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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.
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
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What about burning a disk?
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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.
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.
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