The problem is that way too few are willing to change their habits, and legislators have near-zero incentive to enact unpopular rules to help mitigate the problems. AI isn't going to change any of that.

Six years in, I had to edit the configuration file once (to switch weather backends because the default backend shut down). In January, it’ll be 10 years.

[0]: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

Except when it uses some kind of browser engine to render its UI?

For example, Andrew Wiles’s famous proof touched a number of different, barely-related mathematical fields that no single person could allegedly peer-review it on their own. That was in the 1990s.

Neither! I just got accustomed to doing without stuff. That’s an effect I wildly underestimated.

Many things are still difficult (looking at you, CloudFlare [0] and DataDome [1]!) but I think I’ll manage.

> Is your use-case for a phone wildly different from that of a typical user?

Not really, I guess.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816826

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921224

In the past I used Bluetooth for keyboard and mouse when I connected the phone to a monitor. (I no longer do because the USB port on my L5 has broken down so badly that it can no longer maintain a DisplayPort Alt mode connection.)

I’ve never used Bluetooth for music or similar, it keeps stuttering horribly on my L5. No idea why it does that!

I’ve never used multimedia SMS either. Almost no one uses SMS or MMS in Germany. Signal barely works via the Electron app (and signal-cli), so that’s what I use for messaging. WhatsApp doesn’t work because I have no iOS or Android to tether it to.

I can’t use public transport apps, which is a shame because I live in a city center where I depend on public transport. I download my public transport ticket from a private API once a month via curl.

For file transfer, I mostly use rsync, Git, or Unison.

Banking only works thanks to a dedicated bank card reader. [1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45321901

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33418431

This is possibly due to how our brains are wired to trust an already-established narrative and due to the effect that repeated interactions have on trust. When the scammer eventually steers the topic towards money, phenomena such as the Semmelweis reflex [0] may have already kicked in, which can make it super difficult to re-frame the person as a scammer.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex

I love this response so much.

Manual review by whom?

Feels like they blatantly ripped that off the title of a Cory Doctorow book [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Con

If Microsoft hasn’t managed to build a meaningful search index after 17 years of sinking billions in it, there’s a good chance that no one ever will.

[0]: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search (cf. section _The problem: A search monopoly_)

So I can see why e.g. a German institution would choose act more conservatively than one from countries with a background in common law.