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Everybody needs cloud backups for their photos at least.

Most people don’t have computers, those who do, do not regularly backup their photos on them.

In both family and extended family many a cry would be avoided if people paid the 5 bucks it costs to backup their photos before your phone gets stolen or lost.

Three different groups of people, with some overlap between the first two:

    - people with their own websites
    - privacy activists and /or anti-capitalists 
    - almost everybody on the planet 

I seriously doubt that people who clamor for the death of Facebook and the likes do it so that indie web is full of macha latte labubu car tastings and supplement and gambling shills.

IndieWeb is pretty large. And by its own design the majority of users (lurkers) is hidden behind a page views metric that most people don’t even look at.

Meh. “Won” who? For a long time I was sad about the lost web, but it turns out most people on social media that has replaced the web have nothing interesting to say.

I am sad about local groups and forums, but that is not something that IndieWeb is trying to solve.

The other problem is businesses that have retired to Instagram. which I find baffling.

Well, for one we know that screens and social media had disastrous effect on children all the while the physical world was getting much safer.

And we mostly get neither. Some stores do offer drm free ebooks and audiobooks.

My comment was mostly about the “steam for books” being lauded better as physical books. To me it would only be strictly better if you could sell and lend (which you can’t on steam)

I love ebooks and audiobooks. But the fact that I can’t legally lend or sell them (same with steam btw) means that it’s at best a lateral step.

Indeed. The platform is severely underused due to the economics. From more recent games I played Alien Isolation (works great, but I didn’t finish it), Monkey Island (iPad is perfect for point and clicks), X-Com was also perfect. The power is there.

If only mobile devices had better external monitor support. It’s funny that iOS / macOS has by far the best controller experience from all devices pairing wise (even getting an Xbox controller to work properly on windows requires a dongle). iPad + controller just lacks games (and with emulators not even that, just good configuration).

I think by now we have enough evidence to support that point of view. Not everybody up top is a crook, but not having morals or abandoning them along the way certainly makes it easier to ascend.

The signal is also clear when interacting with adults: the people “over there” are more important.

These days I was “on call” at home and had to be able to answer my phone urgently. And I hated the fact that I needed to glance at my phone at every notification when talking with other people. Truly just having the damn thing is socially damaging.

It took us centuries to screw everything so I don’t claim any of this is simple. But we will need to start actually fixing stuff eventually, rather than adding patches.

We know the recommended minimum of 150 minutes of cardio exercise and two resistance strength training sessions per week. For many people this is unrealistic.

But this is not what the research for minimum is for. There are all those “20 minutes a week”, “7 minutes a day” programs to basically just avoid croaking from not moving at all.

Median age of 61… 4.4 minutes of “vigorous” activity. Hard to interpret this as anything else that if you remain being able to be somehow active in your later years you will be better off.

I find all of the studies of “how little exercise” is needed sad. Instead we should be focusing on how to restructure modern lifestyle to allow everybody to achieve the minimum of cardiovascular and strength exercises.

One would argue that pre-Internet people prepared more, started on easier trails or went out with experienced people first.

One one hand I understand. On the other, the idea of bringing Claude as a companion on a hiking trip makes me incredibly sad.

It is not expensive to keep a massive constellation of satellites in a rapidly decaying orbit?

Something like showcontrols for contenteditable with flags for features

640x480 in 16 colors is the resolution as it was prescribed in the Bible.

I’ve been there and done that, as a teenager. However that was on a computer, mobile devices are much more restricted and more secured. If there is some arcane hack to bypass these it will be known and fixed.

For me the main goal is to go from “any kid can do whatever on internet, unsupervised” to “it takes effort and subterfuge to get to some stuff”.

None of this is necessary. First, the only devices that actually need to be gated are cell phones.

The user agent should simply send the user’s age of the parental lock is set up and the websites required to respect this.

Parental controls and the OS should be robust enough to not let kids bypass it (e.g.: by installing a browser that skips the header, or blocking proxy websites)

Done.

Cellphones only because those are the devices kids can have on them all the time and can easily use in private unsupervised.

You are asking many readers to do substantial amount of work for something nobody potentially put any effort into. This is the fundamental imbalance. Much like answering unknown numbers, reading articles from new sources has become a time wasting trap.

It is absolutely possible to produce an insightful article using AI. But it intakes skill and dedication few people have.

Imo in elementary school they should not be using computers outside of a dedicated class.

Hopefully this is not your case but as an IC the “manager, who didn’t write code for a couple of years” that decides to come back and “help” is one of the worst experiences. Code is usually subpar, uses old idioms, and comes with added pressure. With AI this can become much worse, because of the sheer volume of code that can be thrown at the IC.

Turns out making a game, even with full help of the LLM power is still a massive effort most people won’t go through.

Even simpler but non-trivial programs require a lot of back and forth. So in the end it will be the same kind of motivated people that will be able to produce something good. We’re nowhere near “Claude, build me GTA6”

Preparing the nursery.

In the odd times working on my workout app, which now has agentic chat, analysis, charting abilities, workout proposals and whatnot.

Online grocery shopping service I use has added recipes to their website. Not obvious slop at first reading but then you see stuff like add 600g of carrots and 100ml of water to make a quite watery soup according to the picture.

With AI everybody gets to be “that guy” now.

I was too, thinking about making my own apps for a lot of stuff, but for now I’m sticking to web apps because distribution on mobile is still crap.

I was young. My experience of it is much more positive than any other Avengers movie since :)