Juan Villela

@fourjuaneight
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engineer, automation nerd, amateur archivist
githubhttps://github.com/fourjuaneight
homepagehttps://juanvillela.dev
bloghttps://cleverlaziness.com

Private Relay is a great idea on paper, but I'm finding it more and more pernicious in practice.

Having a single point of failure on the Internet has never been a good idea.

And in this case, it's at a low level that's hard to reason about. Whether it's streaming connections getting dropped or email images that don't load, the cause to an end user is never obvious.

The one way wired earbuds still beat AirPods

Brendon Bigley on his Wavelengths blog: EarPods Rule I’m not about to wax poetic about all of the ways using wired headphones in 2024 “changes everything” like a clickbaity YouTube video, but I will say that the proliferation of USB-C on pretty much every device is slowly returning the

Birchtree
The more you understand computers, the more you value systems without them.
definitely feeling this today
Google Reader, forever in our hearts.
October 7, 2005 - July 1, 2013
https://cleverlaziness.com/posts/google-readers-unseen-potential/
Google Reader's Unseen Potential

In 2013, Google Reader was deemed unnecessary and was cast off into the void. But as users scramble to escape the clutches of algorithm-driven feeds, they’re running back to RSS.

Clever Laziness

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

Benjojo's Optical Media Survey

The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".

Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.

#Hype #Tech #TechBros #Journalism #TechNews

I think we should all just de-index from search engines and link to each other via blogrolls.
https://cleverlaziness.com/posts/ai-is-ruining-the-internet/
AI Companies Are Exploiting Online Content and It's Ruining The Internet

The elusive enchantment of AI has cast a spell over the tech world and the unsuspecting public alike. But they are more like unscrupulous puppeteers pulling strings in the shadow, devouring online content in a feeding frenzy. They lie through their teeth about where this data comes from, eroding the ethical bedrock the internet was built on.

Clever Laziness

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Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead

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