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Re:Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:13PM (#48647261)
Sounds like what a government issued card should be used for, which seems fine
Re:Retro-Tech Parenting on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:27AM (#48409621)
It's not social isolation it's creating a learning experience filled with resistance instead of handing everything on a platter
Re:Retro-Tech Parenting on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:50PM (#48407380)
I'm currently in the "misguided" group as I parent 3 kids under 10 but I appreciate your viewpoint. I had similar experience and want my kids to learn that sense that they can accomplish anything by just learning how to do it from others on the internet. But still, everything today is offered on a platter. There's little resistance to overcome. No installing, no files, no configuration. I think that's what we accomplish by giving the technology step by step, starting with offline machines with CD ROMs. If they can just Google any game ever made and play it in-browser in a JS emulator then where's the learning and the struggle before the reward?
Re:Retro-Tech Parenting on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:44PM (#48407339)
The difference is more of those people can use local file management than the new generation joining office environments.
Re:Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:12PM (#48112037)
Risc OS is the GOAT
It's a shame we let ourselves get to this point where creativity is limited by the walled gardens we've almost fully accepted as "worth it".
Re:I spoke to AI agent Claude [video] on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:41PM (#47458804)
Bernie Sanders asks Claude about AI, privacy and trusting companies with data.
Having experienced both, and needed both, I certainly have more positive things to say on the socialized version than the privatized version. Does the US system not hopelessly strain people by its cost? Does the US system not require positive rate of insurance payers to sustain it?
Re:U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:34PM (#44990726)
> Intel needs to start thinking long term instead of short term profits

Which is what the last CEO was in the middle of doing and he got fired just recently because they couldn't stomach it

Re:How Many School Shootings? All Incidents from 1966-Present on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:13AM (#43146772)
Looks more like the rate of increase started going up in 2018
Re:Crossing the USA by Train on Monday October 28, 2024 @07:11AM (#41969868)
Why wouldn't you want to use the SBA airport? It's lovely, scenic and has quite a few routes and airlines these days.
Re:Chicken eggs are formed [video] on Saturday March 02, 2024 @03:39PM (#39575557)
What role did capitalism have in this revelation for you? I don't think it caused the chicken so perhaps you're referring to the Internet which most certainly was not due to capitalism.
Re:A Linux OS that boots to LLAMA2 and has a startrek like UI on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:01AM (#37752849)
Wrong characters for the LCARS-like interface!
Important in terms of adoption.
Tylenol / Acetaminophen / Paracetamol is not an NSAID. Ibuprofen and Aspirin is.
Re:New in Chrome 113 on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @04:37PM (#35807441)
We already have response editing. You can save a file in devtools and set up workspace folders to override responses at any url.
Maybe the bucket size is what is hoped for vs what exists already
Re:How to stop junk mail on Saturday June 04, 2022 @09:17PM (#31626940)
It didn't even accept my social security number complaining that the number was too high...
Re:Apple’s hidden flight tracker app on Monday May 30, 2022 @12:51AM (#31555586)
Google has had this for maybe 10 years. Type a flight number in to google and get the exact same info.
Re:Goodbye Brave on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:03AM (#29461373)
Brave team member here. This was not a server issue but was a daylight savings time bug.
Not envy, no. I think you're looking at the problem from a very limited angle. I would classify it as more disillusion at the system that enables there to be billionaire owners of a company with workers on welfare. I have everything I need, so I'm not envious. I want to live in a society where as many others can live in comfort and not just a few at the top.
People will lose ability to be happy for other people's "success" when there's no hope they can achieve it. Likely it's not a signal of just being rich but instead a signal of rich vs poor. When there's a disappearing middle and it's just a wide gap between rich and poor then yes I can see why "rich" is a negative signal.
Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:45AM (#25647342)
Maybe because caffeine is inversely additive. The more you have the less its effects are.

https://lifehacker.com/what-caffeine-actually-does-to-your-b...

Re:Tesla Cybertruck on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:43PM (#21602576)
And the web team

> 429 Too Many Requests

Re:Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:55PM (#21597920)
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
Re:Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:55PM (#21597915)
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
Re:Disable new Slack WYSIWYG editor with this bookmarklet on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:55PM (#21597911)
You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.
Re:Brave launches 1.0 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:19PM (#21527454)
The decisions are all done locally by your browser on your computer.

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