Posts by JonSaul

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

Problem is PEBKAC

I understand where this is coming from, but humans are limited in their capacity to create boolean searches that work. I perform them at work and at play, and I still don’t know 100% what result will be returned, because the search developers don’t share what their search methods are.

If they did, they wouldn’t have commercial value, and thus couldn’t be monetized.

Since the monetization genie is out of the bottle, I don’t see how picking a search tool that meets the article author’s biases will help someone who does *not*.

Googlers will be working from home until September 2021, says Sundar Pichai, followed by 'flexible' work weeks

I concur. When my work was open for all the cafeteria was not free, but probably was sponsored to some extent. We did have some free or discounted caffeinated beverages, which I think was mostly for coders though I enjoyed the opportunity.

Salon told to change ad looking for 'happy' stylist because it 'discriminated against unhappy people'

Re: discriminatory

Interesting reaction to the depression aspect of hiding feelings, considering there's a stigma for people admitting they have it. It's a bit of a defense mechanism. Whether it's a good defense or not is certainly debatable.

It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?

I vastly prefer Win10 over 8, and its UI hiccups have subsided somewhat from when it started. I see a lot of variation in Windows usage by US industry. Hospitals apparently are mostly Win7 with the occasional XP holdout. From what I can see finance is all in for Win10.

With the US election coming up, when better to petition regulators for a controversial way to chill online speech?

Apparently not "literally everyone" if it was proposed as legislation.

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Liked Neuromancer

I guess I'm in the minority for liking Neuromancer's writing style. I can live with that. De gustibus and all that...