I’d go into psychology research. I have some very low percentage chance mental health traits and there’s not many people studying what I have who have lived experience and are not too disabled to study it. I know I’d enjoy doing clinical work too, and often find my time not doing software is helping others and making community w those folks.

Sadly, I’m not wealthy enough to afford to reset like that, I’ll never be able to retire.

Planners. Something to help me make sense of what my priorities are during the day. Something to help me determine what needs my attention.

I have a lot of systems, but I could really use a Jarvis at work right now and it seems like the whole damn promise of AI is to deliver that. I’m waiting.

There's something about having so many planners online/digital that sucks.

I want to plan, but I don't want to be on the computer yet. But if I plan non-digitally, it's slower, I can't copy/paste, and then I don't really have good access to it unless I have it with me.

But if I plan too much digitally, it's stored in digital memory, not my memory.

I'm really struggling to find something to mitigate this. I wish I had a tactile miro board that also created the miro board online.

Any other threads on the prevalence and nuisance of scrapers? I didn’t have any idea it was this bad.

I've been seeing "we had to take the forum/website offline to deal with scrapers" message on quite a few niche websites now. They are an absolute pest.

Really? I haven’t started to see that yet. Weird

Here’s one from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302496#46306025

If they go in this direction they're going full bore.

I love how with tech, now the only future that anyone can imagine is one that nobody but tech executives want.

We can only hope the market lets their preferences known. Also, that the executives don’t assume it’s a victory because people begrudgingly use the stuff, because there are no other options.

How? Everyone is doing this crap. There is no alternative.

Isn't Brave the go-to for a good techie/privacy browser?

It is a crypto browser

there are forks of firefox that are privacy focused. personally, I use zen.

Well folks, there's very few places to go now.

I‘ve been a happy user of https://helium.computer for a few months now after a previous Mozilla faux-pas. So far I don’t miss Firefox in the slightest

It’s not cutthroat, it’s comfortable partnership with a cutthroat veneer. If either of them wins, they have a monopoly and are at higher risk of regulation or breakup. So they fight openly over small fries, and keep writing dividend checks.

They write the rules.

I've gone on disability, its insane the loops one has to jump through to get it, especially if you want the private disability insurance to kick in. It took months of paperwork and re-filing appeals. I'm in a state with a better safety net, but I had to work at my place for several years to qualify to earn what amounted to be around 45% of my salary while on short term disability.

Sadly people really do think that your story (which I'm sure is true) is more common.

Those are all huge hoops for an individual that just wants to live their lives, and trivial for an organized crime operation with a lawyer and doctor on staff that can amortize the disability paperwork across multiple employees and potentially hundreds of jobs.

At this rate, maybe in 10, 20 years they might be forced to pay a few million dollar fee, and the FTC can do the can can in front of their office (after paying the venue fees of course).

I don’t think their words mean just about anything, only the behavior of the models.

Still waiting of Full Self Driving myself.