Which we don't have the electricity infrastructure for.

The solution is to get rid of cars, period. Ownership should require a permit like gun ownership requires in some cities (i.e you should only be able to buy one of the DMV agrees you have good reason to need a car).

Exactly, what we really need to do is have a restrictive permitting system for cars like some cities have for guns. If you can't show good cause for needing a car, you shouldn't be able to get permit to buy one. Just use public transit or bike.

How can they do that? Could you just say you want to install an electric dryer in your garage (or even buy a used one off of CraigsList and literally do it for a week)?

This is the solution to that problem:

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-3rd-Data-Blocker-Pack/dp/B00...

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-NA-USB-C-Data-Blocker/dp/B08...

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Data-Blocker-USB-C-Converter...

A common thread tying those three things together is that, in large part, they're all impressive technologies in search of problems to solve.

Technologies like that are pretty much always overhyped and oversold.

Exactly. The whole "crime is terrible in SF" is just a Republican propaganda narrative that people who should know better are buying into.

AND by doing that you do harm, by perpetuating racist systems of of injustice and oppression. The only way to solve that more important problem is by addressing the root causes and allow longer term healing to happen.

Yes, that means some people will be inconvenienced, but that's acceptable and a necessary part of the solution. The only way to speed that phase up is to implement comprehensive reparations quickly.

And so ahead of its time I understand it's been used to kill patents, as a demonstration of prior art.

I think I read an article once about a patent case that featured someone tracking down a still-shrink wrapped copy of Lotus notes, then having a developer use it to demonstrate it had the features that had been erroneously been patented by someone later.

And is the "better" alternative is to avoid that "legacy technical debt" by forcing that "handy Joe" to keep doing things by hand, by denying him the tools to solve his problem? Because if you don't have the connections to get budget to pay a professional developer, you shouldn't be able to solve your problem with software?

IMHO, it's better to think of those kinds of "handy Joe" apps as prototypes.

Exactly. Capitalizing every letter is the lazy, half-ass pseudo title case that I always have to correct. Unfortunately its becoming normalized because many major companies that should know better don't even bother to do it right.

Maybe something like Pine? Even into Web 1.0 days, it was still pretty common for people to use. Everyone in my high school accessed their school-provided email account by telnetting into a Unix server and accessing Pine via a menu system.

Like this?

http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html

Total speculation, but Firefox seems to be pushing out a lot of UI gimmicks. Maybe they're trying to drum up interest in the browser that way, since they seem intent on killing many of their other differentiators.

That will probably take a long time, as the "part of society that ... will self extinguish" will parasitically attach itself to the parts that don't (e.g. through compulsory education and mass media), dragging everything down in the process.

Luckily, this may be a convenient way to dispose of all the excess labor that capital will no longer will need once it's been made obsolete by AI and automation.

Or obsessive low-level ideologues, who have little else going on in their lives, pushing some agenda. My impression that's the largest group.

Isn't "Free Tibet" kind of passe? Like it was big in the 80s or 90s, but it's not a trendy issue anymore.

But in any case, the attitude that you expect progressives to have is one that leads to paralysis and inactivity. Nothing is ever going to perfectly conform to one's personal or factional beliefs, so if perfect conformance is a requirement you can't support anything expect yourself. Realistically, once has to reduce something to its parts and then ignore some, or pick the best of "bad" options. In the case of Tibet, (more sensibly) that's a desire to support national self-determination in the face of foreign occupation (by authoritarian Communists, no less) before all other issues, (less sensibly) that's ignorance that lets a progressive project his own attitudes and beliefs on some foreign group and not notice the error.

Another, more jarring, example is Palestine. If Israel ceased to exist and the Palestinians got their own state, I'd expect that new state to be close to the top of the progressives' shit list. After all, conservative Muslims aren't very friendly to LGBT stuff.

Years ago I was once concerned I might have had sleep apnea. I did see a doctor, who said I almost certainly didn't have it. I also bought a $40 pulse oximeter that could do logging, and taped it to my finger over a couple nights. I didn't see my oxygen level drop below 90% (or something, I can't remember), so I figured I didn't have it.

My understanding is oxygen level is one of the most important factors to track for sleep apnea. I am also super-skeptical of movement-based sleep tracking. Since my impression is it's typically half-assing with cheap sensors that aren't very suited to the task (on their own).

The use of "hacking" in the title is unfortunate, since it strongly brings to mind software engineers confidently loading up on weird supplements to do stuff like "boost intelligence" without much understanding of what they're doing.

This article is very much not that, and is very sensible.

There are a lot of English Wikipedia pages like that, too. Sometimes it's pretty blatant, like super-comprehensive list of something that just stops in 2013 or something.

Also Wikipedia's toxic culture often refuses to call a spade a spade, and gives some favored problematic editors a long leash to be uncivil, so long as they learn to avoid a few of the most blatant unacceptable behaviors. IMHO, they need to be more consistent and more final with their bans, because a community with a lot of individuals who've been taught how to obscure their misbehavior and/or expertly push it right up to the line is still a shitty community.