into such writings. Check my comment history and you will find that many comments from me are low-effort: including this one. :)

Creat your own family yahoo — a website you maintain that has links to the websites they commonly use like mail and bank. Set as home page and new tab page.

It’s a slight security risk since it shows where you have accounts.

If you are savvy, build your own search that just passes it to an LLM and returns as page.

Maybe that’s business opportunity for some to create and manage trusted personal portals for family members.

Forced molting for egg layers is very cruel. Starvation and thirst to lose feathers and rebate egg laying.

We only buy humane eggs when we can, and I believe organic doesn’t practice it either.

I think Milo and Otis had a lot of controversy too.

Google voice screening is sort of like that.

Unfortunately I'm one of those privacy-conscious people that would only accept this as a local app on my phone, without a surveillance capitalism giant being able to eavesdrop all my calls as a man-in-the-middle as a side effect.

I only use my Google voice number for basically non-personal contacts, like my bank or shopping, etc. That way when you get an unknown call from a business, it will usually be coming from an unknown number and thus the screening will be in place.

The screening on my personal phone is such that I will have any person that I expect to be calling already in my directory so that will be identifiable immediately