Hot take : almost no one actually needs security cameras in their home.

For the very few who do, visible fake cameras do 95% of the job of real cameras with none of the drawbacks.

Of all the organs I cannot fathom why this is the one we decided we should remove bits of. Imagine if we had instead made a ritual of removing earlobes, no one would give a fuck.

The perfect setup is a journey, not a destination. You will never be “done”, so enjoy the process.

I have been thinking of adding a license clause to everything I make (code especially) that makes any AI trained on it my sole exclusive property, but I don’t know how defensible that would be in court ?

Or any other sort of trap clause. But again, I don’t know how to word it. Like “this makes your model public domain” or “you grant a free worldwide unlimited license to every human on earth”.

Something that makes the mere inclusion of the code in a training data set into absolute legal poison to the would-be owners.

I am not a lawyer, not even slightly…

Besides the privacy implications : trying to protect children from grooming by forbidding specific apps, is like trying to treat chickenpox with concealer.

The real problem is that our society is even producing people who would groom a child.

But as always, politicians will try to “prevent” crime at the latest possible point in the action chain, instead of going back to the source.

I dont want to understate the fact that going to the source is extremely hard to do in many cases ; but maybe people would be less disinterested in politics, if we were actually choosing between different treatments - instead of different brands of concealer - to treat our various collective cases of chicken pox.

I usually allow websites to run their first-party scripts on their own domain without much of a second thought (using NoScript on Firefox). But my threat model is likely more lax than yours.

I wish more people used Anubis instead of Cloudflare, I am a little concerned with how often I have to allow the latter to run their script to even access a website…

We could have made work optional some time during the last century. The only reason we haven’t yet is people like him.

Tax shareholders 100%. No more shareholders.

Also WHY would we want robots to do the work for us ? The problem is generally the working conditions, not the mere fact people have to do it.

I would have personally approved of a trillion dollar project to make sure this plan DOES NOT happen.

But he’s going to steal all the money anyway, and use it to escape to Mars, only to die on the launch pad when the rocket predictably explodes…

Nowadays I’m even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs

Also, YouTube specifically is a horrible experience without an extension like UnTrap to turn like 75% of the buttons off.

We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on “my” internet since the 2000s…

No. These principles are supposedly designed to help those inexperienced programmers, but in my experience, they tend to do the opposite.

The rules are too complicated, and of dubious usefulness at best. Inexperienced programmers really need to be taught to keep things radically simple, and I don’t mean “single responsibility” or “short functions”.

I mean “stop trying to be clever”.

99% of code is too complicated for what it does because of principles like SOLID, and because of OOP.

Algorithms can be complex, but the way a system is put together should never be complicated. Computers are incredibly stupid, and will always perform better on linear code that batches similar operations together, which is not so coincidentally also what we understand best.

Our main issue in this industry is not premature optimisation anymore, but premature and excessive abstraction.

We are not in a simulation. A particle is only able to hold exactly as much information as is necessary to describe it, and hence is irreducible.

Any incomplete simulation, even to a tiny degree, leads to wildly inconsistent, and eventually incoherent conclusions.

Either our universe is a simplified, and thus unreliable, simulation, destroying any long term usefulness to would-be simulators ; or it is simply not a simulation at all.

As a vegan, this has been my main meal because I’m pretty lazy (usually wrapped in a tortilla with guacamole, but I also eat it plain)

The gas issues are only a problem for a few days / weeks until your gut biome adjusts !

This sounds an awful lot like idolatry to me, which is supposedly forbidden in Christianity.

Self hosting looks interesting, but I’d generally rather keep things offline. Even as a software developer, I value simplicity, and most online “services” I find entirely superfluous ; self hosted or no.

Jellyfin ? How about a big external drive with movies on it, just plug it into your viewing device of choice.

Hosting my notes ? I take my notes on physical paper. (Loose sheets, because notebooks have the same scaling issues computer notes have. Sometimes I just want to splay everything out on the table and do big picture work. That’s also why I only use one side of the sheet.)

Music streaming ? I dont even know if you can self host this one (probably yes) but I’d rather just copy the file over ; even a huge library doesn’t take that much space.

Photos ? I just have folders on an encrypted drive, with some backups elsewhere. Though I guess Immich looks interesting…

Documents ? Okay, I should self-host this one. For now it’s all local, on-disk (encrypted of course, there’s no good reason not to), but it can be quite inconvenient if my only copy is at home on my desktop.

So no, I don’t self-host yet, and when I do (hopefully soon) it will be only in a limited capacity ; mostly out of a convenience concern, privacy being a distant second.