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New comment by jmm5 in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

jmm5 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:21:15 +0000

Pretty much any decent mass transit system in the world is packed at rush hour. The whole advantage over private vehicles comes from the fact that people take up less space.

New comment by jmm5 in "To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets"

jmm5 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:26:03 +0000

Courts have held that people have less rights while driving then they do in other settings (such as walking down the street or as a passenger in a vehicle). For example, the doctrine of implied consent allows the government to compel you to submit to a blood alcohol test without a warrant. I wonder if something similar could be applied here.

I certainly support civil liberties, but they need to be balanced against the government's strong interest in preventing the bloodshed that comes from the reckless operation of vehicles.

New comment by jmm5 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

jmm5 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:12:00 +0000

In a scenario where you are losing a significant part of the population to war, it's better that it be men.

New comment by jmm5 in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

jmm5 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:27:09 +0000

I am a social worker and SharePoint is unfortunately widely used by nonprofit agencies for storing client records. It's a real shame, but they can't afford anything better.

New comment by jmm5 in "Helium Browser"

jmm5 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:04:02 +0000

Most of these chromium-based browsers are intended to address privacy concerns. Firefox (mostly) respects your privacy.

There are also sometimes compatibility issues with Firefox because web developers only test on chromium and webkit. Anyone opinionated enough to put up with that is just going to use Firefox.

New comment by jmm5 in "Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom"

jmm5 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:04:53 +0000

That and satellite communication.

New comment by jmm5 in "Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA"

jmm5 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:29:18 +0000

Even Google Search relentlessly nags you to download the Google Search app.

New comment by jmm5 in "LLMs should not replace therapists"

jmm5 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:25:05 +0000

As a therapist, I very much agree with the last sentence.

New comment by jmm5 in "Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android"

jmm5 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:15:45 +0000

The Pixel "Private Space" feature should prevent Meta apps from running in the background. It also prevents you from getting notifications.

New comment by jmm5 in "New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer"

jmm5 — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:46:52 +0000

Large companies with fleets of vehicles often self-insure.

New comment by jmm5 in "Photographers Are on Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits"

jmm5 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:43:10 +0000

Yes, and they even let you email them in to make it easier.

New comment by jmm5 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

jmm5 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:22:24 +0000

Qualcomm still owns the patents.

New comment by jmm5 in "Shared iPad Overview"

jmm5 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:36:11 +0000

They want you to buy a separate device for each family member.

New comment by jmm5 in "The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)"

jmm5 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:54:49 +0000

tap

New comment by jmm5 in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

jmm5 — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:52:41 +0000

MS Office webmail works well for me in Firefox under Ubuntu.

New comment by jmm5 in "The Timer in WatchOS 10"

jmm5 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:21:59 +0000

No no more turn-by-turn directions when navigating, instead it just shows you a map. Dangerous when on a bike.

New comment by jmm5 in "A WiFi color eInk picture frame"

jmm5 — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 17:36:38 +0000

Looks like it's black and white?

New comment by jmm5 in "BugMeNot Is Gone?"

jmm5 — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:47:57 +0000

They used to be hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.Net

New comment by jmm5 in "‘Click to Cancel’ legislation introduced in Pennsylvania"

jmm5 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 02:59:44 +0000

In addition, gyms in particular often make you give them your bank account instead of a credit card.

New comment by jmm5 in "A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers"

jmm5 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:43:21 +0000

Obviously you can't have a competition with a monopoly in place. Regulation could help to keep prices down and to expand access in areas covered by only a single broadband provider.