I hereby declare the number of open tabs at the point that you've solved a problem as a unit of measure and indicator of effort and/or difficulty for you.

As in: Updating the chromedriver on my Mac took 14 tabs.

A new low, even for #Google. Giving Google permission to share information about you with third-party websites is being falsely advertised as an "ad privacy feature". This is privacy washing at its most extreme. But it gets even worse.

There is a dark pattern on the second screenshot. It isn't just informing you about the fake privacy features. Clicking on "Got it" actually turns on these features that allow Google to use your recent browsing history for ads on third-party websites:

There is exactly one question you need to have in mind when optimizing a system in depth: “how can I not do this work at all?”

Using #Rust, #wasm, algorithms with nicer Big O, etc, are distractions compared to the simple fact that O(0) will beat them all.

So when you comb over a system, genuinely ask yourself why you’re doing something and what it would take to not do it at all, and only worry about alternative optimizations when you’ve exhausted all possibilities that involve skipping the work altogether.

Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.

Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.

Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.

When Apple vocally switched sides to support California’s “right to repair” law, I knew there had to be a catch. Cory Doctorow explains the catch eloquently.

Apple uses VIN locking or parts pairing which is a process also used by car makers, printer manufacturers & Medtronic ventilators that requires a secret code from the manufacturer to enable replacement parts to be recognized. Bypassing it violates the DMCA which as a federal law beats state laws.

Checkmate!
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently