brett-jackson

The vast majority of users don’t know or care. The ones who do are blocking the cookies anyways. No one wins with these popups (except trial lawyers and sellers of cookie consent SaaS, of course).

I used to use it all the time until about a year ago or so. Its responses are full of filler and the safeguards are really overbearing. It often will just give wrong answers in a way that GPT-5.x does not. I once asked it why a particular celebrity was canceled and it refused to tell me because it may harm me to know what they said!

I’d try asking it for a mermaid diagram. I think ChatGPT’s web interface will render them.

If they are subject to taxation, must they also have representation?

Look at the ToS. Frequently there are clauses that force binding arbitration and require the company you are dealing with to pay the arbitration fees.

I wonder if tax policy could be used to encourage placing content in the public domain. This could especially be useful for software, since there probably isn’t much money to be made in selling Windows 3.1 licenses, but a nominal tax credit could encourage Microsoft to put it in the public domain and let the public play around with it, inspire them, etc.

I wish the FCC would regulate how ISPs advertise their speeds and force reliability disclosures. It's impossible to compare two ISPs without actually subscribing. I know Comcast can offer me 10x the advertised bandwidth, but I know in practice that can vary widely.

I use Google Webpass (a microwave radio link). The speed is 100Mbps, and the service is phenomenal. I've had one outage in 3 years, only lasting about 6 hours. I had switched to RCN for about a month, as they had advertised 300Mbps for a cheaper price. The speed in tests was about that high (and actually even higher), but I was getting a lot of buffering when streaming videos, that made the service much worse.

Have cookie consent pop ups made the web better?

If you're concerned (or aware) about your privacy, you likely have an addon that blocks trackers enabled.

What's the point in capping CEO pay? It won't lift anyone out of poverty.

I donated to my hometown's charity to buy Christmas gifts for children in my town who live in poverty.